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Oak Ridge Reservation Health Effects Subcommittee (Orrhes) OAK RIDGE RESERVATION HEALTH EFFECTS SUBCOMMITTEE (ORRHES) CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY Detailed Proceedings of the June 28, 2005, ORRHES meeting Oak Ridge Reservation Health Draft Summary Proceedings Effects Subcommittee (ORRHES) June 28, 2005 1 2 3 Call to Order/Opening Remarks 4 5 The Oak Ridge Reservation Health Effects Subcommittee (ORRHES) convened on June 28, 6 2005, at the DOE Information Center at 475 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. 7 Chairperson Kowetha Davidson called the meeting to order at 12:18 p.m. 8 9 10 11 Introduction of Subcommittee Members and Attendees 12 13 Kowetha Davidson asked all attendees to introduce themselves. The attendees were: 14 15 Kowetha Davidson, ORRHES Chair 16 Peggy Adkins, ORRHES member 17 Don Box, ORRHES member 18 Herman Cember, ORRHES member 19 Bob Craig, ORRHES member 20 Don Creasia, ORRHES member 21 Karen Galloway, ORRHES member 22 George Gartseff, ORRHES member 23 Jeff Hill, ORRHES member 24 David Johnson, ORRHES member 25 Susan Kaplan, ORRHES member 26 James Lewis, ORRHES member 27 Pete Malmquist, ORRHES member 28 L.C. Manley, ORRHES member 29 Barbara Sonnenburg, ORRHES member 30 Charles Washington, ORRHES member 31 Chudi Nwangwa, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation liaison 32 Jon Richards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region IV liaison 33 Brenda Vowell, Tennessee Department of Health liaison 34 Tim Joseph, U.S. Department of Energy 35 Marilyn Horton, ATSDR, Designated Federal Official for ORRHES 36 Bill Cibulas, ATSDR 37 Mark Evans, ATSDR 38 Jack Hanley, ATSDR 39 Susan Robinson, ATSDR 40 Bill Taylor, ATSDR 41 Amanda Bird, TA Consulting, Inc. 42 Al Brooks, member of the public 43 James Cardwell, member of the public 44 David Hackett, member of the public 45 Josh Johnson, member of the public 46 Fay Martin, member of the public 1 9/27/05 Oak Ridge Reservation Health Draft Summary Proceedings Effects Subcommittee (ORRHES) June 28, 2005 1 John Merkle, member of the public 2 Norman Mulvenon, member of the public 3 Lynne Roberson, member of the public 4 Lynn Sims, member of the public 5 Janice Stokes, member of the public 6 Luther Gibson, Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee 7 Lu Cardwell, Clean Air Friends—Clean Air Kids 8 Pat Hunter, Clean Air Friends—Clean Air Kids 9 Rich Bonczek, SAIC 10 Michael Quick, International Chemical Workers Union Council/International Association of 11 Machinists and Aerospace Workers Center for Workers Safety 12 Gordon Blaylock, SENES 13 Ellen Smith, Oak Ridge Environmental Quality Advisory Board 14 Carolyn Krause, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 15 Janet Michel, Coalition for a Healthy Environment 16 Liz Bertelsen, ERG 17 18 19 Agenda Review and Correspondence 20 21 22 Agenda Review 23 Dr. Davidson reviewed the main agenda items: 24 25 • Status of action items. 26 27 • Presentation and discussion by ORRHES member Susan Kaplan on her report titled Impacts 28 on Oak Ridge Landowners of Off-Site Releases to the Environment from the Y-12 Plant and 29 Associated Long-Term Stewardship Issues. 30 31 • The draft public health assessment (PHA) Evaluation of Potential Exposures to 32 Contaminated Off-Site Groundwater From the Oak Ridge Reservation, presented by Dr. 33 Mark Evans (prepared by Lieutenant Trent LeCoultre, who was unable to attend). 34 35 • Work group reports and recommendations. 36 37 • Two public comment periods. 38 39 Dr. Davidson noted that public comment periods were the only fixed times on the agenda; times 40 of other items were flexible. She asked the public attendees to inform her if they had questions 41 and said she would try to have their questions presented and answered during the meeting. 42 Barbara Sonnenburg stated that several members of the public were in attendance, and asked 43 whether the public comment periods could be extended to accommodate any comments going 44 beyond the set time. Dr. Davidson answered that this could be done, explaining that they would 45 be flexible regarding items on the agenda other than the set public comment periods. Ms. 46 Sonnenburg inquired if public comments would be time-limited so everyone had the same 2 9/27/05 Oak Ridge Reservation Health Draft Summary Proceedings Effects Subcommittee (ORRHES) June 28, 2005 1 amount of time to speak. Dr. Davidson said that she planned to allow public members to speak to 2 the extent possible without limiting their time. 3 4 Correspondence 5 There had been no correspondence to report since the May 3, 2005, ORRHES meeting. 6 7 8 Motion: Approval of May 3, 2005, ORRHES Meeting Minutes 9 10 11 Dr. Davidson asked if there were any modifications or corrections to the May 3, 2005, meeting 12 minutes. The minutes were approved by voice vote with one abstention (an ORRHES member 13 who had not attended the previous meeting). 14 15 16 Status of Action Items 17 18 19 Marilyn Horton explained that a status of action items had been supplied to everyone in their pre- 20 meeting mailing packages. During the meeting on May 3, 2005, a discussion was held on 21 ATSDR’s A Toxicology Curriculum for Communities and many members requested a copy of 22 the manual. Ms. Horton noted that a CD-ROM was available at this time; however, no hard 23 copies were available because ATSDR’s publications warehouse was in the process of moving. 24 When hard copies are available at the end of July or early August, Ms. Horton said, she will 25 provide manuals to those members who requested them. In the meantime, Bill Taylor had a hard 26 copy and a CD-ROM in the ATSDR Oak Ridge Field Office for people to review. 27 28 Invitations to continue serving on ORRHES were provided in the pre-meeting packages. Ms. 29 Horton said that copies of this form had also been placed at each person’s seat; these could be 30 signed and returned to her today. 31 32 Ms. Horton asked whether all ORRHES members had received the draft PHA on off-site 33 groundwater. Bob Craig had not received a copy. Ms. Horton said she would give her copy to 34 Dr. Craig and added that extra copies were also available in the field office. 35 36 37 Status of Oak Ridge Reservation PHAs 38 39 40 Bill Cibulas thanked the subcommittee for having him and Jack Hanley sit at the table, saying 41 that he looked forward to answering their questions fairly and honestly. He referred to an 42 overhead that presented the stages of each PHA (from preliminary assessment presented to the 43 Exposure Evaluation Work Group, or EEWG, to final release). He said he recognized that 44 ATSDR had only 1 more year to complete the tenure of ORRHES and the remaining PHAs, and 45 expressed his commitment to working diligently with the subcommittee during this time to be as 46 productive as possible. 3 9/27/05 Oak Ridge Reservation Health Draft Summary Proceedings Effects Subcommittee (ORRHES) June 28, 2005 1 Dr. Cibulas said that they were on schedule to complete the remaining eight PHAs by June 2006, 2 expressing his commitment to using the resources and staff necessary to accomplish this. As the 3 overhead showed, the data validation draft (DVD) PHAs have been completed for all PHAs 4 except for mercury. Dr. Taylor is the principal author of the mercury PHA, which is in progress. 5 According to Dr. Cibulas, no problems are anticipated with keeping this document on schedule. 6 To date, all preliminary assessments (except those for iodine 131 and mercury) have been 7 presented to the EEWG. Dr. Cibulas explained that, in addition to the public comment period, 8 PHAs are also sent out for peer review. ATSDR had intended to share the comments received on 9 the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) incinerator PHA at this meeting; however, due to 10 medical difficulties with two of the document’s peer reviewers, ATSDR had not finished 11 receiving and responding to comments. The comments would be presented at the next ORRHES 12 meeting. Dr. Cibulas stated that the documents were on schedule; he said he hoped to complete 13 all of the PHAs by June 2006. 14 15 James Lewis asked about the handout referring to the Division of Health Assessment and 16 Consultation’s (DHAC’s) plan for collecting information about communities surrounding the 17 ORR, which notes that concerns will be captured (from newspaper articles and reports) and a 18 summary will be prepared. He expressed his concern about how community concerns and issues 19 specific to different contaminants of concern (COCs) would be incorporated into the PHAs and 20 addressed. In his opinion, he said, these articles contained some good questions. He asked how 21 these would be connected to the documents and included in this effort, saying they did not 22 appear to be included in the Dr. Cibulas’s report on PHA status. 23 24 Dr. Cibulas said he thought that this was a good question and also expressed his concern about 25 the timing. He explained that to the extent feasible, specific community concerns identified 26 during the course of specific PHAs would be included in those documents. If a problem arises 27 with timing, he said, the concerns would probably be added as an appendix to keep them 28 attached to a specific PHA. He noted that he shared Mr. Lewis’s concern, and would work with 29 the subcommittee to ensure that community concerns were attached to relevant PHAs via 30 appropriate means, either during the process, as an appendix, or through another mechanism that 31 the group might determine is appropriate.
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