CX-019441: Verizon North Bonneville Antenna Upgrade Project

Categorical Exclusion Determination

Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance

January 31, 2019
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Bonneville Power Administration proposes to allow Verizon Wireless to perform the following modifications to the existing telecommunications facility located on structure 61/2 of Bonneville Power Administration’s Knight-Ostrander #1 500-kilovolt transmission line:
• Remove six (6) panel antennas
• Remove three (3) Tower Mounted Amplifiers
• Remove nine (9) remote radio units. Six (6) remote radio units are located in the cabinet on the ground below the tower and three (3) on located on the tower.
• Install six (6) panel antennas
• Install six (6) remote radio units