Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
Summary
Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to report to Congress on communications use authorizations (i.e., authorizations to modify or locate communications facilities on public lands). Specifically, Interior and USDA must (1) provide an assessment on programmatic or administrative barriers to reviewing communications use authorizations, (2) provide an assessment of whether there are rules or regulations that could be revised to improve the efficiency of reviewing communications use authorizations, (3) describe the process for prioritizing the review of communications use authorizations, and (4) provide a plan to ensure adequate staffing to review communications use authorizations in a timely manner.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Feb 15, 2021
Last action Mar 18, 2021
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Full legislative history
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Total actions
4
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Committee
3
Mar 18, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
lower
Mar 15, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
lower
Feb 15, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
lower
Feb 15, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Kelly Armstrong
RRepublican
Co
John R. Curtis
RRepublican
Co
Virginia Foxx
RRepublican
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