HR 1049 United States House · 117th Congress

To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish an interagency strike force to increase prioritization by the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture by senior management of the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture, or an organizational unit of reviews for communications use authorizations.

Summary

Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to establish an interagency strike force to increase specified agencies' prioritization of reviews for communications use authorizations on federal property. A communications use authorization is an easement, right-of-way, lease, license, or other authorization to locate or modify a communications facility on certain public land.

Issues: ✓ Technology

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 25, 2021

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Mar 25, 2021

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

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Mar 16, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.

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Feb 16, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

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Feb 15, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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