Wednesday, June 26, 6:00 – 8:15 p.m.

Lend Us Your Pinnas: The Debate over RF Exposure Limits and the Effect on Future on Wireless Technologies

The FCBA Engineering and Technical Practice Committee will hold a CLE on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 from 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. entitled Lend Us Your Pinnas: The Debate over RF Exposure Limits and the Effect on Future Wireless Technologies.  This program will be held at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, 1500 K Street, NW.

In late March, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a massive 202-page Report and Order, Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making and Notice of Inquiry on the health and safety issues of radiofrequency (RF) exposure.  It’s the first major update to its RF exposure rules since 1996, and the first time the FCC has touched this issue in a decade.  If you want to know more about the difference between “specific absorption rate” and “maximum permissible exposure,” you’re not alone (surprisingly). And this CLE is the perfect opportunity to learn how this complicated but potentially impactful proceeding could affect your clients.  In this CLE, we will help you digest what decisions the FCC made in the Report and Order, and how the NOI relates to the ongoing debate about the health effects of living in an increasingly wireless world.

AGENDA

6:00 – 6:05 p.m.          Welcome and Introduction
Scott Goodwin, Associate General Counsel, National Association of Broadcasters

6:05 – 7:05 p.m.         Review of the Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Moderator:
Angela Giancarlo, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP

Panelists:
Robert Weller, Chief, Technical Analysis Branch, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC
Martin Doczkat, Electronics Engineer, Technical Analysis Branch, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC

7:05 – 7:15 p.m.          Break

7:15 – 8:15 p.m.         Discussion of Questions Presented by the Notice of Inquiry

Panelists:
Robert Weller, Chief, Technical Analysis Branch, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC
Ed Mantiply, Physical Scientist, Technical Analysis Branch, Office of Engineering and Technology
Dr. Christopher C. Davis, Minta Martin Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park