%A"Carlyle Thompson, G D [Utah State Division of Health, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)]" %D1969 %I; U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, Environmental Control Administration (United States) %2Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory, Bureau of Radiological Health (United States) %J[] %K61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY, COST, DECISION MAKING, FORECASTING, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC RELATIONS, RADIATION MONITORING, RADIOACTIVITY, SAFETY, SAFETY STANDARDS, SECURITY %PMedium: ED; Size: page(s) 487-497 %TState and local safety program %XThis paper will give emphasis to the need for an increasing role of the states, along with the Federal agencies, in the Plowshare Program in order to assure state and local confidence with respect to the safety of their residents as the Federal government seeks new methods to benefit society. First will be stressed the age-old principle of control at the source. Other factors to be discussed are monitoring; standards and their use; control action; public relations; predictions and the need to have certain advance knowledge of tests - even if security clearance is necessary for appropriate state representatives; the state and local government responsibility to their citizens; the isolation of national decision making from state and local concern and responsibility; cost assessments and their responsibility; and research as it relates to the ecological system as well a the direct short- or long-term effects of radioactivity on man. (author) %0Conference %NINIS-XA-N-193; PB-187349; SWRHL-82;TRN: XA04N2201015902 %1 %CIAEA %Rhttps://doi.org/ TRN: XA04N2201015902 INIS %GEnglish