100-00 Beach channel drive
Rockaway Park, 11694
12/3/2013
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
888 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20426
Dear FERC,
Hello Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), I am a concerned citizen of the Rockaway peninsula and I attend channel view school for research high school in the rockaway peninsula. My home is not in addition, far from where this radon gas will travel and go through, and I want everyone at FERC to know I do not support this disission to distribute radon gas through the rockaway lateral pipeline. I do not support radon gas because of its harmful effects that can affect everyone around or using the gas. Radon is second leading cause of lung cancer, the primary adverse health effect associated with chronic exposure to radon is lung cancer typically bronchogenic, squamous cell carcinoma, small cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, large cell carcinoma. Radon also has the potential to generate genotoxic effects higher incidence of chromosomal aberrations. Radon has been linked with erotogenic effects. Radon and smoking displayed a synergistic effect. Increased levels of exposure to radon increase the probability of observing an effect; however, increased levels of exposure do not necessarily influence the type or severity of the effect. There are no zero risk thresholds for radon exposure, but instead, risk increases proportionate to the exposure time. Pipelines can explode at any time for many different reasons, and those reasons can be the cause of why shopping malls, houses, and schools could be the victims of a fatal fire after the pipelines explode. You state that the pipelines would have periodic checks and be monitored 24 hours a day, every year, but tell that to the campers of Floyd Benet Park, the trees there are prone to fire, and I sincerely doubt that you wish to spend all your profits fixing on the reparation needed to replenish all the trees.