Meeting 1: Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune

Meeting Information

Project Title:	Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune
PIN:	BEST-K-06-08-A
Major Unit:	Division on Earth and Life Studies
Sub Unit:	Board on Environmental Studies & Toxicology
RSO:	Martel, Susan

Subject/Focus Area:	Environment and Environmental Studies

Camp Lejeune Mtg 1 September 24, 2007 - September 25, 2007 Keck Center 500 5th Street, NW Washington D.C. 20001

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Contact Name: Tamara Dawson
Email: tdawson@nas.edu
Phone: (202) 334-2776
Fax: (202) 334-2752

Agenda: SEPTEMBER 24, 2007 Keck 101 12:45 Registration for Public Session Begins 1:00 Welcome, Introductions, Process for Open Session David Savitz, Chair 1:10 Drinking-Water Contamination at Camp Lejeune and Study Charge Major General (Select) Eugene G. Payne, Jr., Assistant Deputy Commandant Installations and Logistics (Facilities), Headquarters Marine Corps Kelly Dreyer, Environmental Restoration Program Manager Headquarters Marine Corps 1:40 GAO Report: Issues Related to Past Drinking Water Contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Marcia Crosse, Director, Health Care U.S. Government Accountability Office 2:10 Childhood Adverse Health Outcomes and Drinking Water Exposures to Chlorinated Solvents at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina Frank J. Bove, Senior Epidemiologist Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 2:40 Using Computational Models to Reconstruct Historical Drinking-Water Contamination at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina Morris L. Maslia, Research Environmental Engineer Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 3:00 Perspectives of Former Residents of Camp Lejeune Jerry Ensminger Member, Community Assistance Panel 3:30 Open Microphone for Public Comment Sign-up begins outside the public meeting room at 12:45 pm. Each speaker has a maximum time limit of 3 minutes. Accompanying written materials are encouraged. 4:30 Public Session Adjourns SEPTEMBER 25, 2007 No public sessions
Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting: David Savitz (chair) Caroline Baier-Anderson James Bruckner Prabhakar Clement Carole Kimmel Amy Kyle Francine Laden (via conference call) Xiaomei Ma John Nuckols Andrew Olshan Lianne Sheppard Elaine Symanski and Janice Yager The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions: 1. Standard NRC discussion of policies, procedures, conflict of interest, and bias 2. Committee expertise and balance 3. Interpretation of the statement of task, plan of action, and report outline 4. Schedule and location of future committee meetings The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions: CLj-10: WITN NBC News. 2007. Feds get earful from Camp Lejeune residents [Online]. Available: www.witntv.com [accessed August 14, 2007]. CLj-11: Bipartisan Senate bill puts new pressure on EPA to address TCE risks, Risk Policy report, August 7, 2007. CLj-12: Democrats stepping up scrutiny of DOD environmental compliance, Inside EPA, July 3, 2007. CLj-13: Imminent PCE assessment could become uncertainty characterization model, Risk Policy Report, June 26, 2007. CLj-14: GOP lawmaker eyes bill to boost ATSDR study powers at waste sites, Risk Policy Report, June 26, 2007. CLj-15: Camp Lejeune water under scrutiny, Associated Press, June 12, 2007. CLj-16: ATSDR Media Announcement: Federal health agency completes analyses of Tarawa Terrace drinking water system at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. CLj-17: Past contaminated water at Lejeune suspected in death and illness, Associated Press, June 11, 2007. CLj-18: House panel eyes TCE hearing as GAO recaps military contamination, Risk Policy Report, June 6, 2007. CLj-19: Gulf War and Health, Volume 2 – Insecticides and Solvents. Institute of Medicine (2003), Executive Summary (example of categorization scheme) CLj-20: ATSDR. 2007. Analysis of groundwater flow, contaminant fate and transport, and distribution of drinking water at Tarawa Terrace and vicinity, U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: Historical reconstruction and present-day conditions. Executive Summary. Atlanta, Georgia. CLj-21: ATSDR. 2007. Analysis of groundwater flow, contaminant fate and transport, and distribution of drinking water at Tarawa Terrace and vicinity, U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: Historical reconstruction and present-day conditions. Chapter A: summary of findings. Atlanta, Georgia. CLj-22: Dreyer, K. 2007. Health study of volatile organic compound-impacted drinking water at Camp Lejeune. Given by Kelly Dreyer, Headquarters Marine Corps. CLj-23: Crosse, M. 2007. Briefing for the National Research Council (NRC) committee on contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune. Given by Marcia Crosse, U.S. Government Accountability Office. CLj-24: Bove, F.J. 2007. Childhood adverse health outcomes and drinking water exposures to chlorinated solvents at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Given by Frank J. Bove, Agency for toxic Substances and Disease Registry. CLj-25: Maslia, M.L. 2007. Using computational models to reconstruct historical drinking-water contamination at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Given by Morris L. Maslia, Agency for toxic Substances and Disease Registry. CLj-26: Ensminger, J.M. 2007. Presentation to the National Academy of Sciences. Given by Jerome M. Ensminger, Community Assistance Panel. CLj-27: Ensminger, J.M. 2007. Copies of laboratory reports and correspondence related to contaminant testing of drinking water at Camp Lejeune. Date of posting of Closed Session Summary: September 27, 2007