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BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. Upton, NEW York 11973 Manager, Human Health Studies Programs Division of Biomedical and Environmental U.S. Department of Energy Thanks so much for calling back this morning about the Tabershaw meeting. I am delighted that it went the way it did. I’m sure that Tabershaw and Steve Lamb will. do an outstanding job no matter what the magnitude but Dr. Tabershaw I believe has the entire concept of the study and really is looking at a major revision in the epidemiologic frame!iork. It would be great if it could be implemented but again, the fiscal constraints are controlling. I was sorry to have mentioned the probLems with the ‘dikinians both from the standpoint of authorization and compensation but these are very practical problems that spell the difference between success and failure for us in the field. It’s a very bad feeling to stand in front of those people and to try and answer questions for which I have no authorization or quidel.ines. I feel like an idiot having to juggle those questions for a year now. I am enclosing a series of addendum j.ncluding an updated position paper for the BNL medical surveys ~.isting 5 instead of 4 options, as requested by Bruce Wachholz. In addition, there is a comparative analysis of the traditional (1954-1978) Brookhaven National Laboratory Medical Program and required revisions in light of actual and projected expansj.on, the next paper is a logistic planning memorandum for Dr. Cronkite, listing the man days for each incremental increase in the medical examinations by island. The next j.s a short discussion and a graph of costs for each of these incremental i.nczoases and finally there is a discussion of bench mark dates For the program. For example, we must begin immediate exploration for procurement of a “new” ship to support the various laboratories. It would seem that requirements for this ship would be generated by a combinecl logistic planning meeting and that that logistic
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planning meeting be a spin-off from the coordinated Principal Investigators meeting to develop a concerted research plan that Bruce has been attempting to assemble all summer. I’ve just discussed the previous matters with Bruce by phone in Washington (Battelle Laboratory) and will talk to him again next Tuesday. Thanks again for your continued support.