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To : Commissioners and Division Directors SUBJECT: MEETING OF ADVISORY CoMMIl7'EE FOR BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE The fifty-fifth meeting of the Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine is to be held at the Idaho Operations Office, Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, 1956. -. Tour of the National Reactor Testing Site Facilities Report on Current Activities of the Division of Biology and 1O:OO A.M. Report on Visit to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in 11:lO A.M. Discussion of Present Needs and Future Requirements for 2:15 P.M. Discussion of Special Health and Medical Problems of the Idaho Operations Office Dr. Beard OFFICIAL USE ONLY **9:30 A;M. International Atom f o r Peace Program Biology - Medicine and Agriculture Dr. Pearson
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OFFICIAL USE OMLY Proposed Expansion of Civil Defense aison Program Dr. lxzr Report of Present State of Legislative Program as it Relates t o the ACBM Dr. Dunham - Mr. Brown Discussion Pertaining t o the McKinney Panel Mr. Brown Consideration of Draft Minutes of Meeting Held a t the AEC - November 30, December l ' b 2, 1955 Consideration of Draft Minutes of Meeting Held a t the NYOO and the Radiological Research Laboratory, Columbia-. Medical Center - January 13 and 4, 1956 Place and bte of Next Meeting
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Hmorable Lewis L. Skauss, Chairman I n my letter of Janttary L, 1956, reporting on t h e 53rd meeting of the Advisary Comittee for Biology and Hedicine, concern vas expressed over the critical status of' the At(l0tic E& Casualty Canmission in Japan and some suggestions for remedial action uere made. As suggested by *e ACm Dr.Dunham wrote a letter to Dr. Wonk, President of the llatioml Acadcn~yof Sciences, on December 20, 1955. at the 55th meeting of the ACBH held in Idaho Falls Mar& 9 and 20, 1956,- Xk. Dunham nported that he h a d m t pt received a repw fro03 Dr. Bronk. In the mq+ntime another groqp, including Ik. Shields W a r r e n and Ilr. John Bugh& had .. need for prompt act3.m. me colplpittee discussc4 the matter again and prepared the follouing stqtement, &idI am tram dt ting to you ahead of the f u l l report of the meeting, be'cwst of the urgency of the inception of the contract w i t h MAS, realizing. the urgtndy of the present situation, and mindful of the in port met of the knouledge to be gained in Japan to the W ted States and to the usrld, the ACE%! recamends that the AEC discuss w i t h the IUS the steps necessary t o improve radically and immediately the operation-of the ABCC, In the an a nimo us and cop sidered opinion of the ACBM, ,&is nquins transfer of a e operating . contract from the HAS to anothcl:.organization, such as a university.- of I am very sorry to add anothcr.probrahto the numerous on& you already have, but it seems that only action at a high level can