The FCC should not give any weight to a recently...
The FCC should not give any weight to a recently updated report by Travis Longcore of the Urban Wildlands Group in Los Angeles and other scientists on bird deaths caused by wireless towers, said an industry coalition in an FCC…
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ex parte letter. The Longcore report was filed as the FCC wraps work on a Final Programmatic Environmental Analysis (FPEA) of avian deaths and towers, which could lead to rule changes aimed at curbing deaths, noted the letter from CTIA, NAB, PCIA and the National Association of Tower Erectors (http://xrl.us/bmw28w). “It is our understanding that the Commission is in the final stages of preparing for the release of its FPEA,” the letter said. “It is also our understanding that the Commission will not be releasing for comment the revised Longcore et al. paper. It would, however, be inherently arbitrary and capricious for the Commission to place uncritical reliance on this filing, submitted long after the eleventh hour, in finalizing the FPEA.” The industry coalition said it submitted a report last year by Environmental Resources Management pointing to flaws in the earlier version of the Longcore report.