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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting — Meetingdate <br />5. OLD BUSINESS " <br />A. Airport Economic Development Area <br />(1) continued... <br />Brian Siqueira with the USTC team <br />discussing public health implications <br />related to power lines and other <br />Electromagnetic Magnetic Fields (EMF) <br />and Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) <br />emitting devices. Based on current <br />research, there presently are no documented <br />health risks that can be attributed to <br />exposure to electromagnetic radiation from <br />standard power lines or even higher <br />energyflow electric and magnetic energy <br />(RF) devices like cell phones. <br />The second attachment was an analysis <br />prepared by the USTC team concerning <br />some more site specific information. The <br />first section contains a table of common <br />household devices and illustrates their EMF <br />values at various distances. The second <br />table shows a comparison of power line <br />types and compares EMF values at various <br />distances. The next table shows an <br />example of ELF created by rail and the <br />various factors that impact the calculation <br />values at various distances. There was also <br />a table showing the best analysis of <br />distance from the SBHA units to the power <br />and rail lines. The rest of the material is <br />information on various aspects of EMF, <br />ELF and other public health information. <br />The information is from the US Department <br />of Health and Human Services from 2005. <br />None of the information" supports there <br />being elevated health risks'if the power <br />lines are added. Therefore, staff requests <br />2 <br />