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heve indicrted that the radon concentrations
are quite comparable to thore which have ex-

fated, et least in terns of the reported data
4n the European uranium mines at Jonchinstal
and Schneeberg, end the average concentrations
are in the same order of magnitude and we also
know that the lung cancer incidence in those
mines was in the order of forty per cent.
Eowever, no steps hnve been made in

terms of setting up eny sort of "regulatory®
system by the Federal Government.

Recently, thet 1s, last February, a

meeting wes held in Salt Late City under the
sponsorship of the Industriel Conmiscton of

Utsh to dreft sone sort of agreed set of ree
gulations which the seven stotes particularly

coneerncd with urnsnium mining vould adopt and

the A.E.C. was represented and made its suge

gegtions end so did the Public Health Service,
fnd after this mreting another meete

ing wae held, oh, about eix months later with
the mine cperatore end out of this hos come a
set of recommendations which Utah has adopted

and which consist essentially of the fact that ©
the mines thernselves have to rake their own
service and report thea valuce of radar and its

deughters and do their orn controliing,

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