OFFICIAL USE ONL J’ The Committee reconvened at 8:30 A.M. at the "H" Street Office. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved. The There was a discussion of the site of the next meeting and it appears that the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center should be the first choice, with Idaho Falls as the alternative. Neither of these sites has been visited for some years. Dr. Totter discussed in some detail some of the problems that the Division has encountered at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center. / The Committee then discussed its meeting of the day before with the Commissioners. had been made. It was agreed that three basic requests to the Committee The first of these was concerned with the environmental impact statement concerning the Indian Point Reactor. The second was whether IAEA is the proper agency to accept responsibility for world-wide waste disposal of nuclear waste. The third was concerned with the image of the AEC. This last point seemed to be the main preoccupation of the Commission, It was not clear to the Advisory Committee how it could be of particular help in this regard. It was pointed out in this regard that the Commission does not know what its image is and before worrying too much about how to improve it perhaps it would be useful to have some professionally trained people determine the public image of the Commission. With respect to improving the image if it is indeed bad, the Committee was of the opinion that this was the wrong group to do very much about it. The Committee, after all, consists of biomedical scientists-.who are not trained in opinion-shaping. Dr. Totter reported the series of events leading to his submitting his resignation as Director of the Division and its subsequent acceptance. This news came as a complete surprise to at least some members of the Committee, since even the Chairman, Dr. Moseley, had not been officially informed of the resignation until the day before. The Committee was dismayed that it had not been informed of Dr. Totter's resignation and the selection of a new Division Director, It apparently had been Commission policy to hold this information internally. Dr. Moseley reported that he had been in telephone contact with Dr. Haagen-Smit who was unable to attend the meeting and had reported this turn of events to Dr. Haagen-Smit. The latter's reaction perhaps best summarizes the position of the Committee in this matter. Dr. Haagen-Smit felt that the Commission had missed an oppor- tunity to conduct a portion of its affairs openly and with the knowledge of at least a small segment of the lay scientific public as represented by the Advisory Committee. This is particularly unfortunate in view of the Commission's stated goal to conduct its affairs with greater public knowledge and greater openness. The meeting adjourned at 11:45 A.M. wy Respgctfully submitted, Y Ar“ abt (5 ~ / i ‘~ £ . f n B. Storer, M.D. 4 Scientific Secretary, Advisory Committec for Biology and Medicine OFFICIAL USE ONLY