Proportional Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
This bill exempts certain wireless facility modification requests from specified review requirements.
Specifically, the bill exempts from specified environmental and historic preservation review any request for modification of an existing wireless tower or base station that involves (1) collocation of new transmission equipment, (2) removal of transmission equipment, or (3) replacement of transmission equipment.
To provide that an eligible facilities request under section 6409(a) of 
the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 is not subject 
    to requirements to prepare certain environmental or historical 
                         preservation reviews.

    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 ``Proportional Reviews for Broadband 
Deployment Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF NEPA AND NHPA TO WIRELESS FACILITIES DEPLOYMENT.

    Section 6409(a)(3) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation 
Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455(a)(3)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(3) Application of nepa; nhpa.--
                    ``(A) NEPA exemption.--An eligible facilities 
                request shall not be subject to the requirements of 
                section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy 
                Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)).
                    ``(B) National historic preservation act 
                exemption.--An eligible facilities request shall not be 
                considered an undertaking under section 300320 of title 
                54, United States Code.''.
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Proportional Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
To provide that an eligible facilities request under section 6409(a) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 is not subject to requirements to prepare certain environmental or historical preservation reviews.
Proportional Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy"