ATOMIC ENERGY COORDINATING COUNCIL OLIVER TOWNSEND, Chairman, Director, Office of Atomic Development DR. GEORGE JAMES, New York City Commissioner of Health DR. MARTIN P. CATHERWOOD, State Industrial Commissioner JAMES A. LUNDY, Chairman, State Public Service Commission KEITH S. MCHUGH, State Commissioner of Commerce COMMITTEE ON LICENSING OF THE COORDINATING COUNCIL HANSON BLATZ, Chairman, Director, Office of Radiation Control, New York City Department of Health DR. MORRIS KLEINFELD, Director, Division of Industrial Hygiene, State Department of Labor DR. JAMES LADE, Special Assistant to the Commissioner for Radiological Health, State Department of Health ROBERT D. VESSELS, Secretary, Nuclear Health Physicist, State Office of Atomic Development P. O. Box 7036 STATE OF NEW YORK May 1, 1963 On October 15, 1962 the State of New York executed an Agreement with the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission providing for the assumption by the State and the discontinuance by the Commission of regulatory responsibility and authority over nearly all atomic energy materials within the State except over quantities of materials capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction. This Agreement is in accordance with the premise, reflected in the statutes of both the Federal Government and the State of New York, that the control and development of atomic energy are proper and appropriate concerns of the States. It is also in full accord with the Federal concept of Government embodied in the United States Constitution. As Chairman of the Atomic Energy Coordinating Council I have instructed the Committee on Licensing to issue and widely distribute this booklet as an effective and convenient means of informing the industries, the medical institutions and doctors, the scientific organizations, and the scientists and educators of the State of the rules and mechanisms utilized by the regulatory agencies within the State in the execution of their newly-assumed responsibilities. |