Agenda Work Group
Meeting Minutes
July 27, 2001

A.A. Brooks, Chair

1. Call To Order - 5:06PM
2. Attendees: Lewis, Pardue, Kaplan, Hill. Sonnenberg (P), Coin, Carter, Dalton (P) , Hanley (P) , Brooks
3. Announcements & Communications:

1. Bill Carter re: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) - Mr. Robert Jackson, HRSA Associate Director for Primary Care, will be available for a presentation at the ORRHES September meeting - "Community Health Centers: Needs and Strategy"

4. ORRHES Agenda Items: The following action on suggested agenda items were approved by unanimous voice vote:

1. PHAWG request for CDC presentation on additivity of I-131 estimated doses. See P. Adkins 2 = The following motion will be submitted to ORRHES, August 31, 2001: "The Oak Ridge Reservation Health Effects Subcommittee respectfully requests Dr. Jeffery Koplan, Administrator, ATSDR to authorize the presentation of the issues surrounding the additivity of the several alleged I-131 doses at ATSDR's earliest convenience. We understand that a similar talk had been prepared by Mr. Charles Miller (CDC) and Mr. Andre Bouville (NCI) for presentation at Hanford. We believe that this talk expanded by a few remarks on the ORR radioactive lanthanum (RaLa) releases would more than suffice our needs to understand the issues."
   
2. HRSA presentation on establishing health services clinics. - K.
   Davidson, P. Akins 3
   A HRSA presentation on Health Clinics was approved . Ms. Dalton to coordinate, see Bill Carter for times.
   
3. Progress report on EPA, etal. Sampling program - K. Davidson
   An EPA Sampling Progress report was approved and it is understood that it will be available.
   
4. Invite Mangano to workshop on his paper. B. Sonnenberg - This request was referred to the PHAWG for their action during their consideration of the Mangano paper.
   
5. Schedule an Uncertainty Workshop by Hoffman Public via S. Kaplan. - Having heard Mr. Hoffman recently and in consideration of other I-131 actions in PHAWG, this suggestion was not accepted.
   
6. Include Cd, As, Ni, Hg, Pb as COCs - P. Adkins 1
   Noting that all but Cadmium were included in the ORHASP screens and that the Public Health assessment WG (PHAWG) is currently considering the adequacy of the screening process, this suggestion was referred to the PHAWG for further action. It was noted that the Subcommittee's work would be greatly facilitated if the submitter would supply more details, such as suspected location and media bearing the suspected contaminant as well as level or any other quantitative information that may be available.
   
7. Design study on MCS - P. Adkins 4
   This suggestion comes well before the Subcommittee has laid a foundation to
   address such questions in its final recommendations. Therefore this suggestion was referred to the PHAWG for incorporation into future planning.
   
8. ORRHES Retreat Agenda
   There was a long discussion of the retreat agenda pointing out that it dwelled on "consensus" but there were many other topics to be discussed including mission statement, "procedures" leading to progress and closure, loss of members, etc. While no actions were taken, there was an expression of determination to broaden the scope of the printed agenda.

5. The new process flow sheet was distributed with casual comments.
6. In closing a request for a progress report on the Web Site was added without objection.
7. Action Items:
   

1. AAB = Meeting Minutes
2. AAB, WP = Wordsmith motion to Koplan for ORRHES
   
3. AAB = Send letter to P. Adkins stating AWG actions
   
4. LD = Coordinate HRSA talk

8. Adjournment = 7:03 PM