119-s866

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 866 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 866

 To require executive agencies to take steps to better meet the 
statutory deadline for processing communications use applications, and 
 for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 5, 2025

 Mr. Thune (for himself, Mr. Lujan, and Mr. Barrasso) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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 A BILL

 To require executive agencies to take steps to better meet the 
statutory deadline for processing communications use applications, 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 ``Accelerating Broadband Permits 
Act''.

SEC. 2. TRACKING AND IMPROVING PROCESSING TIMES FOR COMMUNICATIONS USE 
 APPLICATIONS.

 

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 by adding at the end the 
following:
 ``
        (E) Tracking and improving processing times.--
 ``
            (i) Data controls.--An executive agency 
 shall develop controls to ensure that data is 
 sufficiently accurate and complete to track the 
 processing time for each application described 
 in subparagraph
        (A) .
 ``
            (ii) Requirement to analyze, address, and 
 report on delay factors.--With respect to the 
 factors that contribute to delays in processing 
 applications described in subparagraph
        (A) , an 
 executive agency shall--
 ``
            (I) analyze the factors as the 
 delays are occurring;
 ``
            (II) take actions to address the 
 factors; and
 ``
            (III) provide an annual report on 
 the factors to--
 ``

    (aa) the Committee on 
 Commerce, Science, and 
 Transportation of the Senate;
 ``

    (bb) the Committee on 
 Energy and Natural Resources of 
 the Senate;
 ``
            (cc) the Committee on 
 Energy and Commerce of the 
 House of Representatives;
 ``
            (dd) the Committee on 
 Natural Resources of the House 
 of Representatives; and
 ``

    (ee) each committee of 
 Congress with jurisdiction over 
 the executive agency.
 ``
            (iii) Method for alerting staff to at-
 risk applications.--An executive agency shall 
 establish a method to alert employees of the 
 executive agency to any application described 
 in subparagraph
        (A) with respect to which the 
 executive agency is at risk of failing to meet 
 the 270-day deadline under that 
 subparagraph.''.

SEC. 3. MINIMUM BROADBAND PROJECT COST.

 

Section 41001

    (6)
        (A) of the FAST Act (42 U.S.C. 4370m

    (6)
        (A) ) is 
amended--

    (1) in clause
            (iii) , by striking ``or'' at the end;

    (2) by redesignating clause
            (iv) as clause
            (v) ; and

    (3) by inserting after clause
            (iii) the following:
 ``
            (iv) 
            (I) is subject to NEPA;
 ``
            (II) involves the construction of 
 infrastructure for broadband; and
 ``
            (III) is likely to require a total 
 investment of more than $5,000,000; or''.
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