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<item congress="116" measure-type="s" measure-number="2645" measure-id="id116s2645" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2019-10-17" update-date="2020-05-10">
<title>Connecting Communities Post Disasters Act of 2019</title>
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<action-date>2019-10-17</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Connecting Communities Post Disasters Act of 2019</strong> </p> <p>This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to exempt projects that replace or make improvements to communications facilities&nbsp;following a&nbsp;major disaster or presidentially declared emergency from certain environmental or historic preservation review requirements. Specifically, the bill exempts such projects from&nbsp;any requirement to prepare an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement. Such projects are also exempt from considerations about the effect they will have on any historic property.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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