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SPECIFIC COMMENTS ON VOLUME I
Pages 29-30

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... The committee has some additional specific comments: Page 94, middle paragraph, and table 26: The baseline radiogenic risk of cancer (5%/Sv) that RAC multiplies by 2 for exposures before age 20 years is based on a population of all ages; that is, it includes the population aged 0-19 years.
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... Appendix El: Particle Size Distributions for Dust Collectors RAC has chosen to accomplish several things in this appendix, including fitting the cascade-impactor data by exact polynomial equations, simulating mathematically the action of an Andersen impactor by describing the jet configurations and air flows to match the airsampling process, and comparing this approach to conventional particle-size analysis by using lognonnal clistr~bution assumptions and probit analyses to obtain mass median aerodynamic diameters (MMADs)
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