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Safeguards of the Nuclear RegulatOry Commission and a member of the interagency Review Group,
which in 1979 completed an extensive study of nuclear waste management for the-President of
the United States. Dr. Smith's past experience includes being a Regional Administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency in the Pacific Region, Deputy Regional Administrator in
New England, and he has been associated with environmental issues related to nuclear power
going back to the Shippingport Nuclear Power Plant in 1959.
Dr. Hubert L. Barnes, another board member, is the author of about 70 technical papers
and books on the geochemistry of mineral resources, including a book on "Uranium Prospect-
ing." He has been a Guggenheim Fellow at the Geochemistry Institute of the University of
Goettingen, Exchange Scientist of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to the Russian
Academy of Sciences, and Chairman of the United States National Committee for Geochemistry.
He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and of the Mineralogical Society of
America. He is also a Professor of Geochemistry, and Director of the Ore Deposits Research
Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. Past experience includes geochemical
research on the origin of hydrothermal ore deposits at the Geophysical Laboratory of the
Carnegie Institute of Washington, and extensive consulting on geochemical problems in envi-
ronmental pollution and in the search for mineral resources. He also is the inventor of
patented methods of air pollution control and of crystal growth. He has held several distinguished
lectureships at universities in the United States and in Europe and now with the
Society of Economic Geologists.
Another hearing board member was Dr. Melvin W. Carter who received his Bachelor's and
Master's of Science Degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D at the Univer-
sity of Florida. He is currently at the Georgia Institute of Technology as Director of the
Center for Radiological Protection and Professor at the School of Nuclear Engineering. He
has had more than 29 years of experience in the radiation protection field as an environ-
mental engineer and health physicist. He worked for the United States Environmental Protec-
tion Agency. He has been assigned major responsibiliti.es including Director of the South-
eastern Radiological Health Laboratory, and the Director of the National Environmental
Research Center, Las Vegas. In addition to numerous articles and books, he has been co-
author of a monograph and also editor of Environmental International. He has served as a
consultant to federal and state agencies, as well as major industrial concerns and inter-
national organizations, and belongs to a number of professional and honorary organizations,
including the Health Physics Society, the National Council on Radiation Protection and Mea-
surements, and the International Radiation Protection Association.
HEARINGS AND TESTIMONY
The Board conducted hearings in five major cities: Washington, DC (June 26-27, 1979);
Chicago, Illinois (August 8-9, 1979); Atlanta, Georgia (September 25-26 1979); Dallas, Texas
(October 2-3, 1979); and San Francisco, California (October 8-9, 1979). Notice of public
availability of the Statement appeared in the Federal Register of April 20, 1979. Later