http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/billenrolled/House/pdf/2009-HN\
B-5574.pdf

The legislation extends the sunset to 2015 for a maximum $1 million fee paid by
the cable television industry to pay for its
regulation by the Michigan Public Service Commission. No action is expected on
House and Senate bills amending section 6 of the
Video Franchise Act regarding support fees for public, education and
governmental channel programming.

If there is a wireless tower application -- not necessarily a lease of public
land -- please let me know.

NEW ADDRESS

Neil J. Lehto, Esq.
4051 Wakefield Road
Berkley, Michigan 48072
248 545-1753 (office and fax)
810 837-0919 (cellphone)
nlehto@... (e-mail)

Re the FCC order--there is important language in paras 49-53 of the FCC's
order.  That is where the potential landmines lie for local government
attorneys:
	 49: authority for parties to agree to waive timelines
	 50: coordination of the new federal timelines with pre-existing state
and local timelines
	 51: how to handle applications pending on or before November 16, 2009
under the new timelines
	 52: timelines are tolled for incomplete applications
	 53: local government has only 30 days to identify application as
"incomplete"

In particular,  an operator can go to court ON JANUARY 18, 2010 (5 weeks from
now) on
ANY application that was pending for collocation 90 or more days or for
antenna siting for 150 or more days as of November 18, 2009.

We may see a lot of legal actions filed by the cellular companies between
January 18 and February 17.  The FCC estimated there were more than 3300
applications that were pending for longer than the timelines.  Some industry
attorneys claim the number is much, much higher.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-294980A1.pdf

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-09-2531A1.pdf

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Technical Sales
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And the one politico who championed this initially complained that the
Legislative Audit Bureau ("his" and the other representatives' independent
auditing service) failed to factor in how many more channels each of the two
service tiers now offers compared to before.

Without trying to sound cynical, I wonder if that was in the talking points the
cable industry sent him along with its latest campaign contribution. Or, having
sat on a state level committee to try to work with the industry, sans the
ability to contribute money to coffers, I am hard constrained to say "We told
you so."

Hmmm.

Warren P. Kraft
Murphy Desmond S.C.
33 East Main Street, Suite 500
P.O. Box 2038
Madison, WI  53701-2038
(608) 257-7181 (Phone)
(608) 257-2508 (Fax)
www.murphydesmond.com <http://www.murphydesmond.com/>


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IMLA is delighted to offer a timely program on the new FCC Cell Tower
Shot Clock Order.  This is an important new ruling that affects all of
us.  We have tried to price it so our members can afford it.  If you are
not a member and would like to be, let me know and I'll find a way to
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On December 03, the 75-minute New FCC Cell Tower Zoning 'Shot-Clock'
Order: Issues and Guidance to Effectively Deal With Federally-Imposed
Zoning Deadlines, with speakers John Pestle, Chair of the
Telecommunications Group at Varnum (Grand Rapids, Mich.), and Jonathan
Kramer, Kramer Telecom Law Firm PC (Los Angeles, Calif.), will review
the expected November 18th FCC "shot clock" order, limiting the time
local governments have to process cell tower zoning and other wireless
siting applications.  The speakers will discuss the interplay and
tension with existing state and local zoning and siting law; issues of
Congressional limitations on the FCC's rules as de facto zoning
controls; and the practical and technology issues that must be
considered by governments dealing with short-fuse decision timeframes.
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