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DIGITAL Applications Act
To require the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to establish online portals to accept, process, and dispose of certain Form 299s, and for other purposes.
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- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became law
Summary
Deploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act or the DIGITAL Applications Act
This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to each establish an online portal for accepting, processing, and disposal of applications for communications use authorizations. These are requests for easements, rights-of-way, leases, licenses, or other authorizations to locate or modify a transmitting device, support structure, or other communications facility on public lands or National Forest System land.
Interior and the Forest Service must also notify the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within three business days of establishing their respective portals, and once the portals are established, the NTIA must link to them from its website.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Mar 17, 2026 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Mar 16, 2026 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 16, 2026 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2511-2512)
- Mar 16, 2026 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1665.
- Mar 16, 2026 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2511-2513)
- Mar 16, 2026 Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Feb 4, 2026 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 416.
- Feb 4, 2026 Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- Feb 4, 2026 Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-487, Part II.
- Feb 4, 2026 Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-487, Part I.
- Dec 3, 2025 Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0.
- Dec 3, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Nov 18, 2025 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
- Nov 18, 2025 Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Apr 9, 2025 Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
- Apr 9, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Apr 9, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
- Feb 27, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
- Feb 27, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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.
- Feb 27, 2025 Introduced in House
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