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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 /> 4 <br />