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ZCZC AG89
QST de W1AW
ARRL Bulletin 25 ARLB025
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT March 4, 1994
To all radio amateurs
SB QST ARL ARLB025
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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