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government agencies to receive information about proposed wind
farms and to respond with a determination of radar interference. Thus
far, submission of wind farm data to NTIA is voluntary; NTIA col-
lects objections from the government agencies and responds in about
45 days.
The FAA also provides an online evaluation tool for prescreening
of sites with respect to impact on long-range and weather radars
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/gisTools/gisAction.jsp?action
=showLongRangeRadarToolForm. Its scope is: (a) Air Defense and
Homeland Security Radar; (b) weather surveillance radar; and (c)
military operations.
The outcome of the analysis is a map around the user-specified
location with three colored regions that describe the impact to air de-
fense and homeland security radars: Green (no impact), yellow (im-
pact likely), and red (impact highly likely). An example of such an
analysis for a location in the state of Oklahoma is seen in Figure 12-4.

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