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in this case, mean exposure to persons "outside the fence”
of an AEC (or AEC-licensed) facility.
Criteria, required
to meet these standards, for plant operation and design
remained with the AEC.
Hence, present responsibility for
assessment of health effects resides in EPA, while the
resvonsibility for developing technology to control emissions
resides in AEC.
The Office of Management and Budget (0M3)
in a recent letter to EPA and AEC clarified the delegation
of ressonsibility batween these agencies for promulgatin
regulations to limit the radioactivity that may be emitted
from facilities in the nuclear power industry.
OMB stated:
AEC should proceed with its plans for
issuing uranium fvel cycle standards, taking
into account the comments received from all
sources, including EPA; that EPA should daiscontinue its prevarations for issuing, now
or in the future, any standards for tyses of
facilities;
and
that EPA
should
continue,
under its current authority, to have responsidility for seitins standards for the total
amount of rasiation in the caneral environment
from ail facilities combined in the uraniucs
fuel evele, i.e., an ambient standard which
would have to reflect AEC's findings as to
ene practicability of emission controls.3
r
e
with radiation s tandarcs and in some cases have regulatory
authority.
These include,
but are not limited to, the
a
Denarimant of Heaith, eaucation anc Welfare, Devartment of
Labor, Bureau cf Mines, the American National Standards
Institute, ane state agencies.
The radiaticn standards of
these organizations are not at issue here.
For thea most part
uney Slay a seconcary role, or wnere asalicasle, follow thea
guidance ‘of the NiCRP, EPA and AEC.
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Mamorandum for Aiministrator Train
fron Poy L. asn, Dec.
7, 1979.
and Crairman Ray