- A3 * dn this case, mean exposure to persons “outside the fence" of an AEC (or AEC-licensed) facility. Criteria, required “to meet these standards, for plant operation and design remained with the AEC. Hence, present responsibility for assessment of health effects resides in EPA, while the responsibility for develoring technology to control emissions resides in AEC. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in a recent letter to EPA and AEC clarified the delegation of responsibility between these agencics for promulgating regulations to limit the radioactivity that may be emitted from facilities in the nuclear povver industry. OMB stated: AEC should proceed with its plans for issuing uranium fuel cycle standards, taking into account the comments received from all sources, including EPA; that EPA should dis- continue its preparations for issuing, now or in the future, any standards for types of facilities; and that EPA should continue, under its current authority, to have res- ponsibility for setting standards for the total amount of radiation in the aecneral environment from all facilities combined in the uranium fuel cycle, i.e., an ambient standard which would have to reflect AEC's findings as to the practicability of emission controis.?3 There are other agencies and groups which are concerned With radiation standards and in some cases have regulatory authority. These include, but are not limited to, the Department of Health, Education and Welitare, Department of Labor, Bureau~of Mines, the American National Standards Institute, and state agencies. The radiation standards of these organizations a€re not at issue here. For the most part they play a secondary role, or where applicable, follow the guidance of the NCRP, EPA and AEC. 3/ Memorandun for Administrator Train and Chairman Ray from Roy Y L. Ash, ’ Dec. 7, ' 1972.