(Jul 5) In response to a notice issued by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), NTCA stated that the agency should consider broadband providers’ compliance with existing environmental and preservation reviews as sufficient for the purposes of the conservation goals that newly proposed BLM rules are intended to achieve. In doing so, BLM would ensure that conservation uses do not preclude other productive uses of agency lands that are in the public interest, such as for broadband connectivity.
