{"id":1226680,"date":"2023-05-16T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1226680"},"modified":"2023-05-18T04:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:19:29","slug":"congressman-moran-introduces-bill-to-ease-permitting-for-broadband-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1226680","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Moran introduces bill to ease permitting for broadband upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/moran-175x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1226681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/moran-175x117.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/moran-525x350.jpg 525w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/moran-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/moran.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Congressman Nathaniel Moran and Congressman Earl L. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Buddy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Carter, of Georgia, introduced the Proportional Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act. The act is meant to remove the additional permitting process for upgrades that are made to wireless towers. According to a release, with the current law, any changes made to existing wireless towers \u00e2\u20ac\u0153must undergo a burdensome environmental and historic preservation reviews.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Moran and Carter believe that this delays broadband improvements which they say makes a difference in getting high-speed internet to rural communities. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Closing the digital divide for those living in rural America is long overdue,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Moran said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This commonsense legislation reforms the burdensome permitting process that holds back American communities from broadband improvements and access. I am proud to work alongside Congressman Buddy Carter (GA-01) to introduce this essential piece of legislation that will connect our communities to the rest of America by reducing regulatory barriers needed to make necessary broadband upgrades.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Congressman Nathaniel Moran and Congressman Earl L. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Buddy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Carter, of Georgia, introduced the Proportional Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act. The act is meant to remove the additional permitting process for upgrades that are made to wireless towers. According to a release, with the current law, any changes made to existing wireless towers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1226680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congressman Moran introduces bill to ease permitting for broadband upgrades<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1226684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/moran-175x117.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Congressman Moran introduces bill to ease permitting for broadband upgrades","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:25:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/moran-175x117.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Congressman Moran introduces bill to ease permitting for broadband upgrades","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226682,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226680\/revisions\/1226682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1226684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}