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Education and ScienceH.R. 1588Not Yet VotedComments

Facilitating DIGITAL Applications Act

Official title: To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to report to Congress on any barriers to establishing online portals to accept, process, and dispose of certain Form 299s, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to periodically report on the development of online portals for the acceptance, processing, and disposal of applications for communications use authorizations. Communications use authorizations 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.

Specifically, the NTIA must report to Congress about (1) whether the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service have each established a portal, and (2) any barriers to establishing the portals. The NTIA must submit the first report within 90 days of the enactment of the bill and additional reports every 60 days thereafter until the portals are established.

Additionally, Interior and the Forest Service must notify the NTIA within three business days of establishing their respective portals.

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Timeline

  1. House floor actionsReported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-486, Part I.
  2. House committee actionsCommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  3. House committee actionsSubcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  4. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  5. House floor actionsReferred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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.
  6. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
  7. Introduced
  8. Committee

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