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H.R. 5419: Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act

119th Congress · introduced 2025-09-17 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act

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Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to study and report on any barriers to and staffing needs for completing timely reviews of requests 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.)

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Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act

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Sponsor: Rep. Kean, Thomas H. [R-NJ-7] · 0 cosponsors

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Record fed-us-cong119-hr5419 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills