FirstNet Releasing Environmental Impact Statement for West Region
FirstNet plans to announce Friday the availability of the final programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) for the West region. The document evaluates the potential environmental impacts of the proposed nationwide public safety broadband network in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon…
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and Washington. The region is one of five that will have a separate PEIS. “Now that this PEIS has been completed and once a Record of Decision (ROD) has been signed, the proposed FirstNet projects can begin to submit the site-specific environmental documentation to determine if the proposed project has been adequately evaluated in the PEIS or whether it instead warrants a Categorical Exclusion, an Environmental Assessment, or an Environmental Impact Statement,” the notice in the ​Federal Register said. The Senate Communications Subcommittee held a hearing Thursday on the network (see 1707200042). This is the second PEIS published by FirstNet. In June, the authority released one on the "Non-Contiguous Region" -- Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. territories.