An Evaluation of the U.S. Navy's Extremely Low Frequency Submarine Communications Ecological Monitoring Program (1997) / Chapter Skim
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1: Introduction
1: Introduction
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In 1969, the Navy completed an experimental facility, in the Chequamegon National Forest near Clam Lake, Wisconsin. For more than a decade, this facility was operated intermittently and at less than full power to test the system and to make engineering evaluations.
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Forest Service and other investigators to determine whether changes in biologic factors could be observed in response to electric and magnetic fields produced by the existing Wisconsin experimental facility. In 1977, the National Research Council independently evaluated the studies at the Wisconsin facility and the results of other studies on effects of ELF EMFs (NRC 1977~.
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. , UTR} designed a fully developed ecological monitoring program in 1982 based on the original outline from the Navy, input from several state and federal agencies, the 1977 National Research Council report, and the Navy's draft environmental-impact statement.
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1996~. In 1994, the Navy, believing it essential to have an additional external evaluation of the ELF ecological monitoring program's activities and findings, requested that the National Research Council conduct an independent review and evaluation of the program.
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In some cases, the committee selectively examined the data in detail and in so doing uncovered inconsistencies in some of the analyses. The committee did not determine before its assessment whether any types of effects would be likely or unlikely, did not attempt to assess possible effects of ELF EMF exposures beyond the study sites, and did not attempt to determine the possible effects of variations over time in factors, other than the operation of the ELF communications system, that might have affected the observations of the ecological monitoring program.
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It was not within the scope of this committee's work to resolve such controversies, nor did it attempt to do so. An investigation of the extent to which controversial responses to low-frequency EMF exposure might present a hazard to human health was the mandate of the National Research Council's Committee on Possible Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on Biologic Systems (NRC 1997~.
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Where biologic responses to ELF EMFs were identified, physical mechanisms of field interaction with biologic molecules and biologic processes that might be affected by EMF exposure would necessarily be the subjects of future experimental investigations. The ecological monitoring program researchers who conducted the individual studies have presented their results in scientific meetings, and some have been published in the peer-reviewed literature.
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