Blake,
Considering that large sections of our law-making process have been
taken over by big business interests, I can't help but wonder how many
of these new rules were written (out of public view, of course) by these
large business interests with the intent of putting small competitors
out of business. "Give us a written plan about what you will do if one
of your guys needs to pee... "
jack
P.S. - For anyone who wants to complain about me possibly being too
political with the above comment, let me just say "stuff it". This is
a business survival issue, not a political (my philosophy is better than
your philosophy) issue.
Blake Bowers wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Forrest W. Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] BLM fees
My understanding of how BLM fees work are as follows:
1) An empty communications building has very low, if any, fees.
Not in the past few years. Expect as much as $5,400.00 a year for
an unloaded tower.
4) If you have a tower rent agreement which states that you have to
pay BLM fees which are potentially not related to your operation,
then you need to renegotiate, because you will end up paying for
everyone else's use of the tower since your operation will generally
not cause any fees to be incurred (or very low fees to be incurred),
and it isn't fair for you to be subsidising everyone else's use of
the tower.
Absolutely.
A couple of other things to be aware of - and some of this varies
depending
on what area you are in.
1. There WILL be a yearly inspection - at a minimum they will do an
inventory. Some areas inspect EVERYTHING, they have been known
to climb on the roof of one of our buildings and check the roof.
Their only complaint was a couple of small brush piles needed to be
removed.
2. The rates are NOT going to stay the same either. They have realized
that this is a PROFIT center. They need the money, so watch out.
3. Some of the areas have very difficult rules. We were doing a
co-locate for a two way radio customer at one forest, about a 2 hour
job, and they insisted on us having a written plan covering safety,
emergencies, etc, (all of which we have) but also what to do if one
of the guys needed to use the restroom. I asked them if they had a plan
if the deer needed to pee....
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