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Kent Conrad: “So we do not have anything from the National Academy of Sciences, for example, or anything from the National Institutes…”

On the recordJuly 10, 1996
So we do not have anything from the National Academy of Sciences, for example, or anything from the National Institutes of Health? We do not have anything from any of the relevant agencies or departments that would say to us that this 100-millirem standard is one that meets some scientific test; is that correct?
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Questioning the scientific basis for a proposed 100-millirem standard.

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