The "Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act" requires the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to submit a plan to Congress within 180 days. The plan should outline the process for tracking the acceptance, processing, and disposal of Form 299 for communications use authorization, offering transparency to applicants and identifying potential implementation barriers. Definitions for terms like communications facility, communications use, and covered land are included in the bill. The bill aims to ensure efficient tracking of communications use authorizations for the placement and operation of communications facilities on public lands and National Forest System land. The plan will be shared with specific congressional committees for review.
Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act
This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to submit a plan to Congress for tracking the acceptance, processing, and disposition of applications for communications use authorizations. (These are requests for easements, rights-of-way, leases, licenses, or other authorizations to locate or modify a transmitting device, support structure, or other communications facility on public lands or National Forest System land.)