Colorado State Historic Preservation Office Questions Twilight Towers Proposal
The Colorado State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is the latest state group to raise questions about a draft proposal by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to change rules for twilight towers (see 1712050044). “Nothing in the existing Agreement or regulations precludes…
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a licensee from making use of any existing tower or facility for the purpose of expanding capacity, service, or technology,” SHPO said in docket 17-79. “Placement of these facilities is almost always driven by demand and the limits of technology, so we do not believe that this Program Comment will greatly ‘reduce the need for new towers,’ or reduce adverse effects on historic properties.” A problem is recordkeeping by carriers, which should be standardized, the SHPO said: “Each carrier uses its own system of names, codes, and geographical information to track towers, and these are not standardized.”