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.
Deploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act or the DIGITAL Applications Act
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.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0.
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-487, Part I.
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-487, Part I.
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-487, Part II.
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-487, Part II.
Committee on Agriculture discharged.
Committee on Agriculture discharged.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 416.
Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2511-2513)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1665.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2511-2512)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2511-2512)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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