rs Vol. 73ers rrr II, Tab B, pp. Re ee ey eee ewe 4-5 and Appendix III. wee In its selection of the standards to be applied, the AEC chose the 1960 and 1961 Radiation Protection Guides (RPGs) and then reduced those numerical limits by 50% in the case of_exposure to the whole body, bone marrow, bone and thyroid. Gonadal exposures were to be limited to 80% of the RPG value. Id. Appendix III, p. III-10 to III-ll. (This apparent inconsistency was never satisfactorily explained, by the way.) We pointed out in "Radiation Protection at Enewetal Atoll" that if any radiation protection standards are to be employed in making decisions about Enewetak, it is the r | Arfereccee’ Protective Action Guides (PAGs), and not the RPGs. I have discovered that we were not the first to make that observation. During review of the draft version of the AEC Task Group Report, then Deputy Director of DNA, John W. McEnery, quite