Improves Tracking of Broadband Applications

Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to submit a plan to Congress for tracking the acceptance, processing, and disposition of applications for communications use authorizations. (These are requests for easements, rights-of-way, leases, licenses, or other authorizations to locate or modify a transmitting device, support structure, or other communications facility on public lands or National Forest System land.)

1. The Assistant Secretary of Commerce must create a plan to track broadband application forms. 2. This plan will increase transparency for applicants about their application status. 3. The Assistant Secretary must report potential challenges in implementing this tracking system. 4. The plan is due within 180 days after the bill becomes law.

This bill affects individuals and companies applying for broadband communications use on public lands.