Committee,
serve
without
stipend,
honorarium,
or
even
reimbursement of their expenses, in attending these sessions.
complete
I think that
it is a little calumny to imply that the public spirited members of this
Committee, who give from their own time and their own direct professional
interests to serve their country in this capacity, would be considered to
have anything except the motivation for seeing that the United States and
that the people of the United States be properly served by their advisory
efforts.
fom
You
can\sée
that
our
Charter
requires
that
we
have
three
10
functions about the middle of the Committee's objectives,
11
ties,
12
provides effective and objective working level advice and recommendations
13
to the Manager of the Nevada Operations Office in the planning, organiza-
14
tion,
15
secondly, what we have been doing at-this meeting and at previous meetings,
16
we review the activities of the projectand ask occasionally a name but not
17
infrequently searching questions about the direction that the project is
18
going.
19
had on the Task Groups, I think it has beenbeth a definite one, hopefully,
20
and, I really believe, a useful one, as we have commented on the directions
21
that the research effort should take in order to establish the credibility
22
of this. effort.
23
after each of these meetings with a full transcript-of our activities in
24
addition to a summary with identification of problems and recommendations
25
that we have both to the Secretary of the Department of Energy and to the
26
"manager of this office as well as individuals involved”if the supervision
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28
scope,
real
activi-
and duties. _—As amulti-discipl inary group of experts, this group
and
technical
direction of
the
Dose
Assessment
Project.
And,
In reviewing the impact that the Dose Assessment Advisory Group has
And, thirdly, we report on the progress of this project
of the project.
I
don't know how one establishes credibility in this regard.
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