Rep. Welch Urges Pai to Let BDAC Complete Work; NATHPO Also Has Issues
Let the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee reach consensus before acting on recommendations, Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said in a Monday letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. With BDAC to meet Tuesday and Wednesday, Welch responded to reports that committee leadership…
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suggested the group move ahead without a consensus of working group members. "For the BDAC to be a successful policy instrument, it must function as a consensus body," Welch wrote. The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) complained about a Jan. 16 FCC announcement and invitation to tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations to participate in conference calls Jan. 22 and 24 and Feb. 5 on wireless infrastructure. “The FCC refers to these conference calls as a continuation of … the process of government‐to‐government consultation on certain issues raised in the NPRM,’” NATHPO filed in wireless infrastructure and other dockets. “The FCC has not been conducting government‐to‐government consultation by offering open meetings to tribal representatives, including offering unstructured conference calls on short notice. Sending out an email message to hundreds of tribal representatives for a conference call, the first of which is less than one week away, is not government‐to‐government consultation.”