- Sec 106 Review -- NYC Historic Preservation -- Updates based on meeting with CityBridge / Boldyn on May 8th.
WE NEED MORE CONSULTING PARTIES!
THE GENERAL PUBLIC CAN ALSO COMMENT. See attached document entitled "Section 106 Review ... " for instructions. Deadlines to file comments on many 5G Towers have already passed and others are fast approaching. YOU NEED TO ACT NOW!
a. Your Sec 106 participation is crucial from community boards and civic
associations in Washington Heights, Lower East Side, Jamaica, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island. YOU'RE GETTING CLOBBERED WITH 5G TOWERS. The NYS Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has not objected to Towers in many locations. Those are missed opportunities.
2. 311 Complaint Campaign - CALL 311 TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE 5G TOWERS. We need an official city record of complaints that city officials cannot ignore.
3. Federal bills (60+) - several bills are now moving in Congress. These bills will eliminate our local control over wireless permitting/placement, prohibit moratoria and eliminate environmental and historical preservation reviews. See below for federal bills update.
- SET UP MEETINGS NOW WITH: Reps. Espaillat, Jeffries, Clarke, Malliotakis, Meeks, Meng, Velazquez, Suozzi, Goldman, Torres. Let me know when you do.
Unfortunately, our NY delegation is voting for all of the bad bills. Call them today to schedule a meeting.
- See new voting guide at https://thenationalcall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/voting-guide-federal-bills-3-31-24-1.pdf and att'd fact sheets and https://ehtrust.org/congress/
- Federal Bills committee of the National Call for Safe Technology meets every Thursday, 4-6pm ET; let me know if you're interested.
4. National Call for Safe Technology - Sign up to connect with other advocates
nationwide. We meet every 2nd and 4th Friday; to sign up, email me or go to thenationalcall.org.
5. Defend our Landlines! Verizon has been retiring its copper lines in NYC for several years. That
means if you can't make a 911 call if your cell service goes down. That recently happened in CA that left over 70,000 stranded. Contact your City Council member and your US Representative.
US government says that AT&T
paid bribes to state of Illinois to allow them to eliminate landlines
6. Federal Bills Update: Our NY delegation is supporting bad bills, please contact your Representative today:
- HR 4510 - NTIA Reauthorization Act - vote postponed - ask your US Rep for amendments (requires cybersecurity study but expressly excludes 5G) - see below
- HR 3294 - Nydia Velazquez sponsor
- HR
5919 and HR 4235 - Lawler sponsor
- HR 1123 - passed House, voted by Nadler, Lawler, Goldman, Jeffries, Malliotakis, Espaillat, Clarke, Meeks, Meng, Velazquez, Torres, Ocasio-Cortez - Now included in HR 4510 NTIA Reauth, ASK: must amend to include 5G in cybersecurity study with required Homeland Security input
- HR 1353 - passed House, voted by ditto
- HR 1339 - passed House, voted by ditto
- HR 6492 - passed House, co-sponsored by Lawler
- Every success we've had
in NYC - disapprovals and moratoria on 5G Towers - are expressly prohibited under HR 3557, and our success in envt'l and historic preservation reviews will be virtually eliminated under HR 3557, HR 4141, etc.
- HR 6492 will carpet our national parks with cell towers, which do catch on fire. CA had 4 major fires from faulty
telecom eqpt - Woolsey Fire (2018) caused $6 bil in damages, 295,000 pp evacuated, 100,000 acres of land destroyed and several deaths. See below the fold for "Cell Towers & Fires" at https://thenationalcall.org/advocacy-and-action/.
