HR 1681
Passed a chamber
Requires the Commerce Department's communications official to set up a strike force that makes the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service speed up their reviews of permit requests to place communications equipment on federal land.
Official title: Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
27-FEB-2025
Referred
27-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
09-APR-2025
Reported
12-JAN-2026
On the calendar
26-MAR-2026
Passed
20-APR-2026
Senate
Received
21-APR-2026
- Requires the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish an interagency strike force within 180 days of enactment.
- Makes the strike force responsible for setting goals for reviewing communications use authorization requests and monitoring each Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service office against those goals.
- Requires a report to Congress on the strike force's effectiveness within 270 days of enactment.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (27-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 20-APR-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Agriculture Committee (House)
- Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee
- Natural Resources Committee (House)
- Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
- Communications and Technology Subcommittee
- Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee (Senate)
Science, Technology, Communications
■ 2 D
2 Democrats