Urge Congress to Halt Legislation Proliferating Wireless

Restore Local Decisionmaking Over Cell Towers

HR 8082 (Securing Local Communities Input in Broadband Development Act) would cancel the FCC's 2018 regulations that preempt local zoning authority over cell towers (known as the Small Cell Order and the Moratoria Order). These regulations implemented onerous shot clocks as short as 10 days for communities across the country, as well as prohibiting local governments from pausing the deployment of wireless facilities.

Protect our National Parks and Wilderness Areas

A number of bills are moving through Congress that would fast-track wireless deployments, including on federal lands like National Parks and National Forests. These include HR 6492, 7376, 8230, 3557 and S.4821.

The 118th Congress has limited time. In January, any bills that have not passed will terminate and would have to start the legislative process over again from scratch in the next Congress. While the press is focused on the presidential race, it's all the more important that we remind our members of Congress (particularly during an election season) that we remain focused on opposing legislation that will increase proliferation of antennas, radiofrequency, and electromagnetic exposure across the country.

For more information and to keep up-to-date on pending bills see ehtrust.org/congress

For more information on wildlife impacts see wildlifeandwireless.org

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I urge you to 
- support HR 8082 (Securing Local Communities Input in Broadband Development Act)
- oppose or amend legislation that will increase wireless exposure and proliferation

Congress should act to:
- Restore state and local governments’ zoning authority over the placement of wireless facilities
- Protect our National Parks and National Forests from wireless proliferation
- Require the FCC a) comply with a court order, issued by the US Court of Appeals in the lawsuit Environmental Health Trust v. FCC (DC Circuit, 2021), and b) complete a new rulemaking to update its radiofrequency exposure guidelines prior to enacting any legislation that would increase wireless proliferation 
- Ensure that all federal broadband funding is used to deploy wired broadband, which is faster, cheaper, safer, more secure, futureproof, and a responsible use of taxpayer funds.

Key bills:

SUPPORT
1.	Co-sponsor and support HR 8082, which would cancel the FCC’s 2018 regulations that preempt local zoning authority over cell towers (known as the Small Cell Order and the Moratoria Order).

AMEND 
2.	Amend HR 6492 (EXPLORE Act), an omnibus federal lands bill (which includes Connect Our Parks Act S.2018/ HR 5919/ S.873/ S.Amdt 2544, S.Amdt 3135), which would deploy cell towers across federal recreational lands, including our National Parks, National Forests, wildlife refuges, and rangeland. Sections 141 and 142 should expressly exclude wireless facilities and remove section 143, which allows the government to delegate decisions to industry consultants.

3.	Amend S.4821, which fast-tracks communications facility deployments on federal lands, to exclude wireless

4.	Amend HR 4510 (NTIA Reauthorization Act of 2023), to prevent industry from funding NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration), creating conflicts of interest.

5.	Amend S.4753 (Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024), to preserve state and local zoning authority over electrical transmission lines, remove exemptions from NEPA, and ensure safety of these deployments.

OPPOSE
6.	HR 7376 and HR 8230, which would exempt many antenna deployments from environmental and historic review, including in national forests.

7.	S.4207, S.3909, S. 4317 (HR 9193, HR 8709, S.Amdt 2800), S.4049 (HR 9340, S.Amdt 2798), HR 3565, S.Amdt 2648, each of which would auction additional spectrum and proliferate antennas and radiofrequency emissions across the country, despite the FCC not having updated its 1996 exposure guidelines, for humans or the environment. Congress should require the FCC comply with a 2021 court order to review the science on wireless radiation prior to renewing spectrum auction authority.

8.  HR 3557 and HR 4006: Virtually eliminates states’ rights and local authority over communications facilities and exempts most wireless deployments from NEPA and NHPA.

9.   HR 4141: Exempts a range of wireless deployments from NEPA and NHPA.

10.  HR 1338 (S. 4010): Fast-tracks approvals for unlimited satellite deployments.

11.  Attempts to insert all or part of these bills into the National Defense Authorization Act (S.4638) or other unrelated legislation

For a complete list of pending bills that would increase wireless proliferation see ehtrust.org/congress

For wildlife impacts see wildlifeandwireless.org

See ruling in EHT et al v FCC by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit (August 2021)
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/FB976465BF00F8BD85258730004EFDF7/$file/20-1025-1910111.pdf

See: Environmental Health Trust Reveals Concealed FCC Cell Phone Tests Showing Human Radiation ‘Exposure Limits Were Exceeded
https://ehtrust.org/environmental-health-trust-foia-project/

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely, [Your information here]