NEWS UPDATE.(cellular phone towers and personal watercraft in national parks)(Brief Article)
National Parks, September, 1999
* CELLULAR TOWERS: Bell Atlantic Mobile lost another bid to place cellular phone towers in Rock Creek National Park. In July, the National Capital Planning Commission tabled the company's second application to construct two 130- to 180-foot towers, which would require accompanying roads and utility lines to service them and likely draw requests from other companies demanding equal access. The commission said the application did not adequately consider the cumulative impact of other reasonably foreseeable towers at the park. Within hours of the vote, however, Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S. Dak.) attached a rider to the District's appropriations bill that would force the National Park Service to put the towers in the park and eliminate the role of local authorities in the...
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