aye bs fly (aa? v7 DOB&RCH ivES Gene 5. -3. Since 1965, in addition to the main FRC project concerned with radiation protection for uranium miners, the FRC staff and Working Group have kept developments under continuous review to identify major deficiences in the existing guidance of the FRC or to determine if a special FRC project might be needed. A summary of these activities is shown in attachment B for information of the Council members. 6. More recently several citizens groups have attacked both Government and industrial activities associated with radiation exposure from the release of radionuclides to the environment. Some have attacked the entire foundation of the radiation protection standards recommended by the FRC on the basis that they permit unduly hazardous exposure. For example, some have concluded that continued exposure of the population at the average level ''permitted'" by the FRC Radiation Protection Guides (RPG) would result in up to 32,000 additional cancer deaths per year. In addition to the recommendation from the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the replies from the Departments of Labor and Commerce to Senator Muskie indicated it would be appropriate for some organization such as the FRC to carefully examine the underlying assumptions used by those making this assertion.