Advisory Committee of State Officials

The AEC proposal received a cool response from its Advisory Committee of State Officials, which met in Washington on 5 March 1959. The state representatives complained that the area of sole AEC jurisdiction remained undefined it was unclear, for example, whether the states could monitor gaseous and liquid effluents from a nuclecir reactor. They also objected to the sections of the bill that granted exclusive authority to the AEC. On the other hand, they "did not indicate an eagerness to accept total responsibility" for the functions the amendment allowed the states to take over. The California delegate expressed dissatisfaction that the AEC would control disposal of waste materials in... 

Advisory Committee of State Officials— Panel of representatives of twelve states established by the AEC in 1955 for consultation on issues related to federal-state relations in nuclear regulation. 

Denmark does not operate an advisory committee of experts such as those found in the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands, but obtains all its advice from Ministry of Environment officials. Denmark s system of law allowed it to be the only Member State to have reasonably claimed to have fully implemented both the CUD and DRD on 23 October 1991. 

The committee consulted with and received input from many stakeholders, both principals and agents, including personnel assigned to the office of the PMCD and its support contractors contractor and subcontractor personnel responsible for operating chemical demilitarization facilities former employees of chemical demilitarization facilities congressional, state, and local officials members of state citizen advisory committees members of citizen activist groups and local citizens. (See Appendixes C, D, and I.)... 

A paper entitled The Synthesis, Purification and Properties of Hydrocarbons of Low Molecular Weight, a Report on API Research Project 45, prepared by Cecil E. Boord and Wheeler G. Lovell, was presented by Lovell at the Session on Fundamental Research at Chicago last November (17). Prof. Boord of The Ohio State University has been the Director of the project since its inception, 14 years ago. Dr. Lovell, of the Ethyl Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, has been Chairman of the Advisory Committee since the project was reorganized in 1944 and was officially made one of the projects under the supervision of the ACFRCPP. Their paper covers in detail the historical background, organization, objectives, accomplishments, techniques developed, and publications of the project. 

Some people are also very concerned about the potential environmental effects of aquaculture operations. A USDA advisory committee on aquatic biotechnology and environmental safety recently drew up a set of performance standards and logic flowcharts for safely conducting research with genetically modified fish and shellfish (ABRAC). This effort was especially noteworthy because it enjoyed the collective support of the aquatic research community, private industry, environmental interest groups, and state natural resource officials. 

Professor Bailar served his country during the Second World War as an official investigator of the National Defense Research Advisory Committee, Basic Physical Science, Panel on Chemistry, Research and Development Board. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Monmouth College. Professor Bailar has delivered hundreds of lectures in the United States and abroad on chemistry and chemical education, and has been awarded the Welch Lectureship, the Foster Lectureship at the University of Buffalo (twice), the Merck Lectureship at Bucknell University, the Clark E. Friend Lectureship at the University of West Virginia, and the American Cyanamid Lectureship at the University of Connecticut. He has been an author, editor, or co-author of four books and 145 scientific papers as well as many book reviews, lectures, etc. 

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