Arctic Slope Co-op Agrees to Fine for Tower Lighting Violations
Alaska’s Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative agreed to pay a $45,000 fine and implement a compliance plan to end an investigation of alleged violations of tower safety rules, the FCC said Friday. The company failed to do daily inspections of…
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lights on three of its antenna structures and didn’t display the correct antenna structure registration number (ASR) at the base of one of its towers, the Enforcement Bureau said. “Failing to inspect antenna structure lighting undermines the Commission’s duty to ensure that towers do not pose a threat to air safety,” it said: “Failing to display the correct ASR number exacerbates this problem by diminishing the Commission’s ability to identify the antenna structure owner when attempting to remedy lighting outages.”