Environmental Effects of Producing Electric Power: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - 2708 pages |
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Page 160 - Council shall 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.
Page 38 - Code do not apply with respect to the amendment here adopted. (2) It is appropriate and in the public interest in administering Part II of the Federal Power Act to promulgate Commission policy on participation of regulatory personnel in the deliberations of voluntary regional councils, and for the collection of data relating to reliability and adequacy of electric service, all in the manner hereinafter provided.
Page 45 - Act should be undertaken in a manner that will minimize adverse effects on these values. Accordingly, the Commission believes that the planning, locating, clearing and maintenance of rights-ofway and the construction of aboveground facilities should, as a general practice, conform to the guidelines set forth below.
Page 49 - For the purpose of assuring an abundant supply of electric energy throughout the United States with the greatest possible economy and with regard to the proper utilization and conservation of natural resources...
Page 508 - Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Radiation of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, 86th Congress, 1st Session on Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests.
Page 149 - Office of Federal Contract Compliance of the Department of Labor. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has been designated as the compliance agency to obtain compliance with the Executive orders by colleges and universities with Federal contracts.
Page 130 - The fundamental problem in establishing radiation protection guides is to allow as much of the beneficial uses of ionizing radiation as possible while assuring that man is not exposed to undue hazard. To get a true insight into the scope of the problem and the impact of the decisions involved, a review of the benefits and the hazards is necessary.
Page 2 - President; the Secretaries of Agriculture; Commerce; Health, Education, and Welfare; Housing and Urban Development; the Interior...
Page 160 - The recommendations of the FRC are developed with the assistance of appropriate Federal agencies, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and consultants selected for expertise in the various areas of interest.
Page 182 - Guide applies when the individual whole body doses are known. As an operational technique, where the individual whole body doses are not known, a suitable sample of the exposed population should be developed whose protection guide for annual whole body dose will be 0.17 rem per capita per year. It is emphasized that this is an operational technique which should be modified to meet special situations.