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Education and ScienceH.R. 1665Comments

DIGITAL Applications Act

Official title: To require the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to establish online portals to accept, process, and dispose of certain Form 299s, and for other purposes.

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Where the Bill Stands

  1. Introduced, done
  2. Committee, done
  3. Floor Vote, done
  4. Outcome, current stage

What This Bill Does

This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to each establish an online portal for accepting, processing, and disposal 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.

Interior and the Forest Service must also notify the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within three business days of establishing their respective portals, and once the portals are established, the NTIA must link to them from its website.

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Timeline

  1. SenateReceived in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  2. House floor actionsMr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  3. Passed the House
  4. House floor actionsReported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-487, Part I.
  5. House committee actionsCommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  6. House committee actionsSubcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  7. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
  8. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  9. House floor actionsReferred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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.
  10. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
  11. Introduced
  12. Committee

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