DIGITAL Applications Act
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Science, Technology, Communications
Rep. Cammack, Kat [R-FL-3] (R) — FL
Summary
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.
Legislative subjects
Government buildings, facilities, and property; Government information and archives; Internet, web applications, social media; Land use and conservation; Science, Technology, Communications; Telephone and wireless communication
Latest action
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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