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To the Department of Health and Human Services: Self Monitoring Analysis Reporting Technology As a residential homeowner, I am submitting this formal public comment in response to the Request for Information (Docket ID: HHS-OASH-2026-039) regarding human exposures to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields (RF-EMF). While federal safety standards often assume a uniform, generalized environment, the deployment of wireless smart meters directly onto residential walls introduces acute, pulsed, and continuous RF-EMF radiation into domestic living spaces. This comment addresses four critical components of harm resulting from mandatory utility smart meters: Health, Surveillance, Cost Overcharges with Opt-Out Fees, and Cyber Security. 1. Severe and Adverse Health Outcomes (Pulsed RF-EMF Radiation) Unlike cellular phones which can be powered off or placed at a distance, utility smart meters are permanently mounted to residential structures and emit high-intensity, short-duration pulses of RF radiation 24 hours a day. As reported by National health organizations, proximity to this localized radiation field has severely degraded health and quality of life, manifesting in the following documented symptoms: • Ringing in the Ears (Tinnitus): The installation of wireless smart meters corresponds with the onset of constant, high-pitched ringing and inner-ear pressure. This neurological and auditory distress persists within the home, making it impossible to find an environment free of sensory disturbance. • Disrupted Sleep and Insomnia: The continuous, erratic pulsing of the meter directly interferes with natural sleep architecture. Individuals often experience profound sleep disruption, including difficulty falling asleep, frequent nighttime awakenings, and a total loss of restorative REM sleep, leading to chronic daytime exhaustion. • Severe Headaches and Neurological Pain: Some people can experience persistent, throbbing headaches and localized neurological pressure that directly correlates with time spent inside my home. These symptoms alleviate noticeably only when traveling away from mesh-networked utility infrastructure. The cumulative biological stress of this involuntary exposure cannot be understated. HHS must establish realistic biological safety limits that account for non-thermal, pulsed, long-term residential exposures. 2. Unwarranted Domestic Surveillance and Privacy Intrusion Smart meters log electrical consumption data at granular, high-frequency intervals (often every 5 to 15 minutes). This detailed load profiling allows utilities and potentially third parties to reconstruct intimate household routines, identifying exactly when occupants wake, cook, use specific appliances, or sleep. This continuous tracking represents an unprecedented invasion of domestic privacy, turning a basic public utility into an intrusive surveillance mechanism within my own home. 3. Fabricated Cost Overcharges and Punitive Opt-Out Fees Following the deployment of digital smart meters, countless homeowners experience sudden, unexplained spikes in utility billing despite no change in actual consumption habits. Furthermore, consumers who attempt to protect their health and privacy by refusing these wireless devices are subjected to punitive 'opt-out' penalties. Homeowners are forced to choose between paying ongoing monthly fines or accepting an unwanted, radiation-emitting device attached to their personal property. 4. Vulnerable Cyber Security and Grid Infrastructure Wireless smart meters connect homes via decentralized mesh networks, creating millions of exposed endpoints across the national energy grid. This architectural vulnerability presents a severe cyber security risk. Sophisticated actors or malware can exploit these wireless connections to remotely disconnect power to individual homes, manipulate billing systems, or compromise the safety and stability of the entire regional electrical grid. Conclusion and Requested Actions The mandatory or coercive installation of pulsed RF-EMF smart meters places an unfair and hazardous burden on residential homeowners. The Department of Health and Human Services must intervene to protect public health by validating these documented symptoms, protecting privacy rights, and recommending a federally protected right to a wired, analog, or non-wireless utility infrastructure without financial penalty. Requested Actions: • Conduct a comprehensive, independent epidemiological review of chronic, non-ionizing, pulsed RF radiation from smart meters, focusing heavily on children's health. • Coordinate with state and federal utility regulators to eliminate financial penalties (opt-out fees) for homeowners opting for non-wireless utility alternatives. • Update national safety guidelines to reflect non-thermal biological impacts rather than relying solely on outdated heating-based safety thresholds.

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Finally! Europe has been studying this exposure for years. The new Apple product had a higher radiation rate and only after the threat of not allowing their products to be used there, they ended up throttling the waves. Curious right? Now we have appliances sending out signals every minutes 24 hours a day, even if you ‘opt out’ which even after you do, once connected, it’s still sending a signal out looking for a connection. Why would I want a stove to have an app or need to remotely access it? The lights in our neighborhood send wireless signals, the endless home routers, TV’s, the power company meter (you can pay to opt out), cellular, 5G…. All pinging waves 24/7 without our consent or any CURRENT metrics or studies to see what effects it all has on our body cellular health. Even if we go DUMB in our home, as I’ve noted some of the waves around my house, we essentially have no way to opt out. It very well could be contributing to our countries unwellness and cellular foods and die off. It bothers me that Europe is ahead of this. Europe! Certainty we have more resources and moxie than Europe!

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Please do the safety studies on EMF, RF, and wireless radiation exposure. During the crazy time between 2020 and now, radio towers were and are continually being built all around my town and looks to be across the country. Since those towers went up, I have experience what feels like shocks to my body. This is not right.

Our son suffers with Electromagnetic hypersensitivity. He is 43, married with two teenage children and has been unable to work for the past five years. His symptoms increased dramatically with the introduction of phone towers and masts around the area he was living and the increase of the number of people using phones in his working life and social life as well as family members. His employers were unable to provide him with suitable working conditions so he had to give up a job he loved. The family moved home to an area they thought was safer but soon phone towers and masts were erected in the surrounding area and the readings coming through the wall of his neighbouring house were very high in his kitchen so he is unable to cook or help with family chores. We helped him financially to have a shielded garden room erected where he can exercise and meditate. His mental health would have suffered severely without it. The effects of electromagnetic frequencies were taking such a toll on his body that he suffered with continual ectopic beats of the heart and would often pass out. He only leaves the home to have respite with friends whose homes have been adapted or our home which has had all WiFi removed. He has very little contact with friends and is unable to attend family functions and social gatherings. The condition has caused a form of grief for him, his wife and children and all his surrounding family, especially his father and myself. Getting help and understanding from professionals has been difficult at best and upsetting and infuriating at it's worse. Our country seems to be way behind other countries in understanding the physical dangers of these frequencies. Good luck with your work on this subject and our best wishes go out to you. Teresa and Jeff Bence

I have had tinnitus ever since the rollout of 5G in Albuquerque, NM. In late 2021 temporally a multi story apartment complex some 400 feet from my home began multiple.arrays and it has continued. City Environmental Health did no pre and post EMF tests. I would like to see, before the next wave of 6 G rollouts that there is pre tower and post emf testing 360 degrees for at least 1000 feet. IMO this electromagnetic spectrum is a physical trespass already with 5G already causing a life damage stressing me out. On another related topic the tinnitus I experience seems way less when I am out of tower range in national forests, remote BLM lands, wilderness areas and national parks. Please keep them out so we have some sort of baseline. We have options to this tech rollout with wire fiberoptics to end user. When that is done no 5G nor 6G should be allowed on local poles as mini cells. Especially not liking that smart meter rollouts that is being done by force with keeping an analog meter system being penalized. In my case about $18 for the "service retention fee" and almost $10 a month for reading the existing meter. There has to be some way too of examining the electric smart meter exposure. My bed is less than 15 feet from the proposed replacement smart meter. Will it exacerbate my tinnitus? I don't know of any long or short term data available but researchers have noted impacts. May I also ask that DHHS convene a meeting of international researchers on this topic. Havas M. Radiation from wireless technology affects the blood, heart, and the autonomic nervous system. Rev Environ Health. (2013) 28(2-3):75–84. doi: 10.1515/ reveh-2013-0004 Association of Tinnitus and Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Hints for a Shared Pathophysiology? Michael Landgrebe 1,*, Ulrich Frick 1,2, Simone Hauser 1, Goeran Hajak 1, Berthold Langguth 1 PMCID: PMC2657824 PMID: 19325894 Book to examine for references not cited here...The Invisible Rainbow. The author when he was still alive operated from Santa Fe.

I am living a Nightmare with High Levels on My EMF Detector coming Out from My Walls! I moved into an apartment complex that has high speed internet, cable, phone. Everyone at this complex is forced to pay $60 a month. I only have the phone, I have to unplug when I'm not using it. It came as a package deal with free cell phone service. I have a heavy metals blood work done for the last three years. I have mercy, zinc and cadmium poison in my body. I suffer from headaches and insomnia.

Hello, Thank you for doing this survey. My full comments are in a document below. I also included a Scientist appeal that I found. Would love for it to be more widely available.

I am being stalked by a lawyer and his wife who currently reside in North Carolina and who use Voice to Skull Microwave Technology to torture harass and brainwash me and my husband. Stalking In-laws also stole our Santander Bank Accounts with half a million dollars. I am not a slave as my In-laws claim and believe. I resent that no one will stop these homicidal lunatics. Tell them to stop NOW. Their names are Howard Fifer and Catherine Clare. My allegations of their crimes are SELF EVIDENT clear and obvious. I want my legal rights restored. I swear this is true. Leave us alone.