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Streamlining Permitting to Enable Efficient Deployment of Broadband Infrastructure Act of 2021

Introduced: February 15, 2021 See on congress.gov
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Feb 16, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Feb 15, 2021
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.
Feb 15, 2021
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Streamlining Permitting to Enable Efficient Deployment of Broadband Infrastructure Act of 2021

This bill exempts certain broadband infrastructure project actions from specified environmental and historic preservation review requirements.

Specifically, the bill exempts (1) new communications facilities within specified dimensions in public rights-of-way, (2) replacement facilities that are of a similar type, (3) certain small antennas, (4) facility expansions within specified limits, and (5) new easements for facilities on federal property for which easements were previously granted for other facilities.

What's happening now February 16, 2021

Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 3435 Related bill American Broadband Act
 Bill text 1 version

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All 2 Republican 1
Cawthorn, Madison
· May 11, 2021
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Foxx, Virginia
North Carolina · Feb 23, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1069: Streamlining Permitting to Enable Efficient Deployment of Broadband Infrastructure Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-1069/
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"H.R. 1069: Streamlining Permitting to Enable Efficient Deployment of Broadband Infrastructure Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-1069/.
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H.R. 1069, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-1069/.
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