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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1994. The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project: A Review of Four Documents. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9228.
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THE HANFORD ENVIRONMENTAL DOSE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT: A REVIEW OF FOUR DOCUMENTS

Committee on an Assessment of CDC Radiation Studies

Board on Radiation Effects Research

Commission on Life Sciences

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C. 1994

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1994. The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project: A Review of Four Documents. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9228.
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NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
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The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the governing board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competencies and with regard for appropriate balance.

This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of the members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

This project was prepared under contract 200-91-0951 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Limited number of copies available from the Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20418

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1994. The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project: A Review of Four Documents. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9228.
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COMMITTEE ON AN ASSESSMENT OF CDC RADIATION STUDIES

WILLIAM J. SCHULL (Chairman),

University of Texas, Houston, Texas

STEPHEN A. BENJAMIN,

Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado

ANDRÉ BOUVILLE,

National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

GEOFFREY G. EICHHOLZ,

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

J. CHARLES JENNETT,

Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

LEEKA I. KHEIFETS,

Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California

JAMES E. MARTIN,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON,

Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

HENRY D. ROYAL,

Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri

ROY E. SHORE,

New York University Medical Center, New York, New York

ROBERT G. THOMAS,

Argonne National Laboratory (ret.), Argonne, Illinois

HENRY N. WAGNER, Jr.,

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland

JAMES M. WALL,

The Christian Century, Chicago, Illinois

National Research Council Staff

EVAN B. DOUPLE, Study Director

MAURITA DOW-MASSEY, Project Assistant

DORIS E. TAYLOR, Staff Assistant

LARA V. ADAMO, Project Assistant/Secretary (as of October 17, 1994)

NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Editor

SPONSOR'S PROJECT OFFICER

JAMES M. SMITH,

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1994. The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project: A Review of Four Documents. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9228.
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BOARD ON RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH

WARREN K. SINCLAIR (Chairman),

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (ret.), Bethesda, Maryland

DOUGLAS GRAHN,

Argonne National Laboratory (ret.), Madison, Indiana (member until June 30, 1994)

ERIC J. HALL,

Columbia University, New York, New York (member until June 30, 1994)

MAUREEN M. HENDERSON,

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

LEONARD S. LERMAN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

JOHN B. LITTLE,

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

JONATHAN M. SAMET,

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

WILLIAM J. SCHULL,

University of Texas, Houston, Texas (member as of July 1, 1994)

THOMAS S. TENFORDE,

Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, Washington

SUSAN H. WALLACE,

University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont (member of as July 1, 1994)

H. RODNEY WITHERS,

UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

National Research Council Staff

JOHN D. ZIMBRICK, Director

CHARLES W. EDINGTON, Director, RERFP

EVAN B. DOUPLE, Senior Program Officer

LARRY H. TOBUREN, Senior Program Officer

LARA V. ADAMO, Project Assistant/Secretary (as of October 17, 1994)

CATHERINE S. BERKLEY, Administrative Associate

MAURITA DOW-MASSEY, Project Assistant

DORIS E. TAYLOR, Staff Assistant

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1994. The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project: A Review of Four Documents. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9228.
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COMMISSION ON LIFE SCIENCES

THOMAS D. POLLARD (Chairman),

Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland

BRUCE N. AMES,

University of California, Berkeley, California

JOHN C. BAILAR III,

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

J. MICHAEL BISHOP,

University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California

JOHN E. BURRIS,

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

MICHAEL T. CLEGG,

University of California, Riverside, California

GLENN A. CROSBY,

Washington State University, Pullman, Washington

LEROY E. HOOD,

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

MARIAN E. KOSHLAND,

University of California, Berkeley, California

RICHARD E. LENSKI,

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

EMIL A. PFITZER,

Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey

MALCOLM C. PIKE,

University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

HENRY C. PITOT III,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

PAUL G. RISSER,

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

JONATHAN M. SAMET,

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

HAROLD M. SCHMECK, JR.,

Armonk, New York

CARLA J. SHATZ,

University of California, Berkeley, California

SUSAN S. TAYLOR,

University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California

P. ROY VAGELOS,

Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

JOHN L. VANDEBERG,

Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas

TORSTEN N. WIESEL,

Rockefeller University, New York, New York

National Research Council Staff

PAUL GILMAN, Executive Director

ALVIN G. LAZEN, Associate Executive Director

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1994. The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project: A Review of Four Documents. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9228.
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PREFACE

The National Research Council's Committee on an Assessment of CDC Radiation Studies was called on to advise the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about four reports on the Hanford Nuclear Facility in Richland, Washington, that were prepared by the Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories as part of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) project. Like the committee's previous report on the dose-reconstruction project under way at the Fernald Nuclear Facility, this report is a commentary on selected documents that cover only a fraction of the Hanford dose-reconstruction project. The need to comment on the documents arises from two circumstances. First, CDC is charged to evaluate the magnitude of the radiation dose to members of the public in the vicinity of several nuclear facilities around the country, and the evaluation of the Hanford nuclear site might serve as a model for other studies; this committee 's comments might help to refine procedures for the performance of other studies that will start in the near future. Second, there is considerable public concern about the Hanford nuclear site and an independent scientific evaluation of the situation there is needed.

The committee is especially grateful for the information provided by members of the independent Technical Steering Panel, especially Chairman John Till and Mary Lou Blazek; members of the HEDR project —Project Manager Dillard Shipler, Warren Bishop, Maurice Robkin, Bruce Napier, Cal Heeb, John Ramsdell, William Farris, and Jeanne Simpson; and Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories' representatives Michael Donnelly and Geoffrey Harvey. In addition, the committee appreciates the participation of citizens at the public meeting held in Richland, including James Thomas of the Hanford Education Action League.

The committee thanks the National Research Council staff who worked with us, especially Edward Patte and Marc Holler for their preparation of several drafts of this report and Doris Taylor and Maurita Dow-Massey for their help in the administrative details related to this committee 's work.

William J. Schull

Chairman

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