Senator Steve Daines (R-MT), with cosponsors Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), has introduced the Supporting National Security with Spectrum Act (S. 4049), which would appropriate $3.08 billion to fully fund the FCC’s Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program, aka the “Rip and Replace Program.” The bill would also require the FCC to conduct a reauction of AWS-3 band spectrum within one year of enactment. The bill directs the FCC to conduct this reauction of AWS-3 band spectrum regardless of whether the FCC’s spectrum auction authority has expired.
