Research on Power-Frequency Fields Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 1999
• eBook ISBN:
  9780309172981
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Theology & Religion

Since the 1970s, concerns about health hazards associated with electric and magnetic fields from power lines and from workplace, school, and household use of electricity have led to many studies and continued controversy about whether adverse health effects occur. In the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-486), Congress authorized a focused national research program to study the possible health effects of exposure to low-intensity, 60-hertz electric and magnetic fields. In response to this legislation and at the request of the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Research Council established a committee under the Board on Radiation Effects Research (BRER) in the Commission on Life Sciences (CLS) to aid in its review of the power-frequency magnetic field research activities completed under the Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination (EMF-RAPID) program that was authorized by the Energy Policy Act. The Research Council's Committee to Review the Research Activities Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT) was asked to review the EMF-RAPID program implemented by DOE and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and research strategies suggested by other federal and nonfederal groups.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES COMPLETED UNDER THE ENERGY POLICY ACT OF 1992
• BOARD ON RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH
• COMMISSION ON LIFE SCIENCES
• PREFACE
• REVIEWER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CONTENTS
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• INTRODUCTION
• EMF-RAPID PROGRAM RESEARCH STRATEGY
• EMF-RAPID FUNDING
• SUMMARY OF EPACT COMMITTEE INTERIM REPORT
• EPACT COMMITTEE REVIEW OF COMPLETED PROJECTS
• APPENDIX A: BIOLOGIC RESEARCH PROJECT FUNDING
• APPENDIX B: SUMMARY OF EMF RAPID ENGINEERING RESEARCH EXPENDITURES BY DOE
• APPENDIX C: SUMMARY OF EMF RAPID NON-RESEARCH EXPENDITURES BY NIEHS
• Reference List
• BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS