AGENDA ITEM REPORT
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A RESOLUTION IMPLORING THE U.S. CONGRESS TO ALLOCATE FUNDING AND DIRECT A CROSS-DISCIPLINE FEDERAL AGENCY STUDY OF THE EFFECTS CAUSED BY EXPOSURE TO CURRENT AND PROPOSED ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM AND RADIOFREQUENCY EMISSIONS ON HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN LIGHT OF THE RECENT IMPLEMENTATION OF FIFTH GENERATION (5G) TECHNOLOGY; AND TO USE THOSE FINDINGS TO CREATE SCIENCE-BASED LAWS OR RULES REGARDING LIMITING HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE TO SAME; PROVIDING FOR A PUBLIC PURPOSE; PROVIDING FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THE PRESIDENT, ALL MEMBERS OF THE U.S. CONGRESS, AND OTHER LAWMAKERS THAT HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN SUCH A STUDY.
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BACKGROUND:
The City has been active in the telecommunications arena as a proprietary owner of five (5) macro towers and a regulator of the private installations within the City. For years, the City has advocated for an appropriate balance between human health/environmental sustainability and development of new technologies. With the advent of 5G technology and the FCC's acceleration of its deployment, the City strongly implores the federal government, specifically the U.S. Congress, to allocate appropriate funds and direct a cross-discipline federal agency study, based upon objective clinical and research-based evidence, of the effects caused by exposure to current and proposed electromagnetic spectrum and radiofrequency emissions on human health and the environment in light of the recent implementation of 5G technology, and to use those findings to create new laws or rules promulgated through the appropriate federal agency to establish proper limits on human and environmental exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields.
DISCUSSION:
With 5G technology possibly inciting a third industrial revolution, the question is not "if" these emissions exposure will need to be examined, but "when." The emissions exposure limitations that currently exist have not been updated based on the new technological...
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