Re: 15 v. 25? EPA does not use millirems under Superfund

[BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 2/13/2004 7:17:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, strom@PNL.GOV 

writes:

EPA doesn't use 15 mrems, and essentially never has.

Actually, at one time it really did use this, although today, it will deny 

it.  There are documents from 1997 which do advocate the use of 15 millirem per 

year as an upper bound.  Today, the EPA will deny this was ever the case, but 

as recently as last year an EPA Region IX employee was quoted in a comment 

document on a site in California, stating the EPA "limit" was 15 millirem per 

year.  



Barbara