[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1043 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1043

To provide that an eligible facilities request under section 6409(a) of 
the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 is not subject 
    to requirements to prepare certain environmental or historical 
                         preservation reviews.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2021

Mr. Carter of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
    to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the 
    Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that an eligible facilities request under section 6409(a) of 
the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 is not subject 
    to requirements to prepare certain environmental or historical 
                         preservation reviews.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Proportional Reviews for Broadband 
Deployment Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF NEPA AND NHPA TO WIRELESS FACILITIES DEPLOYMENT.

    Section 6409(a)(3) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation 
Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455(a)(3)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(3) Application of nepa; nhpa.--
                    ``(A) NEPA exemption.--An eligible facilities 
                request shall not be subject to the requirements of 
                section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy 
                Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)).
                    ``(B) National historic preservation act 
                exemption.--An eligible facilities request shall not be 
                considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 
                54, United States Code.''.
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