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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of EMF-RAPID Engineering Research Expenditures by DOE." National Research Council. 1999. Research on Power-Frequency Fields Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9587.
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APPENDIX B:
SUMMARY OF EMF RAPID ENGINEERING RESEARCH EXPENDITURES BY DOE

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of EMF-RAPID Engineering Research Expenditures by DOE." National Research Council. 1999. Research on Power-Frequency Fields Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9587.
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Summary of Funding for EMF RAPID Engineering Projects

Project number

Contractor

Amount

(in thousands of dollars)

Title

1

ERM

120

''Development of Recommendations for Guidelines for Field Source Management"

2

Magnetic Measurements

123

"Recommendations for Guidelines for Environment-Specific Magnetic Field Measurements"

3

Enertech Consultants

230

Environmental Field Surveys"

4

T. Dan Bracken

110

"Recommendation for Guidelines for EMF Personal Exposure Measurement"

5a

T. Dan Bracken

100

"Development of an EMF Database"

5b

T. Dan Bracken

400

Maintain Data Base

6

Enertech Consultants

996

"Survey of Personal Magnetic Field Exposure"

7

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

200

"Hazard Surveillance for Workplace Magnetic Fields"

8

IIT Research Institute and Commonwealth Associates

123

"Evaluation of Field-Reduction Technologies"

9

University of Washington

20

"Characterization of Exposures to Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields in the Office Environment"

10

EM Factors

60

"Assessment of Human Exposure to Magnetic Fields Produced by Domestic Appliances"

11

Center for Risk Management, Resources for the Future

50

"Risk Dimensions of the EMF Problem"

12

T. Dan Bracken

138

Project not received in time for review. ("Source and Exposure Prediction Model Development")

 

Total

2,670

 

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of EMF-RAPID Engineering Research Expenditures by DOE." National Research Council. 1999. Research on Power-Frequency Fields Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9587.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of EMF-RAPID Engineering Research Expenditures by DOE." National Research Council. 1999. Research on Power-Frequency Fields Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9587.
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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.

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