1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Rural Broadband Deployment Streamlining Act . 2. Streamlining the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service process for broadband facility location applications (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Broadband facility The term broadband facility means any communications plant, equipment, supplies, cable, wire, box, device, meter, tower, pole, duct, conduit, or other facility related to the provision of advanced telecommunications capability (as defined in section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ( 47 U.S.C. 1302 )). (2) Covered land The term covered land means— (A) public land administered by the Secretary of the Interior; and (B) National Forest System land administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. (3) Department concerned The term Department concerned means the Department of which the Secretary concerned is the head. (4) Organizational unit The term organizational unit means— (A) within the Bureau of Land Management— (i) a State office; (ii) a district office; or (iii) a field office; and (B) within the Forest Service— (i) a regional office; (ii) the headquarters; (iii) a management unit; or (iv) a ranger district office. (5) Secretary concerned The term Secretary concerned means— (A) the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to public land; and (B) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to National Forest System land. (b) Regulations Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall issue regulations— (1) to streamline the process for considering applications to locate or modify broadband facilities on covered land administered by the Secretary concerned; (2) to ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that the process is uniform and standardized across the organizational units of the Department concerned