O: FICIAL USE ONLY The 139th meeting of the Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine was held September 10-11, 1971, at AEC Headquarters and the "H' Street Office. The members present were Drs. R. D. Moseley, Jr. (Chairman), Stout (ViceChairman), Finch, Haagen-Smit, Laughlin, and Miss Rosemary Elmo (Executive Secretary). Dr. Schull and Dr. Storer (Scientific Secretary) were unable to attend. Dr. H. D. Bruner, Assistant Director, DBM, acted as DBM representative during the morning session in the absence of Dr. John Totter, Director. Dr. Totter attended the afternoon session on the executive session on the lOth and the llth. The Committee was briefed on the following items: CALVERT CLIFFS LITIGATION. Mr. Marcus A, Rowden, Office of the General Counsel, and Mr, Lester Rogers, Director, Division of Radiological and Environmental Protection, briefed the Committee on the holdings of the Court of Appeals in the Calvert Cliffs case and the steps the Commission had undertaken and contemplated in implementation of that decision. Mr. Rogers discussed the impact on the Regulatory program of the implementation of the Calvert Cliffs Court decision regarding the National Environmental Policy Act. The AEC issued on September 9, 1971, revised regulations to implement the Court decision. The effect of the new regulations is to make the AEC directly responsible for evaluating the total environmental impact, including thermal effects, of nuclear power plants and assessing this impact in terms of the available alternatives and the need for electric power. Mr. Rogers stated that the Court decision affects some 65 construction and operating license applications involving 97 nuclear power units. In addition, 5 nuclear powsr reactors for which operating licenses were issued after January 1, 1970, are affected as well as 3 fuel reprocessing facilities, All of these applicants must prepare environmental reports and the AEC must prepare environmental statements that will be used in licensing proceedings on these cases. Mr. John Whitnah, Assistant Director for Administration, DBM, discussed the effect of environmental impact statements on the DBM research programs. He said that at the request of the AEC, Argonne National Laboratory identified a total of approximately 23 man-years which could be redirected from biology and medicine research programs to the preparation of environmental impact statements during the balance of FY 1972, Most of this effort has been engaged in fresh water environmental studies, particularly in the thermal effects area. There will also be a significant input from radiological and health physics studies, particularly at Oak Ridge. The dollar magnitude of the research programs affected is approximately 900 thousand dollars during the current fiscal year OFFICIAL USE ONLY