HR5318-119

Introduced

To provide that the deployment of a small personal wireless service facility is not subject to requirements to prepare certain environmental or historical preservation reviews, and for other purposes.

119th Congress Introduced Sep 11, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, To provide that the deployment of a small personal wireless service facility is not subject to requirements to prepare certain environmental or historical preservation reviews, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Technology, Transportation.

Who Benefits and How

environmental regulators and natural-resource users may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section H48DD375B08754516A3BBB6EF4DD06C96: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Reducing Antiquated Permitting for Infrastructure Deployment Act or the RAPID Act.
  • Section H94474A3FE5514E7B84C1A188A5E8D7B5: 2. Exemptions for small personal wireless service facilities A Federal authorization with respect to a project to deploy a small personal wireless service...
  • Section H81568C7B1BC04A2BB1EFE2E404A11497: 3. Presumption with respect to certain complete FCC forms If an Indian Tribe is shown to have received a complete FCC Form 620 or FCC Form 621 (or any...
  • Section H6895A310DB184A339025010C50C62EEB: 4. Definitions In this Act: The term Commission means the Federal Communications Commission. The term Federal authorization— means any authorization required...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, To provide that the deployment of a small personal wireless service facility is not subject to requirements to prepare certain environmental or historical preservation reviews, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Technology, Transportation

Primary Purpose

This bill, To provide that the deployment of a small personal wireless service facility is not subject to requirements to prepare certain environmental or historical preservation reviews, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Technology Transportation

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
environmental regulators and natural-resource users:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies:
environmental regulators and natural-resource users:

Legislative Progress

Introduced
Introduced Committee Passed
Sep 11, 2025

Mr. Hudson introduced the following bill; which was referred to …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Environment Technology Transportation
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"personal wireless service facility" §H6895A310DB184A339025010C50C62EEB

a facility for the provision of personal wireless service. The term small personal wireless service facility— means a personal wireless service facility with respect to which each antenna is not more than 3 cubic feet in volume

We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.

Learn more about our methodology