Wireless Facility Siting – State & Local Review Limits
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-10-19 — Modernizing the Commission’s National Environmental Policy Act Rules: cross-connection with fcc-nepa-nhpa-review: Federal environmental/historic review and state/local siting review are the two parallel pre-construction gates for tower builds; narrowing one shifts the practical bottleneck to the other. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-09-04 — WIRELESS Leadership Act: WIRELESS Leadership Act (HR5147, 119th Congress) introduced to codify deemed-granted remedy when state/local review shot clocks lapse, bar discrimination among personal wireless service facilities and providers, and cap siting fees at publicly disclosed, cost-based, competitively neutral amounts (referred to House Energy and Commerce 2025-09-04). (novelty: 2)