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The Ineffectiveness Of The National Programmatic Agreement For Cell Phone Towers, Laura Briggs
The Ineffectiveness Of The National Programmatic Agreement For Cell Phone Towers, Laura Briggs
Historic Preservation Theses
Since 2004, when the Nationwide Programmatic Agreement was created to help protect and standardize the process of telecommunication tower review within the United States, many installations have been erected that have caused adverse effects on the historic resources that those regulations were intended to protect. This thesis looks at why the Nationwide Programmatic Agreement was enacted and what could be changed to help improve the review and practice of the telecommunication tower process.
The goal was to identify the ways in which the agreement could be improved upon to help minimize adverse effects on historic properties by telecommunication installations that …