Re: NAS/IOM Report

[fegallag@uci.edu (Frank E. Gallagher, III)]

        Can you imagine the results of this action.  The EPA would step in
and bring us a total set of radiation protection regulations for medicine
that would make the <expletive deleted> NESHAPS regulations seem fair and
reasonable.  Congress would also need to eliminate the EPA's dual regulatory
authority for any hope of improvement.

        Without this second step, it would be like turning over the keys to
Fort Knox to a super-compulsive shopper.  Can you imagine, 25 mrem/y TEDE
occupational dose limits, with long detailed reports to be submitted for any
worker exceeding 1 mrem/y?  Help!!! 

Frank E. Gallagher, III, CHP
RSO, Univ. of California, Irvine 92717-2725
Voice: (714) 824-6904, Fax: (714) 824-8539
E-mail: fegallag@uci.edu

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>       WASHINGTON -- Congress should remove the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
>Commission's
>       (USNRC) authority to regulate the medical use of nuclear reactor
>byproducts, to bring
>       about a more uniform, streamlined, and cost-effective approach to
>regulation of all ionizing
>       radiation in medicine, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee has
>recommended in a
>       new report.* 
>