Environmental Assessment for Pasadena Police Department Telecommunications Tower, City of Pasadena, Harris County, Texas (January 2012)

The proposed Pasadena Police Department telecommunications tower site, “Proposed Action”, would provide radio coverage in the area for various federal, state, and local disaster and emergency personnel as part of the state-wide interoperability communications project under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Homeland Security Grant Program. There is a need for the City of Pasadena to upgrade the UHF/VHF communication system that will meet the FCC mandate for narrow banding; to help improve coverage areas; and will support interoperability for talk groups. This Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, the President’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing NEPA (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Parts 1500 through 1508), and FEMA’s regulations implementing NEPA (44 CFR Part 10).