Feb. 3, 2012
Debate over telecommunications projects reopened
There's a new twist in the battle over who should conduct environmental review of telecommunications projects. By Jennifer M. Haley, Charity B. Schiller, and Gail A. Karish of Best Best & Krieger LLP
Gail A. Karish
Partner, Best, Best & Krieger LLP
Phone: (213) 605-1603
Email: gail.karish@bbklaw.com
Gail focuses her practice on telecommunications, assisting clients in California and across the country with a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters involving broadband and fiber networks, cable and telecom franchising, wireless communications and public-private partnerships. Her clients are mainly public agencies, such as local governments, water districts and municipal utilities.
The California Public Utilities Commission recently vacated controversial General Order 170 and re-opened the associated rulemaking, which will determine whether and how the Commission conducts environmental review of certain telecommunications projects under the California Environmental Quality Act, widely known as CEQA. The Commission's decision is the latest twist in an ongoing battle between loc...
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