Savannah River Site Health Effects Subcommittee (SRSHES) Meeting

Meeting Minutes
September 6, 2002

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Action Items

• The DFO to follow up on SRSHES’s request to advertise future SRSHES meetings in local SRS newspapers.
   
• The Agenda Workgroup to determine if speakers from CNTA and other citizen’s groups are appropriate for the SRSHES mission before scheduling these presentations on future agendas.
  

Agenda Items

• Status report by NCEH on historical dose ranges persons received near the SRS site. SRSHES to discuss the feasibility of including these ranges in the dose reconstruction project scenarios.
   
• Overview by NCEH on its research agenda. Discussion topics to include the role of SRSHES in the research agenda, public comments received to date, budget issues and suggestions for future research topics at SRS.
   
• Updates by all workgroups.
   
• Overview by Dr. John Till and HES members from other sites on lessons learned and experiences in the dose reconstruction project.
   
• Update by NIOSH on the Occupational Illness Compensation Program and use of dose reconstruction data to evaluate SRS workers for compensation.
   
• Review of the History of the Savannah River Site by the author or SRSHES members who read the book.
   
• Presentation by GEPD on historical data from the Georgia sampling program.

Consensus Recommendations

• SRSHES recommends that the rural family, urban/suburban family, delivery person and outdoors person scenarios as presented by the Scenario Workgroup be forwarded to NCEH for further evaluation in the screening process.
   
• SRSHES recommends that the proposed agenda items be adopted.