The Cal. PUC voted 3-2 to reject a proposal to streamline the state environmental impact review process for telecom network construction projects. The proposal by Comr. Geoffrey Brown would have let carriers request fast staff review of projects they believed exempt from environmental review. The proposal would have guarded against breaking up a big project into small parts to avoid environmental review, by requiring carriers to list all other network upgrade projects underway or recently completed in the same area. But the 3-member PUC majority said they couldn't see how Brown's proposed changes improved on today抯 method the plan was 揻uzzy?on standards for expedited review.
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