FCC Gives ACS Extension on CAF Phase I Rollout Due to Bald Eagle Egg
The FCC Wireline Bureau gave Alaska Communications Systems a limited extension of its July 24 deadline to complete broadband deployment using Connect America Fund Phase I incremental support, a bureau order said Monday. The bureau granted ACS until Oct. 31…
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to complete the broadband deployment due to "unique circumstances beyond its control." ACS expects to meet the original broadband deployment deadline for the vast majority of its required locations. "However, the nesting of a pair of bald eagles, which have produced one egg, on one of ACS’s microwave towers affects the deployment of broadband service to 138 of ACS’s 2,291 locations," the order said. "ACS states that this tower is included in the only middle mile transport route providing access to these locations; ACS has no alternative way of working around the tower. Federal law makes it unlawful to 'pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb' a bald eagle. As a result, ACS states that it will be unable to meet the deployment deadline of July 24, 2015 without disturbing the eagles in violation of federal law."