[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3340 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3340

 To amend the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 to 
  provide for an application for a Federal easement, right-of-way, or 
  lease with respect to a communications facility installation to be 
deemed granted if not granted or denied by the specified deadline, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 2023

Mr. Obernolte introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
   Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 amend the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 to 
  provide for an application for a Federal easement, right-of-way, or 
  lease with respect to a communications facility installation to be 
deemed granted if not granted or denied by the specified deadline, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 ``Granting Remaining Applications Not 
Treated Efficiently or Delayed Act of 2023'' or the ``GRANTED Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. TIMELY CONSIDERATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR FEDERAL EASEMENTS, 
              RIGHTS-OF-WAY, AND LEASES.

    (a) In General.--Section 6409(b)(3) of the Middle Class Tax Relief 
and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455(b)(3)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``duly filed'' and 
        inserting ``complete''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) Deemed granted.--If an executive agency fails 
                to grant or deny a complete application by the deadline 
                under subparagraph (A), the application shall be deemed 
                granted on the day after such deadline.
                    ``(F) When application considered complete; 
                received.--
                            ``(i) When application considered 
                        complete.--For the purposes of this paragraph, 
                        an application to an executive agency shall be 
                        considered complete if the applicant--
                                    ``(I) has taken the first 
                                procedural step within the control of 
                                the applicant to submit such an 
                                application in accordance with the 
                                procedures established by the executive 
                                agency for the review and approval of 
                                such an application; and
                                    ``(II) has not received a written 
                                notice from the executive agency within 
                                30 days after the date on which the 
                                application is received by the 
                                executive agency--
                                            ``(aa) stating that all 
                                        information (including any form 
                                        or other document) required by 
                                        the executive agency to be 
                                        submitted for the application 
                                        to be considered complete has 
                                        not been submitted; and
                                            ``(bb) identifying the 
                                        information required to be 
                                        submitted that was not 
                                        submitted.
                            ``(ii) When complete application considered 
                        received.--For the purposes of this paragraph, 
                        a complete application shall be considered 
                        received--
                                    ``(I) except as provided in 
                                subclause (II), on the date on which 
                                the applicant submits to the executive 
                                agency all information (including any 
                                form or other document) required by the 
                                executive agency to be submitted for 
                                the application to be considered 
                                complete; or
                                    ``(II) in the case of an 
                                application with respect to which all 
                                such information is not submitted and 
                                that is considered complete under 
                                clause (i) because the applicant has 
                                not received a written notice from the 
                                executive agency within the period 
                                described in such clause, on the day 
                                after the last day of such period.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to any application under subsection (b) of section 
6409 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 
U.S.C. 1455) that is received by an executive agency (as defined in 
subsection (d) of such section) on or after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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