Press Release-04-104, Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses Isotopes to Meet October 13 - 14 in Rockville, Maryland

Press Release-04-104: Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses Isotopes to Meet October 13 - 14 in Rockville, Maryland

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NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: opa@nrc.gov Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov/OPA No.04-104 September 1, 2004 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE MEDICAL USES OF ISOTOPES TO MEET OCTOBER 13 - 14 IN ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND The Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI) will meet at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions headquarters in Rockville, Md., on Oct. 13-14.

The meetings public session will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 13 and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Oct. 14.

Agenda items for discussion in the public sessions include the use of Iodine-125 brachytherapy seeds as markers; proposed changes to abnormal occurrence criteria; discussion of medical event criteria; and an update on the St. Josephs Mercy Hospital dose reconstruction case. A complete agenda will be available at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/acmui/schedules/2004/ .

Questions from the public will be permitted during the open sessions, at the discretion of the committee chairman. Persons who wish to provide a written statement should submit a reproducible copy to Angela R. McIntosh, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop T-8F5, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Statements may also be e-mailed to Ms. McIntosh at arm@nrc.gov . Submissions should be postmarked by Sept. 15 and must pertain to the topics on the meeting agenda. For further information, contact Ms. McIntosh at (301) 415-5030.

Transcripts of the meeting and written comments will be available about Jan. 14, 2005, on the NRCs web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/acmui/tr/ , and in the NRC Public Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, telephone (800) 397-4209 or (301) 415-4737.