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II. The Committee's Process
II. The Committee's Process
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The committee supplemented that set with 12 randomly selected dose assessments for occupation forces in Japan after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The committee also interacted with various atomic veterans' representatives, federal agency representatives, and other interested parties.
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Therefore, the committee has taken a broad view of its scope out of necessity and its desire to do a thorough, defensible, and enduring job. The committee hopes that the process it has used will help to answer questions that have lingered for many years regarding dose reconstructions performed for the atomic veterans compensation program.
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We elected instead to use the database at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) , which is the contractor responsible for individualized dose reconstructions and upper-bound dose determinations, as the most appropriate and feasible sampling frame.
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To ensure that we had adequate numbers of veterans with a high potential for significant radiation exposure, we carried out a stratified random sampling, sampling at random 66 veterans from the subset of those with an assigned dose of at least 1 rem and 33 from the larger group with a lower assigned dose. The committee thus oversampled veterans whose dose reconstructions may have required a relatively complex approach, and this offered a diverse set of examples for the committee to learn about how scenarios with potential for significant exposure were handled by the dose reconstruction analysts.
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NAAV also provided information about our study to veterans through its newsletter and informed veterans about how they could submit their files for the committee's use or express a concern. The committee agreed to accept records that the veterans wished to send to the National Research Council, but only with written permission to use them.
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To be consistent with the policies of the National Academies, the committee conducted fact-finding activities involving outside parties in public informationgathering meetings and met in closed session only to develop committee procedures, review documents, and consider findings and recommendations. The information-gathering meetings were structured to solicit information from technical experts, the study sponsor and contractors, and veterans on topics related to the dose reconstruction program.
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The committee visited the SAIC site to examine the 99 randomly selected dose reconstruction records. The sixth meeting included a half-day information-gathering session.
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