Federal Guidance Report No. 13 Part I - Interim Version HEALTH RISKS FROM LOW-LEVEL ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE TO RADIONUCLIDES

A decade later its functions were transferred to the Administrator of the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970. Under these authorities 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. " The purpose of this guidance is to ensure that the regulation of exposure to ionizing radiation is adequately protective, reflects the best available scientific information, and is carried out in a consistent manner. Since the mid-1980s EPA has issued a series of Federal guidance documents for the purpose of providing the Federal agencies technical information to assist their implementation of radiation protection programs. The first report in this series, Federal Guidance Report No. 10 (EPA, 1984a), presented derived concentrations of radioactivity in air and water corresponding to the limiting annual doses recommended for workers in 1960.), which provided dose coefficients for internal exposure of members of the general public and limiting values of radionuclide intake and air concentrations for workers, based on updated biokinetic and dosimetric models. Federal Guidance Report No. 12 (EPA, 1993) tabulated dose coefficients for external exposure to radionuclides in air, water, and soil. When final, this report is intended to promote consistency in assessments of the risks to health from radiation by Federal agencies and others and to help ensure that such assessments are based on sound scientific information. It is intended as the first of a set of documents, referred to collectively as Federal Guidance Report No.13, that will address risks to health from exposure to specific radionuclides. These documents will make use of state-of-the-art methods and models for estimating the risks to health from internal or external exposure. These methods and models take into account, for the first time in a comprehensive compilation, the age and gender-specific aspects of radiation risk. This interim version of Federal Guidance Report No. 13, Part I, provides tabulations of risk estimates, or " risk coefficients " , for cancer attributable to exposure to any of approximately 100 important radionuclides through various environmental media. These risk coefficients apply to populations that approximate the age, gender, and mortality experience characterized by the 1989-91 U.S. decennial life tables. The tabulations in the final version …

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