[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1053 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1053

    To provide that a project to remove and replace communications 
       equipment or services listed under the Secure and Trusted 
 Communications Networks Act of 2019 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. Guthrie 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 a project to remove and replace communications 
       equipment or services listed under the Secure and Trusted 
 Communications Networks Act of 2019 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 ``Timely Replacement Under Secure and 
Trusted for Early and Dependable Broadband Networks Act'' or the 
``TRUSTED Broadband Networks Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF NEPA AND NHPA TO COVERED COMMUNICATIONS 
              EQUIPMENT OR SERVICES.

    (a) NEPA Exemption.--A covered project 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.--A covered 
project shall not be considered an undertaking under section 300320 of 
title 54, United States Code.
    (c) Covered Project Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
project'' 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 (47 U.S.C. 1608)) 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).
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