HR 1665
Passed a chamber
Requires the Interior and Agriculture Departments to set up online systems for filing, processing, and acting on Form 299 applications for communications facilities on federal public lands and National Forest System land.
Official title: DIGITAL Applications Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
27-FEB-2025
Referred
27-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
09-APR-2025
Reported
04-FEB-2026
On the calendar
04-FEB-2026
Passed
16-MAR-2026
Senate
Received
17-MAR-2026
- Requires the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, through the Forest Service, to each establish an online portal within one year of enactment for Form 299 applications for communications use authorizations.
- Requires each Secretary to notify the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information within 3 business days after a portal is established.
- Requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to publish links to each portal on its website.
- Covers easements, rights-of-way, leases, and licenses that allow placing or modifying communications facilities on public lands and National Forest System land.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (27-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 16-MAR-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Agriculture Committee (House)
- Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee
- Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
- Communications and Technology Subcommittee
- Natural Resources Committee (House)
- Energy and Natural Resources Committee (Senate)
Science, Technology, Communications
■ 3 D
3 Democrats