117 HR 3435 IH: American Broadband Act
U.S. House of Representatives
2021-05-20
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1.This Act may be cited as the American Broadband Act
. 2.The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Title I—Broadband Expansion
Sec. 101. Broadband expansion grant program.
Sec. 102. Mobile broadband expansion grant program.
Title II—Boosting Broadband Connectivity
Sec. 201. Wireless leadership.
Sec. 202. Broadband leadership.
Sec. 203. Cable leadership.
Sec. 204. Cable expansion.
Sec. 205. Cable competition.
Sec. 206. Cable transparency.
Sec. 207. Communities over regulating networks need economic competition today.
Sec. 208. Streamlining permitting to enable efficient deployment of broadband infrastructure.
Sec. 209. Wireless broadband competition and efficient deployment.
Sec. 210. Broadband competition and efficient deployment.
Sec. 211. Wireless resiliency and flexible investment.
Sec. 212. Broadband resiliency and flexible investment.
Sec. 213. Proportional reviews for broadband deployment.
Sec. 214. Protecting critical infrastructure.
Sec. 215. Reducing antiquated permitting for infrastructure deployment.
Sec. 216. Coastal broadband deployment.
Sec. 217. Brownfields broadband deployment.
Sec. 218. Trusted broadband networks.
Sec. 219. Connecting communities post disaster.
Sec. 220. Wildfire wireless resiliency.
Sec. 221. Standard fees.
Sec. 222. Expediting Federal broadband deployment.
Sec. 223. Federal broadband deployment in unserved areas.
Sec. 224. Federal broadband deployment tracking.
<enum>I</enum><header>Broadband Expansion</header>
<section id="H8A2EA50B6E554053836EB6C5CEA23C51"><enum>101.</enum><header>Broadband expansion grant program</header>
<subsection id="HA24CE9A207D5437EB33895A960D3449B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Notification of creation of broadband maps; data sharing</header>
<paragraph id="H4437163183474C6991EAC0F2342425D5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 3 business days after creating the maps required under section 802(c)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642(c)(1)</external-xref>), the Commission shall notify the Assistant Secretary that such maps have been created.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0C91D19B61C447159B43AAB0433988B4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Data sharing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not less frequently than annually, the Commission shall, through the process established under section 802(b)(7) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642(b)(7)</external-xref>), provide the Assistant Secretary any data collected by the Commission pursuant to title VIII of such Act. </text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HFD1E04ED95D244419B7E66A215EB782B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Broadband grant program</header>
<paragraph id="H4F63B10092E64D18A9CF8B41A191AA9E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment of grant program; notice of funding opportunity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Secretary shall, not later than 1 year after the Assistant Secretary is notified as described in subsection (a)(1)—</text> <subparagraph id="H134466FD31FD488AA36C25563892E99B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>establish a program to make grants on a competitive basis, from amounts made available to carry out this section, to covered partnerships for covered broadband projects; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8E33D6AB523E4C8E9B9BC3255BD17944"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in the Federal Register that includes information about such program, including any requirement established by this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5F47FE6AD50C44FDA24DC04661FDC0CE" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Secretary may not make a grant under this section before the date that is 1 year after the date on which the Assistant Secretary is notified as described in subsection (a)(1). </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE3085D2BE1A34825AF99FB3547CF2AC0"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text>In making a grant award under paragraph (1), in order to avoid overbuilding in areas where Federal funds have already been awarded, the Assistant Secretary shall coordinate with—</text> <subparagraph id="HC654BDFC33E24CD9A254240E7B461D77"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Chairman of the Commission;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBC30B5B8D56C45CCAF0D6091E41A636A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Secretary of Agriculture; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H743102A56DB14724AF1A0A70E30EB9B6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H815B60C1E2774D89812FAFCE6CA85D80"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Eligibility requirements</header>
<subparagraph id="HB07AE9947CEA43AABAE0CAC0DE48B7C2"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible for a grant under this section, a covered partnership shall submit an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Assistant Secretary may require, but the application shall, at a minimum, include a description of—</text> <clause id="H6115F0464C714C70A00A1E87724CF459"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the covered partnership submitting the application under this subsection;</text></clause>
<clause id="H6070F2537A15474BA4705629C135D539"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the covered broadband project to be funded by the grant, including the speed or speeds at which the covered partnership plans to offer broadband service under the project;</text></clause> <clause id="HDA0E6C0670BC4910BC05BB4200098F14"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the cost of the covered broadband project to be funded by the grant, including—</text>
<subclause id="H12F481BD86694EC98AB1F951365AF36E"><enum>(I)</enum><text>a description of how the required construction will be funded;</text></subclause> <subclause id="H6632E612B4654804913547C2EA6F2000"><enum>(II)</enum><text>all estimated project costs for all facilities that are required to complete the project, including the costs of upgrading, replacing, or otherwise modifying the existing facilities to expand coverage or meet performance requirements; </text></subclause>
<subclause id="H0DA7FCC0CB0E4B67B22950BE2F795B1F"><enum>(III)</enum><text>a description of how grant funds will be used in combination with other funds to support the broadband service project; </text></subclause> <subclause id="H91AF042A27D5426DBBAD45AB0E576348"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>in the case of a broadband service project that will be partially supported by loans, financial projections demonstrating that the covered partnership can cover the necessary debt service payments over the life of any loan; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H64BFE64B35F14C57A5A481BC6D307676"><enum>(V)</enum><text>financial projections demonstrating that the covered partnership will remain financially stable at the conclusion of the grant award; </text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HEBB445CDE63B4915AC28CB18F777890D"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the area to be served by the covered broadband project (in this section referred to as the <quote>proposed service area</quote>);</text></clause>
<clause id="H0268B70FBAD3461B811685AA3C81B3F8"><enum>(v)</enum><text>how the State, political subdivision, or political subdivisions in the covered partnership chose which provider of broadband service to enter into a partnership with for the purposes of applying for a grant under this section; and</text></clause> <clause id="HF70B1F10DB9F4AAABBF17D33851071A1" commented="no"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any support provided to the provider of broadband service that is in the covered partnership through—</text>
<subclause id="H10909F6971AC4F488D3195991D1C30D5" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text>any grant, loan, or loan guarantee provided by a State to the provider of broadband service for the deployment of broadband service in the proposed service area; </text></subclause> <subclause id="H4D798C72D7C64EB789185EDD2DA784F7" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text>any grant, loan, or loan guarantee with respect to the proposed service area provided by the Secretary of Agriculture under title VI of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/950bb">7 U.S.C. 950bb et seq.</external-xref>), including the Broadband Grants, Loans, and Loan Guarantees program, the Community Connect Programs, and the ReConnect Pilot Program; </text></subclause>
<subclause id="H8633CDFDC4E247679CD03F7948ABDAE4" commented="no"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any high-cost universal service support provided under section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/254">47 U.S.C. 254</external-xref>);</text></subclause> <subclause id="HF076AA57C6FF4516A15A14553889DDCC"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>any grant provided under section 6001 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1305">47 U.S.C. 1305</external-xref>);</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H3A5932F11F2A4B63A7A250C25838249F" commented="no"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Education Stabilization Fund under title VIII of division B of the CARES Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/116/136">Public Law 116–136</external-xref>);</text></subclause> <subclause id="H150605016E3647B68AD43C25151BB5DF" commented="no"><enum>(VI)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any grant, loan, or loan guarantee provided by the Federal Government for the provision of broadband service; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HFEB8890FFE1B4AB1BA8E947BC6E4AB7E"><enum>(VII)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any legally enforceable broadband deployment obligations to which the provider of broadband service is subject in the eligible service area.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC75C259FD218487A96EB5CB06C7C7328" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Requirement to streamline permitting process</header> <clause id="H1AD3979A798D4AEFA1DF67F9ECC491D5" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order for a covered partnership to be eligible for a grant under this section each covered entity may only charge a fee to consider an application for the placement, construction, or modification of a facility for the provision of broadband service, personal wireless services, or telecommunications service in the proposed service area or an application to use a right-of-way or a facility in a right-of-way owned or managed by that entity for the placement, construction, or modification of a facility for the provision of any such service in the proposed service area, if the fee for considering such application is—</text>
<subclause id="H189984DF33664789B722196190967863" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text>nondiscriminatory; </text></subclause> <subclause id="H85D267AE40A54FC88242B38E7FE6A186" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text>publicly disclosed; and </text></subclause>
<subclause id="HD68A59CE67494A05A40C75F7C8FFF36C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">based on actual and direct costs, such as costs for the review and processing of such applications. </text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HDFF725D661DF4F8B9A9D02C9418D81DA"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Covered entity defined</header><text>In this paragraph, the term <term>covered entity</term> means—</text>
<subclause id="HAD9226DFFB27483D8D991F12A99CEC9E"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an entity in the partnership that is a State or political subdivision of a State; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H6B3D59232EED43268DCDC298214CDA24"><enum>(II)</enum><text>a political subdivision in which all or part of the proposed service area is located. </text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF862AF8E7DDF4C7FAC314AE6F7D96B19" commented="no"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In awarding grants under this section, the Assistant Secretary shall give priority to applications for covered broadband projects as follows (in decreasing order of priority): </text> <subparagraph id="H6CC201EBC6AE4F0EA7A779759C137DBD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Covered broadband projects designed to provide broadband service to the greatest number of households in an eligible service area.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF1915A7D30F145E185AEFD258FB0A41E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Covered broadband projects designed to provide broadband service in an eligible service area that is wholly within any area other than—</text> <clause id="H939F2E4DBBDD4D5F9ED61CE0CB9410B1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a county, city, or town that has a population of greater than 50,000 inhabitants; and </text></clause>
<clause id="H911C88954DD840FDB4F32405CF708A86"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the urbanized area contiguous and adjacent to such a city or town.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H90AB871AFAE4425596A00260A5D0C258" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Covered broadband projects that are most cost-effective, prioritizing such areas that are most rural.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC4D4EED2E9C44F6792A30BF7662B0738"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Covered broadband projects designed to provide broadband service with a download speed of at least 100 megabits per second and an upload speed of at least 20 megabits per second.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H96F47B16740D495F8771060150522635"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Any other covered broadband project that meets the requirements of this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H55A4DCC2F7744827B5950F641969945A"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Federal contribution</header><text>The amount of any grant provided to a covered partnership under this section may not exceed 75 percent of the total cost of the covered broadband project.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE8951C0A654F4FEB98883E38610E1274"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Grant conditions</header> <subparagraph id="HC1F9E273CBD5416585495CEC0FF523D9"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>As a condition of receiving a grant under this section for a covered broadband project that involves placing facilities along a roadway, the Assistant Secretary shall require the covered partnership receiving the grant to include consistent access points to allow access to such facilities, in accordance with any best practices established by the Commission regarding the placement of conduit access points.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H92272CD5733D496BB7E844C7EA3BE437"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Prohibitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As a condition of receiving a grant under this section, the Assistant Secretary shall prohibit—</text> <clause id="HFA0589D713AF4733B3F1A0E78E3E06B7" commented="no"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a provider of broadband service that is in the covered partnership receiving the grant under this section—</text>
<subclause id="HA55074DF86FB4628A681EEF4504BC8FE" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text>from using grant amounts provided under this section to repay, or make any other payment relating to, a loan made by any public or private lender;</text></subclause> <subclause id="HB6D5620AF0C343E895708D51A28AE995" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text>from using grant amounts provided under this section as collateral for a loan made by any public or private lender; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HE40024D7C7314D31AB0BFFF1B260DC19" commented="no"><enum>(III)</enum><text>from using more than $75,000 of grant amounts provided under this section to pay for the preparation of an application for a grant under this section; and</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HD2D57625B42541FD85B2934266CFE842" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a State, or a political subdivision of the State, that is in the covered partnership receiving the grant under this section from, after accepting a grant under this section offering broadband service.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H279D717791D34910B8C39D5CD2F9ADC5" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Nondiscrimination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Secretary may not require a provider of broadband service that is in an eligible partnership to be designated as an eligible telecommunications carrier pursuant to section 214(e) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/214">47 U.S.C. 214(e)</external-xref>) to be eligible to receive a grant under this section or as a condition of receiving a grant under this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7C4872DB55DF4DDF9154D8A2C7F1B2D7"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Build-out, notification, and accountability requirement</header> <subparagraph id="HAA73D5A880E44EEDA5C7CB816698E32E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Assistant Secretary shall establish build-out, accountability, and (in accordance with paragraph (8)) reporting requirements for covered partnerships that receive grants under this section, including, for each covered partnership that receives a grant under this section, milestones for the deployment of broadband service under the covered broadband project funded by the grant.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H96B1883A14604A75BD7499663700C120"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Notification to Commission</header><text>Upon establishing a build-out, accountability, or reporting requirement under subparagraph (A), the Assistant Secretary shall transmit to the Commission a notification describing such requirement.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H65BEC479054C40B39A500BD6D2CE4713"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Penalty</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a covered partnership fails to meet a build out requirement under subparagraph (A), the Assistant Secretary shall—</text>
<clause id="HE2AFFED224084F89B50954A2BE837A80"><enum>(i)</enum><text>recover any funds made available to the covered partnership; and</text></clause> <clause id="HF5C5E66077A4475CBEE046BA3E2CCD56"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>assess a covered partnership (to be split equally among each entity in the partnership) a fine of not less than 50 percent of the funds made available to the covered partnership.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1A5336F6DEC4498DB5FD5C034D55B795"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Reporting requirements</header>
<subparagraph id="H622C2BEFD0FF4759AECBD5B573DA430B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A covered partnership that receives a grant under this section shall—</text> <clause id="H3D0EC55195B547218A310ED318CD5C1F"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">semi-annually submit to the Assistant Secretary a certification that identifies the areas for which broadband service has been deployed under the covered broadband project funded by the grant, to assess compliance with broadband build-out milestones established by the Assistant Secretary under paragraph (8) for the project; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HCC531F705ED1450CAFD80E6018438A25"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide to the Assistant Secretary complete, reliable, and precise information (in a manner consistent with how information is submitted under section 802 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642</external-xref>)) on each area receiving access to broadband service through the covered broadband project funded by the grant, not later than 90 days after—</text> <subclause id="H306D885511C54171A7E052B5DE68ED90" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date of completion of each milestone established by the Assistant Secretary under paragraph (7) for the covered broadband project; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H77529E8D9C7F42A8975F085CF04301A5" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the date of completion of the covered broadband project. </text></subclause></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3F651C18CC164027AFA5CDB631F0B1C3"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Publication of semi-annual certification</header><text>The Assistant Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register each certification submitted under subparagraph (A)(i), except that the Assistant Secretary shall not publish any information in such certification that the Assistant Secretary determines to be confidential.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H4005798C450D44C48F53980E68B41FD4"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Sharing of information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after receiving information under subparagraph (A)(ii), the Assistant Secretary shall provide such information to the Commission. </text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6A32A40CA8FE4386B9850A943BD0A6AB"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Technical assistance</header> <subparagraph id="HC996A570FDC24E5E95EFDEF907078338"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Assistant Secretary may, at the request of a covered partnership applying for a grant under this section, provide technical assistance and training to such partnership with respect to the application process and the application to be submitted by the partnership. </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFDF469FD4EEB4C61B4C2748A5DA8AF09"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Funding</header><text>Not more than $1,000,000 of the amount made available to carry out this section may be used for technical assistance and training under subparagraph (A). </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2B7550EAB4BD4110A8A6781812BABF35" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text>When providing technical assistance to a covered partnership, the Assistant Secretary shall coordinate with any official of the State in which the political subdivision or political subdivisions in the covered partnership are located that is responsible for the expansion of broadband service in the State.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H90ED7481B4A24A1F886F79A3E9795C51"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Relation to other Federal and State broadband programs</header>
<subparagraph id="H516213E102D34C8CA901EB3F54AEDFF3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Universal service fund</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 5 business days after the Commission receives a request from the Assistant Secretary for any information the Assistant Secretary determines necessary to ensure that any grant made under this section complements and is not duplicative of high-cost universal service support provided under section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/254">47 U.S.C. 254</external-xref>), for an area that includes any portion or all of the area to be served by the covered broadband project with respect to which the grant is made, the Commission shall provide the Assistant Secretary such information.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF3ABEEE58120455D8F05E29B39CC83DC"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Rural utilities service</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 5 business days after the Secretary of Agriculture receives a request from the Assistant Secretary for any information the Assistant Secretary determines necessary to ensure that any grant made under this section complements and is not duplicative of grants, loans, or loan guarantees provided by the Secretary of Agriculture under title VI of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/950bb">7 U.S.C. 950bb et seq.</external-xref>), including the Broadband Grants, Loans, and Loan Guarantees program and the Community Connect Programs, and the ReConnect Pilot Program, for an area that includes any portion or all of the area to be served by the covered broadband project with respect to which the grant is made, the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide the Assistant Secretary such information. </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2D419D8E1D204CF0868A086BFF5803D8" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><header>State Broadband Grant Programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Secretary shall ensure that any grant made under this section complements and is not duplicative of grants, loans, loan guarantees, or other support, provided by a State to a provider of broadband service in the covered partnership, that establishes a legally enforceable obligation for the provider to provide broadband service with a download speed of at least 25 megabits per second and an upload speed of at least 3 megabits per second, in an area that includes any portion or all of the area to be served by the covered broadband project with respect to which the grant is made. </text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9656D0CB479F406D9706AF1E34C656E2"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><text>The Assistant Secretary shall annually submit a report to Congress on the progress of the program established under this section, based on the information provided by covered partnerships under paragraph (8)(A)(ii), until every obligation under each grant provided under this section is fulfilled.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEC5908569A92442FBBEAD14C4B5B099D"><enum>(13)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 through fiscal year 2027, to remain available through fiscal year 2027.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3729F7811CC9494A872126402751EF8B"><enum>(14)</enum><header>Challenge process</header><text>In the Notice of Funding Opportunity required to be published under subsection (b)(1)(B), the Assistant Secretary shall be required to establish a user-friendly challenge process through which consumers, State, local, and Tribal governmental entities, and other entities or individuals may submit information to the Assistant Secretary to challenge whether—</text>
<subparagraph id="H23995CB6236C4AACAAA8A93AA03C9F21"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to an area, such area is an eligible service area;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB0CB498680CB4591A794340339626E6C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to an area, an entity already provides such service in the area; or,</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H023C0D09A86C49BBAA222C32848CE5F0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>with respect to an area, an entity already has a legally enforceable obligation to provide broadband service in the area at 25 megabits per second upload speed and 3 megabits per second download speed.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4A68D4A0864F4DF7AB2F8DB67E5D738C"><enum>(15)</enum><header>Limitation on State or political subdivision</header> <subparagraph id="H9E6849C08F97452289C9DC8E56153880"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Any entity in a covered partnership that is a State or political subdivision of a State may not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the entity in a covered partnership that is a provider of fixed broadband service that is not owned (in whole or in part) or controlled by the State or any political subdivision of the State from entering into a covered partnership on the basis of requiring any obligation, requirement, duty, or regulation that is inconsistent with, or exceeds in a material way, any grant condition required by the Assistant Secretary.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H909E0C4D045A474ABBBDF53BB3BEBE6D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>In the case of a covered partnership that receives a grant under this section, the entity in the partnership that is a State or political subdivision of a State may not impose any obligation, requirement, duty, or regulation that is inconsistent with, or exceeds in a material way, any grant condition required by the Assistant Secretary.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0F36C5B7D9C74741BA6E34C0E5D3915F"><enum>(16)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>Nothing in this Act shall be construed to permit an entity in a covered partnership that is a State or a political subdivision of a State to own or operate any facility used to provide broadband service at the conclusion of the covered partnership.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H05EC3BCBE6ED4429B2629B8194059EDA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H40BC68A3088A46A0A503274E446AE9AE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Assistant Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Assistant Secretary</term> means the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFE2AEBC042634234B5E8DBB73BDD103A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Broadband service</header><text>The term <term>broadband service</term> has the meaning given the term broadband internet access service in section 8.1(b) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8A1DBBD4477341848742E86AA45E4EE0"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Commission</header><text>The term <term>Commission</term> means the Federal Communications Commission. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF480B94430984048895313F2F5A15892"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Covered broadband project</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered broadband project</term> means a competitively and technologically neutral project for the deployment of fixed broadband service that provides in a eligible service areas broadband service with a download speed of at least 25 megabits per second, an upload speed of at least 3 megabits per second, and a latency sufficient to support real-time applications.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB0C346AB9E834CD4BDFC60C08B238C89" commented="no"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Covered partnership</header><text>The term <term>covered partnership</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE1453D85D0934A759C81D613C92F2C09" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a partnership between—</text> <clause id="H5D4638C7FA0847F791544B99E48B0AEB" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a State, if such State does not offer broadband service;</text></clause>
<clause id="H837883F6560A4C3FA454F7F2B7FEE4D3" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">one or more political subdivisions of the State, if such political subdivision or such political subdivisions (as the case may be) do not offer broadband service; and</text></clause> <clause id="H77E8BF930C9C4EFDB9CB0E41C69363C0" commented="no"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a provider of fixed broadband service that is not owned (in whole or in part) or controlled by the State or any political subdivision of the State; or </text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA48D4E291C8E4719B19C5633E9BF95E4" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a partnership between—</text> <clause id="HCABD216DFD5D47E39A2130FAD8131FB8" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">one or more political subdivisions of a State, provided such political subdivision or political subdivisions (as the case may be) does not offer broadband service; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H6A6022286B984E13AAD1259F184F51E0" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a provider of fixed broadband service that is not owned (in whole or in part) or controlled by the State or any political subdivision of the State.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB7ED2E334C154532973C162428F922F3"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Eligible service area</header><text>The term <term>eligible service area</term> means a household or business location in which broadband service at 25 megabits per second upload and 3 megabits per second download speed is not available, as determined by the Assistant Secretary solely on the basis of the maps created under section 802(c)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642(c)(1)</external-xref>), except for those areas that are awarded funding in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase II Auction (FCC 20–5) or a High Cost Program.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H34D5DD04C1DD42A18198C2400C38F28B"><enum>(7)</enum><header>High cost program</header><text>The term <term>high cost program</term> means any of the following—</text> <subparagraph id="HC561BE6EAB504866B39EBCF9B56918FE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any grant, loan, or loan guarantee provided by a State to the provider of broadband service for the deployment of broadband service in the proposed service area;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H82BCDC95C19642BBB263B9311FC02FA9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any grant, loan, or loan guarantee with respect to the proposed service area provided by the Secretary of Agriculture under title VI of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/950bb">7 U.S.C. 950bb et seq.</external-xref>), including the Broadband Grants, Loans, and Loan Guarantees program, the Community Connect Programs, and the ReConnect Pilot Program;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H81CED592478A40528A8432F72ECB0EB8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any high-cost universal service support provided under section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/254">47 U.S.C. 254</external-xref>);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA9C2A88628C84A64A25F25C5799B9FDB"><enum>(D)</enum><text>any grant provided under section 6001 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1305">47 U.S.C. 1305</external-xref>);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HCC0C0822A86B4DB1B0A6DC9EB0E573F4"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the Education Stabilization Fund under title VIII of division B of the CARES Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/116/136">Public Law 116–136</external-xref>); or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0787BAF9CE504C7C8D167028523ED9A2"><enum>(F)</enum><text>any grant, loan, or loan guarantee provided by the Federal Government for the provision of broadband service.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0AB1A571B34943419496C46B4A50236A" commented="no"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Personal wireless services</header><text>The term <term>personal wireless services</term>—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB79DD7B8DD4D4537B35514F18DABDF8A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has the meaning given such term in section 332 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/332">47 U.S.C. 332</external-xref>); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8F2AADAE7C894679AB8304BEB48D1F2A"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes commercial mobile data service (as defined in section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1401">47 U.S.C. 1401</external-xref>)). </text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H74882D5F703B45D1B8AE26224FED524F"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Political subdivision</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>political subdivision</term> includes a city, county, wireless authority, or planning district commission. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCB3FAA799F814DAF8A0E24433E5F1BDE"><enum>(10)</enum><header>State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the territories and possessions of the United States, and federally recognized Indian Tribes.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H781DA6A8C1AA4F7582FE3631BE67AD06"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Telecommunications service</header><text>The term <term>telecommunications service</term> has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/153">47 U.S.C. 153</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HD4C7E7238A3549B9B2ED85DEA47E0708"><enum>102.</enum><header>Mobile broadband expansion grant program</header> <subsection id="H43A19838BBD44C3BBF45E19F6F3ED830"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Notification of creation of broadband maps; data sharing</header> <paragraph id="H76F4116A31CA429185D26A4EB0906A81"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 3 business days after creating the maps required under section 802(c)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642(c)(1)</external-xref>), the Commission shall notify the Assistant Secretary that such maps have been created.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9BCAE2A8C563401280B01D75F6B1DAD6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Data sharing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not less frequently than annually, the Commission shall, through the process established under section 802(b)(7) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642(b)(7)</external-xref>), provide the Assistant Secretary any data collected by the Commission pursuant to title VIII of such Act. </text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HCB94DE1E92E0406A8A6BE4217792484F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Mobile broadband grant program</header> <paragraph id="H20C53D7B36A04AC88640615AECF4B3D0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment of grant program; notice of funding opportunity</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Secretary shall, not later than 1 year after the Assistant Secretary is notified as described in subsection (a)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB30606B49FFB471BB90AC60C41BB31D5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>establish a program to make grants on a competitive basis, from amounts made available to carry out this section, to covered partnerships for covered mobile broadband service projects; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5234670B988A4C2C90F8E0C12E43204A"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in the Federal Register that includes information about such program, including any requirement established by this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H62DC0AD6C4B945E18983B4ECEA4718CF" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation; coordination</header>
<subparagraph id="HCB5B5CCDCB2E44C0B751234D74950F96"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Secretary may not make a grant under this section before the date that is 1 year after the date on which the Assistant Secretary is notified as described in subsection (a)(1).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA10875DDC6C349828EAFC6A0653C333E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In making a grant award under paragraph (1), the Assistant Secretary shall coordinate with the Chairman of the Commission in order to avoid overbuilding in areas where funds are made available through the 5G Fund Report and Order (FCC 20–150) adopted by the Commission on October 27, 2020.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9205054DBAB0471AAD1A53A67F5EF91A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Eligibility requirements</header>
<subparagraph id="H3554F9C61B9844338BC2E278EBC7BD80"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To be eligible for a grant under this section, a covered partnership shall submit an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Assistant Secretary may require, but the application shall, at a minimum, include a description of—</text> <clause id="H09D1EA8AEBDC42FF94AF774EA55A36E7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the covered partnership submitting the application under this paragraph;</text></clause>
<clause id="H4543F12AC0D6473EBB9EEBA94482B59A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the covered mobile broadband service project to be funded by the grant, including the speed or speeds at which the covered partnership plans to offer mobile broadband service under the project;</text></clause> <clause id="H83E76151EAB547EB87C0B409F29C3781"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the cost of the covered mobile broadband service project to be funded by the grant, including—</text>
<subclause id="HC677FBE3AE6E4CC2A47648C65A951363"><enum>(I)</enum><text>a description of how the required construction will be funded;</text></subclause> <subclause id="HAAC3A50C80814F939280EDE5F94D112C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>all estimated project costs for all facilities that are required to complete the project, including the costs of upgrading, replacing, or otherwise modifying the existing facilities to expand coverage or meet performance requirements; </text></subclause>
<subclause id="H139A43DF215A4BDF88891BDD04DB87AC"><enum>(III)</enum><text>a description of how grant funds will be used in combination with other funds to support the mobile broadband service project;</text></subclause> <subclause id="HFE7E1551E6254878B0FD8FC7E2DD7845"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>in the case of a mobile broadband service project that will be partially supported by loans, financial projections demonstrating that the covered partnership can cover the necessary debt service payments over the life of any loan; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HDE2FA96334CE4395B97633901717DFA2"><enum>(V)</enum><text>financial projects demonstrating that the covered partnership will remain financially stable at the conclusion of the grant award;</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HC5C1AABD444B43DABDA74971A83B934A"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the area to be served by the covered mobile broadband service project (in this subsection referred to as the <quote>proposed service area</quote>);</text></clause>
<clause id="H7689109D4FDE40929362B4D08530F5C4"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">how the State, political subdivision, or political subdivisions in the covered partnership chose which provider of mobile broadband service to enter into a partnership with for the purposes of applying for a grant under this section; and</text></clause> <clause id="H5568EDFB2F104169B39CC5E90EA91FB3" commented="no"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any support (other than support for a wireline service) that the provider of mobile broadband service that is in the covered partnership has received through—</text>
<subclause id="HA5ECF735448942B4B63D90760FF5F448" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text>any grant, loan, or loan guarantee provided by a State to the provider of mobile broadband service for the deployment of mobile broadband service in the proposed service area; </text></subclause> <subclause id="H3C9DA9B7AF05421DB3DB426BC855C7E4" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any high-cost universal service support provided under section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/254">47 U.S.C. 254</external-xref>);</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H2C9A577A3D624CAFA272951709A30839"><enum>(III)</enum><text>any grant provided under section 6001 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1305">47 U.S.C. 1305</external-xref>);</text></subclause> <subclause id="H693F5E80129A497E8AF6A0998ECAE6E0" commented="no"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Education Stabilization Fund under title VIII of division B of the CARES Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/116/136">Public Law 116–136</external-xref>);</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H84EBC2C9D5404A38A6DC65D70C8432DF" commented="no"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other grant, loan, or loan guarantee provided by the Federal Government for the provision of broadband service; or</text></subclause> <subclause id="H2130ECD7E93F4A5481E5F698EDC8062F"><enum>(VI)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any legally enforceable mobile broadband deployment obligations to which the provider of mobile broadband service is subject in the eligible service area.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7DCE84D1BA0B4948834F9372A2E377E9" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Requirement to streamline permitting process</header>
<clause id="HBF798AB80215424F98666F6CA5CCDC53" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order for a covered partnership to be eligible for a grant under this section each covered entity may only charge a fee to consider an application for the placement, construction, or modification of a facility for the provision of broadband service, personal wireless services, or telecommunications service in the proposed service area or an application to use a right-of-way or a facility in a right-of-way owned or managed by that entity for the placement, construction, or modification of a facility for the provision of any such service in the proposed service area, if the fee for considering such application is—</text> <subclause id="H68C9088C75C44E4DBE381F8EB46D32F2" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text>nondiscriminatory; </text></subclause>
<subclause id="HF79B2F406C224B34ADA8FB4F7024BEE4" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text>publicly disclosed; and </text></subclause> <subclause id="H165BBD926B3346F1BEDE90639B81B744" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">based on actual and direct costs, such as costs for the review and processing of such applications. </text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HE079E9AFD26D47D39DFAC2ED2B118DAC"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Covered entity defined</header><text>In this subparagraph, the term <term>covered entity</term> means—</text> <subclause id="H7CDC749F64B04A2EBAAFD57E3EEAC3D2"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an entity in the partnership that is a State or political subdivision of a State; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H3D0355AA85414C1C8317FCD87C5133EA"><enum>(II)</enum><text>a political subdivision in which all or part of the proposed service area is located. </text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDC1DAB57B705483AB609832FC9AA7A1C" commented="no"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In awarding grants under this section, the Assistant Secretary shall give priority to applications for covered mobile broadband service projects as follows (in decreasing order of priority): </text>
<subparagraph id="H00D74717C16E4A7BB5AC3EE2716E17BF" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Covered mobile broadband service projects designed to provide mobile broadband service to an eligible service in which the greatest number of households in the eligible service area do not have fixed broadband service with a download speed of 25 megabits per second and an upload speed of 3 megabits per second, as determined by the Assistant Secretary on the basis of the maps required under section 802(c)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642(c)(1)</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H13E7798BCBA348719B1583A0187C6540"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Covered mobile broadband service projects designed to provide mobile broadband service in an eligible service area that is wholly within any area other than—</text>
<clause id="HFBAC72228D4148DB80ACC3CBF3C55D58"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a county, city, or town that has a population of greater than 50,000 inhabitants; and </text></clause> <clause id="H0608808A0A934CFCAA9AFED4E98A2BCA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the urbanized area contiguous and adjacent to such a city or town.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDD85D29C13A2465D9095432269C6C535"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Covered mobile broadband service projects that are most cost-effective.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H52364047C8DA4CC59CDCBEAA3091B238"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Covered mobile broadband service projects that are most rural.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC0A93E0415DA47109766ECA6F90F2E5C"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Covered mobile broadband service projects designed to provide 5th Generation long-term evolution or future generation of service that meets the standards set forth in Release 15, or any successor release, of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H64A38CDA87B84A8B80D42DFA7A013CA1"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any other covered mobile broadband service project that meets the requirements of this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H12CF840B218C42AC93CD7D0A06D18348"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Federal contribution</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of any grant provided to a covered partnership under this section may not exceed 75 percent of the total cost of the covered mobile broadband service project.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6F5598DAC88A4587A4FE88FFF9B79C92"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Grant conditions</header> <subparagraph id="H6954703A454546BEA5E87BB14A46EE96" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As a condition of receiving a grant under this section for a covered mobile broadband service project, a covered partnership shall provide mobile broadband service under the project using the facilities of the provider of mobile broadband service in the covered partnership and not exclusively through the resale of the service of another provider of personal wireless services.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2105D15F1E2E4A60AFBE19D7F584A0E4"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Prohibitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As a condition of receiving a grant under this section, the Assistant Secretary shall prohibit—</text> <clause id="HDCC4A609FE2D47A8A8CC569AC53DE8BC" commented="no"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a provider of mobile broadband service that is in the covered partnership receiving the grant under this section—</text>
<subclause id="H49E8BE9F38454539BA04A63E915B875D" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">from using grant amounts provided under this section to repay, or make any other payment relating to, a loan made by any public or private lender;</text></subclause> <subclause id="H161F41FAB9884DF78A948E9E8619AE48" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">from using grant amounts provided under this section as collateral for a loan made by any public or private lender; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H4A8B73CAA2F94AFA876F71F150E36F74" commented="no"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">from using more than $75,000 of grant amounts provided under this section to pay for the preparation of an application for a grant under this section; and</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HA4FCA97C8BF54E548518BE6D914A57A7" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a State, or a political subdivision of a State, that is in the covered partnership receiving the grant under this section, after accepting a grant under this section from offering mobile broadband service.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2B2554AC7D8740ABA7F4CBFFF46EA145" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Nondiscrimination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Secretary may not require a provider of mobile broadband service that is in an eligible partnership to be designated as an eligible telecommunications carrier pursuant to section 214(e) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/214">47 U.S.C. 214(e)</external-xref>) for the covered partnership to be eligible to receive a grant under this section or as a condition of the covered partnership receiving a grant under this section.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3EE7A5BA5DB84F6785747DE4C75FE647"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Collocation</header><text>A covered entity (as defined in paragraph (3)(B)(ii)) may not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the collocation of personal wireless service facilities at any site at which the covered partnership has deployed a personal wireless service facility in connection with a grant made available in this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9B0D4AA20B6645FAA927E683AC9E7515"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Build-out, notification, and accountability requirement</header>
<subparagraph id="HDE81C2B6F93B49C4968C2B653C239445"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Assistant Secretary shall establish build-out, accountability, and (in accordance with paragraph (8)) reporting requirements for covered partnerships that receive grants under this section, including, for each covered partnership that receives a grant under this section, milestones for the deployment of mobile broadband service under the covered mobile broadband service project funded by the grant.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBBBE855B74F84C6EB1EE0F62CDEFF11A"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Notification to Commission</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon establishing a build-out, accountability, or reporting requirement under subparagraph (A), the Assistant Secretary shall transmit to the Commission a notification describing such requirement.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD8B522702B504EEBA40234C18C88CF0F"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Penalty</header><text>If a covered partnership fails to meet a build out requirement under subparagraph (A), the Assistant Secretary shall—</text> <clause id="H22D4203E9C914A5180C59D71ADB7D610"><enum>(i)</enum><text>recover any funds made available to the covered partnership; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HC895F6059E714D8F8427E61048F36311"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>assess a covered partnership (to be split equally among each entity in the partnership) a fine of not less than 50 percent of the funds made available to the covered partnership.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9DCC7E4B7DDE48E499E089F3CAFC9670"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Reporting requirements</header> <subparagraph id="H9851D338B86140118B217DF709712BD8"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A covered partnership that receives a grant under this section shall—</text>
<clause id="H9D253AA816C440EEB908281534BCC8CD"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">semi-annually submit to the Assistant Secretary a certification that identifies the areas for which mobile broadband service have been deployed under the covered mobile broadband service project funded by the grant, to assess compliance with mobile broadband service build-out milestones established by the Assistant Secretary under paragraph (7) for the project; and</text></clause> <clause id="H31F4F5C2138B453BBDC862C9E9943F1C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide to the Assistant Secretary complete, reliable, and precise information (in a manner consistent with how information is submitted under section 802 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642</external-xref>)) on each area receiving access to mobile broadband service through the covered mobile broadband service project funded by the grant, not later than 90 days after—</text>
<subclause id="HBECD93B8C8394344BF1B20805D54B259" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date of completion of each milestone established by the Assistant Secretary under paragraph (6) for the covered mobile broadband service project; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="HBC8F16AC2F3B427BB2D1B7EC9311127B" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the date of completion of the covered mobile broadband service project. </text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5E06959D8D264B2CB0801BD6BF316002"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Publication of semi-annual certification</header><text>The Assistant Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register each certification submitted under subparagraph (A)(i), except that the Assistant Secretary shall not publish any information in such certification that the Assistant Secretary determines to be confidential.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9CD2840C9F64460EAD594DFCA5E6F0DF"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Sharing of information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after receiving information under subparagraph (A)(ii), the Assistant Secretary shall provide such information to the Commission. </text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0F4ACCEA080B48CF95C3CAAD7FC21FD5"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Technical assistance</header>
<subparagraph id="H6895D36718C3401DA47600E77A47F8EB"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Assistant Secretary may, at the request of a covered partnership applying for a grant under this section, provide technical assistance and training to such partnership with respect to the application process and the application to be submitted by the partnership. </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9C8259DF91BF45939FA7E17C1B35DB53"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Funding</header><text>Not more than $1,000,000 of the amount made available to carry out this section may be used for technical assistance and training under subparagraph (A). </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7EC8A59F65C64BAAB5E1738FBC4F418A" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text>When providing technical assistance to a covered partnership, the Assistant Secretary shall coordinate with any official of the State in which the political subdivision or political subdivisions in the covered partnership are located that is responsible for the expansion of personal wireless services in the State.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8BCB0F0C88464B89B295137492844F5A"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Relation to other Federal and State broadband programs</header> <subparagraph id="H04DFC18C99BA43949496C46D72786826"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Universal service fund</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 5 business days after the Commission receives a request from the Assistant Secretary for any information the Assistant Secretary determines necessary to ensure that any grant made under this section complements and is not duplicative of high-cost universal service support provided under section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/254">47 U.S.C. 254</external-xref>), for an area that includes any portion or all of the area to be served by the covered mobile broadband service project with respect to which the grant is made, the Commission shall provide the Assistant Secretary such information.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H377D6B597D7748459FD7F470D9143036" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>State Broadband Grant Programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant Secretary shall ensure that any grant made under this section complements and is not duplicative of grants, loans, loan guarantees, or other support, provided by a State to a provider of mobile broadband service in the covered partnership, that establishes a legally enforceable obligation for the provider to provide broadband service with a download speed of at least 25 megabits per second and an upload speed of at least 3 megabits per second, in an area that includes any portion or all of the area to be served by the covered mobile broadband service project with respect to which the grant is made. </text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2B02B743D46C47E08BC1B71EAD381A95"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Challenge process</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the Notice of Funding Opportunity required to be published under subsection (b)(1)(B), the Assistant Secretary shall be required to establish a user-friendly challenge process through which consumers, State, local, and Tribal governmental entities, and other entities or individuals may submit information to the Assistant Secretary to challenge whether—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3C6E4933AF6F4E9D8719602070298573"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to an area, such area is an eligible service area;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8919CA6368544A92AD7C19F4BA123560"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to an area, an entity already provides such service in the area; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H47BE9483CAC34D68A44F1D8796207122"><enum>(C)</enum><text>with respect to an area, an entity already has a legally enforceable obligation to provide mobile broadband service in the area.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H209FC729A2E244778FDDC57973133FB1"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Limitation on State or political subdivision</header> <subparagraph id="HD9AEBD59E45E4A17978DE84ECDDFD7AB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Any entity in a covered partnership that is a State or political subdivision of a State may not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the entity in a covered partnership that is a provider of mobile broadband service that is not owned (in whole or in part) or controlled by the State or any political subdivision of the State from entering into a covered partnership on the basis of requiring any obligation, requirement, duty, or regulation that is inconsistent with, or exceeds in a material way, any grant condition required by the Assistant Secretary.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H40BA8C9D63D944839C66683DBA794A0F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>In the case of a covered partnership that receives a grant under this section, the entity in the partnership that is a State or political subdivision of a State may not impose any obligation, requirement, duty, or regulation that is inconsistent with, or exceeds in a material way, any grant condition required by the Assistant Secretary.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8F2270D5D5CC4A93BA0D847D04074F97"><enum>(13)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>Nothing in this Act shall be construed to permit an entity in a covered partnership that is a State or a unit of local government to own or operate any facility used to provide mobile broadband service at the conclusion of the covered partnership.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE2AB1928BD444D1D8F9B8913DCC8182A"><enum>(14)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><text>The Assistant Secretary shall annually submit a report to Congress on the progress of the program established under this section, based on the information provided by covered partnerships under paragraph (8)(A)(ii), until every obligation under each grant provided under this section is fulfilled.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H632D2363EB8842E1A889B4446EA526B6"><enum>(15)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 through fiscal year 2027, to remain available through fiscal year 2027.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H09ADDFDFFFFB417D82A9E623D018BA7F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H5E4236203A1545A8B0CE7CCA84E04191"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Assistant Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Assistant Secretary</term> means the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H239AA01DA7984701AD1BC14261A8B1B3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Broadband service</header><text>The term <term>broadband service</term> has the meaning given the term broadband internet access service in section 8.1(b) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE9C886F429754004BC4285F12DF81C3B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Cell edge probability; cell loading</header><text>The terms <term>cell edge probability</term> and <term>cell loading</term> have the meaning given those terms in section 801 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/641">47 U.S.C. 641</external-xref>).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBDF7BD09CB774B23B9B26D18B5440228"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Commission</header><text>The term <term>Commission</term> means the Federal Communications Commission. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8F81B978FD764B3FA8068E1CF05D54DE"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Covered mobile broadband service project</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered mobile broadband service project</term> means a competitively and technologically neutral project for the deployment of mobile broadband service in an eligible service area.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFEC1C3D15120430FBF3AEC58F3B40EBF" commented="no"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Covered partnership</header><text>The term <term>covered partnership</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="H771674354C594B81B2B89F10AC7A9A96" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a partnership between—</text>
<clause id="H7AB515ADEF184D10BCC23121FBBD0724" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a State, if such State does not offer personal wireless services;</text></clause> <clause id="HFB68FDF0A2E345C693B58003BBEE11CE" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">one or more political subdivisions of the State, if such political subdivision or such political subdivisions (as the case may be) do not offer mobile broadband service; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HFA39B87BD1E54A1AB40B07BDE0C4A699" commented="no"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a provider of mobile broadband service that is not owned (in whole or in part) or controlled by the State or any political subdivision of the State; or </text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H28F309EB810C41088E46D489557D8C1C" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a partnership between—</text>
<clause id="HE174D387609B4127A3F0068C0BE5A7F3" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">one or more political subdivisions of a State, provided such political subdivision or political subdivisions (as the case may be) does not offer mobile broadband service; and</text></clause> <clause id="HFF2FA01C9788468FBB3BAD4E57575656" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a provider of mobile broadband service that is not owned (in whole or in part) or controlled by the State or any political subdivision of the State.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1EE6DFF53490458A95DC30B47A40C00D" commented="no"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Eligible service area</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible service area</term> means an area not smaller than a census block in which mobile broadband service is not available, as determined by the Assistant Secretary solely on the basis of the maps created under section 802(c)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642(c)(1)</external-xref>), except such areas that are eligible for support or are awarded support under the 5G Fund Report and Order (FCC 20–150) adopted by the Commission on October 27, 2020.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2C10414C979A4A85ABECBA5137C5961D"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Mobile broadband service</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>mobile broadband service</term> means 4th Generation long-term evolution service, 5th Generation long-term evolution service, or future generation of service that meets the standards set forth in Release 10, or any successor release, of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC22F0B12FAD94457ABE551019061DCA1" commented="no"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Personal wireless services</header><text>The term <term>personal wireless services</term>—</text> <subparagraph id="H14C8AD20A63347628A62BF78D28ABA9E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has the meaning given such term in section 332 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/332">47 U.S.C. 332</external-xref>); and </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF29AA35899254E2FAAFB5CFE7D979C65"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes commercial mobile data service (as defined in section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1401">47 U.S.C. 1401</external-xref>)).</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H29DF4834F50A43BFA0E4FD4597FAF66D"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Personal wireless service facility</header><text>The term <term>personal wireless service facility</term> means a facility for the provision of personal wireless service.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0E062757ABDA4AE1A8C293AE97241A8B"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Political subdivision</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>political subdivision</term> includes a city, county, wireless authority, or planning district commission. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H73E631C8851C4A76970797B9505D1100"><enum>(12)</enum><header>State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the territories and possessions of the United States, and federally recognized Indian Tribes.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFF2DAE9ADE354D229D478009CB24881D"><enum>(13)</enum><header>Telecommunications service</header><text>The term <term>telecommunications service</term> has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/153">47 U.S.C. 153</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <enum>II</enum><header>Boosting Broadband Connectivity</header> <section id="H0D824DA73CD14DDF8DE085615C268C4F" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>201.</enum><header>Wireless leadership</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 332(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/332">47 U.S.C. 332(c)</external-xref>) is amended by striking paragraph (7) and inserting the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H8B3C0B919CA24311AA9109FF11BD952C"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Preservation of local zoning authority</header>
<subparagraph id="HE213E40E8FC64AE5B1754B3C3F11C7A9"><enum>(A)</enum><header>General authority</header><text>Except as provided in this paragraph, nothing in this Act shall limit or affect the authority of a State or local government or instrumentality thereof over decisions regarding the placement, construction, and modification of personal wireless service facilities.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H00B3AEE9F7F54DEB9092AFFD30277ECF"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Limitations</header> <clause id="HB9E051EE73F542719C0DFEA07DC8A29D"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The regulation of the placement, construction, or modification of a personal wireless service facility by any State or local government or instrumentality thereof—</text>
<subclause id="H35FCEAC4526044D0A6EFAF5EB1CBB21A"><enum>(I)</enum><text>shall not unreasonably discriminate among providers of the same service, including by providing exclusive or preferential use of facilities to a particular provider or class of providers of personal wireless service; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H1C40A154C9294AEEBA45078CF20C7EF2"><enum>(II)</enum><text>shall not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the provision or enhancement of personal wireless service.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H2E759FB6E24F46E483A8C5F977191D91"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Engineering standards; aesthetic requirements</header><text>It is not a violation of clause (i) for a State or local government or instrumentality thereof to establish for small personal wireless service facilities objective, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory—</text> <subclause id="H4E2D2C206D7E488D9CA96F8728E87983"><enum>(I)</enum><text>structural engineering standards based on generally applicable codes;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H2E2E7AD2BA0C412F8B697619ADDFB1C7"><enum>(II)</enum><text>safety requirements; or</text></subclause> <subclause id="HA2033A91A53A4FF3AF73A995F7E7B522"><enum>(III)</enum><text>aesthetic or concealment requirements.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HB508FAF8E7DC4DE7B7F5E5A60E87A0A8"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Timeframes</header>
<subclause id="H2E282F7B52AB41E99D0EDC0477FC22F4"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A State or local government or instrumentality thereof shall grant or deny a complete request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a personal wireless service facility not later than—</text> <item id="HE905BB8D8AD0403DB5BEED45A69871EC"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>in the case of a personal wireless service facility that is not a small personal wireless service facility—</text>
<subitem id="HB2F5C7B875D14E34BBF8172C1E58B936"><enum>(AA)</enum><text>if the request is for authorization to place, construct, or modify such facility on an eligible support structure, including in an area that has not previously been zoned for personal wireless service facilities (other than small personal wireless service facilities), 90 days after the date on which the complete request is received by the government or instrumentality; or</text></subitem> <subitem id="HFF58B72A6E7A4339A208A4EDB012618D"><enum>(BB)</enum><text>if the request is for any other action relating to such facility, 150 days after the date on which the complete request is received by the government or instrumentality; and</text></subitem></item>
<item id="H6357375817F846B7A2B13FBAF2B21085"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>in the case of a small personal wireless service facility—</text> <subitem id="H6A3632371DF54611B26BE0F45CFEA239"><enum>(AA)</enum><text>if the request is for authorization to place, construct, or modify such facility on an eligible support structure, including in an area that has not previously been zoned for personal wireless service facilities, 60 days after the date on which the complete request is received by the government or instrumentality; or</text></subitem>
<subitem id="H76F21C35017C438881B36DCF30FF72E4"><enum>(BB)</enum><text>if the request is for any other action relating to such facility, 90 days after the date on which the complete request is received by the government or instrumentality.</text></subitem></item></subclause> <subclause id="HBB0B8B337AD244BF9025F81B6A58F998"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Treatment of batched requests</header><text>In the case of complete requests described in subclause (I) that are submitted as part of a single batch and received by the government or instrumentality on the same day, the applicable timeframe under such subclause for each request in the batch shall be the longest timeframe under such subclause that would be applicable to any request in the batch if such requests were submitted separately.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H2EFDC450BFC540CCBD01E64BB2913C92"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>The applicable timeframe under subclause (I) shall apply collectively to all proceedings required by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof for the approval of the request.</text></subclause> <subclause id="H9A212F264C36482C86D68B4836CEAA21"><enum>(IV)</enum><header>No tolling</header><text>A timeframe under subclause (I) may not be tolled by any moratorium, whether express or de facto, imposed by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof on the consideration of any request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a personal wireless service facility.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H8203CF1BC4FA4AE6B8E75024D37DA9EA"><enum>(V)</enum><header>Temporary waiver</header><text>The Commission may temporarily waive the applicability of subclause (I) for not longer than a single 30-day period for any complete request upon a demonstration by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof that the waiver would be consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity.</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HE68DD8FF5D48492FA9828F62FA621863"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Deemed granted</header> <subclause id="H16BBFFAE213D465288A4A86108C69178"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If a State or local government or instrumentality thereof has neither granted nor denied a complete request within the applicable timeframe under subclause (I) of clause (iii), including any temporary waiver granted under subclause (V) of such clause, the request shall be deemed granted on the date on which the government or instrumentality receives a written notice of the failure from the requesting party.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HAFDF3E296CF44E78ACD0E74AA50508E0"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>In the case of a request that is deemed granted under subclause (I), the placement, construction, or modification requested in the request shall be considered to be authorized, without any further action by the government or instrumentality, beginning on the date on which the request is deemed granted under such subclause.</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HF5EA26AD32EA477D93BA9823F59653D2"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Written decision and record</header><text>Any decision by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof to deny a request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a personal wireless service facility shall be—</text>
<subclause id="HA272CD788EEF4ABBBBD96CC09ACB6E45"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in writing; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="HEAE92581A5DF4F6185CA6114525AAEA9"><enum>(II)</enum><text>supported by substantial evidence contained in a written record.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H05201BEC49D04EC49A39E6A6ACA5229D"><enum>(vi)</enum><header>Environmental effects of radio frequency emissions</header><text>No State or local government or instrumentality thereof may regulate the placement, construction, or modification of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of the environmental effects of radio frequency emissions to the extent that such facilities comply with the Commission’s regulations concerning such emissions.</text></clause> <clause id="H1B8050C429224CD680334DA821A673D6"><enum>(vii)</enum><header>Fees</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a State or local government or instrumentality thereof may charge a fee to consider a request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a personal wireless service facility, or a fee for use of a right-of-way or a facility in a right-of-way owned or managed by the government or instrumentality for the placement, construction, or modification of a personal wireless service facility, if the fee is—</text>
<subclause id="H49F9EE649F3D47BCAF7184E2D80EBE4A"><enum>(I)</enum><text>competitively neutral, technology neutral, and nondiscriminatory;</text></subclause> <subclause id="HD9F67C260F944B1BB23A812EC1DAA73B"><enum>(II)</enum><text>publicly disclosed;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H4310119CB66C41FD827BCDD556081193"><enum>(III)</enum><text>calculated—</text> <item id="H9FAFD5764EA3487AB5B2E8D681C47A5F"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>based on actual and direct costs, such as costs for—</text>
<subitem id="HB499FD3971154BA7A5711CD9FFBA7870"><enum>(AA)</enum><text>review and processing of requests; and</text></subitem> <subitem id="HB7994324A0854066A9CE6AB47F0A4A68"><enum>(BB)</enum><text>repairs and replacement of components and materials resulting from and affected by the installation or improvement of personal wireless service facilities, or repairs and replacement of equipment that facilitates the installation or improvement of such facilities; and</text></subitem></item>
<item id="HDAFD8B68463848DDA58FE94A81899556"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>using, for purposes of item (aa), only costs that are objectively reasonable; and</text></item></subclause> <subclause id="H42241FC2C3264557AC2BAE4334390074"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>described to a requesting party in a manner that distinguishes between—</text>
<item id="HF2D5E770622A498599B91A1ECB4127E7"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>nonrecurring fees and recurring fees; and</text></item> <item id="HF700346009524E18BFFD8AB2810B4F61"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>the use of facilities on which personal wireless service facilities are already located and those on which there are no personal wireless service facilities as of the date on which the complete request is received by the government or instrumentality.</text></item></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC12D652A642C4C5F8B5361396E7DBF87"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Judicial and administrative review</header>
<clause id="HA6F760618D8A41959D5B4E193D73915A"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Judicial review</header><text>Any person adversely affected by any final action or failure to act by a State or local government or any instrumentality thereof that is inconsistent with this paragraph may, within 30 days after the action or failure to act, commence an action in any court of competent jurisdiction, which shall hear and decide the action on an expedited basis.</text></clause> <clause id="H0E58417047CB4A61A45057E31BD1A9AA" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Administrative review</header> <subclause id="HAD74549338E1408D9DCDF3EC779E126B" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any person adversely affected by any final action or failure to act by a State or local government or any instrumentality thereof that is inconsistent with this paragraph may petition the Commission to order the government or instrumentality to reconsider the action or failure to act.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HB21547491CDC47FF90395F8DA5F22FD6" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Public notice and comment; timing</header><text>Not later than 60 days after receiving a petition under subclause (I), the Commission shall—</text> <item id="HFB6D38327ACF4EBF8058DFC84C7C5566"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>provide public notice of, and an opportunity for public comment on, such petition; and</text></item>
<item id="H9969D8E7A0CB4C7A89B7EDE2847EA86E"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>grant or deny such petition.</text></item></subclause></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF2C7052C04B04D758266164D3C48EBCE"><enum>(D)</enum><header>When request considered complete; received</header> <clause id="HE6CEF6ED8E684A4A8036921EF7FD5BB0"><enum>(i)</enum><header>When request considered complete</header> <subclause id="H0CA9FBE74CEE4127B5EC95CBE2CB3AF3"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For the purposes of this paragraph, a request to a State or local government or instrumentality thereof shall be considered complete if the requesting party has not received a written notice from the government or instrumentality within 10 business days after the date on which the request is received by the government or instrumentality—</text>
<item id="HC2311D6EC4684AC688683F8502959208"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>stating that all the information (including any form or other document) required by the government or instrumentality to be submitted for the request to be considered complete has not been submitted; and</text></item> <item id="HA41EA5B4C0724AF9AB8CCFA0A5CCD910"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>identifying the information required to be submitted that was not submitted.</text></item></subclause>
<subclause id="H397354716E8B402DBF569A4AE1C73FBB"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this clause, the term <term>received by the government or instrumentality</term> means—</text> <item id="H35D214A8FAD141409E7D38D9A290F225"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted electronically, on the date on which the request is transmitted;</text></item>
<item id="H4A8CD13E75FF4F8EB7883A114CEB1E8B"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in person, on the date on which the request is delivered to the individual or at the location specified by the government or instrumentality for in-person submission; and</text></item> <item id="H5AB0AAF602EF41CC9B0BDFF89D1D593B"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in any other manner, on the date determined under regulations promulgated by the Commission for the manner in which the request is submitted.</text></item></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H24082EF12B5948A88CFF21A7C8B31672"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>When complete request considered received</header><text>For the purposes of this paragraph, a complete request shall be considered received on the date on which the requesting party submits to the government or instrumentality all information (including any form or other document) required by the government or instrumentality to be submitted for the request to be considered complete.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H88990629E3BF4407A2E346910D7F4FD2"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this paragraph:</text>
<clause id="HD6408999245B418DA47A612458EF3C72"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Antenna</header><text>The term <term>antenna</term> means an apparatus designed for the purpose of emitting radiofrequency radiation, to be operated or operating from a fixed location for the transmission of writing, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, and sounds of all kinds.</text></clause> <clause id="H23EC4D32A4094DDFBA2C69D53E684396"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Communications network</header><text>The term <term>communications network</term> means a network used to provide a communications service.</text></clause>
<clause id="H1F4B230836464615A8C587CD50492BBA"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Communications service</header><text>The term <term>communications service</term> means—</text> <subclause id="H517F98EFF50447CE863D3FFD4DF26E91"><enum>(I)</enum><text>cable service, as defined in section 602;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H5D82286F0DF14E7BBBD228BCC7E0238D"><enum>(II)</enum><text>information service;</text></subclause> <subclause id="H7890D9B002474DC3BE457B3C816AD678"><enum>(III)</enum><text>telecommunications service; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HD14F49B8C30542F180AA665FC5BD55A6"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>personal wireless service.</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="H4D448BC3324640B9B439686E3D835E54"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Eligible support structure</header><text>The term <term>eligible support structure</term> means a tower, base station, or other structure that supports a personal wireless service facility at the time when a complete request to a State or local government or instrumentality thereof for authorization to place, construct, or modify a personal wireless service facility on the structure is received by the government or instrumentality.</text></clause>
<clause id="HF2F6109E9A774E57A166299E64298075"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Generally applicable code</header><text>The term <term>generally applicable code</term> means a uniform building, fire, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical code adopted by a national code organization, or a local amendment to such a code, to the extent not inconsistent with this Act.</text></clause> <clause id="H0ABBBD2CD5C54C42B039ACB1EACB4DCA"><enum>(vi)</enum><header>Network interface device</header><text>The term <term>network interface device</term> means a telecommunications demarcation device and cross-connect point that—</text>
<subclause id="H4DB6ACFC61A5448EA50F11EBE5B2FD69"><enum>(I)</enum><text>is adjacent or proximate to—</text> <item id="H8F9EC146DDAE4879A4AFDBCB786B6D12"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>a small personal wireless service facility; or</text></item>
<item id="H1392FF5DA61840DC8787C336D29FA7D2"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>a structure supporting a small personal wireless service facility; and</text></item></subclause> <subclause id="H813B4F2B7D604B71BE0C4DC864AB17FE"><enum>(II)</enum><text>demarcates the boundary with any wireline backhaul facility.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H13BACE03DF834986914C4EEEE4AC97C6"><enum>(vii)</enum><header>Personal wireless service</header><text>The term <term>personal wireless service</term> means—</text> <subclause id="H844B022B4F524760A9D4CE462B543B63"><enum>(I)</enum><text>commercial mobile service;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H2512B591AB3247F7A3AA6BC866BB533A"><enum>(II)</enum><text>commercial mobile data service (as defined in section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1401">47 U.S.C. 1401</external-xref>));</text></subclause> <subclause id="HB1BB8AC1339A41ED9E45C131EAE66E29"><enum>(III)</enum><text>unlicensed wireless service; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HA46B89AF1BD14EBD9FAFA5A2415047A6"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>common carrier wireless exchange access service.</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HA1E1D76D135D48C2A4F0B191BB32117B"><enum>(viii)</enum><header>Personal wireless service facility</header><text>The term <term>personal wireless service facility</term> means a facility for the provision of personal wireless service.</text></clause>
<clause id="H4A091DF98E244ACFA36DCF7526A30724"><enum>(ix)</enum><header>Small personal wireless service facility</header><text>The term <term>small personal wireless service facility</term>—</text> <subclause id="HAF420517FE3D48C5B6FF101E396C4A8D"><enum>(I)</enum><text>means a personal wireless service facility in which each antenna is not more than 3 cubic feet in volume; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HF2A8B1BD35A74CCBAF4E04E759C8C36E"><enum>(II)</enum><text>does not include a wireline backhaul facility.</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="H871B2B3A3617444CA6BFA9EF499C15C6"><enum>(x)</enum><header>Unlicensed wireless service</header><text>The term <term>unlicensed wireless service</term>—</text>
<subclause id="H77AD0F619BFA4497A77792FA62FBC048"><enum>(I)</enum><text>means the offering of telecommunications service using a duly authorized device that does not require an individual license; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H7EA7A881968848C7B9F1E7ACE12389D2"><enum>(II)</enum><text>does not include the provision of direct-to-home satellite services, as defined in section 303(v).</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H4D8530D3E9FA4677A405CC74B72CCE08"><enum>(xi)</enum><header>Wireline backhaul facility</header><text>The term <term>wireline backhaul facility</term> means an above-ground or underground wireline facility used to transport communications service or other electronic communications from a small personal wireless service facility or the adjacent network interface device of such facility to a communications network.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="H212492F100A746C08979C10394FFF8B6"><enum>202.</enum><header>Broadband leadership</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 253 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/253">47 U.S.C. 253</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H73FE53B45D0B4DE480C8567C580EEF75" style="OLC">
<section id="H39203F321D2D4D01932FE0E9F562FD8C"><enum>253.</enum><header>Removal of barriers to entry</header>
<subsection id="HB9AFE769346D41E0933BCCEC9DFEF3A0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>No State or local statute or regulation, or other State or local legal requirement, may prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the ability of any entity to provide or enhance any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H79FC93BD2AA64DFC8268087ECC9C2193"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Placement, construction, or modification of telecommunications service facilities</header> <paragraph id="H4EC24481FB9C46FFACC74CE6B91FDA1F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Prohibition on unreasonable discrimination among providers of functionally equivalent services</header><text>The regulation of the placement, construction, or modification of a telecommunications service facility by any State or local government or instrumentality thereof shall not unreasonably discriminate among providers of functionally equivalent services.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H78087EEF4F0749798C58437B1B440059"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Timeframe to grant or deny requests</header>
<subparagraph id="H46C83B45A2D64FFEAE75B6560B0A6D23"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A State or local government or instrumentality thereof shall grant or deny a complete request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a telecommunications service facility not later than—</text> <clause id="H07468E456DCB4B98B433602E6E5FF3EF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>if the request is for authorization to place, construct, or modify such facility in or on eligible support infrastructure, 90 days after the date on which the complete request is received by the government or instrumentality; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HCCBBDA1A0CCE47EAAA72F25E47F780F2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>for any other action relating to such facility, 150 days after the date on which the complete request is received by the government or instrumentality.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0C0E24D388B6479F975778ACB6832912"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>The applicable timeframe under subparagraph (A) shall apply collectively to all proceedings required by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof for the approval of the request.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2D95EB9CDC6246C699E6BE5FA2B67BC5"><enum>(C)</enum><header>No tolling</header><text>A timeframe under subparagraph (A) may not be tolled by any moratorium, whether express or de facto, imposed by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof on the consideration of any request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a telecommunications service facility.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF718A9FC9C2E443D875E60F79263FB09"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Temporary waiver</header><text>The Commission may temporarily waive the applicability of subparagraph (A) for not longer than a single 30-day period for any complete request upon a demonstration by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof that the waiver would be consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDBE21FE1E30A4C00A4282C9C7D98FB44"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Deemed granted</header>
<subparagraph id="H7CEA8020E7BD41F39A8A270E3B048AC1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If a State or local government or instrumentality thereof has neither granted nor denied a complete request within the applicable timeframe under paragraph (2), the request shall be deemed granted on the date on which the government or instrumentality receives a written notice of the failure from the requesting party.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H607B16CBF4144B44916DBDE9EB59A711"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>In the case of a request that is deemed granted under subparagraph (A), the placement, construction, or modification requested in such request shall be considered to be authorized, without any further action by the government or instrumentality, beginning on the date on which such request is deemed granted under such subparagraph.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H814875A9AEB248648D753963FCC704AC"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Written decision and record</header><text>Any decision by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof to deny a request to place, construct, or modify a telecommunications service facility shall be—</text> <subparagraph id="H983CBDE65AF54F80BD53BC7997D3A2F3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in writing; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H177424EFA4284DDFB9D4369293D0F525"><enum>(B)</enum><text>supported by substantial evidence contained in a written record.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H12D205B157044C1AA5EEA24140D4F46F"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Fees</header> <subparagraph id="H18138F0DE5BB4E0E9F2C662F4F9C7E95"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a State or local government or instrumentality thereof may charge a fee that meets the requirements under subparagraph (B)—</text>
<clause id="H028CB9416D1047FFA9D2E0FD2955E3D6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to consider a request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a telecommunications service facility; or</text></clause> <clause id="HB8FA98124F0A4B4CA60B22A735F06CC0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>for use of a right-of-way or a facility in a right-of-way owned or managed by the government or instrumentality for the placement, construction, or modification of a telecommunications service facility.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1F5D803472BD4DC1AC900D51530EDF46"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>A fee charged under subparagraph (A) shall be—</text> <clause id="HE67A7348FF954581892705E37B0BEDA1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>competitively neutral, technology neutral, and nondiscriminatory;</text></clause>
<clause id="H95BE9AD8F2824456AAC6406C9A7CA45A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>publicly disclosed;</text></clause> <clause id="HF046AF4A065B4E2DB3D30BB5066D3AC9"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>calculated—</text>
<subclause id="H1478C1180A704EB0AA101D2D947B4145"><enum>(I)</enum><text>based on actual and direct costs, such as costs for—</text> <item id="HA3F55A618FEC42C0AA44E2B373892D76"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>review and processing of requests; and</text></item>
<item id="H3A75E3A1E672406E859BD1BDF12FD0B7"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>repairs and replacement of—</text> <subitem id="HDA3A50CC16A84FACA19EFA64CEB23B51"><enum>(AA)</enum><text>components and materials resulting from and affected by the installation or improvement of telecommunications service facilities; or</text></subitem>
<subitem id="H7A3358F951B44381BE85C31E96C49163"><enum>(BB)</enum><text>equipment that facilitates the installation or improvement of such facilities; and</text></subitem></item></subclause> <subclause id="HA8F66B3A5F974275A0DC122D72D17F1C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>using, for purposes of subclause (I), only costs that are objectively reasonable; and</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HBB41C6401478458B9D0197F05705FEA7"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>described to a requesting party in a manner that distinguishes between—</text> <subclause id="HE64CAFFC9EA840F399D3BA48790D1B87"><enum>(I)</enum><text>nonrecurring fees and recurring fees; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H271E9578B7F541AEBDFC6B19BADF0661"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the use of facilities on which telecommunications service facilities are already located and those on which there are no telecommunications service facilities as of the date on which the complete request is received by the government or instrumentality.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HAD937FE0B666424B9D3CE24619EF0C60"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Judicial review</header> <paragraph id="H0E379600F5074F3EB3927DE3CD3AAB0C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any person adversely affected by a final action or failure to act by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof that is inconsistent with this section may, not later than 30 days after the action or failure to act, commence an action in any court of competent jurisdiction.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7FE8212A2023402282C2176CE2158E11"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Timing</header><text>A court shall hear and decide an action described in paragraph (1) on an expedited basis.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H78E934456C774B6FAC84FA9254CD13A3"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Preservation of State regulatory authority</header><text>Nothing in this section shall affect the ability of a State to impose, on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis and consistent with section 254, requirements necessary to preserve and advance universal service, protect the public safety and welfare, ensure the continued quality of telecommunications services, and safeguard the rights of consumers.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HE84023068AF84BFF8C17556E5FAF7596"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Preservation of State and local government authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this section affects the authority of a State or local government or instrumentality thereof to manage the public rights-of-way or to require fair and reasonable compensation from telecommunications providers, on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, for use of public rights-of-way on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, if the compensation required meets the requirements of subsection (b)(5).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H80C043EBF22F459484E43787BA6B3908"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Preemption</header> <paragraph id="H18C06CB32238440C9C608B0B4CE6A3E8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If, after notice and an opportunity for public comment, the Commission determines that a State or local government or instrumentality thereof has permitted or imposed any statute, regulation, or legal requirement that violates or is inconsistent with this section, the Commission shall preempt the enforcement of such statute, regulation, or legal requirement to the extent necessary to correct such violation or inconsistency.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE3E5C91A27384AEBA2D35D4FCFFEED08" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Timing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after receiving a petition for preemption of the enforcement of a statute, regulation, or legal requirement as described in paragraph (1), the Commission shall grant or deny the petition.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HDFCA905C42724F3ABF62D6865A3D5D5C"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Commercial mobile service providers</header><text>Nothing in this section shall affect the application of section 332(c)(3) to commercial mobile service providers.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H34A5BE7DA6854D57AD782FF983D2A9C4"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Rural markets</header><text>It shall not be a violation of this section for a State to require a telecommunications carrier that seeks to provide telephone exchange service or exchange access in a service area served by a rural telephone company to meet the requirements in section 214(e)(1) for designation as an eligible telecommunications carrier for that area before being permitted to provide such service. This subsection shall not apply—</text> <paragraph id="HA71A5C0334F94F23B8621A0445E8404E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to a service area served by a rural telephone company that has obtained an exemption, suspension, or modification of section 251(c)(4) that effectively prevents a competitor from meeting the requirements of section 214(e)(1); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8ED0F386EF024AE8BCC0B46DD96EBFE6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to a provider of commercial mobile services.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HE8CC86FF10714F13B9ADD404BEA2BEBD"><enum>(i)</enum><header>When request considered complete; received</header> <paragraph id="H47B90F7F8EFF4D62BC6CF0003B1051DF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>When request considered complete</header> <subparagraph id="H68BD1C333D3042ACA956C92D9819D398"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For the purposes of this section, a request to a State or local government or instrumentality thereof shall be considered complete if the requesting party has not received a written notice from the government or instrumentality within 10 business days after the date on which the request is received by the government or instrumentality—</text>
<clause id="HB0FAECD913AE475FA65DA41664DC302A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>stating that all the information (including any form or other document) required by the government or instrumentality to be submitted for the request to be considered complete has not been submitted; and</text></clause> <clause id="HCDBFF39D9BD241AE992C491525F3048C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>identifying the information required to be submitted that was not submitted.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H567C90BDA9054C878236F1AA3E3F56F4"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this paragraph, the term <term>received by the government or instrumentality</term> means—</text> <clause id="H57F0EC07C545485BB1BE4DCC993993AC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted electronically, on the date on which the request is transmitted;</text></clause>
<clause id="H374F40BB023F4299AB9BF2444B3A5D3B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in person, on the date on which the request is delivered to the individual or at the location specified by the government or instrumentality for in-person submission; and</text></clause> <clause id="H93441FD5DD95438EAACA39946CF660E7"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in any other manner, on the date determined under regulations promulgated by the Commission for the manner in which the request is submitted.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7BD47414A0DF4B10B0C7FD4318CD8711"><enum>(2)</enum><header>When complete request considered received</header><text>For the purposes of this section, a complete request shall be considered received on the date on which the requesting party submits to the government or instrumentality all information (including any form or other document) required by the government or instrumentality to be submitted for the request to be considered complete.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HE7322CF18D5D484EB7F86CB4C4B6BBA8"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H7CA5072463F845FBAE234837B1CE77A8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Eligible support infrastructure</header><text>The term <term>eligible support infrastructure</term> means infrastructure that supports or houses a facility for communication by wire (or is designed to and capable of supporting or housing such a facility) at the time when a complete request to a State or local government or instrumentality thereof for authorization to place, construct, or modify a telecommunications service facility in or on the infrastructure is received by the government or instrumentality.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H350743B1733A41A7A48E47461C63AC23"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Telecommunications service facility</header><text>The term <term>telecommunications service facility</term> means a facility for the provision of any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H45D5ABDAA1E344AFBC05094613200056"><enum>203.</enum><header>Cable leadership</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 621 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/541">47 U.S.C. 541</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block style="USC" id="H1849CFC71F5F4B8898E514AB5864F1B4" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <subsection id="HC6CB69C275BC448ABE03B0DCBED4A02C"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Timing of decision on request for franchise</header> <paragraph id="H5B4600994816445B952C44FE46E8CD9A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 120 days after the date on which a franchising authority receives a complete request for the grant of a franchise (other than a renewal thereof), the franchising authority shall approve or deny such request.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2CB25ED0A9F548EAA4FBD46A88B91DA8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Deemed grant of new franchise</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the franchising authority does not approve or deny a request under paragraph (1) by the day after the date on which the time period ends under such paragraph, such request shall be deemed granted on such day.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDF6929CED0BC4C0593ED89E2C611974A" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>Notwithstanding any provision of this title, the timeframe under paragraph (1) shall apply collectively to all proceedings required by a franchising authority for the approval of the request. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0E9F468E080E43B98003B9609E2D37D5" commented="no"><enum>(4)</enum><header>No tolling</header><text>A timeframe under paragraph (1) may not be tolled by any moratorium, whether express or de facto, imposed by a franchising authority on the consideration of any request for a franchise. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD175A8FA5D5C4F6EA06EBCE92DFBD90B" commented="no"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Written decision and record</header><text>Any decision by a franchising authority to deny a complete request for a franchise shall be—</text>
<subparagraph id="HBEB21B2A2B664E30B4E33327B374E49F" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in writing;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8BA988FFD0F1455B839A9F767DD443BC" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text>supported by substantial evidence contained in a written record; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD587D9EEE1BE4D16B816CFF883347250" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><text>publicly released, contemporaneously with the decision. </text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC4CBFCF72C1547E8AC48D742516FDDE1"><enum>(6)</enum><header>When request considered complete; received</header> <subparagraph id="HED68E42F2C8445B7AEE2BA8AB5528F48"><enum>(A)</enum><header>When request considered complete</header> <clause id="H7B5AB856C96043D792CD8C6CC0C97820"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For the purposes of this subsection, a request to a franchising authority shall be considered complete if the requesting party has not received a written notice from the franchising authority within 10 business days after the date on which the request is received by the franchising authority—</text>
<subclause id="H5C064399915B4F6F9E7D8FD6C20D6B61"><enum>(I)</enum><text>stating that all the information (including any form or other document) required by the franchising authority to be submitted for the request to be considered complete has not been submitted; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H6BBF9F2F88CC40D78D10ED919FC99A11"><enum>(II)</enum><text>identifying the information required to be submitted that was not submitted.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H2DAC912C5EE2499DB71BE2999CD0C97F"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this paragraph, the term <term>received by the franchising authority</term> means—</text> <subclause id="H0E2478861E774DBD808C6582F9430764"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted electronically, on the date on which the request is transmitted;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H8ECB29F03A5646F2B7C3BF5571BC4A4E"><enum>(II)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in person, on the date on which the request is delivered to the individual or at the location specified by franchising authority for in-person submission; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="HAE7EB6730CEE42D7AE5C618581A65932"><enum>(III)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in any other manner, on the date determined under regulations promulgated by the Commission for the manner in which the request is submitted.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD168109C570B49CC8F3DFC3307045716"><enum>(B)</enum><header>When complete request considered received</header><text>For the purposes of this subsection, a complete request shall be considered received on the date on which the requesting party submits to the franchising authority all information (including any form or other document) required by the franchising authority to be submitted for the request to be considered complete.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="H47BDE929642A460392DF3B78D8E588DD"><enum>204.</enum><header>Cable expansion</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 624 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/544">47 U.S.C. 544</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: </text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H06F49A34D5C54FEFAD2C6BC62EFA9013">
<subsection id="H82FFD116A4EE41E1ACF1248E9457AC95"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Request regarding placement, construction, or modification of certain facilities</header>
<paragraph id="HB3574199FC8441ACBD88F7823A996370" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header>No affect on authority of franchising authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in paragraph (2), and notwithstanding any other provision of this section, nothing in this title shall limit or affect the authority of a franchising authority over decisions regarding the placement, construction, and modification of a covered facility within the jurisdiction of such franchising authority.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB7BC9033CA754A1D930B540FCDF3D790"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitations</header> <subparagraph id="HC1F623682C344B23AD296DDACDCCFFEC" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Ability to provide or enhance cable service</header><text>The regulation of the placement, construction, or modification of a covered facility by a franchising authority shall not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the ability of a cable operator to provide cable service, or enhance cable service provided, under a franchise granted by such franchising authority. </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H386E6DD06FA14F0983F3EB9931222A20"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Timing of decisions on requests for authorizations to place, construct, or modify facility</header>
<clause id="HCF68764C52E745379BF8854DB79CE008"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Request for authorization to place, construct, or modify facility</header>
<subclause id="H625E04C37FEE4CC6AE59C92DE621AC1D" commented="no"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Timeframe</header><text>A franchising authority shall approve or deny a complete request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a covered facility not later than—</text> <item id="H5F432E12390144409C86ECEB7B64B68B" commented="no"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>if the request is for authorization to place, construct, or modify a covered facility in or on an eligible support infrastructure, 90 days after the date on which the franchising authority receives the request; and </text></item>
<item id="H0678F202ED9649BDB7ECE3F8DA5206D0" commented="no"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>if the request is not for authorization to place, construct modify a covered facility in or on an eligible support infrastructure, 150 days after the date on which franchising authority receives the request.</text></item></subclause> <subclause id="H6A4E6A2066AB4237BFF71DADF5801E75"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>Notwithstanding any provision of this title, the applicable timeframe under subparagraph (A) shall apply collectively to all proceedings required by a franchising authority for the approval of the request.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H25E35E51E10C4BCFA1087D60D1A831D6" commented="no"><enum>(III)</enum><header>No tolling</header><text>A timeframe under subparagraph (A) may not be tolled by any moratorium, whether express or de facto, imposed by a franchising authority on the consideration of any request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a facility for the provision of cable service.</text></subclause> <subclause id="H8EC33CD055E7430D8DDCDB7FE0CDCC64"><enum>(IV)</enum><header>Written decision and record</header><text>Any decision by a franchising authority to deny a complete request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a covered facility shall be—</text>
<item id="HA4A5B8DB46D649D8A5A6F99FB8C958F8"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>in writing;</text></item> <item id="H0EA65FB18CCF415DB3B2C2B1C9B4DF15"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>supported by substantial evidence contained in a written record; and</text></item>
<item id="H287AC397E22E47A0A3F34AF6CBA354FF"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>publicly released, contemporaneously with the decision.</text></item></subclause></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H95672753D9C04DEE88A266B845C31A08" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><header>When request considered complete; received</header> <clause id="H0733FE05201340A6B2F4872B637FADC1"><enum>(i)</enum><header>When request considered complete</header> <subclause id="HF674AE8645164FBA8F35FA3B887ECCFF"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For the purposes of this subparagraph (B), a request to a franchising authority shall be considered complete if the requesting party has not received a written notice from the franchising authority within 10 business days after the date on which the request is received by the franchising authority—</text>
<item id="HEAEA76BAF2E349FF9E23C93DDFBF821E"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>stating that all the information (including any form or other document) required by the franchising authority to be submitted for the request to be considered complete has not been submitted; and</text></item> <item id="H79256ABB937A4ACFA1300D095DF1F9E2"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>identifying the information required to be submitted that was not submitted.</text></item></subclause>
<subclause id="H4C13FABA1C454CF8A94BF922F9182529"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this clause, the term <term>received by the franchising authority</term> means—</text> <item id="H26FFFB02CBB14719911672F24E4AB025"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted electronically, on the date on which the request is transmitted;</text></item>
<item id="H97F821CE36564B59949CE57DCBB2DE67"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in person, on the date on which the request is delivered to the individual or at the location specified by the franchising authority for in-person submission; and</text></item> <item id="HBEE0DDD0854E443FBD748195DFAA4AF1"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in any other manner, on the date determined under regulations promulgated by the Commission for the manner in which the request is submitted.</text></item></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HB2428589D03D453BB08FA1B271B4855B"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>When complete request considered received</header><text>For the purposes of subparagraph (B), a complete request shall be considered received on the date on which the requesting party submits to the franchising authority all information (including any form or other document) required by the franchising authority to be submitted for the request to be considered complete.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H632FE72E7E9C45D0BBB7FC90ECB61A57"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this subsection:</text>
<clause id="H4DD62200B2A34AF0BB22403DC4B0B982"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Eligible support infrastructure</header><text>The term <term>eligible support infrastructure</term> means infrastructure that supports or houses a facility for communication by wire (or is designed to and capable of supporting or housing such facility) at the time when a complete request to a franchising authority for authorization to place, construct, or modify a covered facility in or on the infrastructure is received by the franchising authority.</text></clause> <clause id="H037420A1BC444C82B583F6C673C1C598"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Covered facility</header><text>The term <term>covered facility</term> means a facility—</text>
<subclause id="HCFBE03943F744B4EAF395F6FD6757D89"><enum>(I)</enum><text>for the provision of cable service; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H37E0155463044BCF86349CAE36C1B9EF"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that serves subscribers using an easement or public right-of-way.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HEC7325F67C414D0E9AB64A024F1BF0B6"><enum>205.</enum><header>Cable competition</header>
<subsection id="HBA30D431C2E94F81B1186C38AEF954DA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 627 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/547">47 U.S.C. 547</external-xref>) is amended to read: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="HC99CAFF9CA5D43E3AA243777BEEACD3B" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="HA9A81092B28842F1906562817EEEC450"><enum>627.</enum><header>Conditions of sale or transfer</header> <subsection id="H7A1674BF069A417DBA2D765F5AAEBAEA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Value of cable system upon sale or transfer</header> <paragraph id="HBC2F1BF65C60427886A3EC3FAD7CFE48"><enum>(1)</enum><header>After denial of franchise renewal</header><text>If a renewal of a franchise held by a cable operator is denied and the franchising authority acquires ownership of the cable system or effects a transfer of ownership of the system to another person, any such acquisition or transfer shall be at fair market value, determined on the basis of the cable system valued as a going concern but with no value allocated to the franchise itself. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H35DFDC501B40495CAF2F0F5B25862013"><enum>(2)</enum><header>After revocation of franchise for cause</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a franchise held by a cable operator is revoked for cause and the franchising authority acquires ownership of the cable system or effects a transfer of ownership of the system to another person, any such acquisition or transfer shall be at fair market value. </text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC27CAEF592BF4494950BB93EDF435CD8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitations on authority of franchising authority with respect to transfer of franchise</header> <paragraph id="HD03542D1749244F1BFDBA6CD57C25942"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A franchising authority may not—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDB17AFA25EF04E4DB85D93C48F5D4291"><enum>(A)</enum><text>preclude a cable operator from transferring a franchise to a person to which such franchise was not initially granted; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5DED172B7E534869B7F57323FE606E4B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>require a cable operator to which a franchise is initially granted to receive approval from the franchising authority for the transfer of such franchise to a person who to which such franchise was not initially granted.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFF0F7F3C452C4AB894BC5449948F9F04"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>In the case of the transfer of a franchise to a person to which such franchise was not originally granted, a franchising authority may require a cable operator to which a franchise was initially granted to, not later than 15 days after a transfer of a franchise, notify the franchising authority in writing of such transfer.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H33A41B44840D4A478BA73B0DFB634E5A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Transfer defined</header><text>In this subsection, the term <term>transfer</term> means the assignment rights under a franchise through any transaction, including a merger, sale, assignment, restructuring, or transfer of control of a cable operator or a cable system.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HA5A8525A0F5D42528A3ACEDF06851FE2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>This section, and the amendments made by subsection (a), shall take effect 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HF332158DCAFC442896A2C4A7AD97A672"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Application</header><text>This section, and the amendment made by subsection (a), shall apply to a franchise granted—</text>
<paragraph id="H691904C0FDC444AFA39BCC5CB04FBD57"><enum>(1)</enum><text>on or after the effective date established by subsection (b); or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H80959ADFB34E40B58690510B4D8FF3B6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>before such date, if such franchise (including any renewal term thereof) is in effect on such date. </text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H6B0904572C4C456C9E6BE69FC1A21739"><enum>206.</enum><header>Cable transparency</header>
<subsection id="H4A660A225C9F47379A71CA5CB6905C70"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 626 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/546">47 U.S.C. 546</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H93EC863383F846B182C3FDF321FCD3D5"> <section id="H6DF86E0018B54F659938B540A90EFC2A"><enum>626.</enum><header>Franchise term and termination</header> <subsection id="HDF82F1BB730E41FE896403B32865644A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Franchise term</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A franchise shall continue in effect (without any requirement for renewal) until the date on which the franchise is revoked or terminated in accordance with subsection (b).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HF5E467F027904144AC720436EF2AC862"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limits</header>
<paragraph id="HA1B1E75AB7A74035AF51F1710C174044"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Prohibition against revocation; termination</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), a franchise may not be—</text> <subparagraph id="H4E4E4B84B6754EC5B8127EA766FEB895" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>revoked by a franchising authority;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H04828E2256E34750A7393FCC013BDAB4" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text>terminated by a cable operator; or </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0581B854833D45F4A28EE26C8EEC926F" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><text>revoked or terminated by operation of law, including by a term in a franchise that revokes or terminates such franchise on a specific date, after a period of time, or upon the occurrence of an event.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1F315EC1644541AAA0BBCABB8DB027B7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>When termination or revocation of franchise permitted</header>
<subparagraph id="H10C31C80477143F29AC9033BBBCF3AD0"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Termination by cable operator</header>
<clause id="HEB86AA06E860495B89B028C066198B81"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A cable operator may terminate a franchise by submitting to the franchising authority a written request for the franchising authority to revoke such franchise.</text></clause> <clause id="HC0E220D1D07946D79250D013FCB37217"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Time of revocation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the cable operator submits a complete request under clause (i), the franchising authority shall revoke the franchise on the date that is 90 days after the franchising authority receives such request.</text></clause>
<clause id="H0C02AA081B3C40689A3AA76D9FDC0769"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Deemed to be revoked</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a franchising authority does not approve a request by the date required under clause (ii), the franchise is deemed revoked on the day after such date.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2CD270D005E241DC8E35F053184ACFC4"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Termination by franchising authority</header><text>A franchising authority may revoke a franchise if the franchising authority—</text>
<clause id="HBD1A21CEEB9B47E4833060C9CF7F8813"><enum>(i)</enum><text>finds that the cable operator has knowingly and willfully failed to substantially meet a material requirement imposed by the franchise;</text></clause> <clause id="HDCE9D941DE3F41569467841C2E294B00"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>provides the cable operator a reasonable opportunity to cure such failure, after which the cable operator fails to cure such failure; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HC1640A57997A4A0FBD11381AF50161EC"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>does not waive the material requirement or acquiesce with the failure to substantially meet such requirement.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD76558A0A6884DB4980EE9DF4B381E4F"><enum>(C)</enum><header>When request considered complete; received</header> <clause id="HD991B0EF98E640F8A34AD3C59C29756F"><enum>(i)</enum><header>When request considered complete</header> <subclause id="HFA40203525EE457395EF238ED5569DAC"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For the purposes of this paragraph, a request to a franchising authority shall be considered complete if the cable operator has not received a written notice from the franchising authority within 10 business days after the date on which the request is received by the franchising authority—</text>
<item id="H35549956F4A241938E51CD5E9A729401"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>stating that all the information (including any form or other document) required by the franchising authority to be submitted for the request to be considered complete has not been submitted; and</text></item> <item id="H73916BE2FCC6463B93B3AE244008D956"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>identifying the information required to be submitted that was not submitted.</text></item></subclause>
<subclause id="HB176AFAD861441AA857E8AB184B4C905"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this clause, the term <term>received by the franchising authority</term> means—</text> <item id="HF0ED5B20D53D4390804378988EAB89C0"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted electronically, on the date on which the request is transmitted;</text></item>
<item id="H4525AE389E754DD5A184F20E53C9E540"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in person, on the date on which the request is delivered to the individual or at the location specified by the franchising authority for in-person submission; and</text></item> <item id="H63CF7A458081488E8EC80267BBCA854D"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in any other manner, on the date determined under regulations promulgated by the Commission for the manner in which the request is submitted.</text></item></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H9E1F1686D11A4DE0B31331D709700D52"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>When complete request considered received</header><text>For the purposes of this paragraph, a complete request shall be considered received on the date on which the cable operator submits to the franchising authority all information (including any form or other document) required by the franchising authority to be submitted for the request to be considered complete.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HE6EFB234A2D242A0BE9F7E683690810F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Review by Commission</header> <paragraph id="H6ACDE0D71E5C473E844B7CD67866C80C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Petition</header><text>A cable operator may petition the Commission for review of a determination by a franchising authority to revoke a franchise under subsection (b)(2)(B).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5A1026146D4C47D792D1DE9C1414D748" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Review</header><text>The Commission shall review the determination de novo. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4A89BB1CFF954399A13A028DCD530CBA" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Order</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If, based on the evidence presented during the review, the Commission determines that the franchising authority has not demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that the franchising authority revoked the franchise in accordance with subsection (b)(2)(B), the Commission shall order the franchising authority to reinstate the franchise. </text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H3636195D0174434788F6F97272B4FD49"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Elimination or modification of requirement in franchise</header><text>Section 625 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/545">47 U.S.C. 545</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H9A37DED9528E4DD0B6FC47FC2C5B866A" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="H79175BB8EA8040D4AC577FD4F8B9B27C"><enum>625.</enum><header>Elimination or modification of requirement in franchise</header> <subsection id="HC4FB02DBBFEC4E97952683BF911325D0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">During the period in which a franchise is in effect, the cable operator may obtain the elimination or modification of any requirement in the franchise by submitting to the franchising authority a request for the elimination or modification of such requirement. </text></subsection>
<subsection id="H703FEB97FC4D42A59CE600A89B9EF19B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Elimination or modification of requirement in franchise</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The franchising authority shall eliminate or modify a requirement in accordance with a complete request submitted under subsection (a) not later than 120 days after receiving such request if the cable operator demonstrates in the request—</text> <paragraph id="H72E1C8A7C60C4994B44CB8B7748E1C52"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">good cause for the elimination or modification of the requirement; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFD471C1EDD0144BDA0D46F064015ECB7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that the mix, quality, and level of services required by the franchise at the time the franchise was granted will be maintained after the elimination or modification of the requirement.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H3CE93421D7B34B4CB08C697AE1BFBB45" commented="no"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Deemed elimination or modification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except in the case of a request for the elimination or modification of a requirement for services relating to public, educational, or governmental access, if the franchising authority fails to approve or deny the complete request submitted under subsection (a) by the date described under subsection (b), the requirement shall be deemed eliminated or modified in accordance with the request on the day after such date.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7B0FD95CD22D4A7D91A3616FA157412E" commented="no"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Appeal</header>
<paragraph id="HDA60E4891D9D4BD4AAAFDF77A4538BC0" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any cable operator whose request for elimination or modification of a requirement in a franchise under subsection (a) has been denied by a final decision of a franchising authority may obtain the elimination or modification of such franchise requirements pursuant to the provisions of section 635.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7A062C763A9D4E9D90CE487FE7930F6B" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Grant of request</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of any proposed elimination or modification of a requirement in a franchise under subsection (a), the court shall grant such elimination or modification only if the cable operator demonstrates to the court—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3EFD1AFEC4144F11A2B580F8B82C1FBB" display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">good cause for the elimination or modification of the requirement; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6607DD7D93FD4EA1B1EEEAE19611E0A7" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that the mix, quality, and level of services required by the franchise at the time the franchise was granted will be maintained after the elimination or modification of the requirement.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H78E1E66A70104432B5B15AF555E59CB4"><enum>(e)</enum><header>When request considered complete; received</header>
<paragraph id="H0D629E65F65A406DBF81B976B8B949A3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>When request considered complete</header>
<subparagraph id="H55DB5B90AA3646FA8DC9F6D595B76D0C"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For the purposes of this section, a request to a franchising authority shall be considered complete if the cable operator has not received a written notice from the franchising authority within 10 business days after the date on which the request is received by the franchising authority—</text> <clause id="H77C5BA9CEEB5419C81349C0D0BF67FB7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>stating that all the information (including any form or other document) required by the franchising authority to be submitted for the request to be considered complete has not been submitted; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HD90F3390200540E690190A9BB23B6EC6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>identifying the information required to be submitted that was not submitted.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H42B4D4AEAEDC4F2EA4C2E9AA09741AE3"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this paragraph, the term <term>received by the franchising authority</term> means—</text>
<clause id="HDA4FCCE27BCA410EB2BFB44419C44D8E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted electronically, on the date on which the request is transmitted;</text></clause> <clause id="HB6CCDEF24E8E4C03B90C65E312C377C3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in person, on the date on which the request is delivered to the individual or at the location specified by the franchising authority for in-person submission; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HF6B167477EA5488E9C0EA6C9819D509F"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in any other manner, on the date determined under regulations promulgated by the Commission for the manner in which the request is submitted.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA4023BB4A5334ED798237A537119F51F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>When complete request considered received</header><text>For the purposes of this section, a complete request shall be considered received on the date on which the cable operator submits to the franchising authority all information (including any form or other document) required by the franchising authority to be submitted for the request to be considered complete.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H6E79152C6E814210B8A8E5CB3B5DFF7A" commented="no"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Technical and conforming amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/151">47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HC836B7A6226141B8AD142C43F8B7DCD3" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 601—</text>
<subparagraph id="H6989CF4A63C348A6B5ABD7AABE5FF913" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H52399F7AB22F42F2B59D6AE6DAF07CE4" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (5); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBB403455D1A04442A26A264D16C570D8" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (5);</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD9B3663827BA488C8A242D33EFDC5198" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 602(9)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HED0EB331236846C093CA4FABEB60FE23" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>initial</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H975882F63FB04F4288C11A5807E441B2" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>, or renewal thereof (including a renewal of an authorization which has been granted subject to section 626),</quote>; </text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H20105493FEB34A0B9A3122468C94422F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in section 611(b), by striking <quote>and may require as part of a cable operator’s proposal for a franchise renewal, subject to section 626</quote>; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD8C0CA3FC0B64925AD913F0755BBFC92" commented="no"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 612(b)(3)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5E50DFE60C9E4C2888E1C56168980DCD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or as part of a proposal for renewal, subject to section 626,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4BC09FFBEC554EE49C51CD196376EF91"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>, or proposal for renewal thereof,</quote>; </text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0D44D0651DBA46BA8FD47A84BF1B9A2B" commented="no"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 621(b)(3)—</text> <subparagraph id="H5E2697BD45E64DB2846F19F5E409AE45" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking <quote>or franchise renewal</quote>; and </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H81DBD2A4B22547BF836FC8FB18237BA3" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D)—</text> <clause id="H8E8276BE9A5E4ED987CF4203283CC86B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>initial</quote>; and </text></clause>
<clause id="H8FF0B1D1B8D84B93A4A8810771258711"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>, a franchise renewal,</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4FD88D8EE6824D34A244AB68AE5C5D25" commented="no"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in section 624—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD0A2F12797344422AAA8F9FE4157991D" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(1), by striking <quote>(including requests for renewal proposals, subject to section 626)</quote>; and </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB1EAC2E0EAF944F6A3256F7286679955" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(1), by striking <quote>or renewal thereof</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H64A5E47B8AEC49C19CC30478188CDA36" commented="no"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in section 627—</text> <subparagraph id="HF6AC8BE8F7E1441688224CD78B50A8F4" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking subsection (a);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H13EE86496C474D6191A3D13B2EC2C0E0" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by inserting <quote>, as described in section 626(b)(2)(B),</quote> after <quote>for cause</quote>; and </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H02D241680A3049D1BBA2DC7F74DA8813"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC"><enum-in-header>(b) </enum-in-header></header-in-text><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC"></header-in-text><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC"><enum-in-header><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC"></header-in-text></enum-in-header></header-in-text>If</quote> and inserting <quote>If</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2CCCCE87745C44C482E2750AB2E171B0" commented="no"><enum>(8)</enum><text>in section 635A(a), by striking <quote>renewal,</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H90ED5820C9344DAC858BCE7CA5B11E02"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date; application</header> <paragraph id="H26805532C0AB4F2CBCE5356778B3D30C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section, and the amendments made by this section, shall take effect 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H05DAC1D3D57A4983BA71B7FB7129B66A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application</header><text>This section, and the amendments made by this section, shall apply to a franchise granted—</text> <subparagraph id="HBA1499D928D74FE48BCD2813C4130652"><enum>(A)</enum><text>on or after the effective date established by paragraph (1); or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9FD620AF593744539A77A7EB179BC576"><enum>(B)</enum><text>before such date, if such franchise (including, notwithstanding the amendment made by subsection (c)(2)(B), any renewal thereof) is in effect on such date.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HFD2B8D0E60FF4AE283ABF6F083897617"><enum>207.</enum><header>Communities over regulating networks need economic competition today</header> <subsection id="HD0CB5B8914C34292B8E675BF5230822B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in subsections (b)(1) and (c), a State or political subdivision thereof may not provide or offer for sale to the public, a telecommunications provider, or to a commercial provider of broadband internet access service, retail or wholesale broadband internet access service.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA4DF8E794D844242B711EA38586CCA0C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Transitional rule</header><text>Any State or political subdivision thereof providing or offering for sale, either to the public, a telecommunications provider, or to a provider of broadband internet access service, retail or wholesale broadband internet access service, before the date of the enactment of this section—</text> <paragraph id="H9B263BB1DDB14283B9C00A229B25FDFA" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">notwithstanding subsection (a), may continue to provide or offer for sale such service if the Commission finds there is no more than one other commercial provider of broadband internet access that provides competition for that service in a particular area;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF933F9A7DFCC43E9BBDDB09D2A18CE1D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall notify each subscriber of the State or political subdivision if a commercial provider of retail broadband internet access enters the market; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H63DBB5D685334FDDBE7595A21650CAC7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>may not construct or extend facilities used to deliver broadband internet access service beyond the geographic area in which the State or political subdivision thereof lawfully operates.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HE32C4179CF2E4BDB8C76EDFB87C5CF82" commented="no"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Notwithstanding subsection (a), this section does not apply to the Tennessee Valley Authority. </text></subsection> <subsection id="HC2708A65C0D74B1BAA3CA3DD7025DE67"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Rules of construction</header> <paragraph id="H41D5A2D8D9E7422990D78DD4C074EE09"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>This section may not be construed to restrict a State or political subdivision thereof, from allowing the nondiscriminatory use of its rights-of-way, including access to utility poles, conduits, ducts, or similar support structures used for the deployment of facilities necessary to deliver broadband internet access service.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H140C119767654B76B8964BCC53443212"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Public safety</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section may not be construed to restrict a State or political subdivision thereof, from providing broadband facilities or services for 9–1–1, enhanced 9–1–1 service, or Next Generation 9–1–1.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HCB77CE0B8B7E4F66B3E65D4F20BC3127"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Limitation of Commission authority</header><text>Notwithstanding any provision of law, including section 706 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/706">47 U.S.C. 706</external-xref>), the Commission may not pre-empt State laws to permit a State or political subdivision thereof to provide or offer for sale to the public retail or wholesale broadband internet access service.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0308E6FD891849A780DB8F18039053AC"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="HCBD9CDE4D8E941B28B802AC4CC04925C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>9–1–1 request for emergency assistance</header><text>The term <term>9–1–1 request for emergency assistance</term> means a communication, such as voice, text, picture, multimedia, or any other type of data that is sent to an emergency communications center for the purpose of requesting emergency assistance.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC980C0A86E9A495BB7B8B952046C9674"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Broadband internet access service</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>broadband internet access service</term> has the meaning given that term in section 8.1(b) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE282130CC7A74392B1FF6EB1CDA54E8D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Commonly accepted standards</header><text>The term <term>commonly accepted standards</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCB479018C7454A9382AD3D0FFC21AF2C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the technical standards followed by the communications industry for network, device, and Internet Protocol connectivity, including standards developed by the Third Generation Partnership Project, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, the Internet Engineering Taskforce, and the International Telecommunications Union; and </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD3D2A0977D8743A78EDEFDDB2997724D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>standards that are accredited by a recognized authority such as the American National Standards Institute.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H36409D7FB52245C4A46F9578EB0ABEED"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Emergency communications center</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>emergency communications center</term> means a facility that is designated to receive a 9–1–1 request for emergency assistance and perform one or more of the following functions: </text> <subparagraph id="HD7A54805FFAC40B884BD33CF2B62197B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Process and analyze 9–1–1 requests for emergency assistance and other gathered information. </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H772DDC0776E7431C8FE0EADB0342F8BA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Dispatch appropriate emergency response providers. </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H20C48797ED864C83A2C6B32F338E1993"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Transfer or exchange 9–1–1 requests for emergency assistance and other gathered information with other emergency communications centers and emergency response providers. </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H84A3C89F498A423AA602AEF4DD38FDFB"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Analyze any communications received from emergency response providers. </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB1FACC4805A24CE5B330A89EBAB2DBE6"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Support incident command functions.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3E354579D9B34243B10605EFF684B077"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Emergency response provider</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>emergency response provider</term>—</text> <subparagraph id="H9D67F916E62F4686A9633A43198E24DC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has the meaning given that term under section 2 of the Homeland Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/101">47 U.S.C. 101</external-xref>); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H450A87F6909B469C8DD80122FB35B004"><enum>(B)</enum><text>includes Federal, State, and local governmental and nongovernmental emergency public safety, fire, law enforcement, emergency response, emergency medical (including hospital emergency facilities), and related personnel, agencies, and authorities.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE73502679C4744B98E39868347F2FC78"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Enhanced 9–1–1 service</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>enhanced 9–1–1 service</term> has the meaning given that term in section 7(10) of the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/615b">47 U.S.C. 615b(10)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H43110177C776495587136D3CF907A977"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Interoperable</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>interoperable</term> means the capability of emergency communications centers to receive 9–1–1 requests for emergency assistance and related data such as location information and callback numbers from the public, then process and share the 9–1–1 requests for emergency assistance and related data with other emergency communications centers and emergency response providers, regardless of jurisdiction, equipment, device, software, service provider, or other relevant factors, and without the need for proprietary interfaces.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H37110E7D1CA44BF79C523F8A23E5C510"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Next Generation 9–1–1</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Next Generation 9–1–1</term> means an interoperable, secure, Internet Protocol-based system that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H394CD1B4FC2F47EFAE0B45F6A3246177"><enum>(A)</enum><text>employs commonly accepted standards; </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H75C6E197DD564D8185638A3315250E7F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>enables the appropriate emergency communications centers to receive, process, and analyze all types of 9–1–1 requests for emergency assistance;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H25A4227EC7FD423DA856E4B3D6C15A68"><enum>(C)</enum><text>acquires and integrates additional information useful to handling 9–1–1 requests for emergency assistance; and </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H767B4DB0E64D461DBC99092CA0EFD419"><enum>(D)</enum><text>supports sharing information related to 9–1–1 requests for emergency assistance among emergency communications centers and emergency response providers.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H74834B22EF0741B88ED498FC5F48A378" commented="no"><enum>(9)</enum><header>State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H20DD43D41ED74A65AC2DF38BEBB28AC8"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Telecommunications provider</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>telecommunications provider</term> means an eligible telecommunications carrier as designated under section 214(e)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/214">47 U.S.C. 214(e)(2)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HCE8586339157409A858D79F8F0A061C3"><enum>208.</enum><header>Streamlining permitting to enable efficient deployment of broadband infrastructure</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title I of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/151">47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H03DB5ECB2DD0400B8A0D5B35C6D777D3" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="H38C7CC3A1DF14E1C89CD061C76A09996"><enum>14.</enum><header>Exemption from review for certain communications facilities</header> <subsection id="H7637FBEC022A4B3BA56E1AC1767FE5E7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>For permitting by Commission</header> <paragraph id="H6D6F288FEAA74E818651B2981A3DC42F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any provision of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) or division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States Code, the Commission shall not be required to perform, and may not require any entity regulated by the Commission to perform, any review under such Act or division as a condition of permitting the placement and installation of a communications facility if—</text>
<subparagraph id="H6E6BFBFCB2B04AD982624246C99B9BF5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the new facility—</text> <clause id="H7C41B6D4971744D8AD95BB8ACB98A05A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>will be located within a public right-of-way; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H797A969EE05A4DF0A17E40A8C6AED5C1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is not more than 50 feet tall or 10 feet higher than any existing structure in the public right-of-way, whichever is higher;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H51BEFC33C27A42D89E68A4A5AEA81AB6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the new facility is—</text>
<clause id="H786AA629C2BF4382937E4D211390D634"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a replacement for an existing communications facility; and</text></clause> <clause id="H96B575548DE6471A9B31F2563B1A8CDF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the same as, or substantially similar to (as such term is defined by the Commission), the communications facility that the new communications facility is replacing;</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDE9AE733CE9744EC86C374AEA5B7002D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the new facility is a type of communications facility that—</text> <clause id="HF2DEB35C9FF94177B98A86DAE863BE42"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is described in subsection (c)(2)(B); and</text></clause>
<clause id="H8F33E3EF488B4A39B87A1C80CE457E9B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>meets the size limitation of a small antenna established by the Commission; or</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H59F28E71CDF44C69B9D88913C020F2B1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the placement and installation involve the expansion of the site of an existing facility not more than 30 feet in any direction.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4B73F42322C14EB8B9DAE5C484110820"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Savings clause</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect—</text> <subparagraph id="HAB0E225F7FF3487E936BF1F71E876AF3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the obligation of the Commission to evaluate radiofrequency exposure under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H64A82A05F7C7442C8AB0537341F29597"><enum>(B)</enum><text>except as explicitly provided in this subsection, the obligation of any provider of a communications service to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) or division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States Code;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H82B6122A9A9E45EDAB0D3AC304B77F20"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the authority of a State or local government to apply and enforce the zoning and other land use regulations of the State or local government to the extent consistent with this subsection and sections 253, 332(c)(7), and 621; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6C4F4C87C72D480982127E64D72884FC"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the authority or obligations established under section 20156(e) of title 49, United States Code.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H58350844AF0E4C3AB54611BA5BDD3473"><enum>(b)</enum><header>For grant of easement on Federal property</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No review shall be required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) or division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States Code, as a condition of granting a covered easement for a communications facility if a covered easement has been granted for another communications facility or a utility facility with respect to the same building or other property owned by the Federal Government.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H092396E3EDD94F28A41A3398DD08E5CF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H3EBB6F9796AD4A4A860ED77E92C60D19"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Antenna</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>antenna</term> means communications equipment that transmits or receives electromagnetic radio frequency signals used in the provision of wireless services.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC49473529F924EBCB27A7DF109B0044C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Communications facility</header><text>The term <term>communications facility</term> includes—</text> <subparagraph id="H4AB230FC4B974D748926D0CDA6564461"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any infrastructure, including any transmitting device, tower, or support structure, and any equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets, associated with the licensed or permitted unlicensed wireless or wireline transmission of writings, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, and sounds of all kinds; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H45A2B28A3DA6489E8537F460990015CA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any antenna or apparatus—</text> <clause id="HDDEBA4CA755244A5A0445EF4DB9C1690"><enum>(i)</enum><text>that is designed for the purpose of emitting or receiving radio frequency;</text></clause>
<clause id="H2086FA3751234430810F9737B97152A4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>that—</text> <subclause id="H30A04F96213D441C92B93F6EB65125D2"><enum>(I)</enum><text>is designed to be operated, or is operating, from a fixed location pursuant to authorization by the Commission; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H8B2471FC7B474CADAA42CEDFD12F8E55"><enum>(II)</enum><text>is using duly authorized devices that do not require individual licenses; and</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HB488F333FA19471FADB8166549735448"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>that is added to a tower, building, support pole, or other structure.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H01E2077AE323477598BF892C66AA088E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Covered easement</header><text>The term <term>covered easement</term> means an easement, right-of-way, or lease to, in, over, or on a building or other property owned by the Federal Government, excluding Tribal land held in trust by the Federal Government (unless the Tribal Government of such land requests that the Commission not exclude the land for purposes of this definition), for the right to install, construct, modify, or maintain a communications facility.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4C7B1888595C467A94074A19FD01DCCE"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Public right-of-way</header><text>The term <term>public right-of-way</term>—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDD50740D7E8141E892170A08ECD5BF94"><enum>(A)</enum><text>means—</text> <clause id="HC90F1501A41D42B6ACF8057B15465C61"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley, or similar property; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HB9E66DE812534CBBAEE88BE6CE4365B8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any land immediately adjacent to and contiguous with property described in clause (i) that is within the right-of-way grant; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF0216DBBC3024B2D991F8C697359ED34"><enum>(B)</enum><text>does not include a portion of the Interstate System (as such term is defined in section 101(a) of title 23, United States Code).</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H53722E48B8AE46A0A1DA9129F21A4CB2"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Support Pole</header><text>The term <term>support pole</term> means an upright pole or structure used or capable of being used to support a wireless service facility.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H14123A6F37124C039DD54FA3D56803A8"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Utility facility</header><text>The term <term>utility facility</term> means any privately, publicly, or cooperatively owned line, facility, or system for producing, transmitting, or distributing power, electricity, light, heat, gas, oil, crude products, water, steam, waste, storm water not connected with highway drainage, or any other similar commodity, including any fire or police signal system or street lighting system, that directly or indirectly serves the public.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H65601E6E8F8B47F8B410C7FDD31047AB"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Wireless service</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>wireless service</term> means the transmission by radio communication of voice, video, or data communications services, including Internet Protocol or any successor protocol-enabled services, or any combination of those services, whether provided on a licensed or permitted unlicensed basis.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7B73231ADC8F4AB1920F280F6329D6E8"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Wireless service facility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>wireless service facility</term> means a facility for the provision of wireless service.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HB96F392F59584D2A9660056767001494"><enum>209.</enum><header>Wireless broadband competition and efficient deployment</header>
<subsection id="H5693E7044F794FAC9EF6E89B9CB7453F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>NEPA exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be subject to the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text></subsection> <subsection id="HDE0AB8DFC97B4366832C099CA4CBD618"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National Historic Preservation Act exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H68EFE15BA47B4CFDAFE7956F918FAF06"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section: </text> <paragraph id="H872EB135127B4B5AA809DB69BADFDBEB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Commission</header><text>The term <term>Commission</term> means the Federal Communications Commission. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE6CA52A732F64444A1E7D7ACCF0C540A" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Covered project</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered project</term> means a project—</text> <subparagraph id="H55250A9CF9754B49807E4CD32055401A" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>for—</text>
<clause id="HC470C4BCE6064702AFF994F00015F2A7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the mounting or installation of an eligible personal wireless service facility with another eligible personal wireless service facility that exists at the time at which a complete request for authorization of such mounting or installation is filed with a State or local government or instrumentality thereof; or</text></clause> <clause id="HCA583E604CC24AD086C92E125DEC41C6" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the modification of an eligible personal wireless service facility; and</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCE0FAA5B98F34B09836236274031BE94"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for which a permit, license, or approval from the Commission is required or that is otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H69EF48AF1B0642689B31BC3349C2D75C" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Eligible personal wireless service facility</header><text>The term <term>eligible personal wireless service facility</term> means any antenna, apparatus, or transmitting device, and any equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets, for the provision of a personal wireless service.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA37FC1DCCF04426187E070CAAB6B9F4C"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Personal wireless services</header><text>The term <term>personal wireless services</term>—</text> <subparagraph id="H16571CE0CBEE4BF08BC5B57F21F4EC22"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has the meaning given such term in section 332(c)(7)(C) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/332">47 U.S.C. 332(c)(7)(C)</external-xref>); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0BD8BEC013AE4F1A919970F36017165A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>also includes commercial mobile data service (as defined in section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1401">47 U.S.C. 1401</external-xref>)).</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0D9A66C98F034CECAD3B7764451442C1" commented="no"><enum>(5)</enum><header>State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the territories and possessions of the United States, and each federally recognized Indian Tribe.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HE72A34E2CD9848BCA7A32610119CF1FA"><enum>210.</enum><header>Broadband competition and efficient deployment</header>
<subsection id="HCB9AAF0475704AED9C3E60DD3E5093FC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>NEPA exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be subject to the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H83114F60B7804B3FA4BE5B7B4C63E001"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National Historic Preservation Act exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H276FA09CC0AB45F6BC11518EB10F78A9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section: </text> <paragraph id="H336E0BC4C60B46C98B400802596A77BA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Commission</header><text>The term <term>Commission</term> means the Federal Communications Commission. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4D69846FC30A4A139A9883C9DBD5A7C3" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Covered project</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered project</term> means a project—</text> <subparagraph id="H9ABDF94BBABE4E1A8E1409C05C4AFD0A" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>for the placement, construction, or modification of a telecommunications service facility in or on eligible support infrastructure; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H604D17BF3076446BA00CA36436810210"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for which a permit, license, or approval from the Commission is required or that is otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAC0FD19F7B7143269ACCEBA1B412CA87"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Eligible support infrastructure</header><text>The term <term>eligible support infrastructure</term> means infrastructure that supports or houses a facility for communication by wire (or is designed to and capable of supporting or housing such a facility) at the time when a complete request to a State or local government or instrumentality thereof for authorization to place, construct, or modify a telecommunications service facility in or on the infrastructure is received by the government or instrumentality.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H27FE8696468C461C85C6F138F81FF8D8" commented="no"><enum>(4)</enum><header>State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the territories and possessions of the United States, and each federally recognized Indian Tribe.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8E0989CDCF544450855E1AB1FBBA2FFD"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Telecommunications service</header><text>The term <term>telecommunications service</term> has the meaning given such term in section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/153">47 U.S.C. 153</external-xref>).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD3F5D9BD3C834BAF8CF1786B4D2F624C"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Telecommunications service facility</header><text>The term <term>telecommunications service facility</term> means a facility for the provision of any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HD3EDBCB12617407AAF48067387C61762" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>211.</enum><header>Wireless resiliency and flexible investment</header> <subsection id="H4A2DEF9B005840249D84490DE3B2F00A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"> Section 6409(a) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1455">47 U.S.C. 1455(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA3F509B32FBD4997B7A73956E9702629"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>eligible facilities request for a modification of an existing wireless tower or base station that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of such tower or base station</quote> and inserting <quote>complete eligible facilities request for a modification of an existing wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of such tower, base station, or eligible support structure</quote>; </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H18A2335228E94858B86A121F04DA08AD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="HC5F10C2D347F498FB5C82536F7C951AD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Time frame</header>
<subparagraph id="HF5B0D5D541934E858ED1098E1900ACB3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 60 days after the date on which a State or local government receives a complete eligible facilities request described under paragraph (1), the State or local government shall approve such request.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF199771F97CE475E99B171EE9DD0ECD0"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Deemed approval</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a State or local government does not approve an eligible facilities request by the date required under subparagraph (A), the request is deemed approved on the day after such date.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H4250BF42E4D8414890D18A8818BFCB60"><enum>(C)</enum><header>When request considered complete; received</header>
<clause id="HD8462B41F8EF44EEBC7B93F9B41D013C"><enum>(i)</enum><header>When request considered complete</header>
<subclause id="H8418F093996343EEA1A89689AE510AD3"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For the purposes of this paragraph, an eligible facilities request to a State or local government shall be considered complete if the requesting party has not received a written notice from the State or local government within 10 business days after the date on which the request is received by the State or local government—</text> <item id="H5CFCF9BC152146CC890FA18D504B5FC1"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>stating that all the information (including any form or other document) required by the State or local government to be submitted for the request to be considered complete has not been submitted; and </text></item>
<item id="HC59DD1C97C024F9292551B5EF635DC8D"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>identifying the information required to be submitted that was not submitted.</text></item></subclause> <subclause id="H6C14DD1976CA4DC892FFADD8C704185E"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this clause, the term <term>received by the State or local government</term> means—</text>
<item id="HDB97DD1AE4CD403F89C291DB8DA499FC"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>in the case of an eligible facilities request submitted electronically, on the date on which the request is transmitted; </text></item> <item id="H26329AAB03494537AFCA5AE0E3AFB77B"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>in the case of an eligible facilities request submitted in person, on the date on which the request is delivered to the individual or at the location specified by the State or local government for in-person submission; and</text></item>
<item id="H15EEA4AE58D045938C4233988BF0992E"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>in the case of an eligible facilities request submitted in any other manner, on the date determined under regulations promulgated by the Commission for the manner in which the request is submitted. </text></item></subclause></clause> <clause id="HDF66559A463F468E97889C08A608BC27"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>When complete request considered received</header><text>For the purposes of this paragraph, a complete eligible facilities request shall be considered received on the date on which the requesting party submits to the State or local government all information (including any form or other document) required by the State or local government to be submitted for the request to be considered complete.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and </after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5D43AFDBD6844E5C9807BAABB92F52C1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following: </text> <quoted-block id="H36A4F94774C94BE7AE82446F31344CD8" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H9DB60424C8514BEC87373FCCFEF98D1D"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection: </text>
<subparagraph id="H91C73D843B804A44BF6D3707FCCAA7EE"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Eligible facilities request</header><text>The term <term>eligible facilities request</term> means any request for modification of an existing wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure that involves—</text> <clause id="H47ABEFF323084E83BE29DEC38C1F9CB3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>collocation of new transmission equipment;</text></clause>
<clause id="H36144A4F174A4AECB39C5E75B456FFD3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>removal of transmission equipment;</text></clause> <clause id="H541D6709D4B448EBA359FED4AE2E7153"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>replacement of transmission equipment; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HFCEAA90BD369423E9C9711FC387CA166"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>placement, modification, or construction of equipment that—</text> <subclause id="H803B61D0E5F84048B4DD32DB5CD35B3B"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improves the resiliency of the wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H1D519549A84C4F7FB58E747C653894B8"><enum>(II)</enum><text>provides a direct benefit to public safety, such as—</text> <item id="H549DACE21D8B42E4B8619EC4F6EEB308"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">providing backup power for the wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure;</text></item>
<item id="HE8DA51D8DD8847A094F64C833697096B"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>hardening the wireless tower, base station, or other eligible support structure; or</text></item> <item id="HB1CA4982D4DA4B51AED201F4CD77199C"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">providing more reliable connection capability using the wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure.</text></item></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H29C01225CB1445A2B379B6C5B9A95F7B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Eligible support structure</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible support structure</term> means a structure that supports a personal wireless service facility at the time at which the eligible facilities request is made.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H60C31E03A6AE4226B7B7C2532FE9FCEF"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Personal wireless service facility</header><text>The term <term>personal wireless service facility</term> means a facility necessary for the provision of—</text>
<clause id="HCE8846823E034156A6B27DB231F49559"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">commercial mobile service;</text></clause> <clause id="H72985A7CB6FF42EB8936E0E1343ECA70"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>commercial mobile data service (as that term is defined in section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1401">47 U.S.C. 1401</external-xref>));</text></clause>
<clause id="HDE3D93DF7F1C4EACB048B040ADB696EF"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>unlicensed wireless service; and </text></clause> <clause id="H0B52767CE17F4CFE82FD4E07090ECA7F"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>common carrier wireless exchange access service.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H848ACC0777B34842B7DCC9AB4374A65A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall issue final rules implementing subsection (a), and the amendments made by such subsection.</text></subsection></section> <section id="HD92E65E593DE4010989F196DA028C145" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>212.</enum><header>Broadband resiliency and flexible investment</header> <subsection id="H4486A3195DC744C6BA62B1A395A62A82"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6409(a) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1455">47 U.S.C. 1455(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H9A426C8EBD004448B51EFAF5DDF75925"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>any eligible facilities request</quote> and inserting the following: </text> <quoted-block style="OLC" id="H143C4DECB5184901BF7B0E6F249BFC2B" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><text>any complete—</text>
<paragraph id="HD3C083646F7D4F3B919F67F3033B232E" indent="down1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">eligible facilities request for a modification of an existing wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of such tower, base station, or eligible support structure; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3E30167E5B7D4B2E898FF22993B605C6" indent="down1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">eligible telecommunications facilities request for a modification of any existing telecommunications service facility in or on an eligible support infrastructure that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of such facility. </text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCB4153638BDC4928A1A29E019EEC9917"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB2E62A4C013E4849AF0A1204C226F1ED"> <paragraph id="H10B22DE7471149F1B2DE01A074F26C99"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Time frame</header> <subparagraph id="H74B9A7C1AF1C4EAFAE5126CBCFA1EBBC"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 60 days after the date on which a State or local government receives a complete request described under paragraph (1), the State or local government shall approve such request.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF5559EFF3A1947E183F41A00F2D9FE53"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Deemed approval</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a State or local government does not approve a request by the date required under subparagraph (A), the request is deemed approved on the day after such date.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA7B3D7F85BDC44F49CAF067FCEAE512E"><enum>(C)</enum><header>When request considered complete; received</header> <clause id="HAD598E3F8FDD43C8B3628515F64C2B12"><enum>(i)</enum><header>When request considered complete</header> <subclause id="H8E5C5DBF63534FB6A809134A4BE8F292"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For the purposes of this paragraph, a request to a State or local government shall be considered complete if the requesting party has not received a written notice from the State or local government within 10 business days after the date on which the request is received by the State or local government—</text>
<item id="HAF2E2878202F492F9431CD705E629D0D"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>stating that all the information (including any form or other document) required by the State or local government to be submitted for the request to be considered complete has not been submitted; and </text></item> <item id="H51EE594747D442A2A020551AA5054EA3"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>identifying the information required to be submitted that was not submitted.</text></item></subclause>
<subclause id="H80F6A4C31E52457F9451899B24621BE9"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this clause, the term <term>received by the State or local government</term> means—</text> <item id="H140F239AF1C54C9CA13CABE9D025B1C4"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted electronically, on the date on which the request is transmitted; </text></item>
<item id="H6947CE6AB4B548ACA3CA05B027BA1E47"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in person, on the date on which the request is delivered to the individual or at the location specified by the State or local government for in-person submission; and</text></item> <item id="HC9A2190CCBAF45E6B0034675913DEB2E"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>in the case of a request submitted in any other manner, on the date determined under regulations promulgated by the Commission for the manner in which the request is submitted. </text></item></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H9302F63CEFC749BF96313DF1FF45DB11"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>When complete request considered received</header><text>For the purposes of this paragraph, a complete request shall be considered received on the date on which the requesting party submits to the State or local government all information (including any form or other document) required by the State or local government to be submitted for the request to be considered complete.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and </after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H93B44AD2176F439FB9CB29DAF8639617"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following: </text>
<quoted-block id="HF901B78AAD644C6184EFDA8DDCD36806" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H0D557CCC34D448658F552A02D007DE7A"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection: </text> <subparagraph id="HC21576640D6D41A2930A0D481268ED76"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Eligible facilities request</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible facilities request</term> means any request for modification of an existing wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure that involves—</text>
<clause id="H8AE57FB54FEC4B63B1A9416A2126F9F0"><enum>(i)</enum><text>collocation of new transmission equipment;</text></clause> <clause id="H85D403BA00CC41A2B75B44ABFAF98625"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>removal of transmission equipment;</text></clause>
<clause id="H887154D49B4C410295803AC7D0CB8C06"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>replacement of transmission equipment; or</text></clause> <clause id="H9484423272F4461593CB42FE94EFA6D2"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>placement, modification, or construction of equipment that—</text>
<subclause id="H56E863CDB97B41B7ACC954196DCEB0F2"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improves the resiliency of the wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H7BE6401025EB425A9F6BA9D427EAB5C6"><enum>(II)</enum><text>provides a direct benefit to public safety, such as—</text>
<item id="HD04F0A709FDA43E0A5A516B4FECA5168"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">providing backup power for the wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure;</text></item> <item id="H96980A74180B40A6AC1C54C35643611C"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">hardening the wireless tower, base station, or other eligible support structure; or</text></item>
<item id="H93D2192B17A34DB4B9BBAF26D2A4B80C"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">providing more reliable connection capability using the wireless tower, base station, or other eligible support structure.</text></item></subclause></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H17F9FEB54D7540AC9FAA88A90E31D6A4"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Eligible telecommunications facilities request</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible telecommunications facilities request</term> means any request for modification of an existing telecommunications service facility in or on an eligible support infrastructure that involves—</text>
<clause id="H1CE1A72722AF45EA89F8F532821EB782"><enum>(i)</enum><text>collocation of new telecommunications service facility equipment;</text></clause> <clause id="H13CB5F4183A74BB8A66AC1A4C3DC2B22"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>removal of telecommunications service facility equipment; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H399FEAF3E9714F619FF1C06488C216F0"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>replacement of telecommunications service facility equipment. </text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5CC3332787F840548BF4C350E8696CDE" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Eligible support infrastructure</header><text>The term <term>eligible support infrastructure</term> means infrastructure that supports or houses a facility for communication by wire (or is designed to and capable of supporting or housing such a facility) at the time when a complete request to a State or local government or instrumentality thereof for authorization to place, construct, or modify a telecommunications service facility in or on the infrastructure is received by the government or instrumentality.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFCF3D529021C41DA8078DD01DE752247"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Eligible support structure</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible support structure</term> means a structure that supports a personal wireless service facility at the time at which the eligible facilities request is made.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3C9F8D6F524940918781313E53D1911D"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Personal wireless service facility</header><text>The term <term>personal wireless service facility</term> means a facility necessary for the provision of—</text>
<clause id="H9DFB2D3BE6754679A70FEDEDD8C8ED0F"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">commercial mobile service;</text></clause> <clause id="HF007A380C56E4D08A0A2DB6C7D104EA2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>commercial mobile data service (as that term is defined in section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1401">47 U.S.C. 1401</external-xref>));</text></clause>
<clause id="HE9B47141B6714A03AFB02CAA9A8D6C4B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>unlicensed wireless service; and </text></clause> <clause id="HE61BEA8BC807499193E9C8392AAC5E27"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>common carrier wireless exchange access service.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC197D5064D48489D99B61FB2A9B08B5F" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Telecommunications service facility</header><text>The term <term>telecommunications service facility</term> means a facility for the provision of any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H95F1C62FF42841B1AEA86106C39D810B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall issue final rules implementing subsection (a), and the amendments made by such subsection.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H3047D6337888460EB04BCFC87F48C65F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>213.</enum><header>Proportional reviews for broadband deployment</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 6409(a)(3) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1455">47 U.S.C. 1455(a)(3)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows: </text> <quoted-block id="H3BAE9E1D653544D2ACCACF74EAA8C887" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H820AD4F1DD1B40F4B40545DA72B635C1" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application of NEPA; NHPA</header> <subparagraph id="H98154BF8C58E48719979CB5CF854736C"><enum>(A)</enum><header>NEPA exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible facilities request shall not be subject to the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC6A45CAE54244F01956CF8421EF7E9AE" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>National Historic Preservation Act exemption</header><text>An eligible facilities request shall not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="HE198246A678945F7BE5F16F97A20BCCB"><enum>214.</enum><header>Protecting critical infrastructure</header> <subsection id="HB4D72BF809844CD281797822CA04D03B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Title V of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/501">47 U.S.C. 501 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding after section 501, the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block id="H5340655499284A51A95D2834DAA64605" style="USC">
<section id="H4884C71F258C4372BBDDFC60C3E3D6AF"><enum>501A.</enum><header>Enhanced general penalty</header>
<subsection id="H657534951C80489EA65785DE7F1BA38D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Offenses</header><text>Whoever, during and in relation to a violation enumerated in section 501, willfully or maliciously destroys any communications facility, in addition to the punishment provided for a violation that includes imprisonment, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 2 years.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HABC6397260FE449397B231FF2268FF29"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Consecutive sentence</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law—</text>
<paragraph id="HCD11FABC73134134BD9F8A4447EF4AFC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a court may not place on probation any person convicted of a violation of this section;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC766C74CF97446CDB6FF30460C0C1BCB"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">except as provided in paragraph (3), a term of imprisonment imposed on a person under this section may not run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment imposed on the person under any other provision of law, including any term of imprisonment imposed for the violation of this section; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE8DCAC2232CA460CAC4822E08D7B796F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a term of imprisonment imposed on a person for a violation of this section may, in the discretion of the court, run concurrently, in whole or in part, only with another term of imprisonment that is imposed by the court at the same time on that person for an additional violation of this section, if the discretion is exercised in accordance with applicable guidelines and policy statements issued by the Sentencing Commission pursuant to section 994 of title 28, United States Code.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H207ACC280931427195228C8E2B4702C8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Communications facility defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <term>communications facility</term> includes—</text>
<paragraph id="H20A2246573C346F98EBFCA842844945B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any infrastructure, including any transmitting device, tower, or support structure, and any equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets, associated with the licensed or permitted unlicensed wireless or wireline transmission of writings, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, and sounds of all kinds; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF077B65F40254D6C9A3ED6BF5A630292"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any antenna or apparatus that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H78D60CC55F3148B3B97472F3791DBF02"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is designed for the purpose of emitting radio frequency;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H66EDC7F28EA3415EB41617C40E1FCFA5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is designed to be operated, or is operating, from a fixed location pursuant to authorization by the Commission or is using duly authorized devices that do not require individual licenses; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0D3A9CC0BE9C4D359DAC38ACC56E32E3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>is added to a tower, building, or other structure.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> <section id="HF95C361FF1334245BE2C893D92B15864"><enum>215.</enum><header>Reducing antiquated permitting for infrastructure deployment</header> <subsection id="H62BF5759E6DF401ABE37A91A1841DE8A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H4D354514B8A041F9AFF3FE12CDC380CC" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Personal wireless service</header><text>The term <term>personal wireless service</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="HFFB565BA8BED48DD86BEB1D1B059F828"><enum>(A)</enum><text>commercial mobile service (as defined in section 332(d) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/332">47 U.S.C. 332(d)</external-xref>));</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBBD8A7FAD53A414BA22D927E6EE647A1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>commercial mobile data service (as defined in section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1401">47 U.S.C. 1401</external-xref>));</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H252EE40A21704E1683F474717BDFCD54"><enum>(C)</enum><text>unlicensed wireless service; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H07BFAAF60C234EAC9456EA4EE3287E86" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(D)</enum><text>common carrier wireless exchange access service.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H304EE7D9B7794AB698F4DCA448B44B33"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Personal wireless service facility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>personal wireless service facility</term> means a facility for the provision of personal wireless service.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEBEB3327DC5C4B4296F41622D22BEB63"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Small personal wireless service facility</header><text>The term <term>small personal wireless service facility</term>—</text> <subparagraph id="H09A889F2D1F643098DE00BBAAF8B400F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">means a personal wireless service facility in which each antenna is not more than 3 cubic feet in volume; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HADD807CBEDDF4BCCB49727B744E67DA7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>does not include a wireline backhaul facility.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9E4ABCF2CBD243488FD3F2A6BE52937E"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Wireline backhaul facility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>wireline backhaul facility</term> means an above-ground or underground wireline facility used to transport communications service or other electronic communications from a small personal wireless service facility or its adjacent network interface device to a communications network.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H8032D6D318A54430BAEBC13513C8EE3B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The deployment of a small personal wireless service facility shall not constitute an undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code, or a major Federal action for the purposes of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332</external-xref>). </text></subsection> <subsection id="H328BE1E5696E4EE1A0574DF155CE2F48"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Rebuttable presumption</header> <paragraph id="HCE3DFFB027EE4FEBA5435DFC3D6AF46D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If a federally recognized Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization is shown to have received a complete Form 620 or Form 621 (or any successor form), or can be reasonably expected to have received a complete Form 620 or Form 621 (or any successor form), and has not acted on a complete request contained in the form within 45 days after such receipt—</text>
<subparagraph id="H566282FA2021459D9802F55A1AD6520F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Commission and a court of competent jurisdiction (as the case may be) shall presume the applicant has made a good faith effort to provide the information reasonably necessary for federally recognized Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations to ascertain whether historic properties of religious and cultural significance to them may be affected by the undertaking; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H810A1E65655944829B83306EFF18FE03"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the federally recognized Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization (as the case may be) shall be presumed to have disclaimed interest in the application.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC9FB43518EE148B19ABC7229475F2539"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Overcoming presumption</header>
<subparagraph id="HFE4B810D7445474BA6F3EA3F91A3656A"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Federally recognized Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization may overcome the presumption under paragraph (1) upon favorably demonstrating one or more of the factors to be considered under subparagraph (B).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H440EDF4EEF6647CB8F32263C1E425F16"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Factors considered</header><text>The review by the Commission or a court of competent jurisdiction under paragraph (1) shall give substantial weight to—</text>
<clause id="H7F55B099CF5241A6AB4F69E4F53B9F6E"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the applicant made a reasonable attempt to follow up with the federally recognized Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization not earlier than 30 days, and not later than 50 days, after the applicant submitted a complete Form 620 or Form 621 (as the case may be) to the federally recognized Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization; and</text></clause> <clause id="H5AD0405D819644218B8824C02645C203"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the rules of the Commission and Form 620 or Form 621 is found to be in violation of a Nationwide Programmatic Agreement of the Commission.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HF1EA8ADC12EB4D05B219ACD39C622493"><enum>216.</enum><header>Coastal broadband deployment</header>
<subsection id="H086FC7052D984046AD9CBA2B9843C476"><enum>(a)</enum><header>NEPA exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be subject to the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC886BE42195F47BEA82F8F596736BFCB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National Historic Preservation Act exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H6A03E5FBC592433C8587CE5F6DA8F22A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="HD847853F18AD4ED988B01ECDD4B3AB47"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Commission</header><text>The term <term>Commission</term> means the Federal Communications Commission. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDDAE42148CBC42B798850BF2EF91A20C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Communications facility</header><text>The term <term>communications facility</term> includes—</text> <subparagraph id="HB366BB1AE70948E797CC6C2347C95F91"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any wireless or wireline infrastructure for the transmission of writing, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, or sounds of all kinds;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H27117AFBA0BF4D9C95C63F4C37B37E86"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any transmitting device, tower, or support structure, and any equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets, associated with the provision of communications service; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1BBEE6F28D2C4474894D1506C460FA43"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any antenna or apparatus that—</text>
<clause id="H7B9556CEA60D4A31BE66A34C4C283403"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is designed for the purpose of emitting radio frequency;</text></clause> <clause id="H2F905D01F94C47038F59D8813E817DEA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is designed to be operated, or is operating, from a fixed location; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HA96DC9EC670E4E3C92A712F26E74C492"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is added to a tower, building, or other structure.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H23FEFBF8A48E4B80B435D4412E979836"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Communications service</header><text>The term <term>communications service</term> means a service for the transmission of writing, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, or sounds of all kinds.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE847F601798C45ABA4CCCBBF1AA870D7"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Covered project</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered project</term> means a project—</text> <subparagraph id="HB870C40AD0F7400CA9DB92BD73AB1595"><enum>(A)</enum><text>for the deployment or modification of a communications facility that is to be carried out entirely within a floodplain (as defined in section 9.4 of title 44, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA9F149EA07BC493C90A1C0FE7313CD2D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for which a permit, license, or approval from the Commission is required or that is otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H4192ED488F614AA89D7D8F1441C0442A"><enum>217.</enum><header>Brownfields broadband deployment</header> <subsection id="H570080E3FC3D4F2FB6185BF937730AAA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>NEPA exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be subject to the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H74D8D8D7D8824BFBAD8F9B9C5E3D8E24"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National Historic Preservation Act exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HDEAF93FD84D6456786C8647D8E085018"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H443F6412CC8D4CFEBC82682D34F4F616"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Commission</header><text>The term <term>Commission</term> means the Federal Communications Commission. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB8BC08C100DC410E99C5F2F2FDBFCA85"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Communications facility</header><text>The term <term>communications facility</term> includes—</text>
<subparagraph id="H61BDA690D2CF4DD0BDEAB26B854CFFBA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any wireless or wireline infrastructure for the transmission of writing, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, or sounds of all kinds;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H759D65275E2A41B1AF7ED84DD2220756"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any transmitting device, tower, or support structure, and any equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets, associated with the provision of communications service; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H43CC307A59744D27B6332BE5FA6EC4D8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any antenna or apparatus that—</text> <clause id="H3648C15780B748FDACC5CD706C2D6734"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is designed for the purpose of emitting radio frequency;</text></clause>
<clause id="H5D185156118444DFBDC37F548350AE4E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is designed to be operated, or is operating, from a fixed location; and</text></clause> <clause id="HC59FC225A7E84CFE8A0D0912B14D7126"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is added to a tower, building, or other structure.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H35FC0D80B41149D98CA930783D858202"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Communications service</header><text>The term <term>communications service</term> means a service for the transmission of writing, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, or sounds of all kinds.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE0E05E465E174CECA46CBC225FAD5D75"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Covered project</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered project</term> means a project—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE526E2C24C594F0FBA012D9B1D7B39E1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>for the deployment or modification of a communications facility that is to be carried out entirely within a brownfield site (as defined in section 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/9601">42 U.S.C. 9601</external-xref>)); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8F7B595AA0C9421199A682AEB1FDAD91"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for which a permit, license, or approval from the Commission is required or that is otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H2C789776EA154C57A6CCAE1E11CAE6B9"><enum>218.</enum><header>Trusted broadband networks</header>
<subsection id="H52D446E3BDBB4396AD3F77C289A9AF51"><enum>(a)</enum><header>NEPA exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be subject to the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H8D7C867D01E946E9BA9E9D88B0A1B867"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National Historic Preservation Act exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H63E6D9A0BD04403EB3CAE7A3AE4AC9F6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Covered project defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <term>covered project</term> means a project to permanently remove covered communications equipment or services (as defined in section 9 of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1608">47 U.S.C. 1608</external-xref>)) and to replace such covered communications equipment or services with communications equipment or services that are not covered communications equipment or services (as so defined).</text></subsection></section> <section id="H0EF2ED2B49384DA6925CC778A4F852AB"><enum>219.</enum><header>Connecting communities post disaster</header> <subsection id="H61A01768C6094F51A6E220B800D2485A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>NEPA exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be subject to the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HBF842E4072974207A3006A96135469A0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National Historic Preservation Act exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HD84501366D8C48C983C991210E1EDC3C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H8CD7B504860E459188FD8FC464947258"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Communications facility</header><text>The term <term>communications facility</term> includes—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H6D8D1221A3954907A4102A64F503AE22"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any wireless or wireline infrastructure for the transmission of writing, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, or sounds of all kinds;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H96E1A4A66E8642F5A7A8FC51B8AD84CC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any transmitting device, tower, or support structure, and any equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets, associated with the provision of communications services; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HAFD6D490AD4F45319D64B60038F60B34"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any antenna or apparatus that—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="HC2731E9241494855B0A18BBD88237104"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is designed for the purpose of emitting radio frequency;</text></clause> <clause commented="no" id="HBED5B858FB944E58A78C22558684CC0C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is designed to be operated, or is operating, from a fixed location; and</text></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="H8C0D5091C0B547959A69C97EE5CD1562"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is added to a tower, building, or other structure.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="H1D51709907DB4E34BBA1D3A450F5BCE6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Communications service</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>communications service</term> means a service for the transmission of writing, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, or sounds of all kinds.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1CDDEA3B5FEB42F48716774DEEE75BCA"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Covered project</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered project</term> means a project that—</text> <subparagraph id="HAA370AA07C5542D7826A98B8874A9C6D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is to be carried out within an area for which the President has declared a major disaster or an emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5121">42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.</external-xref>);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H97C478F8280044C39B798BF02296B508"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is to be carried out not later than 5 years after the date on which the President made such declaration; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H50876CB87093448597E4F9C4B7AB69FA"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">replaces a communications facility damaged by such disaster or emergency or makes improvements to a communications facility in such area that could reasonably be considered as necessary for recovery from such disaster or emergency or to prevent or mitigate future disasters or emergencies.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H1DDD77B21B6F4B18B2541A6F168799C1"><enum>220.</enum><header>Wildfire wireless resiliency</header>
<subsection id="HC259642DD3374223A60695FF63665B91"><enum>(a)</enum><header>NEPA exemption</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A covered project shall not be subject to the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H2B7978135B904190A2ED8F85B50168F3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National historic preservation act exemption</header><text>A covered project shall not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 54, United States Code.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HE5E99BD5DB3C45D09E7BECCDDFB45746"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="HF239D1C48DAD402583B57F8BB725978B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Communications facility</header><text>The term <term>communications facility</term> includes—</text>
<subparagraph id="H938DC5EF51EA470F8F2F87DC5A2FBB6D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any wireless or wireline infrastructure for the transmission of writing, sign, signal, data, image, picture, or sound of any kind;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H03E02526E0EE45E0AE90560326DC6075"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any transmitting device, tower, or support structure, and any equipment, switch, wiring, cabling, power source, shelter, or cabinet, associated with the provision of communications services; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8C7C20008BC642E6A36E4E7BFFFF5599"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any antenna or apparatus that—</text> <clause id="H789DD4925B09482391E50C5C811FD0C6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is designed for the purpose of emitting radio frequency;</text></clause>
<clause id="H8F2EF24EFE4E49DD8DABF8D533C5A749"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is designed to be operated, or is operating, from a fixed location; and</text></clause> <clause id="H25ECCBE45E874493A7CB5FDBEC0876F1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is added to a tower, building, or other structure.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2C957640BE814F8AB61231B570CE55C0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Communications service</header><text>The term <term>communications service</term> means a service for the transmission of any writing, sign, signal, data, image, picture, or sound of any kind.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0EF4D71D16A64E15B1BAB2290AFA65B9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Covered project</header><text>The term <term>covered project</term> means a project that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD44AFC3122AF42BCBB7190756B7D7F4D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is to be carried out entirely within an area for which a Governor has declared a major disaster or an emergency related to a wildfire;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0746E939B60748FCA2DD9DA65442C76C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is to be carried out not later than 5 years after the date the Governor made such declaration; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H4531512E81D5405DAA4684EE9BD8EF0B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>replaces a communications facility damaged by such disaster or emergency or makes improvements to a communications facility in such area that could reasonably be considered as necessary for recovery from such disaster or emergency or to prevent or mitigate any future disaster or emergency.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H2F5B54B1BC8E4E20883D5898E8744DA8"><enum>221.</enum><header>Standard fees</header> <subsection id="H774BBE039C2240B9B1F51CC4F5974BA0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6409 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1455">47 U.S.C. 1455</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H1CD1D59A652843A786FCEA0C2480D6A4"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H68C3671A17754A31B9B280D35C5B1641"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (c) the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H4F2CEB3E784B403BA990D4E7FC1B6F6F"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Common fee schedule</header>
<paragraph id="HE6288703C84C4CDE8EB7A2731DF9D3D6"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of General Services shall establish a common fee schedule for the processing of applications under subsections (b)(1) and (c).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6E72E8C1906E4DF18A9FA854F53B3D89"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Fee guidelines</header><text>The application fees established under paragraph (1) shall be—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA729223540B24269998ADF746D81B43A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>based on direct and actual cost recovery; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA0A92DA483CA40ECA92DF5624D40AF74"><enum>(B)</enum><text>competitively neutral with regard to other users of the building or other property owned by the Federal Government.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H285C4667DD6541D5A8CAAC636644EB23"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text>The Administrator of General Services may establish competitively neutral exceptions to the fee amounts established under paragraph (1)—</text> <subparagraph id="HAA346653CF1C4EFFA35E4E23E06BDD74"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in consideration of the public benefit provided by a grant of an easement, right-of-way, or lease; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0C8B3A46589B4D83A88696D170E7DB6B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the interest of expanding wireless and broadband coverage.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1F863D643D294B5A8DB2E710436CA290"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Use of fees collected</header><text>Any fee collected by an executive agency under this section shall only be available to the extent, and in such amounts, as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts, to the agency to cover the costs of granting the easement, right-of-way, or lease.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H6A3028E63F294F2B9A9ECA211AE1CA87"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Deadline</header><text>The Administrator of General Services shall establish the fee schedule required under section 6409(d) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1455">47 U.S.C. 1455(d)</external-xref>), as added by subsection (a), not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H24DFA392FE9043F788123FDC04121C66"><enum>222.</enum><header>Expediting Federal broadband deployment</header> <subsection id="H63480521B6E44646936DC7ADA78DDFA1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section: </text>
<paragraph id="H27AD288FC6E1469DB44E22621A689593"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Appropriate committees of congress</header><text>The term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— </text> <subparagraph id="H7AC979A850C34BDA931A1B1206B6E578"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFFF49CDC67C14A99B9D36702C6872BDF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HCF0AD18988094B6ABDB8C7C88039D9B3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5029DE76D9A340949BD8EF29A8919B46"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF3F8D6B34AB94D8C9105133CEA207E9B"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HAAF3823450364576ABBD6118AF20CA50"><enum>(F)</enum><text>the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H74CD32E12C9547A69AC432EE2BE6CB04"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Assistant secretary</header><text>The term <term>Assistant Secretary</term> means the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC08AB6444CF24157B4F00B99493B81C7"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Communications facility</header><text>The term <term>communications facility</term> includes—</text> <subparagraph id="H30CB3C635F63427DACFD5299FACA97DC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any infrastructure, including any transmitting device, tower, or support structure, and any equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets, associated with the licensed or permitted unlicensed wireless or wireline transmission of writings, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, and sounds of all kinds; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA67C05FCA8C4461B84BA93267F805608"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any antenna or apparatus that—</text> <clause id="HBE2709661DD247428B6AFF6F39B3D473"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is designed for the purpose of emitting radio frequency;</text></clause>
<clause id="H9CF48D00BB4946038F7A32667A2BCDD5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is designed to be operated, or is operating, from a fixed location pursuant to authorization by the Commission or is using duly authorized devices that do not require individual licenses; and</text></clause> <clause id="HE809D4C8C0184BECAE4423F8549BB123"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is added to a tower, building, or other structure.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H534AFCF6D30E446B893EEF5C3E7F9C7B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Communications use</header><text>The term <term>communications use</term> means the placement and operation of a communications facility.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H052FAA5B12AA43A8B93E952BBB268F6E"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Communications use authorization</header><text>The term <term>communications use authorization</term> means an easement, right-of-way, lease, license, or other authorization to locate or modify a communications facility on covered land by the Department concerned for the primary purpose of authorizing the occupancy and use of the covered land for communications use.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA12913430BFC4E13967E62339898BE8F"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Covered land</header><text>The term <term>covered land</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="HF5A20A611C3B47828D8F72E45C950B49"><enum>(A)</enum><text>public land administered by the Secretary of the Interior; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0218CD59C0DD4A088CCA675B20CD1F18"><enum>(B)</enum><text>National Forest System land.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8B662FB5A70649D4830AD3AEE936E9AA"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Department concerned</header><text>The term <term>Department concerned</term> means the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2DB230F6AEC84D7C8105A3111DC9AE51"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Organization unit</header><text>The term <term>organizational unit</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="H2B8D33021829492EA9535D2C639980EA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to public land administered by the Secretary of the Interior—</text>
<clause id="H73127DB44AA74362BFD05E405C4E6D97"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a State office;</text></clause> <clause id="H77D188D0CED8465D89269B1F124D1E3E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a district office; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HF20A35AF939C45C8917DE776391704C1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a field office; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HE8875F7A97A24B7289A716CE5C9927B5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>within the Forest Service—</text>
<clause id="H93632E97BA6A4AB09C6E583588238BA8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a regional office;</text></clause> <clause id="HA94FA3B0974B468FB936F8AF81598148"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the headquarters;</text></clause>
<clause id="H04748247850A4315A27013875F1E80F1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a management unit; or</text></clause> <clause id="H92ECFF5E556744E4A1D6D8FFE8405236"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>a ranger district office.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8CC3229EEFE34EDF8F0678748D07F5D2"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Strike force</header><text>The term <term>Strike Force</term> means the interagency strike force established in subsection (b)(1).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF8274D86A2B74600BE21892A348B462A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Strike force</header> <paragraph id="HABF483A112A74B0AB7B15C7CB138A613"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall establish an interagency strike force to increase prioritization by the Department concerned, senior management of the Department concerned, or an organizational unit of reviews for communications use authorizations.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H519F8CD22D89436B8ABB916F9D580B83"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>In carrying out the prioritization under paragraph (1), the Strike Force shall— </text> <subparagraph id="H28A2868653ED42FFAAB4A5775B426B19"><enum>(A)</enum><text>conduct periodic calls between members of the Strike Force relating to requests for communications use authorizations; and </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBF179FA18EDA468C8F8077CB78EE0ABF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>monitor and facilitate accountability of the Department concerned and organizational units to meet objective and reasonable goals for the review of requests for communications use authorizations.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0A8F995092A34E7786CE679EAB876AF9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Members</header><text>The Strike Force shall be composed of such representatives of Departments concerned as the Assistant Secretary considers appropriate, in addition to—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCB62F726BFEA40498ECBAE4A335C8C8C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Assistant Secretary;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4CAD06CC05BF4BD69B2A336065D105C7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a representative of the Department concerned;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD6624F3A9E56484881CA7445E380B32F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>senior management of the Department concerned; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H24D25FD96B9A4798AEA9FFF6030C19B2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the head of each organizational unit.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF7CD548CDA884A89B7861547CDC33EC8"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Report to congress</header><text>Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Strike Force shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the effectiveness of the Strike Force in increasing the prioritization of reviews for communications use authorization requests.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HA9EFFEED8C68430690526B518352CE29" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>223.</enum><header>Federal broadband deployment in unserved areas</header> <subsection id="H6B68286E284240A9811FD7F1993A1453"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H81B1ACB1AD5546C0A97E622A836A04AE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Appropriate committees of Congress</header><text>The term <term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="H8FC0C5F1A0EA41C286379B4DFC927550"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H98417B98E5FE4AB5AF9B8361D52FF263"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H117B01788B60491FB30FC23D0229BC64"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H3827310201F14D6F8C2CD16AEC87E245"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC1FBD999DFBA4DD0BD1374A3E4BD2028"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE126C8E5A6A2492FB0FEB589D55DE73F"><enum>(F)</enum><text>the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1C099DC5449E448EAF607D16C40E9358"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Commission</header><text>The term <term>Commission</term> means the Federal Communications Commission.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H23ED1B8E2D754A5D91AF7BD9CA5D44D9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Communications facility</header><text>The term <term>communications facility</term> includes—</text> <subparagraph id="HD0B030E413D94AAABF84683573F25295"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any infrastructure, including any transmitting device, tower, or support structure, and any equipment, switch, wiring, cabling, power source, shelter, or cabinet, associated with the licensed or permitted unlicensed wireless or wireline transmission of any writing, sign, signal, data, image, picture, and sound of any kind; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6E074670B9704FDA9D00824307214057"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any antenna or apparatus that—</text> <clause id="H35316E1FDDE54E1AAE0FB5AC7852F888"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is designed for the purpose of emitting radio frequency;</text></clause>
<clause id="H2EAC142F18C34A4492ED748A962A3882"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is designed to be operated, or is operating, from a fixed location pursuant to authorization by the Commission or is using any duly authorized device that does not require an individual license; and</text></clause> <clause id="HC82FF47B67AD4D92AAB63C8B7CAF7247"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is added to a tower, building, or other structure.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H942C6DFD8D2746C4A6F75BA02F033F19"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Covered land</header><text>The term <term>covered land</term> means land managed by a Federal land management agency.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDFD793D7B6EA47D6AF1BF1D0C4FCBC7F"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Department concerned</header><text>The term <term>Department concerned</term> means the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H89265FA6EB974BAE8BF4B5ECE00E31C9" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Federal land management agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Federal land management agency</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="H575614CC6D954C28AF45146B649862A8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Forest Service;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1C11CEAFE6B4462DB6EEBFE08EFCFB97"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Bureau of Land Management;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H42161E1F38F64345AEBB4A640C569220"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the National Park Service;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDF684C6CA8A644C486CDBB3DBE897CBA"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the Fish and Wildlife Service; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H06BE12FCBEFB4470B3A2314FC34EC307"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the Bureau of Reclamation.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBF901F8F6BB84D6A80A9C3DD6CC49117"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Secretary concerned</header><text>The term <term>Secretary concerned</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="H9DFC33F1AB09411EA8686E6B96A65A8A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land administered by such Secretary; </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H67A3E0400E834C40A477A5CF3FF54282"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System land; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFB4BA41A48AF4C838835BF6A35264523" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary of Commerce. </text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H53C7FEBC4EC74DC5A8453E62E856DA64"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Sharing broadband availability data</header>
<paragraph id="H271576B88A7E49C79364B67EE9F6A87A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>Not later than 2 business days after the creation or update of any map required under section 802(c)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642(c)(1)</external-xref>), the Commission shall notify the Secretary concerned that the map has been created or updated.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCDB7905FA51E4680806B98148DBF977E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Provision of information</header><text>Not later than 5 business days after the date on which the Secretary concerned is notified under paragraph (1), the Commission shall provide the Secretary concerned any data the Commission has collected pursuant to title VIII of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/641">47 U.S.C. 641 et seq.</external-xref>).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3F88FB4BADAB43818877A4A516106B2F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Continuation</header><text>The Commission shall provide the Secretary concerned the information described in paragraph (2) every 6 months unless the Commission no longer has such information.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H707D1C3CC60D49A0A9F4E5AC7E331353"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Protection of information</header> <subparagraph id="H8F4AE2DF2B594ABF93378222B0D3FCCA"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commission shall specify to the Secretary concerned which information provided under paragraph (2) was collected in a confidential or proprietary manner, and the Secretary concerned may not make such information publicly available.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA1602BFADDDF4A12BF299501D3A6598E" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>FOIA</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Information provided under paragraph (2) is exempt from disclosure to the public under section 552(b)(3)(B) of title 5, United States Code.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF9C613AE94F842C1AAA94B77D3C0C274"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Working group</header> <paragraph id="H891881AE2DD74466BED28F49B283A674"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Commission and the Secretary concerned shall establish an interagency working group to facilitate the preparation and interoperability of information technology systems for the provision and receipt of the information described in subsection (b)(2).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCABD08595FC049BFB5A19EA50BF68FA3" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Nonapplicability of FACA</header><text>The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to the interagency working group established under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H1903FE2AEA1E45E4B088E9991D583194"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Reports</header> <paragraph id="HE9CCA9C198F7400E8AE65B7E82456640"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Preliminary assessment of potential barriers</header><text>Not later 120 days after the date on which the interagency working group is established pursuant to subsection (c)(1), the Commission and the Secretary concerned shall jointly submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress with a preliminary assessment of any potential barriers to sharing the information described under subsection (b)(2).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H01A7539954E74E7B8446F08B31D4B021"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Assessments</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date on which the Commission provides the information described under subsection (b)(2) to the Department concerned, the Commission and the Secretary concerned shall jointly submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress with—</text> <subparagraph id="H0315B03FA48D4B51B866663455C5E009"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an assessment of the effectiveness of a user’s ability to locate broadband infrastructure on covered land in an area to be determined as unserved by the Commission on the basis of the maps created under section 802(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/642">47 U.S.C. 642(c)</external-xref>); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFC390B5CB9E7481D908A34B0AAEA61C9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an assessment of whether the Department concerned prioritized the review of applications for a communications use authorization in an area to be determined as unserved by the Commission on the basis of the maps created under such section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H4733522A3B474F61B2BA90B38610FC9A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>224.</enum><header>Federal broadband deployment tracking</header> <subsection id="H87DEB92B735D4774A4DF98E7E8F2B9F9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report containing the elements described in subsection (b).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC61627458262474490782E0C30AAFAE2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Elements described</header><text>The elements described in this subsection are the following:</text> <paragraph id="H5FE22B8C3C4C43BFBBB91F03105C1373"><enum>(1)</enum><text>A plan describing how the Assistant Secretary will track the acceptance, processing, and disposal of a Form 299 submitted to the Secretary concerned by a requesting party.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H938A8FF0F6D84E4283A6700D64E29484"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A description of how the Assistant Secretary would most expeditiously implement the plan described in paragraph (1).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7C3E33CCB27C423BAA621634EA4DCE27"><enum>(3)</enum><text>A description of how the Assistant Secretary may increase transparency to a requesting party on the status of a Form 299 received by the Secretary concerned.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H51232F9C23C644BEA5CCE21D2A7E176A"><enum>(4)</enum><text>A description of any barriers the Assistant Secretary determines could delay the implementation of the plan described in paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H863C76E09F714D1AA6FF314B33213156"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="HABF780C979F54D3CAE504FB9FAA76EF3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Appropriate committees of Congress</header><text>The term <term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="H4CF057B83D08408D8A49E4F44FF95E35"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H79A9B5D5C244499DB40D0A70A1E203DA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3E00AAB7FB364889BE89141F27E713D5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H31D63732B87A4081B41FD63EEB95083D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H229202134554490DA8BCA404B509735E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Assistant Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Assistant Secretary</term> means the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H07684571504640AF8E5E602A5987ADEC"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Form 299</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Form 299</term> means the form developed pursuant to section 6409(b)(2)(A) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/47/1455">47 U.S.C. 1455(b)(2)(A)</external-xref>), or any successor form.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H76BEF9E7FA0944289509F72B5F96828B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>National forest system</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>National Forest System</term> has the meaning given the term in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1609">16 U.S.C. 1609(a)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H524659FFAC0D4492B78FDF6458B01F50"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Public land</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>public land</term> means land under the management of—</text> <subparagraph id="HC33DBD7F6737453DBC80D50EE022E75E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Bureau of Land Management;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9373D2E3321A421BB5991266EDEFD491"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the National Park Service;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4BDDF8727EB9490195452A6A318FF0A1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB65E0A6A53894F6490EE03C7C33E985C"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the Bureau of Reclamation.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEDA957D9D3D84FA6B46C8B01F1DCD554"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Secretary concerned</header><text>The term <term>Secretary concerned</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="H81444C66339540628A08EEA662AF9E9B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public land; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0D267FBC2AFE4EDAA8E465127473663B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System land. </text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>