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TO (Name and unit) TO (Name and unit) FROM (Name and Unit) For concurrence. For actlon. See me about this. Note and return. Fcr Information. USE OTHER SIDE FOR ADDITIONAL REMARKS
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prie vmuld Ilk@ to report on q y visit to Id<iho Falls ad on .the meetings, An3 including the health physics and in dust rid medica groups was somewhat unusxd. in plw inasmch as no det aed agenda were distributed in advance. available to attendees. This meeting of the Bio-cal Program Ulrwtom, Nor were abstracts of papers presented made fhed topics aad %en&. b tio iial Committee on iladX.&txLon I;rotectiiuno are under process of revishm, but he caiitionsd not to q e c l these t o bo available in revised fom before eight or nine months. The XGW in general, is thinking in the folltrwsxlg terms: (1) Fhaf 10 rcra might be t a k a as the general Lifetine lfmit for genctia expsuraj (2) %'hat the 1956 spring meo.t;ine considered nld tenkatively rccmded 5; run,/ysw and 50 ren to ssc 30 for occupatio& 1 &dll at te qt to report on the discussions
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The second W f of the wrna session was util ie ed by 6. :5ctor ljeerd for 2 rev3.er.r of "&e methuds and oqznizaticsn of Health Pkysics a t present is that growth of activities at Idaho Cperatians will nearly fill in ;ill reasonable space on the reservakim w5tbxI-n CL fairly a b r t off - site covtrage Fvill Yive to be macle as the program grows, a small ecology stsdy involving tm ectilogists w b have been s6u-g the had -%alia, utilizing jackrabbits far both iodine-3.31 Spxial facilities w e being installed for manLter5ng of air-borne c, Elere is increased fn-terest in the Ahis for ?eats Frogrm for of p CT, omel, including contractor personnel, pernitti% paple to peolplc, to go tnezle lor research and teaching to hls t cr the universities and rescacl: institutes, fi nmber 02 - 2 2 contractor investigators were c d l e d upon for short reports. Jacoben 02 fMz re sorbed sixdics on a factor of the pltuiitaq thst my infhmcc haenatopoesis.- tard in Jones mted they m e st;;rdyil!lg the &,cprcjteins or" l o w and high density Cfiat nay have a ber?sbg on predicting mypcmdizl infmction. factors in them& bums. in ecclogj-, notin;., tbt ecological studies mat be tackled on a longJohn Ydfe reported brief u on AX interest
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term generation-to-gonara~~~~basis leading to our b e i q able to detect tilt? extended eaological implications of radiation, Gail ,Adam3 reported the foracomhg 5nformakion theory meeting a t Gatlinburg. sit- and values obtained. medial uses al; San Francisco of tihe synchrotron. DorsaMsoa Dr. Claw reported briefly on maximal pernisslble Uts, nptirg the NBs-t&:C: resrt forcod our hami in the face of need for real information on genetics and redaction of 1Ffe span. fie briefly repeted what Uuristdn Taylor had said . W i t h regard to revision of Handbooks $2 and 59, reminding the grcup of the following probable new ranges in limits: (a) Occupational exmure, total of y0 r m per decade, or 250 rem llntit at 5 ren per decade. as 5 rera/p, 3 rem per qaarter, or other derivations not going beyond tihe 50 rt%ll per decade. (b) For the general populason, the individua.LtS %e session closed witha short discussion of the loca%2fonfor the 11-12, 1956. It w a s decided t o nee% in iVaskiington, 93. C. cm Febmarg The meeting then adjourned.