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ARRL Bulletin 25  ARLB025
From ARRL Headquarters  
Newington CT  March 4, 1994
To all radio amateurs 
 
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ARLB025 New exposure deadline
 
New exposure deadline
 
The FCC has extended the reply comment deadline in its 
proposal to adopt new standards for exposure to RF 
radiation.
 
The Notice of Proposed Rule Making, in ET Docket 93-62, 
would adopt standards already observed by the American 
National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Institute of 
Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1992, and is 
opposed by the ARRL.
 
The League already has told the FCC that the proceeding 
should be terminated, and cited a number of reasons, among 
them that it isn't really an NPRM since it doesn't 
actually propose to change anything, and that it shouldn't 
even apply to the average amateur installation.
 
The League said that those amateurs remotely likely to be 
affected by new standards are those forced to use indoor 
antennas because of restrictions against outside 
installations.
 
The FCC said it was extending the deadline in response to 
an industry group, the ''Telecommunications Industry 
Association,'' who said that more than 1200 pages of 
comments had been filed with the Commission and that not 
enough time had been allowed for evaluation of that much 
material.  The FCC said it recognized ''the complexity of 
the issues raised'' by its proposal.
 
The reply comment deadline was extended from February 24, 
1994, to April 25, 1994.  A full story on the League's 
comments to the FCC in this matter will appear in April 
QST.
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