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UNIDENTIFIED: What about Idaho Falls?

MR. GRIFFON: Yeah, Boise or Idaho Falls,
really.

DR. ZIEMER: Which is easier to get to, Idaho
Falls --

UNIDENTIFIED: (Off microphone) It’s easier
to get to (Inaudible).

UNIDENTIFIED: (Off microphone) Idaho Falls
has (Inaudible) service.

DR. ROESSLER: What is -- it’s easier to get
to Boise?

DR. ZIEMER: Yeah, Idaho Falls would be fine.

(Whereupon, the Board discussed alternate
venue for the proposed meeting.)

DR. ZIEMER: Does Idaho count as east coast?
T guess it does to people in Richland. That‘s
right out here by Cape Cod, isn’t it?

Okay. I'm reluctant to -- too much beyond
dune till we see where we are with the contract.
Are you okay just -- at that point or do you want
to reserve another date? You okay?

DR. MELIUS: I think if we -- if we --

DR. ZIEMER: We have two meetings ahead.

DR. MELIUS: Yeah, and also if we figure out

the contract issues and so forth and pin down the

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FEBRUARY 6, 2004
PROCEEDINGS
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DR. ZIEMER: Good morning, everyone. zr 01
call the meeting back to order. This is -- we
begin this morning with administrative
housekeeping items. Let me ask Cori Homer if she
will approach the mike and inform the Board of ény
specific items that she needs handled.

UNIDENTIFIED: (Q£ff microphone) She's not in
here at the moment.

DR. ZIEMER: She’s not here. Oh, she is
running something off for me, actually. Okay.
Okay, Larry, do you have any items that you neec
to call to our attention? If you con’t have
anything, we can proceed.

MR. BLLIOTT: While we’re waiting on Cori,
let me offer this, anc I will try to - what does
that thirg do (Inaudible). Too few jokes and a
dance or two.

Just to let the Board krow, in Vegas we
talked -- y’all talkec about holding a session
like we keld last nigkt and how we get the word
out about our meetings and all of that, so I

wanted to just brief you on what we tried to

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MR. ELLIOTT: Staff looks

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DR. MELIUS: The latter part of that week.

DR. ANDRADE: Memorial Day’s the

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accomplish about notification of this meeting.
One, we worked through our contractor and -- using
the points of contact that they have for who we
talked to down here back on November lith, and T
know Dr. Melius made some contacts, Knute Ringin
made contacts. We put a notice in the paper. We
advertised in the local paper. Cori has a copy of
that if you're interested. We contacted the site
and went through the public affairs folks at the
site and they sent out an announcement. I think
it went site-wide. I‘m not sure exactly how they
did that, whether it was by e-mail or it was
bulletin board or what, but they did make notice
around the site that the meeting was going to be
held.

We had -- we revised our standard e-mail
notification and updated it with new e-mail
addresses and made an attempt that way to get the
word out. So I think we canvassed as well as we
could. We're trying to think of other ways that
we can get the word out, but I'd appreciate any
thoughts or comments you have about this revised
approach to notice -- notify people that we are
meeting in their areas. So I think that’s about

all I can do with expanding time here, but I just

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and since NIOSH is moving ahead with completing
dose reconstructions for a number of the
claimants, I think -- we may be too late, but I
think we really do need to get that out there and
discuss it and at least get it addressed. So i
ask that you put that on the agenda for the next
meeting.

DR. ZIEMER: Is that do-able?

MR. ELLIOTT: Well, I don't know if it's do-
able or not. We‘ll have to see where we're at
within -- at that point in time in the evaluation
of how we're going to handle that issue.

DR. MELIUS: Well, Larry, I beg to differ. TIT
don’t think it matters where you are. I think as
a Board we’re supposed to advise you on guidance
on dose reconstruction. This is not a rule-
making. If it’s a rule-making, tell us. It’sa
issue that we should provide you advice on and I
see no need to delay that while you make up your
mind. We're --

MR. ELLIOTT: Well, the Secretary you
advise the Secretary and the Secretary sets your
agenda. And if the Secretary decides that at this
point in time it would be appropriate to present

the issue for consultation, he will. But I can’t

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housekeeping issue, I don’t think.

DR. MELIUS: Fine.

DR. ZIEMER: I did ask Cori to make a copy --
I brought the original with me and Cori has
distributed copies of my response to the
Congressmen and to Secretary Thompson. And if
there's no objection, we’ll discuss that in the
ether session at roughly 10:00 o’clock.

We have the principals here from SCA --

MR. GRIFFON: Paul, can I ask one question
related to I know we'll discuss it later, but
do we have a copy of the original letter hat came
from the Congressmen --

DR. ZIEMER: I thought that --

MR. GRIFFON: (Inaudible) the Board?

DR. ZIEMER: -- tArat was distributed at the
last meeting.

MR. ELLIOTT: It was passed out at tke last
meeting. 1 don’t think we have --

DR. ZIEMER: TI have copies --

MR. ELLIOTT: -- reference copies

DR. ZIEMER: - of it here, if any of you --

DR. MELIUS: (Of£ microphone) (Inaudible)
copy of it if Cori wants to (Inaudible).

DR. ZIEMER: How many need copies of the

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