HR 1731

This bill, the Standard Fees to Expedite Evaluation and Streamlining Act, requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to create a standardized fee schedule for applications to place, modify, or maintain communications facilities on federally owned property. Federal agencies must adopt this schedule, ensuring fees are competitively neutral and based on actual processing costs. The GSA can establish exceptions to the fee schedule, provided they are also competitively neutral and align with expanding broadband access. Collected fees must be appropriated in advance to cover processing costs.