ma , fracrnernnace GAT CHL NATIO NAL ANCL WES Mr, Fillien h. Sebster ~3- No. 9 = As your letter states, "detailed" discusaion of radioactive weates are “prinrily" of interest to .tomle encrgy workers, but the ceueral public and porticul.rly .oople Living noar AX instellations, ero ,uite properly Interosted in cad perhaps concerned ubout tho measures tecen by the Comuisnioa to assure sefe imadling of waste materiale ond Lo urevont their relesse in uy ,uentitées which wight be even reately vweraful., The Comuigsion fools thot the dapertence of information as to tue tendency of corte.n Living organisus to concentrute radioctivity wees Lt necassery to luciude the references to this etter. The plutonium refexances in your item 9 herve been doleted from the report, as has the refzrencs to the ,roposed ao vecial resort on radio- active wastes. (See Galleys 72 and 23) Ko. 10 = In view of tiie Laportence to the public of informe: tion ca te orogresgn toward sore effective control of radio: ctive hazerds, the Com- mission velisves tact the roforences to im-roved mathods of waste handling should reasin iu tre revert. In ad ition to these ton ltems, vo have baen advised through Comsander agers of the “LO stuff tbct Generel Nichols objects ta the public.tion in the Sixth esort of tac aateriel on diroshima and Nepsaaki which wes oradtented before tus Joint Comittee on Atomic Lnorey in mublic icarings by Ey. Stielids Varren, Liractur of toe hivegion of Blolory roe Necicina, 100, Te cre ocvised tixt tre objection is not basen an the content of the stetanont oy Lo. tarres, oul won the remise thet such aterdiel suoula uot be Lucluwea on tno resort buceuge of the stetus of tua jre,Oned Keevons Mfficeta ik mn book. Ye do not feol tit any unclessified aad puvlisheble informetion in tile fleld ohould walt upon cublication of the ilandbook. Tt La noted that the materiel assemblcou by Or. “arren is lorgely a digest of informne tion previously published in WoSso xeports, in ail Heports of the bumbing of Hirosiden aac Negasaki, in tue booklet, "Fhat You Should Know About tho Atomle Bomb," .ullisued lagt year by tne Surgeon General] of the Arny, and in medical end sclontific journols. In view of the need for such infomiution, s8 expressed, cuom: other pluces, in tus iiepley Report, we “0 Not believe tho suggested uelotion reloyod by Comender vocera should be nede. he understand thet the 80 ha uy security cljection to the Jasucnee of the Sixth Resart to Conrress snd nove accor ingly -.uo arrangements for the orintlog of the ia, ort. singerely yours, VLlT Ab STATES eTORlC Lovid o. Sblicntosl Law dreen CORHBEN SS Gt Com4ISSion