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ATSDR MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT
Oak Ridge Reservation Health Effects Subcommittee
to hold meeting on August 27, 2002
in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

For Immediate Release: August 19, 2002

What:

The Oak Ridge Reservation Health Effects Subcommittee (ORRHES) will meet on Tue., Aug. 27, 2002, from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the YWCA, 1660 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

The ORRHES Health Needs Assessment Work Group will make a presentation on its review of the various federal agencies involved at the site to determine whether it is possible to establish an occupational/environmental clinic or another form of clinical intervention near the Oak Ridge Reservation.

The ORRHES Public Health Assessment Work Group will make a presentation on its review of combining the doses of iodine 131 (I-131) to the thyroids of individuals exposed to releases of I-131 from both the Oak Ridge Reservation site and the Nevada Test Site.

At the request of ORRHES, ATSDR will make a presentation on the rationale for its radiation-screening process of releases of radioactive materials into the environment from the Oak Ridge Reservation.

ORRHES is a representative and knowledgeable body of citizens from the Oak Ridge area. ORRHES provides advice and recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and ATSDR on the two agencies' public health activities and research regarding the Oak Ridge Reservation site. ORRHES members work with private citizens, advocacy groups, state agencies and federal agencies in the region and provide community members with an opportunity to communicate directly with federal public health agencies.

Members of the community who have questions about this meeting, ORRHES or ATSDR activities at the Oak Ridge Reservation may contact the ORRHES Designated Federal Official, La Freta Dalton, at ATSDR at 1-888-422-8737 (toll free), or Bill Murray at the ATSDR Oak Ridge Field Office at (865) 220-0295.

Members of the news media are requested to make an appointment to interview ATSDR staff. Call John Florence or Kathy Skipper in the ATSDR Office of Policy and External Affairs at 770-488-0700.