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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1665
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.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY27, 2025
Mrs. C
AMMACK(for herself and Ms. MATSUI) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addi-
tion to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, for
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
To require the Department of the Interior and the Depart-
ment of Agriculture to establish online portals to accept,
process, and dispose of certain Form 299s, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Deploying Infrastruc-4
ture with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Ap-5
plications Act’’ or the ‘‘DIGITAL Applications Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF ONLINE PORTALS TO ACCEPT, 1
PROCESS, AND DISPOSE OF CERTAIN FORM 2
299s. 3
(a) E
STABLISHMENT OF ONLINEPORTALS.— 4
(1) E
STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year 5
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-6
retaries concerned shall each establish, with respect 7
to the relevant covered department, an online portal 8
for the acceptance, processing, and disposal of a 9
Form 299 for communications use authorizations. 10
(2) N
OTIFICATION.—Not later than 3 business 11
days after the date on which an online portal has 12
been established by a Secretary pursuant to para-13
graph (1), that Secretary shall notify the Assistant 14
Secretary of the establishment of such portal. 15
(b) A
VAILABILITY OFONLINEPORTALS.—The As-16
sistant Secretary shall publish on the website of the Na-17
tional Telecommunications and Information Administra-18
tion a link to each online portal established pursuant to 19
subsection (a)(1). 20
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 21
(1) A
SSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist-22
ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 23
Commerce for Communications and Information. 24
(2) C
OMMUNICATIONS FACILITY .—The term 25
‘‘communications facility’’ has the meaning given the 26
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term ‘‘communications facility installation’’ in sec-1
tion 6409(d) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job 2
Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455(d)). 3
(3) C
OMMUNICATIONS USE .—The term ‘‘com-4
munications use’’ means the placement and oper-5
ation of a communications facility. 6
(4) C
OMMUNICATIONS USE AUTHORIZATION .— 7
The term ‘‘communications use authorization’’ 8
means an easement, right-of-way, lease, license, or 9
other authorization— 10
(A) provided by the Secretary of the Inte-11
rior or the Secretary of Agriculture; 12
(B) to locate or modify a communications 13
facility on covered land; and 14
(C) for the primary purpose of authorizing 15
the occupancy and use of such covered land for 16
communications use. 17
(5) C
OVERED LAND.—The term ‘‘covered land’’ 18
means— 19
(A) public lands; and 20
(B) National Forest System land. 21
(6) F
ORM299.—The term ‘‘Form 299’’ means 22
the form established under section 6409(b)(2)(A) of 23
the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act 24
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of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455(b)(2)(A)), or any successor 1
form. 2
(7) N
ATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM .—The term 3
‘‘National Forest System’’ has the meaning given 4
that term in section 11(a) of the Forest and Range-5
land Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 6
U.S.C. 1609(a)). 7
(8) P
UBLIC LANDS.—The term ‘‘public lands’’ 8
has the meaning given that term in section 103 of 9
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 10
1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702). 11
(9) R
ELEVANT COVERED DEPARTMENT .—The 12
term ‘‘relevant covered department’’ means— 13
(A) with respect to the Secretary of the In-14
terior, the Department of the Interior; and 15
(B) with respect to the Secretary of Agri-16
culture, the Department of Agriculture. 17
(10) S
ECRETARIES CONCERNED .—The term 18
‘‘Secretaries concerned’’ means— 19
(A) the Secretary of the Interior; and 20
(B) the Secretary of Agriculture, acting 21
through the Chief of the Forest Service. 22
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