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STATE OF HAWAII
RESOLUTION NO. 678 2 0
A RESOLUTION CALLING UPON ALL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES
AND PUBLIC UTILITIES OPERATING IN HAWAI`I COUNTY TO CEASE THE
BUILDOUT OF 5G WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE UNTIL SUCH TECHNOLOGIES
HAVE BEEN PROVEN THROUGH INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND TESTING TO
BE SAFE TO HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
WHEREAS, the telecommunications industry is engaged in a deployment of microwave
and millimeter-wave "small cell" antennas across the County to facilitate the fifth generation of
wireless communications known as 5G; and
WHEREAS, the T-Mobile website is advertising that areas across the State of Hawai i
have 50 coverage; and
WHEREAS, this new technology uses existing wireless infrastructure and new types of
radio-frequency (RF) microwave radiation to transmit large amounts of data, but requires
significantly closer proximity to users, resulting in the dense deployment of antennas near
residences, schools. and hospitals; and
WHEREAS, the deployment of 5G-enabled small cell antennas in our neighborhoods
raises serious questions regarding the potential health and environmental impacts of long-terra
exposure to untested RF microwave radiation frequencies; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Communications Commission has not conducted any long-term
safety testing of new 5G wireless technologies, and has failed to update its human RF microwave
radiation exposure guidelines since 1996, despite being advised to do so by the U.S. General
Accounting Office, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and hundreds of medical and scientific
experts from around the world; and
WHEREAS, telecommunications industry leaders have publicly admitted that they have
not conducted any safety tests to determine the possible adverse health and environmental effects
from exposure to RF microwave radiation emitted by 5G-enabled small cell antennas; and.
WHEREAS, a significant body of published, peer-reg iewed, independent science links
exposure to RF microwave radiation with serious environmental and biological harm, including
increased risk of cancer, reproductive problems, and neurological impairments can be found at
https://www.5gcrisis.coni/scientific-studies; and
WHEREAS, populations especially at risk from this exposure include pregnant women,
children, the elderly, and individuals with implanted medical devices. or cardiac or neurological
problems; and
WHEREAS, in its 2019 SON- R-Emerging any-:_ Report, which focuses on systematic
observation of notions associated with risk, Swiss Pe, the second-largest re-insurance company
in the world, called 5G a"high impact" liability risk due to health risk; and
WHEREAS, the theory that exposure to EU microwave radiation is harmless, which has
been the underlying principle of all federal legislation and_regulations regarding wireless
technologies for more than twenty years, has now been proven false; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that it
calls upon all telecommunications companies and public utilities operating in Hawaii County to
cease the buildout of 5G-enabled small cell antennas until suchtechnologies have been proven
safe beyond a reasonable doubt through independent research and the public health and welfare
can be assured.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall transmit a copy of this
resolution to the Honorable Harry Kim, Mayor; Roy Takemoto, Managing Director, and Michael
Yee, Director of Planning.
Dated at —Kona __. Hawaii.i. this 22nd day of Tl�1 y __-- —, 202 _•
INTRODUCED BY.,
COUNCIL M -IBER, 2L TY OF HAWAII
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County of Hawai`1 AYES NOES ABS— EX
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I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by i F ClI'I' X
the vote indicated to the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL
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County of Hawaii on July 22, 2020K�^ :
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