Title: Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act
This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to submit a report on tracking Form 299 requests. Form 299 is the application form for the right to install, construct, modify, or maintain a communications facility on federal real property.
Such report must include (1) a plan describing how the NTIA will track a Form 299 submitted by a requesting party, (2) a description of how the NTIA would most expeditiously implement such plan, (3) a way to increase transparency to a requesting party on the status of a Form 299, and (4) an assessment of barriers that could delay implementation of the plan.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7355 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7355

 To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
    Information to submit a plan to Congress to track requests for 
           communications use authorization on Federal land.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2020

  Mr. Hudson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
    Information to submit a plan to Congress to track requests for 
           communications use authorization on Federal land.

    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 ``Federal Broadband Deployment 
Tracking Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON TRACKING FORM 299 REQUESTS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
        ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
                House of Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
                Transportation of the Senate.
            (2) Assistant secretary.--The term ``Assistant Secretary'' 
        means the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications 
        and Information.
            (3) Department concerned.--The term ``Department 
        concerned'' means--
                    (A) the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to 
                public land; and
                    (B) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to 
                National Forest System land.
            (4) Form 299.--The term ``Form 299'' means the form 
        developed pursuant to section 6409(b)(2)(A) of the Middle Class 
        Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 
        1455(b)(2)(A)), or any successor form.
            (5) NTIA.--The term ``NTIA'' means the National 
        Telecommunications and Information Administration.
            (6) Secretary concerned.--The term ``Secretary concerned'' 
        means--
                    (A) the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to 
                public land; and
                    (B) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to 
                National Forest System land.
    (b) Report on Tracking Form 299 Requests.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall submit 
        to the appropriate committees of Congress a report with the 
        elements described in paragraph (2).
            (2) Elements described.--The elements described are as 
        follows:
                    (A) A plan describing how NTIA will track the 
                acceptance, processing, and disposal of a Form 299 
                submitted to the Department concerned by a requesting 
                party.
                    (B) A description of how NTIA would most 
                expeditiously implement the plan described in 
                subparagraph (A).
                    (C) How to increase transparency to a requesting 
                party on the status of a Form 299 received by the 
                Department concerned.
                    (D) Any barriers the Assistant Secretary determines 
                could delay the implementation of the plan described in 
                subparagraph (A).
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