PURPOSE: This policy provides clarification of the requirements for DSA approval of plans and certification of construction for state-owned, state-leased or privately owned towers and poles utilized for essential services communication and for essential antenna and. PURPOSE: This policy provides clarification of the requirements for DSA approval of plans and certification of construction for state-owned, state-leased or privately owned towers and poles utilized for essential services communication and for essential antenna and. Communication towers are some of the tallest structures across the landscape and birds are regularly found dead around these towers (Longcore et al. It is not definitively understood why this mortality occurs, but evidence suggests that night‐migrating songbirds are either attracted to or. odernization Pilot Program. Section 2803 of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 117-263) established Laboratory Modernization as a permanent authority in 10 USC § 2805(g) and repealed the statutory authority for the Defense Laboratory Modernization Pilot Program. Construction of communications towers (including radio, television, cellular, and microwave) in the United States has been growing at an exponential rate, increasing at an estimated 6 percent to 8 percent annually. According to the Federal Communication Commission's 2000 Antenna Structure Registry.
