SPEED for Broadband Infrastructure Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-09-10Topic: technology privacy · infrastructure utilities · environment

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This bill would change the Communications Act of 1934 so that certain projects to place and install communications facilities, such as wireless antennas, would not go through federal environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act or historic preservation reviews under the National Historic Preservation Act. Covered projects include new facilities in public rights-of-way up to 50 feet tall (or 10 feet taller than nearby structures), replacements that are the same as or similar to existing facilities, small antennas, and site expansions of up to 30 feet. It would also exempt easements on federal property from these reviews if an easement was already granted for another communications or utility facility on the same property. The bill keeps the federal duty to evaluate radiofrequency exposure and keeps state and local zoning authority to the extent consistent with federal law.

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Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2025-09-10	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-09-10	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-09-10		Introduced in House	introduce
2025-09-10		Introduced in House	introduce

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