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Pacific Northwat Laboratories Assistant Manager for Safety, Safeguards, and R i chl and Operations Off i ce During a meeting i n your'office on May 31, Drs. Marks and Breitenstein - mentioned the peer review OT the Hanford Health and Mortality Study by a,- DOEZappointed comnittee on February 7, 1983, and the continuing periodic c review of the Study by an advisory comnittee. Materials relevant t o those reviews are enclogd. The on-slte peer review was organized by the DOE-Office of Health and ETvi rronmental Research, which selected the cm it tee of eleven members. . The cornittee consisted of university faculty,- some federal agency experts, - period of several months the comi ttee reviewed nuclear worker epidemiology projects conducted by Oak Ridge 'Associated Universities, LANL, ANL and Johns- Hopkins University i n addition t o the study i n progress a t Hanford. Not all members could find the time t o participate i n each review; six were present for the Hanford review (Unruh attended b u t was excluded from the operation o f the comnittee during this review). comni ttee' s findings and their detai 7 ed conents are encl osed. The sumnary of the The enclosed materials include the following: list of comnittee members list of publications provided t o the comnittee sumnary report o f the review comnents o f comnittee members organized by topic response t o comnents prepared by PNL and HEHF.
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In addition, we have enclosed copies of the reports of meetings of the Advisory Committee t o the Hanford Health and Mortality Study. The Committee met every year initially and now meets a t year-and-a-ha1 f interval s. The current members of the Committee are Drs. N. Breslow, University of New York University. We are proud of the epidemiology studies conducted j o i n t l y by PNL and HEHF and of the reputation that they enjoy i n the scientific community. believe that the reviews reflect the state-of-the-art quality of the data hand, we do s o l i c i t suggestions for improvement of our work by our Advisory Committee and have benefited from various comments by reviewers. If you wish further information a b o u t the OHER review and our Advisory Committee, please contact Dr. Marks (375-2461). On the other
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