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37840
FEDERAL
REGISTER
VOL. 58, No. 132
Notices
DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE (USDA)
Fee Schedule for
Communications Uses
Part VII
58 FR 37840
DATE:
ACTION: Notice of proposed
policy; request for public comment.
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[*37840]
SUMMARY: The Forest Service
proposes to adopt a revised fee schedule for
annual
rental charges for certain communications uses authorized on National
Forest System lands. This
proposed schedule would supplement fee schedules for
communications uses
adopted by Forest Service Regions in 1989 and modified in
1992. The proposed schedule would complete the
agency's efforts to establish
annual
rental fees for all communications uses in Forest Service Regions 1-6 and
to
establish fees that reflect fair market value, as required by Title V of the
DATES: Comments must be
received in writing by
ADDRESSES: Send written
comments to the Director, Lands Staff (2720),
Service, USDA,
The public may inspect comments
received on this proposed policy in the
Office of the Director, Lands Staff, room 4,
South, Auditor's Building, 205 14th
Street SW.,
call
ahead (202 205-1367) to facilitate entry into the building.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT: John Anderson, Lands Staff, Room 4, South,
(202) 205-1256.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background on Communications Site Fees
Pursuant to statutory and
regulatory authority, the Forest Service authorizes
use of
National Forest System lands for a variety of public, commercial, and
private
activities. There are over 72,000 authorizations in effect on these
Federal lands. Included in this total are about
6,000 authorizations for
communications
uses, generally found at high elevation locations and involving
the
construction of a building and tower with antennae or the placement of one
or more
antennae placed atop a building owned by another permittee.
The agency
recognizes 13
types of communications uses; these generally correspond to types
of
communications licenses issued by the Federal Communications Commission, and
are
grouped into 3 categories, as follows:
Category of Type of use
use
A. Commercial:
1.
Radio broadcast.
2.
Television broadcast.
3.
Broadcast translator.
4.
Cable and subscription television.
5.
Mobile radio: commercial communications.
6.
Cellular telephone.
B. Industrial:
1.
Common carrier microwave relay.
2.
Industrial microwave relay.
3.
Mobile radio: internal communications.
4.
Natural resource/environmental monitoring.
5.
Passive reflector.
C. Personal:
1.
Amateur radio.
2.
Personal/private "receive only."
Since 1983, the Forest Service
has sought to bring annual rental fees for
communications uses
authorized to use National Forest System lands to fair
market
value. Section 504(g) of the
1976 states "The holder of a right-of-way
shall pay annually in advance the fair
market
value thereof as determined by the Secretary granting, issuing, or
renewing such
right-of-way * * *"
Further, the Independent
Offices Appropriations Act of 1952 requires the
Federal Government to receive fees for the use of
Federal lands and authorizes
heads of
agencies to charge fees for services or benefits provided by the agency
that are
fair and based on fair market value and cost to the Government. Office
of
Management and Budget Circular A-25 implements and further defines the 1952
Act and directs agencies to establish user fees
based on sound business
management
practices.
Until 1983, Forest Service fees
for communications uses were 0.2 percent of
the permittee's investment plus 5 percent of the rental fees
received by a
permittee from
sub-tenants of the same facility. An administrative appeal
decision in
1983 concluded that this fee formula did not yield fair market
value.
Consequently, in 1985, the
Register (50 FR 40574), adopted national policy
on administration of
communications
sites, including direction to its field officers to use current
market data
to determine rental fees. These fees were to be determined on a
regional
basis by one of three methods: Fee schedules, individual site
appraisals, or
competitive bids. The Regional Foresters chose to use fee
schedules.
Surveys of lease transactions in the private market were completed in
1986. Those surveys provided the necessary
information on fair market value and
were the
basis for development and promulgation of proposed regional fee
schedules.
Final schedules were adopted by the Regional Foresters through
publication in
the Federal Register from 1987-1989. These schedules applied to
communications
sites serving mostly rural areas. The notices explained that fees
for
sites serving urban areas-
on-site
appraisals, because the higher values attached to these sites were not
typical of
the transactions forming the basis of the fee schedules. (See 54 FR
35031,
Because the agency's pre-1985
fee policy for communications sites had no
provision for
updating fees, most permittees' fees had remained
unchanged for as
long as
20 years. Consequently, when the new fees were placed in effect, these
permittees
faced significant fee increases. This led to widespread permittee
complaint to
the agency and Congress. In response, in the fiscal year 1990
appropriations act
for the agency, Congress adopted an administrative provision
preventing the
agency from raising fees for existing communications uses over
the
amount in effect on
review the
regional fee schedules, giving particular emphasis on how the
schedules
affected rural communities in the western
findings to
the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
The congressional action did
not prohibit the agency from establishing fees
at fair
market value for communications uses occupying new facilities after
has
proceeded to require those obtaining permits after
occupying new
facilities to pay annual rental fees based on fair market value.
To provide the factual basis
for the congressionally mandated report,
appraisers of
the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management conducted
intensive
appraisals of 12 individual communications uses located throughout the
western
contacted to
gain information on lease fees and terms. The report submitted to
the
Appropriations Committees in April
[*37841] 1991 recommended several
changes to
the previously adopted regional schedules. These recommendations were
incorporated as
modifications to the 1989 fee schedules through regional notices
sent to
communications site permittees in 1992.
Congress, however, felt that
the agency's fee determination process was
flawed and
that its permittees had not had a sufficient
opportunity to
participate in
the analysis and report. Consequently, the prohibition on fee
increases for
uses authorized prior to 1989 was continued and was extended to
include
communications sites on lands administered by the Bureau of Land
Management. The
fiscal year 1991 appropriations act provision did allow both
agencies to
increase their fees for existing uses up to 15 percent over those
fees in
effect on
In September 1991, the Forest
Service contracted with a private, independent
appraiser to
appraise all communications uses at 12 National Forest mountain top
sites
throughout the western
following
uniform appraisal practices, examined private leases on lands similar
to
those administered by the agency and serving urban populations in
Basin. The
appraisals were completed and accepted by the agency in March 1993.
The appraised values for these
sites confirmed the influence of population on
communications site
rental value. For example, the appraiser concluded that the
annual
value for television broadcast transmitters in the
75,000, while comparable leases on sites serving
low population areas in the
Interior West were in
the $ 5,000 range. Rental fees for commercial mobile radio
ranged from
a high of $ 60,000 in the
some
areas of the Interior West.
The agency notified each permittee occupying one of the 12 sites by
registered
letter of the appraisal and invited the permittees to
provide any
communications site
lease information and any concerns about the agency's fees
determninations
practices. Over 2,000 letters were sent; 106 responses were
received.
Following completion of the appraisal, the agency scheduled public
meetings at
the 12 locations to allow permittees and others to
review the
results with
the appraiser. Permittees raised concern over the
values resulting
from
these appraisals, many of whom assumed that the values translated directly
to
rental fees. In fact, the appraised values constitute advice to
Service officials charged with the responsibility
of establishing fees. These
officials
consider a wide range of factors affecting fair market value and do
not
limit a fee decision to only appraisal results.
While the on-site appraisals
were underway, Congress, through the fiscal year
1992 appropriations act, continued the limitation
on fee increases for uses
authorized
prior to 1989. In this legislation, Congress also directed the
Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to
establish an advisory
committee
comprised of representatives of the broadcast industry (radio and
television) to
advise the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior on
appropriate
methods of determining fees for radio and television broadcast uses
on
National Forest System and public lands.
The Radio and Television
Broadcast Use Fee Advisory Committee was established
on
1992. The 11-member committees recommended the
use of fee schedules over
individual site
appraisals based on cost efficiency and ease of administration.
It also developed and proposed actual fee
schedules for radio and television
broadcast
uses. The committee considered fee schedules prepared by the agencies
and
developed from comparable private lease transactions, including appraisal
information from
the 12 communications sites described above. However, the
committee was
concerned that these fee schedules would impose fees on
broadcasters that
were too substantial. It elected instead to adopt fee
schedules
developed from information obtained from several sources, including
informal
surveys by its members. The committee first developed estimated rental
fees for
television broadcast uses, stratified into population categories using
the
broadcast industry's "Area of Dominant Influence" (ADI) market rankings.
Estimated fees for radio broadcast uses were then
set at 70 percent of the
television use
fee and stratified by population using the "Metro Survey Area"
(MSA) population market
rankings for radio. The estimated rental fees for both
television and
radio use were then reduced by 30 percent, an amount identified
by the
committee as a composite adjustment to account for such factors as public
service by
the permittee, differences in rights granted by
private and public
leases, and
additional costs and administrative burdens imposed by the
requirements of
the agencies. In recommending this schedule, the committee
acknowledged that
its recommended television and radio fee schedules did not
represent fair
market value.
The Advisory Committee made
additional recommendations on implementation of
the fee
schedules and administration of authorizations. It suggested that
permittees who
sublease space to other communications facilities should pay 25
percent of
their gross rental income to the Government in addition to the annual
fee. A
companion recommendation would require the agencies to adopt a
"footprint"
lease in which only the owners of the building would have an
authorization and
the tenants would not be issued authorizations by the agencies
as is
the current practice. It recommended that the base rental fee be indexed
to the
Consumer Price Index-Urban (CPI-U) with annual indexed fee increases of
at
least 3 percent but no more than 5 percent. Finally, it recommended that fee
increases of
more than $ 1,000 to individual permittees be
phased-in over a 2
year
period and the entire fee schedule be re-evaluated after a period of no
more than
10 years.
The Acting Secretary of
Agriculture, in transmitting the Advisory Committee
report to
Congress, endorsed the committee's recommendations on fee
implementation and
administration, but rejected the proposed fee schedule on the
basis that
it did not represent fair market value, as required by law. The
Acting Secretary praised the work of the
committee in providing insights into
the
characteristics of the radio and television broadcasting industry but stated
that the
committee-recommended fees would deprive the Government and taxpayers
of
legitimate revenues totalling millions of dollars
each year.
Proposed Fee Schedule
In response to the Secretary's
concern, as well as to address the need to
develop fee
schedules for all categories of communications uses, the
Service and the Bureau of Land Management
continued their efforts to develop
market-based fee
schedules. The agencies continued to assemble data from many
segments of
the communications industry, resulting in a data base incorporating
over
1,500 private lease transactions. The cellular telephone industry, which
had not
been included in earlier fee schedules, provided current lease
information that
enabled the agencies to develop schedules for this type of use.
The commercial mobile radio segment of the
communications industry also
volunteered
substantial private lease information from certain markets.
[*37842]
Based on the quantity and
quality of its private lease information, and
cognizant of
the cost efficiencies and reduced impacts on agency staff obtained
by
using fee schedules over on-site appraisals, the Forest Service has decided
to use
fee schedules for most communications uses. Thus, it proposes to abandon
its
earlier policy of using fee schedules only for sites serving rural areas and
using
on-site appraisals for sites serving urban areas.
The agency believes that the
statutory requirement for fair market value for
use of
communications sites on Federal lands can be obtained from an analysis of
the
actions of private property owners that are operating in the competitive
marketplace. The
Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, using
information
gained from the Advisory Committee, hundreds of discussions with
industry
representatives and private lessors, commercial
communications site
managers,
State and local government representatives, appraisers and over 1,500
confirmed
private lease transactions, have developed fee schedules for the 4
categories of
communications use not previously included in Forest Service fee
schedules.
These categories are: (1) FM radio broadcast, (2) television
broadcast, (3)
mobile radio commercial, and (4) cellular telephone. In every
case, the
fees indicated in the schedule are within the range indicated by the
private
lease transactions. The fee schedule is shown in Table I which is set
out at
the end of this notice.
Explanation of Table 1
The proposed fee schedule in
Table 1 reflects information provided by the
Advisory Committee, industry representatives,
lessees and lessors, appraisers,
State and local agencies, commercial site
managers, and over 1,500 private
communication site
transactions. The market data was separated according to the
category of
communications use. Within each category, the individual transaction
was
reviewed to identify the ground rent portion of the fees (that is, the
amount of
the fee directly attributable to use of the land, excluding amounts
for
utilities, roads or other benefits provided by the lessor).
Industry representatives helped
define the parameters for the groupings
within each
schedule. In the case of television broadcast, the Advisory
Committee recommended the strata be based on the
Area of Dominant Influence
(ADI), a market ranking system developed by the Arbitron Company that ranks 210
television
markets in the
they
contain. For radio broadcast, the Advisory Committee suggested the use of
Arbitron Company's Metro Survey Area ranking of 261
not
included in the television and radio market survey listings were included in
the
lowest fee strata. The agencies found that about 50 percent of the
radio
markets are not included in the Metro Survey Area rankings. For commercial
mobile
radio use, population (based on U.S. Census reports) was used to define
the size
of area served by the facility. Cellular telephone use was based on
whether the
facility was located within or outside a Standard Metropolitan
Statistical Area, as defined by the U.S.
Department of Commerce. The suggested
parameters for
each of the 4 uses were validated with the market data in the
agency's
market analysis to ensure there was an appropriate correlation.
In establishing fees for each strata, the agencies stayed within the range of
private
lease information. Since each strata represented a substantial market
share,
fees were established based on the lower range of information found in
each
strata.
Table 1 also addresses the
issue of subtenants in lessees communications
facilities.
Again, the agencies looked to the market for guidance. In the case
of
radio and television broadcast facilities, a range of percentages were found,
averaging
about 25 percent. That number was consistent with the Advisory
Committee's recommendation that the Government
collect 25 percent of tenant
revenues.
This is believed consistent with the practice in the private market
and is
proposed to be adopted by the agencies.
In the other categories of use,
the agencies were also guided by private
market
practice. For example, in most markets, the rentals for commercial mobile
radio
facilities are a flat fee. However, newer private leases in the largest
markets
indicate an increasing number of transactions where the lessor
shares in
the
revenues in lieu of a flat fee. The proposed commercial mobile radio fee
schedule
reflects this information.
Additional Fee Schedule Considerations
The Forest Service considered
several other factors associated with the
adoption of a
fee schedule which would be incorporated into the authorization of
a
communications site. Such factors include those revealed in the market
analysis and
those recommended by the Advisory Committee. Thus, upon adoption of
the fee
schedule the agency also proposes to adopt the following terms and
conditions as
part of the permit for communications site uses:
1. Annual Indexing
The rental fees shown in Table
1 would be subject to an annual index to
ensure the
fee is kept current with fair market value. The agency has found that
use of
an index is common practice in the private lease market. Accordingly, it
proposes to
use the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics'
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers
(CPI-U) as an annual index for
communications site
fees. To yield a CPI-U multiplier that would be used to
annually
update the communications site fee schedule, the CPI-U for July of the
current year
would be divided by the CPI-U for July of the previous year.
2. Footprint Lease
The fee schedule indicates that
a permittee owning a communications facility
whose
authorizations allows the leasing of space in that facility to other
communications
facilities would be required to pay 25 percent of the gross
rental
receipts to the Government in addition to the annual rental fee. If
implemented, the
agency would no longer require separate authorizations for
tenants in a
permittee-owned building. Instead, the agency would
issue a
"footprint
lease" to the building owner who would be designated as a "facility
manager."
Use of the footprint lease would improve the efficiency of the
agency's
administration of these multi-user facilities and result in
considerable
cost-savings. Further, this practice is commonly found in leases on
private
communications sites.
Holders of these leases would
be required to submit a certified list to the
agency
identifying tenants, fees received, and gross revenue. The lease would
contain a
"best efforts" clause assuring that rents are market-based and
correctly
reported to the agency. This would be necessary to ensure that there
is no
attempt at avoiding the proper fair market value fee.
3. Fee Schedule Phase-In
The agency recognizes that
implementation of the proposed fee schedule could
significantly
raise fees for some permittees. Thus, it proposes to
phase-in the
fee
schedule as follows: If the fee increase is $ 1,000 or more, the fee would
be
phased-in over a 5 year period at $ 1,000 per year or 20 percent of the total
increase per
year, whichever is greater. The full fee, as indicated in the fee
schedule,
plus additional annual amounts through indexing, would be reached in
the
fifth year. For example,
[*37843] for a current fee
of $ 1,000 that
increases to a
new fee of $ 5,000, the first year fee would be $ 2,000, the
second year
would be $ 3,000, continuing until the new fee plus annual indexing
is in
place. For a current fee of $ 1,000 that increases to $ 11,000, the first
year fee
would be $ 3,000 ($ 1,000 plus 20 percent of $ 10,000), the second year
fee
would be $ 5,000, the third year fee $ 7,000, the fourth year fee $ 9,000,
and the
fifth year fee $ 11,000, plus annual indexing.
The phase-in of the fee
schedule is being proposed as a sound business
management
practice. The agency recognizes that the phase-in will result in
reduced
receipts to the Treasury in the initial years of the revised fee
schedule
implementation. However, the agency believes that the magnitude of some
fee
increases under the proposed fee schedule, due in part to the length of time
the fee
schedule has been under development and debate, and to its decision to
change the
method of determining fair market value to obtain more accurate fees,
could
impose an economic burden on some permittees with an
associated risk of
adverse
impact on their business. The phase-in is proposed to minimize that
risk.
4. Reevaluation of the Fee Schedule
The agency proposes to
reevaluate the fee schedule in ten years or less to
ensure
communications site fees remain at fair market value. Thus, each
permittee's
annual rental fee established as a result of this schedule would be
reviewed.
Fee Schedule Implementation
Adoption of this fee schedule
and associated policies will require
Service Region's 1 through 6, generally
encompassing National Forest System land
west of
the one-hundredth meridian, to modify their existing fee schedules to
incorporate
Table 1. Upon adoption of a final fee schedule, the agency will
direct the
Regional Foresters to make appropriate revisions to those schedules
and to
give notice of those changes in the Federal Register. The agency
anticipates
adoption and implementation of a final fee schedule for the 4
communications uses
described in this notice by
Since the private market
analysis completed by the Forest Service and the
Bureau of Land Management focused primarily on
communications uses in the
western
States, this proposed fee schedule is not intended to guide fees in
Regions 8 and 9, encompassing
the 33 eastern States. Instead, the
will
validate the fee schedule's applicability to communications sites in those
States, collect additional market data as
necessary, and make any necessary
supplements to
the Table 1 fee schedule to incorporate communications sites in
the
eastern
States by
Summary
The Forest Service is proposing
the fee schedule in Table 1 as a supplement
to the
existing 6 western regional fee schedules adopted in 1989 and modified in
1992. The agency believes that the proposed fee
schedule meets the statutory and
regulatory
requirements to obtain fair market value fees from authorized
commercial and
private communications uses on National Forest System lands and
that its
adoption would be in the public interest.
The agency's regional offices
would make appropriate modifications to
existing fee
schedules adopted in 1989, which are incorporated as regional
supplements to
title 2700, Special Uses Management of the Forest Service Manual.
If this fee schedule is adopted, it would place
most communications uses on
National Forest System lands in Regions 1 through
6 under a fee schedule. The
fee
schedule would be validated for use in Regions 8 and 9 in the coming year
and
necessary modifications to accommodate communications sites in the eastern
certain
situations. For example, a bid procedure may be used where a
communications site
is the focus of competition between like facilities. Sites
with
truly unique characteristics, such as the Aspen-Vail area of
may
require use of on-site appraisals.
It is the agency's intention
that its fee schedule be fully consistent with
that of
the Bureau of Land Management. The Forest Service understands that the
Bureau plans to adopt fee schedules for all
communications uses applicable to
lands
under its jurisdiction and will incorporate the fee schedules into its
overall
communications site fee policy in a separate Federal Register notice.
Comments received on this
proposed policy will be considered in the adoption
of the
final policy, notice of which will be published in the Federal Register.
Environmental Impact
This proposed policy would
establish a fee schedule to guide the
administrative
process of calculating annual fees to be charged holders of
authorizations for
communications uses on National Forest System lands. The
schedule
would apply to Forest Service Regions 1 through 6 and would be
incorporated into
existing regional fee schedules for communications uses. Upon
adoption of a
final fee schedule, individual authorization holders would be
notified of
the changes in their annual fees.
Section 31.1b of
1992) excludes from documentation in an
environmental assessment or impact
statement
"rules, regulations, or policies to establish Service-wide
administrative
procedures, program processes or instructions." The agency's
preliminary
assessment is that this policy falls within this category of actions
and that
no extraordinary circumstances exist which would require preparation of
an
environmental assessment or environmental impact statement. A final
determination will
be made upon adoption of the final policy.
Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the Public
This policy will not result in
additional paperwork not already required by
law or
not already approved for use. Therefore, the review provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3507)
and implementing regulations at
5 CFR part 1320 do not apply.
Regulatory Impact
This proposed policy has been
reviewed under USDA procedures and Executive
Order 12291 on Federal
Regulations. It has been determined that this is not a
major
rule. The rule will not have an effect of $ 100 million or more on the
economy,
substantially increase prices or costs for consumers, industry, or
State or local governments, nor adversely affect
competition, employment,
investment,
productivity, innovation, or the ability of United States-based
enterprises to
compete in foreign markets. In short, little or no effect on the
National economy will result from this rule.
This action will bring annual
rental fees charged holders of authorizations
for
communications sites on National Forest System lands, which have been held
to an
artificially low amount for many years, to fair market value as required
by
statute and administrative direction.
The fees which would be placed
in effect by this proposed policy would remove
the
special benefit of low rental charges enjoyed by communications site
authorization
holders on the Federal land over those who lease land from private
landowners. The
increased [*37844] revenues resulting from this fee schedule
will
result in increased payments to States and counties in which the National
Forest System lands containing the authorized
facilities are located under
current
statutory authorities (16 U.S.C. 500).
Moreover, this policy has been
considered in light of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), and it
has been determined that this
action will
not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of
small
entities. The proposed policy and fee schedule is limited to that segment
of the
communications industry operating on National Forest System lands. There
are
approximately 6,000 communications site permits in effect on these Federal
lands.
Available records do not indicate the number of such permits held by
small
entities. Further, the statutory and administrative requirements to obtain
fair
market value for authorized uses of National Forest System lands do not
provide a
basis for charging lower fees to small entities. The phase-in of
annual fees
proposed in this notice will allow small entities to adjust the new
fees over
a period of time and thus minimize the risk of adverse impact on some
businesses
because of the magnitude of the increase in some fees.
In order to provide adequate
time for public review and comment and
consideration of
those comments in the adoption of a final fee policy and
schedule
prior to the next annual fee filing, there was not sufficient time to
permit
review and clearance under E.O. 12291 and Federal regulations. The final
policy will
be submitted for review under E.O. 12291.
Dated:
George M. Leonard,
Associate Chief.
[*37845]
TABLE 1.
PROPOSED FEE SCHEDULE FOR SELECTED COMMUNICATIONS
SITE USES
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS
Type
of Basis of Rental Fee and
Proposed
Communications Rental Fee
Strata Annual Fee
Use
Television Televison Households
Broadcast Served
in Television
Markets
Ranked by Area
Dominant
Influence fn 1
-750,000
households and $ 45,000 (Plus
more
25
-200,000-749,999
$ 19,000 Percent
-120,000-199,999
$ 6,000 From
-50,000-119,999 $ 4,500
Space
-49,999 and less $ 3,000
Rental
and non-ADI areas
Income)
FM Radio
Number of Persons Aged
Broadcast 12 or
older In Radio
Markets
Ranked by metro
Survey
Area fn 2
-1,000,000
persons and $ 34,000 (Plus
more
25
-400,000-999,999 $ 14,000 Percent
-200,000-399,999 $ 5,500
From
-75,000-199,999
$ 4,000 Space
-74,999
and less $ 2,100 Rental
and non-MSA areas
Income)
Commercial Number
of Persons Within
Mobile Radio Areas Served fn 3
500,000 persons and
more
($
12,000) fn 4
250,000-499,999 $
7,500
150,000-249,999 $
5,000
60,000-149,999
$ 2,500
59,999
and less $ 1,200
Cellilar
Within an
SMSA. fn 5 $ 7,500
Telephone
Outside an
SMSA:
-Urban
or developed $ 5,000
area
-Rural
or undeveloped $ 2,500
area
Typer of Examples of Urban
Areas Served --
Communications
Communications Sites on NFS Lands
Use
Television
Broadcast
Idaho
Falls-Pocatello,
FM Radio
Broadcast
Montrose,
Craig-Forsyth, Dillon
Commercial
Mobile Radio
Cellilar
Telephone
Transportation
corridors
fn 1
Area of Dominant Influence (ADI) market rankings from
Arbitron
Company Data for 1991-1992 reported in
Broadcasting
& Cable Market Place, 1992, compiled by R.R.
Bowker,
A Reed Reference Publishing Company, New
fn 2
Metro Survey area radio market rankings from Arbitron
Company
Fall 1991 market definitions reported in
Broadcasting
& Cable Market Place, 1992, compiled by R.R.
Bowker,
A Reed Reference Publishing Company, New
fn 3
Based on U.S. Census Bureau estimates of population for the
areas
served by the facility.
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12,000 or 25% of space rental, whichever is greater
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SMSA: Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
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