People with ES, get ready to fall off your chair!!! Below are the City of Boston and their solicitor’s comments to the FCC regarding the present FCC review of the cell phone regulations. Highlights from the City of Bostons comments include: “Unlike early cell tower deployment, today’s newer repeater network technologies are deployed in closer proximity to users. As such, potential exposure comes not from the receiving device – the phone – but rather the transmission device.” AND The 1999-2000 judicial challenge to the FCC’s 1996 rules never reached the issue of “electrosensitivity” as a cognizable disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. (“ADA”) Here again, an agency responsible for ADA implementation acknowledges that the impairment may be disabling but has promised merely further inquiry. After more than a decade, that investigation remains unopened. The dockets here have been updated with massive additional evidence of the crippling effects of RF radiation on an admitted minority – but a suffering minority – of U.S. citizens. The FCC and its sister regulatory agencies share responsibility for adherence to the ADA and should replace promises with serious attention to a serious medical problem. This is one area where the FCC could lead in advice to electrosensitive persons about prudent avoidance. Respectfully submitted, William F. Sinnott Corporation Counsel CITY OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS CITY OF PHILADELPHIA LAW DEPT. Shelley R. Smith, City Solicitor Michael C. Athay, Chief Deputy Robert Sutton, Divisional Deputy City of Philadelphia Law Department 1515 Arch Street, 17th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102-1595 (215) 683-5062 [signature is here] James R. Hobson Gerard Lavery Lederer BEST BEST & KRIEGER 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 4300 Washington, DC 20006 Counsel for the Cities of Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ---------- Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Reassessment of Federal Communications Commission Radiofrequency Exposure Limits and Policies ET Docket No. 13-84 Proposed Changes in the Commissions Rules Regarding Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields ET Docket No. 03-137 IMPORTANT NOTE TO SHARE WHEN YOU PASS THIS ALONG: If you end up at an FCC page that is only a one-page document, look above the document where you’ll see “View 8” and click on that in order to arrive at an 8-page document. Thank you Barb Payne for sharing this with us!!! apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view;jsessionid=nvJqSNTQ5ztjfbDr1LpLH4TXL52l2QM12VMGbLGQ8Nvb2WDvvQ8F!-739454830!608620108?id=7520958706
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:13:16 +0000
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