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By M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News
December 23, 2006
WASHINGTON - President Bush has signed legislation to allow a new broadcast television tower atop Lookout Mountain, disregarding two Jefferson County commissioners who asked him to block it with a rare veto.
A veto by Bush was considered a long shot, considering that after nearly six years in the White House he had vetoed just one piece of legislation - a bill by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
By signing Senate Bill 4092 by Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., Bush cleared the way for television broadcasters to obtain Federal Communications Commission digital television licenses to build a transmitter tower. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Denver, co-sponsored the bill.
Bush's action effectively ends a decadelong fight between local citizens groups, who said frequency emissions posed public health risks and other problems, and broadcasters who face a 2009 deadline to begin using digital signals.
A consortium of Denver broadcasters known as the Lake Cedar Group has proposed building a 730-foot tower on the mountain west of Golden.
Earlier this week, Jefferson County Commissioners Jim Congrove and Dave Auburn wrote to Bush, arguing that approval of the legislation violated states rights protections of the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
December 23, 2006
WASHINGTON - President Bush has signed legislation to allow a new broadcast television tower atop Lookout Mountain, disregarding two Jefferson County commissioners who asked him to block it with a rare veto.
A veto by Bush was considered a long shot, considering that after nearly six years in the White House he had vetoed just one piece of legislation - a bill by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
By signing Senate Bill 4092 by Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., Bush cleared the way for television broadcasters to obtain Federal Communications Commission digital television licenses to build a transmitter tower. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Denver, co-sponsored the bill.
Bush's action effectively ends a decadelong fight between local citizens groups, who said frequency emissions posed public health risks and other problems, and broadcasters who face a 2009 deadline to begin using digital signals.
A consortium of Denver broadcasters known as the Lake Cedar Group has proposed building a 730-foot tower on the mountain west of Golden.
Earlier this week, Jefferson County Commissioners Jim Congrove and Dave Auburn wrote to Bush, arguing that approval of the legislation violated states rights protections of the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
