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On History of Interference by Nextel communications to Public Safety and Emergency Radio Services

Website 1 - FCC proposal to alleviate Nextel interference w. Emergency Radio Services (The Kerton Group)

Document 1 - International Association of Chiefs of Police Report

Document 2 - Contra Costa County Public Safety Radio; includes dealing with interference to Public Safety Radio

Website 2 - Fire Rescue 1 (Firefighters' Site); supports Consensus Plan in abating interference to Public Safety radio

Website 3 - Interference to Public Safety and Critical Infrastructure radio services ( FCC )

Website 4 - "Remedy Debated as Nextel, Safety Channels Clash" ( Boston Globe Online ) Online Registration may be required

Website 5 - How Radio Frequencies are assigned (Signal Harbor) Interference Resolution - how lack of active FCC monitoring resulted in "widespread interference to public safety systems from Nextel"

Website 6 - Google search for Nextel interference

General Information

Document 1 - S.F. Government contacts list ( SFPUC, SF Planning Commission, Supervisor Fiona Ma )

Document 2 - Wireless Telecommunications Services (WTS) - Facilities Siting Guidelines; 1996 ( San Francisco Planning Department )

Document 3 - Telecommunications Act of 1996 ( FCC )

Document 4 - Planning Commission - Resolution 16539 (WTS Supplement)

Document 5 - S.F. Legislative Analyst Report on Cell Phone Sitings; Nov. 2003 ( S.F. Board of Supervisors )

Exposure from Mobile Base Stations

Document 1 - Mobile Telephony and Health; Exposures from Base Stations (UK Health Protection Agency)
States minimal health risk outside of main antenna lobes.

Document 2 - Exposure to Radio Waves near Mobile Phone Base Stations (UK Health Protection Agency)
States minimal health risk outside of main antenna lobes.

Document 3 - Mobile Phone Antennas and Health ( Univ. of Wisconsin Prof. of Radiation Oncology )
Has good graphs showing cell tower propagation lobes. States minimal health risk away from lobes.

FCC Laws Regulating Cell Transmissions

Document 1 - 47 Code of Federal Regulations Section 1.1307(b)(1) (FCC)
47 CFR 1.1307(b)(1); Actions that may have a significant environmental effect, for which Environmental Assessments (EAs) must be prepared. This is Sprint's legal grounds for not preparing Enviromnental Impact Statements and further environmental processing even though its consultants admit the antenna power would exceed the limits set by half the FCC exclusion criteria.

Document 2 - 47 Code of Federal Regulations Section 1.1310 Table 1 (FCC)
47 CFR 1.1310 Table 1.B; Limits For General Population. These are the highest levels of "human exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation" with which Sprint can illuminate the general population.

Document 3 - 47 Code of Federal Regulations Section 2.1093 (FCC)
47 CFR 2.1093; Radiofrequency radiation exposure evaluation: portable devices. Exposure through localized SAR evaluations

Document 4 - 47 Code of Federal Regulations Section 22.913-917; Cell Equipment Power and Emissions Limits(FCC)

Papers, Research, Documents related to Health and human exposure to Non-ionizing Electromagnetic Fields

Document 1 - Human Exposure to RF Fields (FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Bulletin 65.B)

Document 2 - Biological Effects of RF Electromagnetic Fields (FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Bulletin 56)

Reports prepared for Sprint relating to Sunset Reservoir Sprint proposal

Document 1 - Sunset Neighbors' Cell Reception Rating Questionnaire

Document 2 - Planning Maps made for Sprint Nextel

Document 3 - Engineering Statement made by firm contracted by Sprint

Document 4 - NEPA Checklist from firm contracted by Sprint

Cell Transmitter-Antenna Siting Cases

Document 1 - Berkeley Law Communications; 1997

Document 2 - Sprint v. La Canada Flintridge; 2006

Document 3 - Medina, Washington v. T-Mobile USA (Findlaw)

SECTION 5

Document 1 - Maximum exposure graph (IEEE)

Document 2 - TBD

S.F. Planning Department Rules, Codes

Document 1 - Planning Commission Rules and Regulations

Document 2 - Planning Department Codes ( General Plan, Planning Code, Zoning District Summaries )

EMF Protection

Website 1 - Block EMF

Website 2 - Tools For Wellness

Website 3 - Cellphone Defense

Website 4 - Less EMF

Please download and sign our old petition if you have objections to this. We'll revamp it later to request a permanent change of policy. Petition - Sunset Reservoir Tower

OR, if you have family living there, download our multi-signature petition Petition - Sunset Reservoir Tower