you going to get a decision back from NIOSH which is believable
and credible. Are you going to get an answer, whether you like it
or you don't get money, the question is do you believe at the end
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of the day that the decision was well vetted, that it's well-defended.
And when you get this gibberish back in the mail with your
NIOSH dose reconstruction report and the IREP input model --
everybody can tell us what IREP is -- and y'all look at this stream
of dose inputs and you have no idea where those are derived from
'cause your dose reconstruction report is a little sketchy, and then
you're somehow supposed to fathom whether you got a fair decision
or not, under some efficiency method or worst case method, you
don't really know. Well, this Board has a key role in whether this
program sinks or swims in terms of the credibility of the decisions
that come back. And that is, they're supposed to audit the radiation
dose reconstructions. They're – the Congress told them they are
supposed to audit a representative sample and to look at the
methods that are used. Now they had a meeting here yesterday and
they closed the door under the guise that they were going to be
discussing these matters pursuant to the Privacy Act. And I had
asked, before
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they went into Executive Session, to discuss these 20 radiation dose
reconstructions which are under audit, whether or not we would at
least see a transcript of what was discussed behind the doors. Now
I happened to go out to dinner with some folks, and I heard y'all
had a lot of fun behind closed doors yesterday, and that it was
contentious. But I don't know what the contentions were. And I
heard there was vigorous debate, but I don't know what the debate
was about. I don't even know if it involved the Privacy Act. I
don't know what went on. But if the process is going to have
some credibility, there's got to be sufficient transparency, respecting
the Privacy Act at the same time. So I'm going to restate my request
that I made before you went into Executive Session, which is that
I would like to see a transcript, with the appropriate redactions
made, of what went on behind closed doors, and your discussion
for three hours that looked at the credibility of the first 20 radiation
dose reconstructions that were reviewed by your contractor. And
I was very pleased that Cori
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