URSLACS IFIED scientusts will be needed to assure competent and adequate study both of the exisung nuclear weapons workforce and of the workers who will be involved in the long and potentially dangerous cleanup effort. statutory provision should be made and funds provided for rigorous oversight by the Occupational Safety and Office of Radiation and Toxins Health Assessment, an expandedstaff of researchers, and the costs of studies covering all potentially exposed workers and off-site populationsatal] facilities. standards or otherwise pose an unacceptable public health threat. Legislative action is required to assure that all relevant OSHA and EPA regulations are applied to the DOE’s weapons complex at least as vigorously as they are applied to private industry. In view of the risks, and the record, the defense of sovereign immunity by the DOE and its contractors should be waived. Adequate funding from the DOE’s “050” defense production accounts should be used to support the new 13. Fullyfund and implement improved CEDR Program. Adequate funding should be provided for a Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource that will be available to all scientists, with the assurance that aii relevant data from the nuclear weapons production complex andits planned health surveillance system will be entered. 14. Enhance the regulatory power of OSHA and EPA throughout the weapons complex. While on-line, inplant responsibility for occupational health and safety programs might remain with DOEandits contractors, Health Administration (OSHA) and EPA. Those agencies should be given the power to impose fines or, when necessary, shut down operations at the DOE facilities that violate occupational and environmental 15. Consider the bealth and environmental impacts of continued nuclear weapons activities. Any proposal to resume production of nuclear weapons should in- corporate a complete review of the associated hazards to the health and safety ofworkers and nearby communities. Theputative benefits of such weapons should be weighed against the associated risks and hazards. jersey nscined “Ew tw ss gus uns DEAD RECKONING it ben 5