ACHRE Report

Final Report

Executive Summary

Preface

Introduction

Part I

Part II

Part III

Discussion: Part III

Part IV

Public Comment Participants

Unless otherwise noted, full committee meetings, with opportunity for public comment, took place in Washington, D.C. There was also one full committee meeting in San Francisco. In addition, the Committee convened panels of its members to take testimony in Cincinnati, Spokane, Sante Fe, and Knoxville on the dates listed. Where known, cities and affiliations are noted.

April 21-22, 1994

Gwendon Plair, Concerned Relatives of Cancer Study Patients

May 18-19, 1994

E. Cooper Brown, Executive Commission, Task Force on Radiation and Human Rights

H. W. Cummins, Human Radiation Experiments Litigation Project

Fred Allingham, National Association of Radiation Survivors

Daryl Kimball, Physicians for Social Responsibility

June 13-14, 1994

Tod Ensign, Citizen Soldier, NY

John McCarthy, Sacramento Radiation Survivors Group

Thomas Smith, National Association of Radiation Survivors

Pat Broudy, National Association of Atomic Veterans

July 5-6, 1994

Wilfred Kendall, Representative of the Embassy of the Republic of the Marshall Islands

Tony deBrum, Representative of the Embassy of the Republic of the Marshall Islands

Jonathan Weisgall, Attorney representing Bikini Islands

E. Cooper Brown, Executive Commission, Task Force on Radiation and Human Rights*

July 25-26, 1994

Stewart Udall, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior

Eugene Trani, Virginia Commonwealth University

Hermes Kontos, Virginia Commonwealth University

John Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University

Chris Zucker, Disability Advocates of New York, Inc., Albany, NY

Pat Broudy, National Association of Atomic Veterans*

Dr. Oscar Rosen, National Association of Atomic Veterans

Catherine Variano, South Bend, ID

Janet Gordon, Citizen's Call, UT

September 12-13, 1994

Ruth Blaz, Hollywood, FL

Cliff Honicker, Environmental Health Studies Project, Knoxville, TN

Francis Brown, Southwick, MA

Tod Ensign, Citizen Soldier, NY*

Pat Broudy, National Association of Atomic Veterans*

San Francisco, October 11-13, 1994

Nancy Lynch, Santa Barbara, CA

Jackie Maxwell, Menlo Park, CA

Vernon Sousa, San Francisco, CA

Gwynne Borroughs, Chico, CA

Israel Torres, Niporno, CA

Audrey Hack, Union City, CA

Richard Harley, Bakersfield, CA

Donald Arbitlit, San Francisco, CA

Geoffrey Sea, International Radiation Survivors, Oakland, CA

Harold Bibeau, Portland, OR

Cheri Anderson, Placerville, CA

Tom Wilson, Placerville, CA

Michael Yesley, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Lynn Stembridge, Hanford Education Action League, Spokane, WA

Trisha Pritikin, Berkeley, CA

Lois Camp, Hanford Downwinder Health Effects Group

Darcy Thrall, Richland, WA

Dr. Bernard Lo, San Francisco, CA

Jackie Cabasso, Oakland, CA

Marylia Kelley, Livermore, CA

Cincinnati, October 21, 1994

U.S. Representative Rob Portman (OH)

Gwendon Plair, Concerned Relatives of Cancer Study Patients*

Doris Baker, Cincinnati, OH

Gloria Nelson

Richard Casey

Lisa Crawford, Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and Health

Herbert Varin

Leslie Lynch

Professor Martha Stephens, University of Cincinnati

Bob Phillips

Lillian Pagano

Sherry Brabant

Otisteen Goodwin

Clifford Tidwell

Owen Thompson

Dr. Joseph Steger, President, University of Cincinnati

Stan Chesley, Former Chairman of the Board, University of Cincinnati

David Thompson, Attorney, Cincinnati lawsuits

Kenneth Kendall

Tom Wilkenson

Tom Row, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Joe Larkins

Monica Ray

Gene Branham

Dorothy Sweety

Pat Wheeler

Katherine Hager

Robert Hager

H. W. Cummins, Radiation Health Effects Public Law Group*

Ruth Blaz, Hollywood, FL*

Manuel Blaz, Hollywood, FL

Jackie Kitrell, American Environmental Health Studies Project

Ann Hopkins

Mary Mueller

Daryl Kimball, Physicians for Social Responsibility*

Vina Colley, Portsmouth/Piketon Residents or Environmental Safety and Security

Diana Salisbury, Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security

Geoffrey Sea, International Radiation Survivors, Oakland, CA*

November 14-15, 1994

Marcia Haggard, Silver Spring, MD

Dr. Kathy Platoni, Beaver Creek, OH

Dr. Dennis Nelson, Kensington, MD

Mayor George Ahmaogak, North Slope Borough Assembly, AK

Rossman Peetok, North Slope Borrough Assembly, AK

Spokane, November 21, 1994

Leonard Schroeter, Seattle, WA

Gertie Hanson, Citizens Against Nuclear Weapons and Exterminations

Al Conklin, Department of Health, WA

Harold Bibeau, Portland, OR*

Catherine Knox, Department of Corrections, OR

Jim Thomas, Seattle, WA

Trisha Pritikin, Berkeley, CA*

Fred Larson, Ocean Park, WA

Brenda Weaver, Spokane, WA

Tom Bailie, Mesa, WA

Lynn Grover, Mesa, WA

Michelle Grover, Mesa, WA

Geoffrey Sea, International Radiation Survivors, Oakland, WA*

Kathy Jacobovitch, Vashon Island, WA

JoAnne Watts, Grants Pass, OR

Theresa Potts, Couer d'Alene, ID

Tom Cooper, Couer d'Alene, ID

Kay Sutherland, Walla Walla, WA

Beverly Aleck, Anchorage, AK

Sherri Lozon, Nez Pierce Tribe

Jeanne Haycraft, Enterprise, OR

Darcy Thrall, Benton City, WA*

Lynne Stembridge, Hanford Education Action League*

Lois Camp, LaCrosse, WA*

Lynn Horn, Spokane, WA

Charlie Miller, Spokane, WA

Charles Lombard, Spokane, WA

Curt Leslie, Wallua, WA

Rex Harter, Mesa, WA

David Vanderbilt, Ione, WA

Wendell Ogg, Knoxville, TN

Iris Hedman Othello, WA

December 15-16, 1994

Doris Baker, Cincinnati, OH*

Vina Colley, Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security*

Diana Salisbury, Sardinia, OH*

Lenore Fenn, Lexington, MA

Peter Lewis, Uniontown, PA

Professor Robert Proctor, Pennsylvania State University

William Jackling, Honeye Falls, NY

Fred Boyce, Norwell, MA

Pat Broudy, National Association of Atomic Veterans*

Santa Fe, January 30, 1995

Stewart Udall, Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior*

Ray Michael, Truth or Consequences, NM

Darcy Thrall, Benton City, WA*

Tyler Mercier, Santa Fe, NM

DH Bob Hofmann, Mountain Home, AR

Theodore Garcia, Las Cruces, NM

Bill Holmes, Fulsom, CA

Manuel Pino, Mesa, AZ

Alvino Wacanda, Laguna-Acoma Delegation, Paguato, NM

Curtis Francisco, Laguna-Acoma Delegation, Pueblo, NM

Dorothy Purley, Laguna-Acoma Delegation, Paguato, NM

Harry Lester, Albuquerque, NM

Milton Stadt, Victor, NY

Clyde Gardner, Edgewood, NM

Stanley Paytioma, Pueblo of Acoma, Acoma, NM

John Taschner, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Don Petersen, Los Alamos National Laboratory

George Voelz, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Joe Nardella

Timothy Benally, Shiprock, NM

Carlos Pacheco, Santa Fe, NM

Rosalie Jones, West Jordan, UT

Bernice Brogan, West Valley City, UT

Barney Bailey, Lovington, NM

Robert Stapleton, Ventura, CA

Linda Terry, Albuquerque, NM

Sue Dayton, Tijares, NM

Ernest Garcia, Chair, National Contaminated Veterans of America, Albuquerque, NM

Dale Howard, Las Lunas, NM

Coy Overstreet, Dickens, TX

Denise Nichols, USAF Major, Retired

Langdon Harrison, Albuquerque, NM

Ray Koonuk, Mayor, Point Hope, AK

Jack Schaefer, Point Hope, AK

Caroline Cannon, Point Hope, AK

Dr. Chellis Glendinning, Chimayo, NM

John Sheahan, Albuquerque, NM

Damacio Lopez, Bernalillo, NM

Phil Harrison, Uranium Radiation Victims Committee, Shiprock, NM

John Fowler

Renda Fowler

Bill Tsosie

Glenn Stuckey, Albuquerque, NM

Robert McConaghy

January 19-20, 1995

Joan McCarthy

Charles McKay, Severna Park, MD

Pat Broudy, National Association of Atomic Veterans*

February 15-16, 1995

Alex Reinhart, Braintree, MA

Wilfred Kendall, Embassy of the Republic of the Marshall Islands*

Senator Henchi Balos, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Holly Barker, Embassy of the Republic of the Marshall Islands

E. Cooper Brown, Executive Commission Task Force on Radiation and Human Rights*

Cliff Honicker, Environmental Safety Studies Project, Knoxville, TN*

Pat Broudy, National Association of Atomic Veterans*

Jonathan Weisgall, Attorney representing the Bikini Islands*

Knoxville, March 2, 1995

Paul White, Oak Ridge, TN

Dorothea Gay Brown, Knoxville, TN

Betty Freels, Clinton, TN

Mary Bunch, Clinton, TN

Margaret Jacobs, Harriman, TN

Dorothy McRight, Nashville, TN

David Lee, Knoxville, TN

Gary Litton, Oak Ridge, TN

Dr. Karl Morgan, Oak Ridge, TN

Dr. Gary Madsen, Utah State University

Richard Sheldon, Knoxville, TN

Janice Stokes, Clinton, TN

Shirley Rippletoe, Old Hickory, TN

Bill Clark, Knoxville, TN

Dr. Helen Vodopick, Oak Ridge, TN

Claudia Soulyarette, Oak Ridge, TN

Dick Smyser, The Oak Ridger

Gertrude Copeland, Brentwood, TN

Dr. William Burr, Oak Ridge, TN

Dr. Bill Bibb, Oak Ridge, TN

Dr. Shirley Fry, Oak Ridge, TN

Acie Byrd, Washington, D.C.

Reba Neal, Coalfield, TN

Emma Craft, White Bluff, TN

Mary Hamm, Goodletsville, TN

Ron Hamm, Goodletsville, TN

Venia Lazenby, Mt. Juliet, TN

Dot McLeod, Lake Park, GA

Mary Lynn Stanley, Wrightsville, GA

Richard Vaughn, Franklin, TN

Dr. Frank Comas, Knoxville, TN

Ann Sipe, Oak Ridge, TN

Freda Jo Burchfield, Morristown, TN

Barbara Humphreys, Louisville, TN

Wilton McClure, Tony, AL

Earl McClure, Nashville, TN

Irene Sartain, Nashville, TN

Bruce Lawson, Oak Ridge, TN

Jeff Hill, Oak Ridge, TN

Patricia Jedlica, Spring City, TN

Carolyn Szetela, Nashville, TN

Doris Baker, Cincinnati, OH*

Gloria Nelson, Cincinnati, OH

Ann Marie Harrod, Nashville, TN

March 15-17, 1995

U. S. Senator Paul Wellstone (MN)

Ernest Sternglass, University of Pittsburgh

Elmerine Whitfield Bell, Dallas, TX

E. Cooper Brown, Executive Commission, Task Force on Radiation and Human Rights*

Dr. Oscar Rosen, National Association

for Atomic Veterans*

Glenn Alcalay, New York, NY

Denise Nelson, Bethesda, MD

Chris DeNicola, New Orleans, LA

Valerie Wolfe, New Orleans, LA

Claudia Mullen, New Orleans, LA

Suzanne Starr, Chimayo, NM

Steven Schwartz, Washington, D.C.

April 10-12, 1995

Gwendon Plair, Concerned Relatives of Cancer Study Patients, Cincinnati, OH*

James Tidwell, Cincinnati, OH

Barbara Tatterson, Cincinnati, OH

Joseph Peterson, Carson City, NV

Banny deBrum, Acting Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of the Marshall Islands

Rebecca Harrod Stringer, St. Augustine, FL

May 8-10, 1995

Doris Baker, Cincinnati, OH*

Barbara Tatterson, Cincinnati, OH*

Herbert Varin, Cincinnati, OH*

Clifford Tidwell, Cincinnati, OH*

Beatrice Tidwell, Cincinnati, OH

Zettie Smith, Cincinnati, OH

Pat Broudy, National Association of Atomic Veterans*

June 21-23, 1995

Anthony Roisman, National Committee of Radiation Victims, Washington, DC

Geoffrey Sea, Task Force on Radiation and Human Rights, Oakland, CA*

Phil Harrison, Uranium Radiation Victims Committee, Albuquerque, NM*

Rachel Greene, Hyattsville, MD

Zina Greene, Washington, DC

Julie Boddy, Tacoma Park, MD

July 17-19

Senator Tony deBrum, (w/Ambassador Wilfred Kendall, Phillip Muller), Marshall Islands*

Dr. Bernard Aron, Cincinnati, OH

Dr. David Egilman, Braintree, MA*

Dr. Oscar Rosen, National Association of Atomic Veterans*

Dr. Dennis Nelson, Bethesda, MD

Ms. Mary Mueller, Task Force on Radiation and Human Rights

Mr. Acie Byrd, Task Force on Radiation and Human Rights*

* indicates that the participant spoke at a previous meeting