National League of Cities Opposes Streamline Small-Cell Deployment Act
The National League of Cities said it remains opposed to the Streamlining the Rapid Evolution and Modernization of Leading-edge Infrastructure Necessary to Enhance (Streamline) Small Cell Deployment Act (S-3157). Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Communications Subcommittee…
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ranking member Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, filed the bill last week after months of collecting feedback (see 1806290063). S-3157, which first circulated in October (see 1710310057), 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. NLC is “disappointed that the Commerce Committee did not fully address our concerns about local pre-emption, and imposing a new federal one-size-fits-all mandate for small-cell deployments won’t work for all cities,” a spokesperson said. The group and other local allies repeatedly pushed back while the bill was circulating over language to pre-empt state, local and tribal laws seen as barriers to deployments (see 1804130057).