Subject: FCC Case, Press release - FYI (fwd)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 135748 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 11:28:21 -0700
From: dingel@concentric.net
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Press release - FYI
Ad Hoc Association=20
Of Parties Concerned About the Federal Communications=20
Commission=92s Radio Frequency Health & Safety Rules=20
P.O. Box 7577, Olympia, Washington, 98507-7577 =20
Phone 415-892-1863/Fax 415-892-3108=20
June 10,
1998 =20
Contact: Libby Kelley=20
For Immediate Release =
=20
(415) 892-1863
CITIZEN'S CHALLENGE TO FCC WIRELESS =20
RULES IN FEDERAL COURT
A coalition of citizens and citizens associations has challenged FCC
radio-frequency radiation rules, it says, are endangering public health and
violating constitutional guarantees of free speech, due process and reserve=
d
state powers. The Seattle-based Ad-Hoc Association of Parties Concerned Ab=
out
The FCC=92s Radio Frequency Health and Safety Rules joined with the
Communications Workers of America and its Washington State Local 7810 in an=
80
page brief filed May 22, 1998, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit. A third challenger, Cellular Phone Taskforce of Brooklyn, New Yor=
k,
also filed a lengthy brief on behalf of electrosensitive persons specially
vulnerable to microwave radiation. The Ad Hoc Association is represented b=
y
James R. Hobson of Donelan, Cleary, Wood and Maser in Washington D.C.
One of the individual appellants, Holly Fournier, is a Charlotte, Vermont t=
own
council member. Because the FCC's rules must be followed by local
governments, Ms. Fournier says she is "being compelled to budget for,
support and otherwise carry out the FCC=92s regulatory program" for rapid
placement of radio antennas associated with the booming business of
personal wireless services such as cellular and micro-cellular ("PCS")
telephony. The federal program, she declares, is "contrary to my views"
and a source of "great anxiety to me as a local government official sworn
to act in the best interest of my community."
The legal remedies being sought include asking the court to: =20
1) Overturn the FCC's preemption authority as it interferes with state
perogatives in matters of public health, safety and welfare. =20
2) Eliminate the regulatory standard which raises the Maximum Permissible
Exposure ("MPE") levels for workers. =20
3) Order the FCC to prepare an environmental assessment according to the
National Environmental Protection Act ("NEPA"). =20
4) Require public access to information on carrier compliance with RF
emission standards. =20
5) Remand the standards to the FCC and the health and safety agencies to
be re-determined and account for scientific findings which show adverse
health effects to biological systems when exposed to non-ionizing
radiation. =20
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