Senate Bill Aims to Streamline Broadband Permitting on Federal Lands
The act aims to accelerate the review process for broadband permits issued by federal agencies.
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2024 – Senators John Thune, R-South Dakota, Ben Ray Luján, D-New Mexico, and John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, introduced the Accelerating Broadband Permits Act on Monday to improve the review permit application process with federal agencies.
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’’.
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The act aims to accelerate the review process for broadband permits issued by federal agencies. It would require federal agencies to enhance tracking systems for project applications, and to notify a project applicant if they are likely to fail to meet an existing 270-day deadline for project review.
