HR 1038 United States House · 117th Congress

Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act

Summary
Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to report to Congress on communications use authorizations (i.e., authorizations to modify or locate communications facilities on public lands). Specifically, Interior and USDA must (1) provide an assessment on programmatic or administrative barriers to reviewing communications use authorizations, (2) provide an assessment of whether there are rules or regulations that could be revised to improve the efficiency of reviewing communications use authorizations, (3) describe the process for prioritizing the review of communications use authorizations, and (4) provide a plan to ensure adequate staffing to review communications use authorizations in a timely manner.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
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Feb 2021
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Introduced Feb 15, 2021 Last action Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
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Mar 15, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
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Feb 15, 2021
Committee
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.
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Feb 15, 2021
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1 primary · 2 co-sponsors

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