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We were told that by Congressional Act the National Council on
Radiation Protection and Measurements has been chartered and has been
reorganized with a $50,000.00 budget, hopefully to be derived from various
interested organizations, including AEC and the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, among others.
It was reported that the General Electric Company is withdrawing from
its managerial position at Hanford and that Batelle Memorial Institute
has been asked to take over operation of the laboratories.
Policies and
practices related to the provision of medical care for workers and their
families must be re-evaluated in the light of legal restrictions regarding
the corporate practice of medicine which did not apply so long as the
people involved were the employees of the G.E. Company.
The Committee was briefed on the recent radiation accident in Rhode
Island where a small, privately owned non-AEC plant was engaged in the
recovery of fissionable material from fuel element manufacture.
This was
not processing of spent fuel elements,
One death occurred 49 hours after
high exposure.
Although no serious spillage or surface contamination had
occurred, hospital personnel and others shunned the patient.
The operation
was a licensed one and the question of possible AEC legal responsibility
was discussed.
The Committee was informed that in keeping with its recommendation
Dr. Gertrude Cox has been invited to become a member of ACBM,
Dr. William Pollard's medical program at Oak Ridge Institute of
Nuclear Studies has been reviewed by a committee of which Dr. Henry Kaplan
was chairman,
This is a $1.3 million project.
committee's report and offered his own comments,
Dr. Dunham described the
Salary schedules in all government activities, newly revised, were
presented and described by Mr. Stanwood and the status of the budget for
DBM for FY 64 and 65 was described and discussed by Mr. Whitnah. The
71 million budget for FY 64 was increased to 78 million for FY 65,
2 million less than the amount requested by AEC. The comments of the
“ Joint Committee on Atomic Energy concerning offsite project approval
procedure were again reported to us.
In addition to qerating funds three
construction projects have been approved.
One at Hanford, one for the Joint
AEC-NTH Cancer Project at Oak Ridge, and the building at Livermore.
The
various AEC agencies under DBM have requested $93,000,000 for FY 66. The
Commission approved a DBM request of 89.5 million and the Bureau of the
Budget has submitted reduced target figures for consideration. There seems
to be reason to believe that ceilings are in sight for federal research
support.
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