July 21 2014 ATSDR – CAP Meeting Updates

The latest phone meeting of the Community Assistance Panel was held today.  Added to the panel is new member Tim Templeton.  Items discussed:

• Soil vapor intrusion index
• More documents forthcoming regarding Underground Storage Tanks (UST) on base, as well as other requested documents by the CAP and ATSDR.
• Concerns about organization of incoming documents by Navy and other providers.
• CAP continues to express concerns about gaining full access to all related documents.
• First meeting of a new Cancer Incidence Study Panel takes place next week (July 29/30, 2014) – topics covered include: expert panel updates, water modeling studies, proposals, protocols, a Marine mortality study, etc.

Study updates coming soon include:

• Male breast cancer study – ETA 3-4 weeks
• Civilian worker mortality study – awaiting CDC
• Adverse pregnancy outcome study

A full transcript from the previous Atlanta meeting on June 12th is now available at:

• http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lejeune/capmeetings.html

A new Newsweek article on the Camp Lejeune contamination issue was just released here:

• http://www.newsweek.com/2014/07/25/us-military-supposed-protect-countrys-citizens-and-soldiers-not-poison-them-259103.html

The article references a video report from Dan Rather on AXS TV found here:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEwqPNl8ydY