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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a national non-profit <br /> environmental advocacy organization that seeks effective environmental and <br /> public health policies for all communities. NRDC successfully challenged a 2018 <br /> order by the Federal Communications Commission that proposed to eliminate <br /> environmental and historic review for certain cell towers and other wireless <br /> infrastructure. United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians v. FCC, 933 F.3d 728 <br /> (D.C. Cir. 2019). The FCC's 2019 order challenged by Petitioners in this case <br /> would render such environmental review practically meaningless. When <br /> reviewing actions wireless service providers take to use the spectrum as the FCC <br /> has authorized, the Commission is unlikely to conduct new environmental analysis. <br /> Instead, the FCC will point to its determination in the challenged 2019 order that <br /> its health standards are adequate as satisfaction of its duty to look at potential <br /> harm. This might be fine if the FCC analyzed recent science and changed its <br /> standards to reflect this science. The FCC, however, failed to do so. <br /> Local elected officials' are and have been directly affected by the FCC's <br /> failure to set RF standards adequate to protect public health and the environment. <br /> Verizon and other telecom companies are rapidly constructing enhanced 4G LTE <br /> and SG networks in communities across the country. Elected officials in these <br /> communities are accountable to their constituents to protect their health and the <br /> See Addendum, Exh. A, for list of individual elected officials. <br />