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HR 7355 116th Congress House

Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act

Official title: To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to submit a plan to Congress to track requests for communications use authorization on Federal land.

Introduced: July 22, 2020 Introduced by: Hudson, Richard Republican · North Carolina See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Jun 25, 2020
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 Latest action June 25, 2020

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act

This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to submit a report on tracking Form 299 requests. Form 299 is the application form for the right to install, construct, modify, or maintain a communications facility on federal real property.

Such report must include (1) a plan describing how the NTIA will track a Form 299 submitted by a requesting party, (2) a description of how the NTIA would most expeditiously implement such plan, (3) a way to increase transparency to a requesting party on the status of a Form 299, and (4) an assessment of barriers that could delay implementation of the plan.

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Foxx, Virginia
North Carolina · Oct 27, 2020
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Kustoff, David
Tennessee · Jul 22, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7355: Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-7355/
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