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HEARING BOARD CHARTER
The principal responsibility of the Hearing Board was to conduct a series of public
hearings giving interested persons, organizations, and agencies the opportunity to comment
on the Department of Energy (DOE) Draft Environmental Impact Statement of April 1979, "Man-
agement of Commercially Generated Radioactive Waste." Based on public testimony briefings,
and supplementary documents, the Board was to prepare a report to DOE identifying issues
that should be addressed during preparation of the final Environmental Impact-Statement.
Other than the Chairman, the Hearing Board was composed of distinguished scientists.
None of the hearing board members were employees of DOE; they were contracted as consultants
to conduct public hearings and identify to DOE those issues requiring consideration or
revision during preparation of the F.inal Environmental Impact Statement. Furthermore, none
of the hearing board members were involved in the preparation of the Environmental Impact
Statement and were thus disinterested, impartial reviewers.
HEARING BOARD MEMBERS
Professor George T. Frampton served as the Hearing Board Chairman for the public hear-
ings. Professor Frampton, a lawyer, specializes in the field of atomic energy law and has
taught and performed research in this area for many years. He has also written articles
dealing with this specialized area of law. Professor Frampton's past experience in the
nuclear field includes serving on the Illinois Atomic Power Investigating Commission, and
being a consultant to the U.S. Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, to the
National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements (regarding legislative control
of ionizing radiation), and to the Atomic Energy Commission and its successor agency, the
Energy Research and Development Administration.
Another board member, Dr. Dorothy K. Newman, is a sociologist, a socioeconomist, and a
distinguished author. She received her Ph.D in Sociology from Yale University. She was
director of the Energy in People's Lives study, for the Energy Policy Project of the Ford
Foundation. She has been a socioeconomist with the U.S. Department of Labor in matters
relating to construction of housing, consumer economics and issues of the disadvantaged.
She has been Director of Research for the National Urban League; Director of the Project on
Race and Social Policy, supported by the Carnegie Corporation; and she recently completed a
book entitled "Protest, Politics and Prosperity, Black Americans and White Institutions,
1940 to 1975." She is presently a consultant and lecturer.
Another board member, Dr. Clifford V. Smith, is Vice-President for the Administration
at Oregon State University and Professor of Environmental Engineering. He received his
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Iowa, his Masters of Sci-
ence in Environmental Engineering and his Ph.D in Radiological Science and Environmental
Engineering at Johns Hopkins. He is a Registered Professional Engineers He has 26 years
of experience in all facets of environmental engineering with industry, government and
universities. He was formerly Director of the Office of Nuclear Materials, Safety and