Sorry for the x-post if you're on the National Trust list.

The State of Maryland proposes to construct a 180-foot communications tower
on Lambs Knoll, the second highest point
on South Mountain, Maryland one of the state's most scenic and historic
mountaintops. South Mountain was the site of a significant 1862 Civil War
battle and there are several nationally significant historic properties in
the proposed facility's area of potential effects. Among these are the Civil
War sites, the Appalachian Trail, a historic fire lookout tower, and a Cold
War-era secret military installation. In January 2004, the State of Maryland
filed an environmental assessment with the Federal Communications
Commission. Subsequently, the Harpers Ferry Conservancy (representing a
coalition that includes the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Scenic
America, and the Civil War Preservation Trust) requested that I review the
State of Maryland's Section 106 consultation efforts to build a 180-foot
lattice tower on

If the FCC, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and National
Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers execute the programmatic
agreement being negotiated, projects like this will have an area of
potential effects (APE) of only 1/2-mile from the proposed facility. The
APE, unlike the current ACHP rules, will be codified into the agency's rules
and will be rigidly upheld by the FCC. Take a look at the South
Mountain/Lambs Knoll information and then start lobbying the FCC, ACHP, and
your State Historic Preservation Office to abandon the PA and require the
FCC to develop more logical and reasonable Section 106 compliance policies.

The Lambs Knoll information is at: <www.dsrotenstein.com/lambsknoll/>

David Rotenstein