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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1836
To amend the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 to
provide for an application for a Federal easement, right-of-way, or lease
with respect to a communications facility installation to be deemed grant-
ed if not granted or denied by the specified deadline, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH4, 2025
Mr. O
BERNOLTEintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation
Act of 2012 to provide for an application for a Federal
easement, right-of-way, or lease with respect to a commu-
nications facility installation to be deemed granted if
not granted or denied by the specified deadline, 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
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Granting Remaining 2
Applications Not Treated Efficiently or Delayed Act of 3
2025’’ or the ‘‘GRANTED Act of 2025’’. 4
SEC. 2. TIMELY CONSIDERATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR 5
FEDERAL EASEMENTS, RIGHTS-OF-WAY, AND 6
LEASES. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 6409(b)(3) of the Middle 8
Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 9
1455(b)(3)) is amended— 10
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘duly 11
filed’’ and inserting ‘‘complete’’; and 12
(2) by adding at the end the following: 13
‘‘(E) D
EEMED GRANTED .—If an executive 14
agency fails to grant or deny a complete appli-15
cation by the deadline under subparagraph (A), 16
the application shall be deemed granted on the 17
day after such deadline. 18
‘‘(F) W
HEN APPLICATION CONSIDERED 19
COMPLETE; RECEIVED.— 20
‘‘(i) W
HEN APPLICATION CONSIDERED 21
COMPLETE.—For the purposes of this 22
paragraph, an application to an executive 23
agency shall be considered complete if the 24
applicant— 25
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‘‘(I) has taken the first proce-1
dural step within the control of the 2
applicant to submit such an applica-3
tion in accordance with the procedures 4
established by the executive agency 5
for the review and approval of such an 6
application; and 7
‘‘(II) has not received a written 8
notice from the executive agency with-9
in 30 days after the date on which the 10
application is received by the executive 11
agency— 12
‘‘(aa) stating that all infor-13
mation (including any form or 14
other document) required by the 15
executive agency to be submitted 16
for the application to be consid-17
ered complete has not been sub-18
mitted; and 19
‘‘(bb) identifying the infor-20
mation required to be submitted 21
that was not submitted. 22
‘‘(ii) W
HEN COMPLETE APPLICATION 23
CONSIDERED RECEIVED .—For the pur-24
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poses of this paragraph, a complete appli-1
cation shall be considered received— 2
‘‘(I) except as provided in sub-3
clause (II), on the date on which the 4
applicant submits to the executive 5
agency all information (including any 6
form or other document) required by 7
the executive agency to be submitted 8
for the application to be considered 9
complete; or 10
‘‘(II) in the case of an applica-11
tion with respect to which all such in-12
formation is not submitted and that is 13
considered complete under clause (i) 14
because the applicant has not received 15
a written notice from the executive 16
agency within the period described in 17
such clause, on the day after the last 18
day of such period.’’. 19
(b) A
PPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-20
section (a) shall apply with respect to any application 21
under subsection (b) of section 6409 of the Middle Class 22
Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 23
1455) that is received by an executive agency (as defined 24
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in subsection (d) of such section) on or after the date of 1
the enactment of this Act. 2
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