The California State Capital Building emits 60 millirem radiation per year as it is built of granite and is Dr. Keith Richman's comparative analysis with the Rocketdyne/Boeing contaminated sites and reasoning to vote against Senate Bill 1444 authored by Senator Sheila James Kuehl. Dr. Richman is also the Assemblymember (R-Northridge) who represents the contaminated areas of Simi and West San Fernando Valley. The California Department of Health Services and the Department of Energy document their findings that cleanup of the Rocketdyne/Boeing Santa Susana Field Laboratory and its Energy Technology Engineering Center emissions of 15 millirem radiation is safe for human health. Assemblymember Richman wants scientifically based information and legislation and thus has denied residents of SB 1444/Senator Kuehl's legislative protections.

I know Legislators put in long, hard, difficult hours but then they GO HOME when they are finished. They do not live in a 60 millirem radiation emitting building every day of the week or raise their children onsite. This figure does not include the fact of the cumulative effects of additional radiation exposure caused by previous illegal dumping of radioactive materials from SSFL and ETEC and other sites at Bradley, Sunshine Canyon, and Calabasas landfills despite the fact that Sacramento Judge Gail Ohanesian prohibited the California Department of Health Services and Boeing from dumping at those sites TWICE within this past year. The yearly millirem radiation exposure especially does not include cumulative radiation exposure from wastes and contamination that has yet to be determined to date, 05 September, 2002.

Naturally occuring radiation from the sun, rocks, minerals, etcetera, does not include the altering by science resulting in the creation of Strontium-90, Cesium-137, Plutonium-238, Plutonium-239, or Uranium-235, as does the radionuclide contamination located at the Rocketdyne/Boeing SSFL/ETEC sites. (Rocketdyne/Boeing Santa Susana Field Laboratory and Energy Technology Engineering Center)

Naturally occuring radiation does not emit radioactive iodine-131 during the middle of the night through vents exposing neighboring communities without residents knowledge as did the science of the Rocketdyne/Boeing facilities. Military grade plutonium does not granite make. Doctors of Medicine practice the healing arts and receive degrees of Medical Doctor and do not always receive degrees of science. There are doctors who research and investigate and are scientists but not all medical practitioners are scientists as the fact remains that the practice of medicine is historically a healing art.

Individuals who want to learn about radiation poisoning and/or cumulative effects of radiation and cancers/illness/diseases directly caused by radiation exposure are herein encouraged to visit the Department of Energy's very own Human Radiation Experiment Site which includes more than 250,000 pages of United States documented studies regarding human radiation experiments and the DOE's scientific studies regarding the deaths/injuries/illnesses caused by cumulative radiation exposure located at
Human Radiation Experiments. These are all studies conducted by the United States government which are all documented and the California Department of Health Services as well as the Department of Energy has access to this archived information. Much of this documentation of cumulative radiation exposure occurred right here in California within the California University system.

Suggested historical readings about radiation poisoning include the history of Madame Curie, n�e Sklodowska; she died of radiation induced leukemia. The history of the studies of crystal diffusion, (x-rays), may be discovered by studying the histories of the dual shared Nobel prize winners, Sirs William Henry Braggand and William Lawrence Bragg. Enriched uranium may be studied by itself as may Strontium-90, Cesium-137, Iodine-131, Plutonium-238, Plutonium-239, Uranium-235, radiation poisoning, radionuclides, and Manhattan Project Radiation Deaths including those suffered by Drs. Harry Dhaglian, Louis Slotin, and Peter Newport Bragg located at Manhattan Project Memorial History.

Individuals who want to protect themselves and their families from injury or illness caused by cumulative radiation exposure will research the facts and not rely on spin from company representatives or government agencies which includes individuals who have not researched their own documentation regarding cumulative low level radiation exposure cancers and deaths, available atDOE Human Radiation Experiments and will be able to discover the facts of the SSFL/ETEC contamination and how very much documentation exists regarding cancers/deaths/illnesses/injuries directly caused by low level cumulative radiation exposure.