Letter to Dr. Wachholz June 30, 1981 Page 4 10. Bob Conard's Forthcoming Report. Tt wouldbe a serious mistake for this report to be published with current dose estimates. If he must publish, let it appear without any dose estimates. Yic Bond should be sensitive to the implications of Conard's report being published with obsolete dose estimates and calculated or calculatable risk coefficients for thyroid cancer. The risk coefficients will be considerable over- estimates, based on what we were told about the results of the reassessment of the thyroid doses. It would be irresponsible for this report to appear in the literature as Bob apparently intends. In summary, this was an excellent review. The BNL investigators and management are to be commended for their efforts. Wit hbest regards, \ Mt William J. Bair, Ph.D. Manager Environment, Health and Safety Research Program WJB:1m