16) 874-5955 151 EAST STREET’ BUFFALO: NEW YORK: 14207 _ Cl’iffe Sloan Office of Sidney R. Yates 2234 Rayburn House Office Building | Washington, B,C. . Re: 20515 . - } Resettling FEnewetak Atoll Dear Mr. Sloan: At the request of the Micronesia Support Committee in Honolulu, I have reviewed the report of Michael Bender and A. Bertrand Brill entitled "Assessment of Radiation Health Effects of the Resettle- ment of Enewetaxk Atoll." I am enclosing a copy of my curriculum reviewing this document, My research experience has been with vitae so that you will have some evidence of my qualifications for human populations exposed to low levela of ionizing radiation, I am a consultant to the committees on environmental health problens of the New York State and Wisconsin Medical Associations, a member ' of the British Columbia Medical Agsociation Committee on environmental heaith, and a consultant to the Division of (Radiation Exposure) Standard Setting for the U.S. Nuclear Regu@atory Commigsion. Frankly, Drs. Bencur and Brill are writing outside of their area .Of scientific expertise. Neither is a biostatiatician or epidemiologist, nor hag either becn among the 127 scientists involved'in the twenty-year study of the Marshallese conducted through Brookhaven National Laboratozsy. They have used infurma- tion from tha éraft copy of the 1979 BLIR report which is designed to assess generalized effects on q large normal pepulation exposed to radiation. With no appropriate modification, they use these probabilities to predict “health effects" for the emall native population of Enewetak Atoll. ‘Yhe level of genetic problems and chronic disease already present in this population, their increased susceptibility to future radiation damage (cumulative with that already ouffered), and the inadequacy of present knowledge about the long-term fertility and mild mutation effects were completely ignored. An affiliate of ->> ee Met June 6,1560 . . MINISTRWIDF CONCERN FOR PUBLIG HEALTH — — Global Education Associates v2 Perk Ave East Orange -New Jerey 0701)