Title: TRUSTED Broadband Networks Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Timely Replacement Under Secure and Trusted for Early and Dependable Broadband Networks Act or the TRUSTED Broadband Networks Act
This bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review certain projects to replace communications equipment or services.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7353 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7353

 To provide that a project eligible for reimbursement under the Secure 
    and Trusted Communications Act of 2019 shall not constitute an 
undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code, or a 
   major Federal action for the purposes of section 102(2)(C) of the 
   National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2020

 Mr. Guthrie introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that a project eligible for reimbursement under the Secure 
    and Trusted Communications Act of 2019 shall not constitute an 
undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code, or a 
   major Federal action for the purposes of section 102(2)(C) of the 
   National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Timely Replacement Under Secure and 
Trusted for Early and Dependable Broadband Networks Act'' or the 
``TRUSTED Broadband Networks Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF NEPA AND NHPA TO COVERED EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES.

    (a) Covered Project Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
project'' means a project for which the Commission approves a 
reimbursement under section 4 of the Secure and Trusted Communications 
Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1603).
    (b) NEPA Categorical Exclusion.--
            (1) In general.--A covered project shall be categorically 
        excluded from the requirement to prepare an environmental 
        assessment or an environmental impact statement under section 
        102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 
        4332).
            (2) Relation to extraordinary circumstances procedures.--
        The use of the categorical exclusion under paragraph (1) shall 
        not be considered to include extraordinary circumstances under 
        section 220.6 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, or 
        section 1508.4 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or any 
        successor to such regulations).
    (c) National Historic Preservation Act Exemption.--A covered 
project shall not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of 
title 54, United States Code.
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