FED BILLS ALERT! ALERT! SPEAK OUT AGAINST CELL TOWERS! STOP HR 4141!

Published: Tue, 11/05/24

Updated: Tue, 11/05/24

Hi ,

Protect Environmental & Historical Limits on Cell Towers

Congress has put up near-zero resistance to carpeting our neighborhoods, schools and parks with dangerous, ugly cell towers. HR 4141, and related bills HR 7376 and 8230, would exempt most cell towers and antenna expansions from environmental and historic preservation review required under NEPA and NHPA (National Environmental Policy Act and National Historic Preservation Act).

For example, it’s because of historic preservation review that NYC is successfully stopping construction of many 4G/5G cell towers on its city streets in historic districts or in front of historic structures that are on, or eligible for, the National Register of Historic Places. These bills would wipe out those successes.

This affects all of us, including our birds, bees and trees – in urban, suburban, and rural areas, federal lands, and our National Forests.

The Natural Resources Committee in Congress already voted yes against our interests and sent HR 4141 to the full House, which can now vote on it at any time. Congress is deciding which bills to vote on when it returns on Nov 12^th.

Now is the time to SPEAK OUT!

Contact your U.S. Rep this week.

Forward this email to your email lists.

Please:
1. Click Identify to find your U.S. Rep.

2. Go to their website “contact” page

3. Copy the below message and paste into that page

4. On their website locate their phone number and call to “urge opposition to HR 4141, 7376, and 8230”

5. In your email & call, request a “Zoom next week to discuss Telecom bills to bridge the broadband digital divide”. Email hello@thenationalcall.org with any response you get regarding scheduling. See below for availability of professionals to attend with you to discuss the bill(s).

If you have already spoken with your U.S. Reps’ offices, contact them again by email and by phone to discuss this, and include the message below. No need to schedule a Zoom meeting.

Send This Message to Your U.S. Rep:

Oppose HR 4141, HR 7376, and HR 8230. Keep NEPA environmental and NHPA historic preservation reviews for ugly and radiation-emitting cell towers (which property owners want zoned away from neighborhoods, schools and parks). Respect consumer preference for wired broadband that is safe, reliable, secure and more affordable.
Oppose inserting any of these bills, or pieces of them, into larger “must-pass” legislation
Oppose all other Wireless language - in the FARM, Parks & NTIA Reauthorization bills – that will take away local control over the siting of ugly and radiation-emitting cell towers and antennas.
Cosponsor HR 8082 (Smith, NJ), restoring local government discretion on antenna location - so property owners can work with authorities to zone cell towers away from bedrooms, classrooms and parks.