119-hr1836

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1836 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 1836

 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

 March 4, 2025

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 2025'' or the ``GRANTED Act of 
2025''.

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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