Bill > HR2611

This bill, the Public Lands Telecommunications Act, aims to support the establishment and improvement of communications sites on federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture. The key provisions of the bill are: 1. It directs the Department of the Treasury to establish separate special accounts for the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Bureau of Reclamation (the federal land management agencies) to deposit rental fees received for "communications use authorizations" (rights-of-way, permits, or leases for the use of federal lands for communications purposes). 2. The rental fees deposited in these special accounts will remain available for the agencies to use for activities related to communications sites, such as administering authorizations, preparing assessments, developing management plans, training, and obtaining or improving access to communications sites. 3. The bill sets guidelines for rental fees, requiring them to be competitively neutral, technology neutral, and nondiscriminatory, and directing the Secretary of the Interior to revise the current fee schedule to reflect current communication technologies. 4. The bill allows the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into cooperative agreements to carry out activities related to communications sites on federal lands.

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