<div dir="ltr">Let me guess how much money they want to put into hiring the people that are still needed to process permits even after the streamlining...<div><br></div><div>no wait, don't tell me...</div><div><br></div><div>I think I can guess...</div><div><br></div><div>.... oh this could be embarrassing if I am wrong...</div><div><br></div><div>how about ... zero dollars?</div><div><br></div><div>Not that it will stop them from blasting those agencies on the floor of Congress and in the media for being slow to process permits...</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Christopher Mitchell</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Director, Community Broadband Networks</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Institute for Local Self-Reliance</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><a href="http://www.muninetworks.org/" target="_blank">MuniNetworks.org</a><br><div>@communitynets</div><div>612-545-5185</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 6:16 PM Doug Orr <<a href="mailto:doug.orr@gmail.com">doug.orr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I read this so you don't have to.<div><br></div><div>Near as I can tell this "program" consists of getting rid of a bunch of environmental and good taste-related barriers to towers and stringing lines in pristine wilderness, enabling access to government buildings, towers and historically preserved things for antennas, streamlining federal regulations, streamlining regulations at the state and local level (more overreach, pros and cons) and inter-agency (probably good), and doing some obvious things like gathering data and setting goals (this is new?)</div><div><br></div><div>It's the typical laissez-faire strip off the regulations program, plus some hard-to-pin-down amount of federal money to be spent in ways that weren't totally obvious just from reading this doc.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm really interested to know how allowing access to federal buildings and towers for antennas and gear works when the antennas need maintenance.</div><div><br></div><div>5g rollouts seem to be picking up steam, including with some using contract vendors who seem to have <a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CAASUL_enUS782US782&ei=HQRmXNi7BZSgjwTVooHABQ&q=%22mobilitie%22+problems+or+lawsuit&oq=%22mobilitie%22+problems+or+lawsuit&gs_l=psy-ab.3..35i302i39.18859.22797..23287...0.0..0.162.264.0j2......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.kNqI3EWnGSI" target="_blank">some issues</a>. For balance <a href="https://medium.com/@BrendanCarrFCC/5g-jobs-in-the-year-of-5g-3c4ce0b14ace" target="_blank">some inspiring words</a> from Brendan Carr to the NATE.</div><div><br></div><div>  Doug</div><div><br><div><br></div><div>More detail:<div>. getting around the NEPA (which was put in place to protect the environment after gross mismanagement of the federal resources. Money quote from the law case: "<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14px">noting "a remarkable consensus of opinion" that the federal agencies contributed substantially to the country's degraded environmental state"). So no more of that annoying regulation.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14px">. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">permitting streamline, fee consistency, etc. Sure.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">. "streamline" review for national and state/local historic stuff (structures, buildings, objects, etc.) I assume "streamline" is a lot like the verb "steamroller."</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">. one billing team: Sure</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">. more "streamlining" of pesky environmental reviews</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">. get rid of pesky restrictions on </span>wilderness areas, national monuments,
areas of critical environmental concern (ACECs), and other surface-limiting stipulations or
buffer zones, because what we want is more broadband towers running through wilderness. (Full list, just of ACES <a href="https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/planningandnepa_aceclist.xlsx" target="_blank">here</a>)</div><div>. lease DOE dark fiber: sure; inventory assets: sure</div><div>. better data: sure</div><div>. better integration with state/local: sure</div><div>. some e- program (<a href="https://www.usda.gov/reconnect" target="_blank">ReConnect</a>) to use fed money "catalyze" private investment</div><div>. better goals and accountability: sure</div><div>. veterans, tribal vague promises including summits</div><div>. new <a href="https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/" target="_blank">broadbandusa </a>site</div><div>. coal country grants (jesus, really? really??)</div><div>. some other junk</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:06 AM Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The NTIA yesterday posted the federal government's<br>
<br>
American Broadband Initiative Milestones Report<br>
<br>
February 13, 2019<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/report/2019/american-broadband-initiative-milestones-report" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ntia.doc.gov/report/2019/american-broadband-initiative-milestones-report</a><br>
<br>
This report outlines a vision for how the Federal Government can <br>
increase broadband access and actions that Agencies are taking to <br>
increase private-sector investment in broadband. Previous attempts to <br>
expand broadband connectivity have made progress and provided valuable <br>
lessons that guide this Initiative. The report’s recommendations are <br>
grouped into three categories: streamlining Federal permitting processes <br>
to speed broadband deployment, leveraging Federal assets to lower the <br>
cost of broadband buildouts, and maximizing the impact of Federal <br>
funding.<br>
<br>
RL<br>
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