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- Federal Communications Commission inquiry in the matter of streamlining Deployment of Small Cell Infrastructure by Improving Wireless Facilities Siting Policies; Mobilitie, LLC Petition for Declaratory Ruling WT Docket 16-421, https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-1427A1.pdf. For the text of the California bill, see http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_
id=201720180SB649; for a summary of the Colorado bill, see http://leg.colorado.gov
/bills/hb17-1193; and for the full text, see http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default
/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017A_1193_signed.pdf; for the text of the Florida bill, see https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/687/BillText/er/PDF; for the text of the Illinois bill, see http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?
DocName=005500050K5-12001.2; for a summary of the Kansas bill, see http://www
.kslegislature.org/li_2016/b2015_16/measures/documents/summary_hb_2131_2016.pdf; for a summary of the Minnesota bill, see http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us
/hrd/bs/90/HF0739.pdf; for the text of the Virginia bill, see http://lis.virginia.gov
/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1282ER+pdf; and for a summary of the Washington bill, see http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Pdf/Bill%20Reports
/House/1921%20HBA%20TED%2017.pdf.
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- These are also available online. Here are a few sources: Farm and Home Publishers (serves Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Wisconsin), http://www.farmandhomepublishers.com/county_plat_maps.php; Great Midwestern Publishing and Florida Plats (serves Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Pennsylvania), http://platmaps.com/; Inflection.com, powered by online searches (offers access to all states), http://publicrecords.online
searches.com/GIS-and-Mapping.htm; Rockford Map Publishers (offers access to all states), http://www.rockfordmap.com/.
Topic 3B
- For information on the Land Ordinance of 1785, see “A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774–1875,” Journals of the Continental Congress 28, http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=
lljc&fileName=028/lljc028.db&recNum=386. For an explanation of the PLSS, see “The Public Land Survey System,” United States Geological Survey, https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/a_plss.html. - For access to a BLM baselines and meridians map of the US, see “Principal Meridians and Base Lines,” Cadastral Survey, https://www.blm.gov/cadastral
/meridians/meridians.htm. - The current graphic numbering for the thirty-six sections became effective May 18, 1796. See http://www.uwsp.edu/conted/ConfWrkShp/Documents
/surveyors/handouts/Session34.pdf. - See the United States Geological Service National Map article about the Public Land Survey System at https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/a_plss.html.
Topic 4-
1. Federal Emergency Management Agency, Flood Map Service Center, https://msc.fema.gov/portal. Entering an address, place, or set of latitudinal and longitudinal DD coordinates on the Flood Map Service Center page will generate search results known as flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs), also known as panels for the area of interest. Each panel is numbered using eleven alphanumeric digits and is assigned an effective date. The FEMA site allows you to view and print the maps, and select maps can be saved or opened as interactive maps. It is important to note that many areas in the US have no documented flood zones. No flood map is available for these areas. Reviewing documented flood zones in a search area provides insight into locations not to consider for cell site development, at least without special site planning to accommodate for the potential high-water hazard.
2. US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Mapper, https://www.fws
.gov/wetlands/Data/Mapper.HTML. Entering a street address, city, place, or set of latitudinal and longitudinal DD coordinates into the inventory database of the National Wetlands Mapper will generate an interactive map for an area of interest. The screen view may be expanded or reduced. The legend explains different bodies of water. While other sources display surface bodies of water, such as satellite images and USGS topography maps, the USFWS is the official source of information on wetlands. Confirming wetlands in a search area assists in identifying areas not to consider for cell site development.