![]() ![]() The proposal addresses the following park issues: * Commercial telecommunication systems can be considered a utility and, like other utilities, are authorized on NPS lands using the right-of-way permit process. * Once installed, the park could subscribe to the broadband services. would pay for all of the up-front construction costs. * No new cellular towers would be installed under this proposal. * This proposal is consistent with Yellowstone National Park's Wireless Communications Services Plan. * The proposal would not expand authorized cellular phone coverage areas in the park but would substantially improve coverage quality in existing developed areas. * It is estimated that 8% of the park is currently covered by cellular. Broadband over fiber-optic cable could replace the obsolete microwave system. The existing microwave radio system is the only means of telecommunication (telephone, 911 and computer networks) in the park interior. ![]() Each reflector is about 28 feet high and 24 feet wide. Currently, these reflectors are an essential component of the park's microwave radio telecommunication system. Removal could begin in the near future as fiber optic becomes operational. * Removal of five microwave radio reflectors that were installed in the park's backcountry around 1980. * Temporary and localized traffic restrictions and speed reductions in work areas from April until early November for three consecutive years. * Appropriate equipment e.g., rubber-tracked vehicles, to install the conduit underground within the existing road corridor, immediately adjacent to and/or directly into the roadbed. * Installation of fiber optic cable along 187 miles of park roads. If approved, the proposed action (an application for a right-of-way permit) from Diamond Communications, LLC. Alternative 2 (proposed action and preferred alternative) would allow for the installation of fiber optic cable along existing park roads. ![]() In Alternative 1 (no action), the fiber optic network would not be installed. The park prepared the EA to evaluate potential impacts and determine if the park should authorize a right-of-way (ROW) permit. The proposal would also give the park the opportunity to remove obsolete telecommunication systems currently on mountaintops and from the backcountry as underground fiber within the road corridor becomes operational. MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The National Park Service (NPS) encourages public comment on an Environmental Assessment (EA) about a proposal to improve telecommunication services in developed areas of Yellowstone National Park. ![]()
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