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Notes Forthcoming Meeting W/R Bertell on 781106 Re Current Radiat Effects Concepts & Hypotheses & Bertells Requested Amend to 10FR20.(D & M-6)
ML20008D658
Person / Time
Issue date: 11/02/1978
From: Parsont M
NRC OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT
To: Harold Denton, Minogue R, Casey Smith
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS), Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT
References
FOIA-81-77, RULE-PR-20, TASK-ES-722-8, TASK-OS NUDOCS 7811150278
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R. B. Minogue, Director Office of Standards Development C. V. Smith, Jr., Director Office of fluclear Material Safety and Safeguards H. R. Denton, Director Office of fluclear Reactor Regulation S. Levine, Director Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research J. G. Davis, Director.

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for Radiological Health and Safeguards Standards, SD FROM:

M. A. Parsont, Acting Chief Radiological Health Standards Branch, SD

SUBJECT:

FORTHCOMITIG MEETIf;G WITH DR. ROSALIE BERTELL Date and Time:

Monday, November 6,1978, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Location:

'Rm. 013, 5650 Nicholson Lane

Background:

Dr. Rosalie Bertell, by letter dated July 18, 1977, has filed a petitien requesting amendment of 10 CFR Part 20. She is recuesting the folicwing:

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a 50-fold reduction in the current 5 rem /yr.aaximum permissible whole-body c'ose equivalent j

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developcent of a mechanism for identification _and I

notification of nuclear industry employees with

" indicator diseases", i.e., diseases which indicate i

above normal susceptibility to leukemia and/or radiation.

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that the ruler.aking hearing convened in response to her petition be consolidated with that requested by the fiRDC l

and that the date for this hearing be set within six months.

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Purpose:

The purpose of this meeting is to explore in more detail some of Dr. Bertell's current concepts and hypotheses in the area of radiation effects.

Suggested topics for discussion are:

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Possible future regulatory actions to' reflect Dr. Bertell's.

hypotheses.

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Clarification f the objectives of Dr. Bertell's recent petition.

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The Tri-State epidemiological study data and their usefulness in f:RC's current involvement in an epide.,i-ological planning feasibility study on_the effects of low-level ionizing radiation.

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Dr. Bertell's views en a Federal epidemiological study on low-level radiation effects, e

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L. V. Gossick R. E. Alexander E. F. Conti W. E. Kreger.

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