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(4) Waiver of filing requirements. The Board may waive one or more of the application filing requirements of this section if it finds that such information is not needed for a thorough review of the proposed personal wireless service facility. J. Co-location. (1) Licensed carriers shall share personal wireless service facilities and sites where feasible and appropriate, thereby reducing the number of personal wireless service facilities that are stand-alone facilities. All applicants for a special permit for a personal wireless service facility shall demonstrate a good faith effort to co-locate with other carriers. Such good faith effort includes: (a) A survey of all existing structures that may be feasible sites for co-locating personal wireless service facilities; (b) Contact with all the other licensed carriers for commercial mobile radio services operating in Mashpee and each of the adjoining towns; and (c) Sharing information necessary to determine if co-location is feasible under the design configuration most accommodating to co-location. (2) In the event that co-location is found to be not feasible, a written statement of the reasons for the infeasibility shall be submitted to the Board. The Board may retain a technical expert in the field of RF engineering to verify if co-location at the site is not feasible or is feasible given the design configuration most accommodating to co-location. The cost for such a technical expert will be at the expense of the applicant. The Board may deny a special permit to an applicant that has not demonstrated a good faith effort to provide for co-location. (3) If the applicant does intend to co-locate or to permit co-location, the Board shall request drawings and studies that show the ultimate appearance and operation of the personal wireless service facility at full build-out. (4) If the Board approves co-location for a personal wireless service facility site, the special permit shall indicate how many facilities of what type shall be permitted on that site. Facilities specified in the special permit approval shall require no further zoning approval. However, the addition of any facilities not specified in the approved special permit shall require a new special permit. Estimates of RFR emissions will be required for all facilities, including proposed and future facilities. Page 57 of 63