Coastal Broadband Deployment Act
Summary
Coastal Broadband Deployment Act This bill excludes projects to deploy or modify certain transmitting devices, towers, antennas, or other communications facilities from specified environmental and historic preservation reviews if the project is carried out entirely within a floodplain (the lowland and relatively flat areas adjoining inland and coastal waters). In particular, it specifies such projects are not considered major federal actions under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 or undertakings under the National Historic Preservation Act. This excludes the projects from relevant reviews required under those acts.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 15, 2023
Last action May 19, 2023
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Committee
2
May 19, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
lower
May 15, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
lower
May 15, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
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