JFFICIAL USiz ONL. The 119th meeting of the AEC Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine was held on June 8-9, 1967, at the AEC Headquarters, Germantown, Maryland. Those in attendance from the Committee were Drs. Earl L. Green (Chairman), Philip P. Cohen (Vice-Chairman), William F. Bale, Arie J. Haagen-Smit, Lemuel C, McGee, R. D. Moseley, Jr., and James B, Wyngaarden, and Miss Rosemary Elmo (Executive Secretary). Dr. M. B. Russell and Dr. Harvey M, Patt (Scientific Secretary) were unable to attend, The meeting was also attended by Dr. Charles L. Dunham, Director, Division of Biology ans Medicine, his successor, Dr. John R. Totter, and various members of the staff of the Division of Biology and Medicine. Workmen's Compensation Status Report. Dr. William Doran, Division of Gperational Safety, brought the Committee up to date on the status of the proposed employer-state federal records and reports system for ionizing radiation workers for Workmen's Compensation purposes. The records system has been modified viz, a) the employer's record indicates personnel identification and occupational radiation dosimetry only; b) the state role remains unchanged; c) the federal record includes an annual report for external radiation for those who have received for a quaeterly period 25% of MPE and a body burden for internally deposited radionuclides, and name and Social Security number only for those monitored employees who have received less than these amounts. The employer will maintain a record on those for whom monitoring is required and when a transient worker leaves his employment a record of accumulated radiation would be forwarded to the federal record. [In order for states to be eligible for federal assistance to participate in records system it was formerly required that they institute changes in the state compensation laws to bring them in line with a model law. The Atomic Energy LaborManagement Advisory Committee (AELMAC) now recommends that states not be required to change their laws in order to be eligible for federal assistance, Non-agreement states would have a choice of either adopting U.S. American Standards Institute (USASI) recommendations for record keeping or a modified AEC proposal, A meeting of representatives of all organizations (approximately 20) with whom individual meetings have been held will be scheduled before any final action is instituted. Status of Uranium Tailings Radon Sampling. Dr. Alex Perge, Division of Operational Safety, reported on the status of the uranium tailings radon sampling. He referred to the "Joint Federal Agency Position" of the Department of Interior and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare recommendations that uranium mill tailings piles at inactive mills be stabilized to prevent wind and water erosion. This would preclude the spread of airborne particulate radioactivity. Because the existence and significance of such spread has been a subject of disagreement in the past, the AEC and Public Health Service have agreed to conduct a joint sampling program to evaluate the public health aspects of radon gas near tailings, particularly stabilized tg#ikings. The program will be concentrated at OFF"CIAL USE ONLY