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August 14, 1998

The Commission has approved the proposed list to be provided to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy with the following changes.

1. Items 1 and 2 should be reversed in order. The opening of new item 1 should be revised to read: "The U.S. EPA's groundwater protection requirement uses an approach making compliance ...." The opening of new item 2 should be revised to read: "Furthermore, EPA's groundwater protection requirement will not improve public health and safety ...."
   
   
2. New item 1, second bullet -- The following sentence should be added to the end of the paragraph. "Therefore, demonstration of compliance may require a degree of assurance beyond what science can provide and result in a protracted licensing hearing process with no commensurate benefit to public health and safety."
   
   
3. New item 2, third bullet -- The following sentence should be added to the end of the paragraph. "If background radiation dose levels at the point of compliance are found to be at or above the 4 mrem/yr limit then, in essence, the limit would be a 'zero-release' limit."
   
   
4. Item 3, first bullet, line 1 -- Replace 'a limit of 25' with 'an all-pathways dose standard in the range of 25 to 30.'

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