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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · S. 4448 (Introduced in Senate) — To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to create tools for tracking the pr... · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Tracking and improving processing times for communications use applications

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Section 6409(b)(3) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 ( 47 U.S.C. 1455(b)(3) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of the Accelerating Broadband Permits Act of 2026 , the Assistant Secretary shall develop controls to ensure that data is sufficiently accurate and complete for an executive agency to track the processing time for each application described in subparagraph
(A)received by the executive agency. With respect to the factors that contribute to delays in processing applications described in subparagraph (A), the Assistant Secretary shall— analyze the factors as the delays are occurring; take actions to address the factors; and provide an annual report on the factors to— the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives. Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of the Accelerating Broadband Permits Act of 2026 , the Assistant Secretary shall establish a method to alert employees of an executive agency to any application described in subparagraph
(A)with respect to which the executive agency is at risk of failing to meet the 270-day deadline under that subparagraph. .
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