The Oak Ridge Reservation Health Effects Subcommittee (ORRHES) will meet from 12:00 p.m. through 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 22 at the YWCA, 1660 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. At the request of ORRHES, presentations will be made by the following:

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) on its radiation-screening process
• Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation on its radiological and non-radiological air monitoring and environmental and groundwater monitoring programs
• Q Systems Inc. on the Oak Ridge Environmental Information System (OREIS)

OREIS is a computer-based data-management system used to efficiently retain and retrieve environmental data. OREIS is used to support environmental activities (i.e., restoration, compliance, and surveillance) at U.S. Department of Energy sites in Oak Ridge, Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky.

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 (404) 498-0070.