Streamlining Permitting to Enable Efficient Deployment of Broadband Infrastructure Act of 2020

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HR 6488

Introduced

Apr 10, 2020

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Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to ...

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Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Infrastructure development Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Science, Technology, Communications Telephone and wireless communication

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Streamlining Permitting to Enable Efficient Deployment of Broadband Infrastructure Act of 2020

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.

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Apr 10, 2020

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.
Apr 10, 2020

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