# Accelerating Wireless Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2017-12-14 · Effective 2018-01-16 · 82 FR 58749
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-26940
- **Category:** broadband
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 58749
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 1
- **Publication date:** 2017-12-14
- **Effective date:** 2018-01-16
- **FCC docket:** WT Docket No. 17-79
## Abstract

The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) eliminates historic preservation review of replacement utility poles that support communications equipment, subject to conditions that ensure no effects on historic properties. The Commission also consolidates historic preservation requirements in a single new rule.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/12/14/2017-26940/accelerating-wireless-broadband-deployment-by-removing-barriers-to-infrastructure-investment)
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