APPENDIX 1 EXECUTIVE Order and PRESS RELEASES ON ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER 10831 ESTABLISHING THE FEDERAL RADIATION COUNCIL By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. (a) There is hereby established the Federal Radiation Council (hereinafter referred to as the "Council'). (b) The Council shall be composed of the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretaryof Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. (c) The Chairman of the Council shall be designated by the President, from time to time, from among the members of the Council, Section 2. The Council shall advise the President with respect to radiation matters directly or indirectly affecting health, including matters pertinent to the general guidance of executive agencies by the President with respect to the development by such agencies of criteria for the protection of humans against ionizing radiation applicable to the affairs of the respective agencies. The Council shall take steps designed to further the interagency coordination of measures for protecting humans against ionizing radiation. Section 3. The Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, or his representative, is authorized to attend meetings of, to participate in the deliberations of, and to advise with, the Council. Section 4. For the purpose of effectuating this order, each executive agency represented on the Council shall furnish necessary assistance to the Council, in consonance with section 214 of the Act of May 3, 1945, 59 Stat, 134 (31 U.S. C. 691). Such assistance may include detailing employees to the Council to perform such duties consistent with the purposes of this order as the Chairman of the Council may assign to them. Upon the request of the Chairman of the Council, the heads of executive agencies shall so far as practicable provide the Council information and reports relating to matters within the cognizance of the Council. Section 5. The Council may seek technical advice, in respect of its functions, from any sourcit deems appropriate. The White House August 14, 1959 DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 14, 1959 Wayne Hawks, Acting Press Secretary to the President THE WHITE HOUSE (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) The President announced today organizational arrangements aimed at centralizing responsibility for providing general standards and guidance to executive agencies for their use in developing operating rules and regulations for radiological health protection. In order to obtain assistance in the discharge of this function the President has issued an Executive Order establishing a Federal Radiation Council. Members of the Council are the heads of the agencies most significantly involved with radiation. the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Commerce. The President's Special Assistant for Science and Technology will participate as an adviser in the discussions of the Council. In developing its advice to the President the Council will consult with appropriate agencies such as the Departments of Labor and Agriculture, and will solicit the views of competent scientific bodies such as the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurement and the committees of the National Academy of Sciences which devote so much attention to these problems. 13 The Federal Radiation Council will also take steps designed to further the interagency coordination of measures for protection against radiation, and to that end will consult with all Federal agencies which have radiological health responsibilities. Establishment of the Council follows recommendations made to the President by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. In addition, the President approved a series of recommendations to be carried out upon enactment of proposed legislation endorsed by the Administration (S. 1987 and H.R. 7214) under which certain regulatory responsibilities of the Atomic Energy Commission will be transferred to the States by agreement with the Commission as the States equip themselves to assume them. The recommendations were that: (a) The Atomic Energy Commission have the (b) (c) (d) The training programs necessary for such transfer At the termination of this special training program any training of State personnel be conducted within the continuing programs of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and other Federal agencies. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare continue as the Federal focal point for guidance and assistance to the States with respect to contamination by and biological effects from radiation sources not now under control of the Commission, # # # # IMMEDIATE RELEASE COPY August 22, 1959 James C. Hagerty, Press Secretary to the President THE WHITE HOUSE The President today designated the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare as Chairman of the Federal Radiation Council. Executive Order No. 10831 establishing the Federal Radiation Council provides that the Chairman of the Council shall be designated by the President, from time to time, from among the members of the Council. Members of the Council are the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Commerce. The President also directed that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare intensify its radiological health efforts and have primary responsibility within the executive branch for the collation, analysis, and interpretation of data on environmental radiation levels such as natural background, radiography, medical and industrial use of isotopes and X-rays, and fall-out, so that the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare may advise the President and the general public. *** APPENDIX 2 ETTER OF AUGUST 21, 1959 From Maurice H. Stans, Director, BUREAU OF THE BUDGET TO HONORABLE CLINTON P. ANDERSON, CHAIRMAN, JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT BUREAU OF THE BUDGET August 21, 1959 My dear Mr. Chairman: In my letter to you of May 6, 1959, I stated that you would be informed when the joint review of Federal organization of radiological health activities oonducted by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget had been completed. I would like to now advise you that the President has approved the following recommendations: (1) The President provide general standards and guidance to (2) The President be advised by a Federal Radiation Council, established by the President to advise him regarding the general standards and guidance to be issued by the President, as well as other matters pertinent to radiological health, the Council to be composed of the heads of the agencies principally affected--AEC, HEW, Defense, and Commerce; and that the President's Special Assistant for Science and Technology serve as an advisor to the Council. (3) The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare |