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Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) – BENNOCK MILL GA - G / Site #616524870 – Trileaf Project #665862 Mike Padgett Highway, Augusta, Georgia 30906 Richmond County, Mechanic Hill Quadrangle

Author(s)
Report Number
13990
Year of Publication
2020
County
Abstract

Trileaf Corporation is in the process of completing a NEPA review at the referenced property. Our client proposes to construct a 195-foot self-support communications tower, with an overall height of 200 feet including all appurtenances, and associated equipment within a 60-foot by 60-foot fenced compound within a 100-foot by 100- foot (10,00-square-foot) lease area. The project includes a 12-foot wide gravel drive within a 30-foot wide access/utility easement, which extends approximately 350 feet south then east from the lease area to Mike Padgett Highway. The proposed project area is located within a wooded area and grass-covered field. The antenna will be licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In accordance with the Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for Review of Effects on Historic Properties for Certain Undertakings Approved by the Federal Communications Commission, dated September 2004, a cultural resource investigation has been conducted. Our investigation includes determining if the site is contained in, on, or within the viewshed of a building, site, district, structure or object, significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering or culture, that is listed, or eligible for listing on the State or National Registers of Historic Places, or located in or on an Indian Religious Site. Summary reports of this investigation, maps, photographs and other information are provided in the attached Form 620. As noted in Attachment 5, there are No Historic Properties in the APE for Direct Effects and the APE for Visual Effects. Therefore, it is recommended that the proposed undertaking proceed without further archaeological review.