# H.R. 1681 (119th): Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act

Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act This bill establishes an interagency strike force to support federal land management agencies' review of requests for communications use authorizations. (A communications use authorization is required to modify or locate communications facilities on public lands.) The strike force must (1) conduct periodic calls with strike force members to ensure that each agency prioritizes the review of requests for communications use authorizations, (2) establish goals for the review of the requests, and (3) monitor and facilitate agency accountability for meeting the established goals. The bill specifies that the strike force must include the head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the head of each federal land management agency, and other members designated by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior. The bill also requires the strike force to report to Congress regarding its effectiveness.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: broadband. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: infrastructure. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: permitting. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: public_lands. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 125: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill pursues an ordinary infrastructure and administrative goal, faster broadband permitting, which is a prudential good. It does not directly restrain a named evil or advance a named moral harm, so it falls under the mixed/prudential category rather than good or evil.
Theological note: The measure concerns administrative efficiency in permitting broadband and communications infrastructure on public lands. It raises no direct moral question about life, justice, or the restraint of evil. Its relevance is limited to stewardship of public lands and the prudent, timely ordering of government processes that serve ordinary civic needs.

## Recorded votes

Roll 125: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 384 · Nay 9 · Other 37.

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