1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Broadband Deployment Streamlining Act . 2. Streamlining the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service process for consideration of communications facility location applications (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Communications facility The term communications facility includes— (A) any infrastructure, including any transmitting device, tower, or support structure, and any equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets, associated with the licensed or permitted unlicensed wireless or wireline transmission of writings, signs, signals, data, images, pictures, and sounds of all kinds; and (B) any antenna or apparatus that— (i) is designed for the purpose of emitting radio frequency; (ii) is designed to be operated, or is operating, from a fixed location pursuant to authorization by the Federal Communications Commission or is using duly authorized devices that do not require individual licenses; and (iii) is added to a tower, building, or other structure. (2) Communications site The term communications site means an area of covered land designated for communications uses. (3) Communications use The term communications use means the placement and operation of communications facility. (4) Communications use authorization The term communications use authorization means an easement, right-of-way, lease, license, or other authorization to locate or modify a communications facility on covered land by the Department concerned for the primary purpose of authorizing the occupancy and use of the covered land for communications use. (5) Covered land The term covered land means— (A) public land administered by the Secretary of the Interior