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Transcript from the November 18, 2015, Meeting of the Advisory 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL + + + + + NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH + + + + + ADVISORY BOARD ON RADIATION AND WORKER HEALTH + + + + + 108th MEETING + + + + + WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2015 + + + + + The meeting convened at 8:15 a.m., Pacific Time, in the Waterfront Hotel, 10 Washington Street, Oakland, CA, James M. Melius, Chairman, presiding. PRESENT: JAMES M. MELIUS, Chairman HENRY A. ANDERSON, Member JOSIE BEACH, Member BRADLEY P. CLAWSON, Member R. WILLIAM FIELD, Member* DAVID KOTELCHUCK, Member WANDA I. MUNN, Member GENEVIEVE S. ROESSLER, Member PHILLIP SCHOFIELD, Member LORETTA R. VALERIO, Member* PAUL L. ZIEMER, Member* TED KATZ, Designated Federal Official REGISTERED AND/OR PUBLIC COMMENT PARTICIPANTS NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 2 ADAMS, NANCY, NIOSH Contractor AL-NABULSI, ISAF, DOE ANIGSTEIN, BOB, SC&A* BURGOS, ZAIDA, NIOSH CRAWFORD, CHRIS "FRANK," DOL MCKEEL, DAN* FITZGERALD, JOE, SC&A FROWISS, ALBERT* HINNEFELD, STU, DCAS JESKE, PATRICIA* JONES, WANDA, HHS* KINMAN, JOSH, DCAS LEWIS, GREG, DOE LIN, JENNY, HHS NETON, JIM, DCAS PADILLA, JUDY* REAVIS, RICK* RUTHERFORD, LAVON, DCAS STIVER, JOHN, SC&A TAULBEE, TIM, DCAS YUNDT, SCOTT ZINK, BRIAN* NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 3 C-O-N-T-E-N-T-S Welcome and Introduction by Dr. James Melius, Chairman ............ 5 by Mr. Ted Katz, DFO ..................... 6 NIOSH Program Update by Mr. Stuart Hinnefeld, NIOSH ........... 8 DOL Program Update by Mr. Frank Crawford, DOL .............. 38 DOE Program Update by Mr. Greg Lewis, DOE .................. 45 Dose Reconstruction Reviews by Dr. James Melius, Chairman ........... 59 Battelle Laboratories, King Avenue SEC Petition (1956-1970, Columbus, OH) by Dr. Tim Taulbee, NIOSH ............... 87 Board Work Session by Dr. James Melius, Chairman .......... 124 SEC Petitions Status Update by Mr. LaVon Rutherford, NIOSH ......... 152 Site Profile Reviews for Dow Chemical (Madison, IL) and General Steel Industries (Granite City, IL) by Dr. Jim Neton, DCAS ................. 158 by Dr. Paul Ziemer, Chair TBD 6000 WG .............................. 163 Board Work Group Session by Dr. James Melius, Chairman .......... 183 Idaho National Laboratory (1949-1970, Scoville, ID) SEC Petition by Dr. Tim Taulbee, NIOSH .............. 226 by Mr. John Stiver, SC&A ............... 232 by Mr. Phil Schofield, WG Chair ........ 260 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 4 T-A-B-L-E O-F C-O-N-T-E-N-T-S Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory SEC Petition (1974-1995, Livermore, CA) Update by Mr. LaVon Rutherford, NIOSH ......... 270 Public Comment .............................. 284 Adjourn, Day 1 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 5 1 P-R-O-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S 2 (8:19 a.m.) 3 CHAIRMAN MELIUS: If everyone could 4 get seated, we'll get started. And welcome to the 5 108th meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation 6 and Worker Health. And to start us off, Ted. 7 MR. KATZ: Thank you, Jim. Welcome, 8 everyone. Let me just say a few precursory things. 9 Welcome to the Advisory Board. 10 For everyone who's listening in from 11 elsewhere, the materials for this Board meeting, 12 the agenda and all the materials that will be 13 discussed, are posted on the NIOSH website under 14 the Board Section under Meeting Dates, today's 15 date, so you can follow along there with the 16 presentations. Pull up any of those presentations 17 there. 18 As well, the agenda has on it a Live 19 Meeting connection, so for those of you for whom 20 Live Meeting works, you can join by Live Meeting 21 and see the slides of the presentations. As 22 they're projected here, they'll show there as well. NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 6 1 Another thing for folks on the phone, 2 please keep your phones on mute except when you're 3 addressing the group and mostly that will be the 4 Board Members except during the public comment 5 section and the SEC sessions. And if you don't 6 have a mute button, press *6 to mute your phone and 7 press *6 again to take your phone off of mute. 8 And, please, nobody put their call on 9 hold but hang up and dial back in if you need to 10 leave the call for some time. 11 So there's also I'll note, although 12 I'll note it again later because probably people 13 who would be paying attention aren't right now on 14 the line, but we have a public comment session today 15 and I believe it begins at, yes, at 5 o'clock, 5 16 p.m. So if you plan to give public comment, you 17 should plan to be on the line at 5:00 when we start 18 that session. 19 Let me start with the Board roll call 20 and the way I'll do this, we have today, for today's 21 roll call, we have, let's see, only one site that 22 relates to conflict of interest so I'll just NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 7 1 address that and then we can run through roll call 2 without the Board Members individually addressing 3 conflicts. 4 So let's begin roll call with the Chair. 5 (Roll call) 6 MR. KATZ: And with respect to 7 conflicts, we are dealing with today later in the 8 afternoon Idaho National Laboratory, and for that, 9 Mr. Clawson has a conflict and he will recuse 10 himself when that session comes up. 11 And with that, it's your meeting, Dr. 12 Melius. 13 CHAIRMAN MELIUS: Okay. Thank you and 14 we'll start with an update from NIOSH, Stu 15 Hinnefeld. 16 MR. HINNEFELD: Good morning, 17 everyone. Is my mic on? 18 MR. KATZ: Sounds like it. Folks on 19 the line, can you hear Dr. -- 20 MR. HINNEFELD: Mr. 21 MR. KATZ: -- Mr. Hinnefeld? 22 (Multiple yes) NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 8 1 MR. HINNEFELD: Okay, great. Well, 2 I'm here to give my normal update presentation. 3 Yes, I'll start with some -- what I normally do is 4 program news items and I always like to cover our 5 outreach activity. 6 Since our last Board meeting, we've 7 attended outreach activities in association with 8 some other members of the Joint Outreach Task Group 9 which are DOE, DOL, and then the Ombudsman for DOL 10 and our own Ombudsman participate in that group. 11 One of those activities was a trip to 12 West Valley, New York, for the -- well, the 13 reprocessing site up there, West Valley site. 14 And then also a stop in Ashtabula or in 15 the vicinity of Ashtabula, Ohio, for the extrusion 16 plant in Ashtabula, couple covered sites. 17 In conjunction with our outreach 18 contractor, ATL International, we held a dose 19 reconstruction and SEC workshop in Cincinnati in 20 September where we invited representatives from 21 around the country, a number of local union 22 officials and some program advocates, and NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 9 1 representatives of others, interested parties in 2 the program, for a two-day workshop where we 3 covered dose reconstruction and SEC process in a 4 little bit of detail. 5 There's also, in case anyone is 6 interested, the Department of Labor is in the 7 process of selecting the membership for their 8 Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Health. 9 That is essentially what we call the Part E Board, 10 which was established by the most recent, or about 11 a year ago now by legislation about a year ago and 12 -- 13 (Off the record comments) 14 MR. HINNEFELD: They can't hear me? 15 Am I too far from the mic? 16 MR. KATZ: Are people on the phone 17 having a hard time hearing Mr. Hinnefeld? Hello? 18 (Off the record comments) 19 MR. HINNEFELD: Okay, I'll pick up 20 where I was on outreach activities and we have 21 covered West Valley, New York; Ashtabula, Ohio; and 22 then we've done a workshop, dose reconstruction SEC NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 10 1 workshop in Cincinnati in conjunction with our ATL 2 International outreach contractor. 3 Also last night, since we were in the 4 vicinity, we went out to Livermore to have an 5 outreach that was sort of briefly arranged. It was 6 just us. LaVon and I went and two of our 7 contractors from ATL International. 8 I think there were about 15 people there 9 and we gave them a presentation about the program, 10 you know, the law and our role in the law.
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