thet it fe not at all unucual for the A.E.C.

to want to tr.ke a repuletory function in the
field of heelth and sasfety.

What we are doing here is taking ad~
vantare of e technicality in the wey the Act
is worded which may or may not have been ine
tended by the people who trote the Act which
seye that the A.U.C,.

cheall have a regulatory

function when the uraniun has been renoved
from nature,

This means thet after the stuff is

binsted and shovelled end mucked into trucks

and taken out onto the curfnace, ZI cunpore,

eomevhere about at that roint we teke over,

We have not recomnized the respone

sibility on our onart for the miners vho are
in the mines prior to the tine when we actue
ally remove it from nature wherever that

point may be.

I em not at all inpreesed with the
objections that have béen relsed about the
uniqueness of our regulatory position in the
pining inductry because it ien't unique by
reason of the history of the Bureau of Hines
over the last fifty years end by reason of
our activities in other ficlds,

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