Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
- Introduced May 15
- Committee May 15
- Passed House Next
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Summary
Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
Full summary1 paragraphs
This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to study and report on barriers to and staffing needs for completing timely reviews of requests for communications use authorizations. (These are requests for easements, rights-of-way, leases, licenses, or other authorizations to locate or modify a transmitting device, support structure, or other communications facility on public lands or National Forest System land.)
Library of Congress summary, May 15, 2023
- Introduced in HouseMay 15, 2023
Actions
- HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.Jun 1, 2023
- HouseIntroduced in HouseMay 15, 2023
- HouseReferred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.May 15, 2023
Bill record
Text versions1
- Introduced in HouseMay 15, 2023PDF: Introduced in House
Committees2
- House Agriculture CommitteeReferred To May 15, 2023
- Subcommittee: Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development SubcommitteeReferred to
- House Natural Resources CommitteeReferred To May 15, 2023
Sponsor and cosponsors1 cosponsor
- Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND)Sponsor, May 15, 2023
- NYDIA VELAZQUEZ (D-NY-7)OriginalJoined May 15, 2023
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Titles2
- Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment ActShort Title(s) as Introduced
- To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a plan for providing the staffing necessary to ensure timely review of communications use authorizations, and for other purposes.Official Title as Introduced
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