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dn this case, mean exposure to persons “outside the fence"
of an AEC (or AEC-licensed)
facility.
Criteria, required
“to meet these standards, for plant operation and design
remained with the AEC.
Hence, present responsibility for
assessment of health effects resides
in EPA, while
the
responsibility for develoring technology to control emissions
resides in AEC.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
in a recent letter to EPA and AEC clarified the delegation
of responsibility between these agencics for promulgating
regulations to limit the radioactivity that may be emitted
from facilities in the nuclear povver industry.
OMB stated:
AEC should proceed with its plans for
issuing uranium fuel cycle standards, taking
into account the comments received from all
sources,
including EPA;
that EPA should dis-
continue its preparations for issuing, now
or in the future, any standards for types of
facilities;
and that EPA should continue,
under its current authority, to have res-
ponsibility for setting standards for the total
amount of radiation in the aecneral environment
from all facilities combined in the uranium
fuel cycle, i.e., an ambient standard which
would have to reflect AEC's findings as to
the practicability of emission controis.?3
There are other agencies and groups which are concerned
With radiation standards and in some cases have regulatory
authority.
These include, but are not limited to, the
Department of Health, Education and Welitare, Department of
Labor, Bureau~of Mines, the American National Standards
Institute, and state agencies.
The radiation standards of
these organizations a€re not at issue here.
For the most part
they play a secondary role, or where applicable, follow the
guidance of the NCRP, EPA and AEC.
3/ Memorandun for Administrator Train and Chairman Ray
from Roy Y L. Ash, ’ Dec. 7, ' 1972.