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scientusts will be needed to assure competent and adequate study both of the exisung nuclear weapons
workforce and of the workers who will be involved in
the long and potentially dangerous cleanup effort.
statutory provision should be made and funds provided
for rigorous oversight by the Occupational Safety and
Office of Radiation and Toxins Health Assessment, an
expandedstaff of researchers, and the costs of studies
covering all potentially exposed workers and off-site
populationsatal] facilities.
standards or otherwise pose an unacceptable public
health threat.
Legislative action is required to assure that all
relevant OSHA and EPA regulations are applied to
the DOE’s weapons complex at least as vigorously
as they are applied to private industry. In view of
the risks, and the record, the defense of sovereign
immunity by the DOE and its contractors should be
waived.
Adequate funding from the DOE’s “050” defense production accounts should be used to support the new
13. Fullyfund and implement improved CEDR Program. Adequate funding should be provided for a
Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource that will
be available to all scientists, with the assurance that aii
relevant data from the nuclear weapons production
complex andits planned health surveillance system will
be entered.
14. Enhance the regulatory power of OSHA and EPA
throughout the weapons complex. While on-line, inplant responsibility for occupational health and safety
programs might remain with DOEandits contractors,
Health Administration (OSHA) and EPA. Those agencies should be given the power to impose fines or,
when necessary, shut down operations at the DOE
facilities that violate occupational and environmental
15. Consider the bealth and environmental impacts of
continued nuclear weapons activities. Any proposal
to resume production of nuclear weapons should in-
corporate a complete review of the associated hazards
to the health and safety ofworkers and nearby communities. Theputative benefits of such weapons should be
weighed against the associated risks and hazards.
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