Local, State Government Groups Ask FCC to Revisit RF Rules
NATOA, the National League of Cities, National Association of Counties and U.S. Conference of Mayors jointly asked the FCC to do a comprehensive review of RF emission rules. The current rules date to 1996, they noted. “Nearly four years ago,…
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local government commenters urged the Commission to undertake a comprehensive review of its RF emission rules and work to provide timely updates in light of the best, independent scientific research from around the world,” the groups said in a Monday letter in docket 13-84. “The deployment of new technologies -- especially small cells -- in our communities has raised new concerns with the current standards. While local governments may not regulate the siting of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of the environmental effects of RF emissions, local government officials are often faced with residents raising RF concerns with the siting of new wireless facilities in the public rights-of-way.”