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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. CI (confidence interval): Interval estimate of an unknown parameter such as a risk; 95% CI, as an example, is constructed from a procedure that is theoretically successful in capturing the parameter of interest in 95% of its applications. Confidence limits are the end points of a confidence interval CIC: Community Involvement Committee (LANL) CLL: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia COWG: Communications and Outreach Workgroup (Oak Ridge) DOE: U.S. Department of Energy Dose: Short name for absorbed dose (1 Gy = 1 J/kg) and also for equivalent dose, effective dose, and weighted dose (1 Sv = 1 J/kg) EEOICPA: Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act EPA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Epidemiology: Study of the determinants of the frequency of disease in humans.The two main types of epidemiologic studies of chronic disease are cohort (or follow-up) studies and case-control studies EPR: Electron paramagnetic resonance ERDA: Energy Research and Development Administration ERR: Estimated excess relative risk. The rate of disease in an exposed population divided by the rate of disease in an unexposed population minus 1.0. ES&H: Office of Environment, Safety and Health (DOE) ETTP: East Tennessee Technology Park Exposure: Condition of having contact with a physical or chemical agent FACA: Federal Advisory Committee Act FWMSP: Former Worker Medical Surveillance Program (DOE) HCHP: Hanford Community Health Project HEDR: Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project HEHF: Hanford Environmental Health Foundation. HERB: Health-Related Energy Research Branch (NIOSH) HES: Health Effects Subcommittee HETA: Hazard Evaluation and Technical Assistance HHE: Health Hazard Evaluation HHES: Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee HHIN: Hanford Health Information Network HHS: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HTDS: Hanford Thyroid Disease Study I-131: Iodine-131 ICD: International Classification of Diseases ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection: Independent inter-
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