CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
As you al} know from your. reappointment letters,
the Secretary of Energy has reappointed the Dose Assessment Advisory Group
for another two year period ending in 1984 based on Bruce's Flow Chart,
and, I guess, our own projections of things.
We believe the task of ORERP
groups and of DAAG will be completed by that time.
I felt jealous of all
thought
(RDM-1).
the
Chairman
of
of the
the
Task
Committee
Groups having viewgraphs,
ought to have
a
so
viewgraph,
I
too.
This is for a dual purpose, to remind you of the Charter of our
group, which we discussed
in substantial extent at our first meeting in
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December a couple of years ago.
tl
facet.
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task
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between the meetings to allow the Task Groups to accomplish more of the
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scientific effort without being interferred with by having to prepare for
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another Dose Assessment Advisory Group meeting.
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the first one in that it removes the requirement, which we had to petition
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to have removed initially, that we meet quarterly, and now it says that we
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meet at least semiannually.
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need to meet semiannually, which is probably an adequate schedule for us.
The
The Charter is unchanged except in one
initial Charter called for us to meet quarterly; and as our
progressed,
it
seemed
reasonable
to
allow
longer
periods
of
time
This Charter differs from
We can meet more frequently than that, but we
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Maybe I'm a little more exorcised about this than I should be.
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Media in Las Vegas last night, or this morning, characterized me as a DOE
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official.
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employee of the Department of Energy,
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career in either of those capacities.
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Department - of
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Commission, this one, the Dose Assessment Advisory Group, and the Advisory
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Committee on Biology and Medicine of the Atomic Energy Commission in the
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mid-sixties to the early 1970s.
I'm neither an official
Energy
and
its
of the
Department of Energy,
nor have
The
nor an
I ever been in my entire
I've served on two committees of the
predecessor
agency,
the
Atomic
Energy
I, and all of the other members of this
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