Re: EPA and risk

["Russ Meyer" <CMEYER@brc1.tdh.texas.gov>]

> Date:          Sun, 12 Feb 95 22:06:18 -0600
> Reply-to:      radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> From:          Louis H Iselin <iselin@alpha.nuceng.ufl.edu>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject:       EPA and risk

>
> Louis H Iselin wrote:
>
> > Nothing like favoring your science over everyone else's.
>
> and
>
> Russ <cmeyer@brc1.tdh.texas.gov> wrote:
>
> > funding than health. Scare tactics have worked in the past.
> > However, I would be interested in reviewing a copy of the
> > proposed legislation, being curious and all.
>
> tony tweedale <esact@selway.umt.edu> replied:
>
> > you both fell off a cliff by assuming too much. browner's
> > congressional testimony centered on the explicit section of the
> > bill that risk assessments could be done by people employeed by
> > the industry/company the regulation is to regulate. saw it on
> > cspan, apart from having read about it, and this language of
> > browner's was when she was talking about this requirement.
> > you radiation professionals are too comfortable in your own world
> > [tho epa's press release shouldn't have ommited the relevant fact
> > (..come to think of it, tho, i subscribe to epa-press listserv,
> > and recall reading about the d.i.y. risk assmts in the press
> > release--did it get edited when posted to radsafe?)]
>
> The press release from EPA was copied from the epa-press
> mailing list.  What RADSAFE saw was what EPA sent.  If EPA did
> not mean what EPA said, then my original statement is indeed
> true.  Nothing like listening only to what you want to hear.
>
> Louis
>
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> Louis H Iselin, MEng, EI, ABHP-Part 1    ISELIN@ALPHA.NucEng.UFL.EDU
> "I'm going to build a geothermal power plant from a cement truck,
> some plutonium, and a paper plate.  Do we have any paper plates,
> Nanny?" -- Baby Gonzo      <Live & Learn, Die & Forget It>       <*>
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I commented on what I read, applied the duck test and that sucker
quacked, waddled and flew ( in my opinion).>
Russ
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