to the FCC Cell Tower Fast Track Plan 25-276
You, the public can comment on the FCC’s 25-276 proposal to replace local decision-making with federal control over cell tower infrastructure. Cell towers present numerous health, safety, and property value risks. By law, the FCC must address these comments. Thousands of comments are needed!
Here are several ways you can submit comments to the FCC, depending on the length and format.
Below are instructions for submitting a short comment, a longer standard filing, and a third option—using our online tool to make the process even easier. With our easy one-step online tool, we take your FCC comment and deliver it by mail to the official FCC record for you.
How To Submit A Short Comment
Of no more than 2,000 characters:
- Visit the FCC website at this link. (It goes right to FCC Docket 25-276)
- Enter your name, address and email address (optional) in the appropriate fields.
- Paste in your short comments or use suggested text below.
- Check the boxes for the Privacy Act
- Toggle to receive an email confirmation
- Check the box to Continue to Review Screen.
- Check the box that says I’m not a robot.
- Click Submit.
How to Submit a Longer Comment
To submit a Standard Filing (more than 2,000 characters):
- Draft your comment separately and save it as one of these file types: .docx, .doc, .pdf, .xlsx, .xls, .txt, .pptx, .ppt, .rtf
- You can submit multiple files with 100 MB per submission. If you want to submit more than one comment, you can.
- Go to this link at the FCC website (It goes right to FCC Docket 25-276)
- Complete the form
- Note: When you put in “name of filer” be sure to press enter.
- Upload your comment file.
- Toggle to receive an email confirmation
- Check the box that says I’m not a robot.
- Be sure to click Continue to Review Screen.
- Click Submit.
Submit your comments to the FCC before Dec. 31, and urge your local elected officials to also submit comments from their locality. You also can submit “reply comments” about what others submit until January 15, 2026.
Thousands of comments are needed!
A Short 2,000 character FCC comment for 25-276
I strongly oppose the FCC’s proposal to fast-track wireless deployments by preempting local authority in 25-276. These rules would undermine public safety, democracy, and statutory limits on FCC power.
The rules would shift administrative and oversight costs from industry to taxpayers.
Local governments must retain zoning authority because they are uniquely equipped to evaluate site-specific risks—terrain, fall zones, fire hazards, structural safety, environmental constraints, and the character of historic or residential areas. Setbacks and placement standards are essential tools that protect communities, liability risk, and property value. The FCC’s proposed shot clocks and “deemed granted” approvals would deprive communities of meaningful review, public notice, and basic safeguards against preventable hazards.
The 1996 Telecom Act expressly preserves state and local authority over the placement, construction, and modification of wireless facilities. Nothing in the Act authorizes the FCC to replace local zoning with federal mandates. Courts have repeatedly reaffirmed this balance. Many localities have demonstrated that reasonable setbacks and aesthetic reviews do not prohibit service; they simply ensure responsible deployment with safety valves when coverage would otherwise be impaired.
The FCC cannot lawfully preempt local RF-related policies when it has not complied with the D.C. Circuit’s 2021 EHT v. FCC decision. The Commission has never explained how its 1996 RF limits protect children, wildlife, or the public from long-term, cumulative, or non-thermal effects. Until the FCC fulfills its court-ordered obligations, it cannot displace local safeguards or fast-track infrastructure that increases RF exposure.
Prohibiting local requirements for independent RF compliance testing would leave the public dependent on industry self-certification despite the FCC lacking any monitoring or enforcement program. Violations of FCC limits are reportedly widespread.