Thune, Schatz File Streamline Small-Cell Deployment Act
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Communications Subcommittee ranking member Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, filed their long-circulating Streamlining the Rapid Evolution and Modernization of Leading-edge Infrastructure Necessary to Enhance (Streamline) Small Cell Deployment Act (S-3157) Thursday evening (see…
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1710310057). The bill, first circulated in October, aims to ease barriers to 5G and other broadband deployment by implementing a “reasonable process and timeframe guidelines” for state and local consideration of small-cell applications. State and local entities would be required to act on collocation applications within 60 days and other requests within 90 days, though the FCC could agree to waive deadlines on a one-time basis. S-3157 would require regulators evaluate small-cell applications based on “objective and reasonable structural engineering safety requirements” or other aesthetic or concealment requirements. Pushback from local allies over language to pre-empt state, local and tribal laws seen as barriers to deployments hindered introduction (see 1804130057). CTIA and the Wireless Infrastructure Association lauded the move.