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Professor of Radio logy University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New He xico 87106 Thank you for your letter of June 16, 1971, reporting on the meeting of the Advisory Camittee for Biology and Medicine a t the Oak Ridge National Laboratory on May 14 and 15, 1971. W e are pleased that the presentations, although they represented only a small sample of the extensive and diverse research program i n the Biology Division, were interesting and informative tothe Comnittee. The‘ overall productivity of this Division of ORNL and the relevance of its work to Commission needs has been outstanding and I am sure will continue t o be so. The Commission has noted and understands the strong feeling you have expressed i n the failure of the General Advisory Cormnittee t o select a biomedical scientist as one of the recipients for the 1971 E. 0. Lawrence Award. W e are keenly aware of the contribution research in this field has raade i n making it poaslble for the BEC to meet Its responsibility to develop nuclear energy Fn a manner that assures public safety and minimizes its Impact on the environment. explore this matter further with the GAC at one of their future meetings. We appreciate the Conrmittee’s review and comments on the proposed amendments to Part 50 t o provide numerical guides on design objectives and limiting conditions for operation for light-water-cooled nuclear power plants to keep levels of radioactivity in effluents as low as practicable. The notice of proposed rule making was published inthe Federal Repister on June 9, 1971. The Commission plans t o hold an informal public hearing on the proposed amendments and a notice regarding such a hearing will be published inthe near future. believes that this is a further important step to assure that exposures to the public from the operation of nuclear fac ili the s are kept a t small percentages of natural background radiation.
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We are pleased that the ACBM is willing to resist Mr. Charles Eason by appointing a subcommittee to consider occupational radiation exposure records and your advice t o him will be very helpful. The Commission regrets that D r . Cohen's membership on the ACBM has came counsel and guidance he has given the AEC us w e l l as the Division of Biology and Medicine during the years he served as both member and chairman of the Committee. We are very grateful t o D r . Cohen for the thoughtful ' Commiss ioner Rarney