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118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 3294 — Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act

“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.”

Science, technology, communications
Introduced May 15, 2023
Last action Jun 1, 2023
Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
May 15, 2023
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Referred
Jun 1, 2023
Agriculture · Natural Resources
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Committee
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House floor
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Senate
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Resolve Changes
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Signed
SummaryCRS Summary

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.)

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in House
Timeline · 4 actions
Jun 1, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
May 15, 2023
Introduced in House
May 15, 2023
Referred 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
Referred 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.