Resolve, Authorizing the Bureau of Parks and Lands To Authorize Additional Construction and Installations Related to a Telecommunications Tower on Bald Mountain in the Town of Rangeley (AFTER DEADLINE)
Maine Legislature, Session 130, LD 1981
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Sponsors: BLACK, HALL, KEIM, LANDRY, SKOLFIELD

Legislative Document
No. 1981
S.P. 712
In Senate, February 16, 2022
Resolve, Authorizing the Bureau of Parks and Lands To Authorize 
Additional Construction and Installations Related to a 
Telecommunications Tower on Bald Mountain in the Town of 
Rangeley
(AFTER DEADLINE)
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
205.
Reference to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry suggested and 
ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator BLACK of Franklin.
Cosponsored by Representative HALL of Wilton and
Senator: KEIM of Oxford, Representatives: LANDRY of Farmington, SKOLFIELD of Weld.
Preamble.  The Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 23 requires that real estate 
held by the State for conservation or recreation purposes may not be reduced or its uses 
substantially altered except on the vote of 2/3 of all members elected to each House.
Whereas, certain real estate authorized for lease by this resolve is under the 
designations in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 598-A; and
Whereas,  the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of 
Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may lease lands in accordance with the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 12, sections 1814, 1838 and 1852; and
Whereas, the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, 
Conservation and Forestry is a lessor of certain land near the summit of Bald Mountain in 
the Town of Rangeley under a lease, dated August 31, 2011, pursuant to which RCC 
Atlantic, Inc., c/o Verizon Wireless, is the lessee, with American Tower a sublessee of RCC 
Atlantic, Inc., and American Tower subleases approximately 2 acres of that property from 
RCC Atlantic, Inc., on which American Tower presently operates a commercial 
telecommunications tower; now, therefore, be it
Sec. 1.  Director of Bureau of Parks and Lands authorized to allow certain 
actions related to the lease of certain land within the Bald Mountain public 
reserved lands in the Town of Rangeley.  Resolved:  That the Director of the Bureau 
of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry may 
authorize RCC Atlantic, Inc. and American Tower to take the following actions on certain 
land within the Bald Mountain public reserved lands in the Town of Rangeley on which 
American Tower operates a commercial telecommunications tower pursuant to a lease 
dated August 31, 2011 under which the bureau is the lessor, RCC Atlantic, Inc. is the lessee 
and American Tower is a sublessee:
1.  Construct an extension at the top of the existing tower, with the extension not to 
exceed the height of the existing tower by more than 18 feet; 
2.  Construct an additional custom shelter at the base of the tower with an associated 
generator; and 
3.  Allow the installation of communications equipment on the tower by an additional 
wireless communications company, with the goal of improving local wireless 
communications service and emergency telecommunications service in the region.
Except as provided in this section, any authorization granted to RCC Atlantic, Inc. or 
American Tower must be in accordance with the August 31, 2011 lease entered into 
between the Bureau of Parks and Lands and RCC Atlantic, Inc.
SUMMARY
This resolve authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the 
Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to authorize the construction of an 
extension to a telecommunications tower on property located on Bald Mountain in the 
Town of Rangeley, construction of an additional custom shelter at the base of the tower 
with an associated generator and installation of communications equipment on the tower 
by an additional wireless communications company.