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FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE ,.,wtra
September 22, 1986 CW a
DATE'. . @ Court /
SUBJECT: Cancer Study 1 �l�
SPECIFIC REQUESTS) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . Direct the Health Services Director to file a report with
the Internal Operations Committee by November 28, 1986
updating the results of Dr. Austin' s study of the incidence
of cancer in the industrial and non-industrial areas of the
County.
2 . Direct the Health Services Director to file a report with
the Internal Operations Committee by December 22, 1986
outlining the proposed design for a prospective study of
cancer incidence in Contra Costa County and including an
identification of the following:
A. A proposed process for obtaining support for the study
from various professional agencies, such . as the
University of California and the State Department of
Health Services.
B. The portions of the study which can be- undertaken by
existing agencies with existing . resources.
C. What additional resources will be needed to fully fund
the study.
D. A possible scenario for obtaining the necessary
additional funding; and
E. The process for obtaining scientific review and support
for the study from such agencies as the National Cancer
Institute.
3 . Request the Health Services Director to encourage the
subcomittee of the Technical Advisory Committee on
Occupational and Environmental Health to add a third member
to their subcommittee.
4 . Include in the protocol for the inclusion of chemicals to be
identified in the AB 2185 data base not only those chemicals
identified as carcinogenic by the National Agency for
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
anc. C. anden S�unne W. McPeak
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ACTION OF BOAR ON September 21, Nbb APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT IT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES' NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED September. 23, 1986
Health Services Director
PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
M382/7-83 BtYi� � DEPUTY
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Research on Carcinogens, but also any additional chemicals
which have been identified as carcinogenic within the scope
of the federal Hazard Communication Standard ( 29 C.F.R. Sec.
1910.1200) .
5 . Request the Health Services Director to send copies of the
Internal Operations Committee reports on this subject to
organizations and individuals which will be affected by the
prospective study to keep them informed of actions being
taken by the Board of Supervisors.
6. Leave this item on referral to the Internal Operations
Committee.
BACKGROUND:
On August 19, 1986, in approving the last report of our Committee
on this subject, the Board requested the Health Services Director
to provide a report to . the Internal Operations Committee by
September 23, 1986 on three issues:
1 . The status of the updating of Dr. Austin' s study;
2. The status of designing a prospective study for cancer
incidence;
3 . The feasibility of including in the AB 2185 data base
information on the location and quantity of
occupational carcinogens used throughout the County.
On September 22, 1986, our Committee met with Mr. Finucane and
Dr. Brunner to review their report on this subject. Mr. Finucane
indicated that the updating of Dr. Austin' s study is financed and
will be completed within 60 clays. He indicated that the design
of a prospective cancer study since it had to be done without any
additional financial resources could not be completed within 60
days. The problem is the need to encourage other agencies which
have parts of the necessary information to share that information.
with the County and to help move the other agencies in directions
that will be of assistance to the County in carrying out such a
prospective cancer study.
Finally, our Committee would like included in the AB 2185 data
base both the international agency for research on cancer and the
other similar listing which appears in Proposition 65 on the
November 4, 1986 ballot in case the two listings are not
identical.
Our Committee is frustrated at: the relatively slow progress being
made, particularly on the prospective cancer study. We believe
that setting some specific deadlines for reports back to our
Committee will assist in focusing the attention on this matter
which we believe it deserves.