25 feasible to control the radon exposures in the mines except in some areng where the uranium ore ia in hich coneentration and there 1t will probably be quite aifficult bee cnuse of the excessive amount of ventilation required and this would be quite an exnense. The situetion wes again raiced as to the role of the Federel Covernment in this problem by Hr, Eisenbud with Curtis Nelson, the Director of the Diviston of Inspection a few months apo, Perhaps you would like to say a word or tio, but essentially, ae I gather your point was, that the Pederal Government does hsve a direct resvoensibility for there miners because of the large mensure of control it has over the industry, The decision as I understand it which is reslly a tentative one, is to sit ticht so far as any direct perticin»tion in the control of the exposures in the mines 1s concerned be= csuse. ‘ One, this would be en unusual step for the Federal Government to step into the mining industry,