DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Memorandum

Date — September 25, 2001

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Probability of Causation
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Memo to the File
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Larry J. Elliott

Director, OCAS

The following individuals and/or their affiliations were contacted by letter and asked to
provide comment on the development of the Dose Reconstruction and Probability of
Causation Rules:

Richard Miller, GAP (Formerly with PACE)
Jim Ellenberger, AFL-CIO

Keith Dinger, Health Physics Society (HPS)
Charles Meinholdt, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP)
Joe Fitzgerald, Salient Strategies

Neil Otchin, Department of Veterans Affairs

Ashok C. Thadani, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Jeff Klemm, Science Applications International Corporation, (SAIC)

Don Ellsburg, Attorney

Michael Schaeffer, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

Jeff Hill, Atomic Trades and Labor Council, ORNL

James K. Phillips, Political Education Program, PACE International Union

Scott Schnieder, Laborers Health and Safety Fund of North America

John J. Jesky, Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council

Jim Blankenship, Atomic Trades and Labor Council, ORNL

Gary Benjamin, Administrator Fernald Worker’s Settlement Fund

Glenn Bell, chronic beryllium diseased worker, Y-12

Owen Hoffman, SENES, Inc.

Daniel O. Stram, Univ. of Southern California

John J. Fix, Battelle Memorial Institute

Roy E. Shore, New York Univ. Medical Center

Arthur C. Upton, Rutgers Univ., UMDNJ-CRESP

John D. Boice, International Epidemiology Institute «

Richard Wilson, Harvard School of Public Health

Sander Greenland, Univ. of California

Dale Hattis, CENTED , .

Michael Sprinkler, [CWUC Health and Safety Dept. »

Jay Lubin, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

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Michael Wright, United Steelworkers of America

Sylvia Keiding, PACE

John Dement, Duke University

Frank Mirer, United Auto Workers

Mike Flynn, International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers
Darrell R. Fisher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
John E. Till, Risk Assessment Corporation

Warren Sinclair, President Emeritus, NCRP

Knut Ringen, Center to Protect Workers’ Rights (CPWR)
Paul L. Ziemer, Professor Emeritus, Purdue Univ.

Kiyo Mabuchi, NCI

Eula Bingham

Roy L. DeHart

Richard Expinosa

Sally Gadola

Michael H. Gibson

Katherine S. Hammond

James Melius

David Michaels

Linda Murray

Genevieve Roessler

Michael Silverstein

Frederick Toca

David Wegman

Laura Welch

See OCAS Reader’s File (months of March, April, and May 2001) for copy of letters to each
individual named above.

Comments in response to that solicitation were received from the following:

Daniel O. Stram, Univ. of Southern California

John J. Fix, Battelle Memorial Institute

Richard Wilson, Harvard School of Public Health

Ashok C. Thadani, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Warren Sinclair, President Emeritus, NCRP

Knut Ringen, Center to Protect Workers’ Rights (CPWR)
Paul S. Rohwer, President, Health Physics Society

Jeff Klemm, Science Applications International Corporation, (SAIC)
Glenn Bell, chronic beryllium diseased worker, Y-12

John E. Till, Risk Assessment Corporation . »
Arthur C. Upton, Rutgets Univ., UMDNJ-CRESP

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Paul L. Ziemer, Professor Emeritus, Purdue Univ.
Richard Miller, GAP (Formerly with PACE)

Written comments from each individual above may be found in OCAS administrative files
and as part of the record in the NIOSH Regulatory Docket for the subject rules.

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