Re: FRG or FGR

[Mike Grissom <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

Joelle et al.,

The following is a reminder of where the FGR is on the
Web:

US EPA FR notice re Guidance Report 13--Part 1,
availability of interim version (Web site URL included
inside the notice):

>Federal Register: April 13, 1998 (Volume 63,
>Number 70).
>
>Section: Notices
>Agency: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
>Title:	Health Risks From Low-Level Environmental
>		Exposure to Radionuclides--Federal
>		Guidance Report No.13--Part 1; Interim
>		Version
>Action: Notice of availability.
>Page: 18008-18009
>...
>SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
>is announcing the availability of the report, Health
>Risks from Low-Level Environmental Exposure to
>Radionuclides--Federal Guidance Report No.13--Part 1.
>This report has been issued in interim form to provide
>government agencies and other interested parties an
>opportunity to become familiar with its supporting
>methodology, and to solicit comments for consideration
>before publishing the final version. The report is
>intended to promote consistency in assessments of the
>risks to health from radiation and to help ensure that
>such assessments are based on up-to-date scientific
>information. Interim Federal Guidance Report No.13 was
>published on January 30, 1998, and is now available
>for review.
>
>DATES: Written comments in response to this notice
>must be received on or before June 30, 1998.
>
>ADDRESSES: Written comments must be submitted
>electronically (comments.fgr13@epa.gov) or in
>duplicate to: Central Docket Section (6102),
>Environmental Protection Agency, ATTN: Air Docket
>No. A-98-11, Washington, D.C. 20460. The docket is
>available for public inspection between the hours of
>8:00 am and 5:30 pm, Monday through Friday, in
>Room M1500 of Waterside Mall, 401 M Street, S.W.,
>Washington, D.C. 20460. The FAX number is (202)
>260-4400. If copies of docket materials are requested,
>a reasonable fee may be charged for photocopying.
>
>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of Federal
>Guidance Report No.13 (FGR-13) are available by
>contacting EPA's National Center for Environmental
>Publication and Information on 1-800-490-9198 or by
>visiting their web site:
>
>	http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom .
>
>For technical information only, contact Mike Boyd on
>202-564-9395, or by e-mail at BOYD.MIKE@EPA.GOV.
>
>SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The information presented
>in FGR-13 is intended for use in assessing risks from
>exposure to radionuclides. The report provides, for
>the first time, comprehensive tabulations of cancer
>risk coefficients that use state-of-the-art models
>for estimating cancer risks from external and internal
>exposure. These coefficients may be used in a variety
>of applications ranging from environmental impact
>analyses for specific sites to the general analyses
>that support rulemaking. FGR-13 provides coefficients
>for assessing cancer risks from environmental exposure
>to about 100 radionuclides. Both cancer mortality and
>incidence risk coefficients are tabulated for
>inhalation, food and water ingestion, submersion in
>air and exposure to uniform soil concentrations. The
>age-averaged coefficients consider age-specific intake
>rates, dose modeling, and risk modeling.
>
>As part of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970, EPA took
>over the functions of the Federal Radiation Council
>(FRC), which was formed through Executive Order 10831
>in 1959. Under this authority it is the responsibility
>of the Administrator to "advise the President with
>respect to radiation matters, directly or indirectly
>affecting health, including guidance for all Federal
>agencies in the formulation of radiation standards and
>in the establishment and execution of programs of
>cooperation with States." In carrying out this
>responsibility, EPA strives: (1) To ensure that
>the regulation of exposure to ionizing radiation is
>adequately protective, (2) to reflect the best
>available scientific information; and (3) to ensure
>that this is done in a consistent manner. Since the
>mid-1980's, EPA has issued a series of Federal
>guidance documents for the purpose of providing
>Federal agencies technical information to assist in
>their implementation of radiation protection programs.
>The first report in this series, Federal Guidance
>Report No. 10 (1984), presented derived concentrations
>of radioactivity in air and water corresponding to the
>limiting //Federal Register Volume 63, Number 70 Page
>18009// annual doses recommended for workers in 1960.
>That report was superseded in 1988 by Federal Guidance
>Report No. 11 (1988), which provides dose coefficients
>for internal exposure of members of the general public
>and limiting values of radionuclides intake and air
>concentrations for workers, based on updated biokinetic
>and dosimetric models. Federal Guidance Report No. 12
>(1993) tabulates dose coefficients for external
>exposure to radionuclides in air, water, and soil.
>
>EPA currently plans for final publication of FGR13 for
>the fall of 1998. This interim version provides
>tabulations of risk estimates, or "risk coefficients",
>for approximately 100 important radionuclides. The
>tabulations in the final version will extend the
>methodology of the interim version to all radionuclides
>that are included in Federal Guidance Reports No. 11
>and No. 12.
>
>Dated: April 6, 1998.
>Richard D. Wilson,
>Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.
>...


At 09:14 AM 7/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Doesn't this stand for Federal Guidance Report?  So shouldn't it be FGR? 
>But I keep seeing people say FRG.  Could someone tell me which is
>correct?
>
>Joelle Key