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PUBLIC SUBMISSION

As of: 11/17/15 9:41 AM
Tracking No. 1jz-8lss-7avd
Comments Due: November 30, 2015

Docket: ATSDR-2015-0005
"Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry [60Day-15-0046]"
Comment On: ATSDR-2015-0005-0001
"Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry [60Day-15-0046]" 2015-24718
Document: ATSDR-2015-0005-0002
Comment on FR Doc # N/A

Submitter Information
Name: Christel Venero

General Comment
To: Prospective Birth Cohort Study Involving Environmental Uranium Exposure in the Navajo
Nation
My name is Christel Venero and I am currently a student at the University of Wisconsin
Stevens Point. I have a bachelor's degree in Agronomy and Animal Husbandry from my home
country Peru, and I am graduating this December from UWSP with a major in Natural
Resources Management. I have strong feelings that funding for the Prospective Birth Cohort
Study Involving Environmental Uranium Exposure in the Navajo Nation should be continued to
provide the best possible protection for Navajo people, especially the children. In my home
country the native people have suffered many problems from the dangerous mining methods in
the Amazon area. It has had bad effects on their health and their lifestyle. I would like to see the
Navajo and native people everywhere protected from large corporations who are only interested
in making money. I feel that this project has an excellent start, but to discontinue now would
give incomplete results and may actually waste the money which has been already spent. It is
important to identify additional subjects for the research and to follow them for a longer period.
Please continue this worthy project.
Thank you very much for considering my concern about discontinuing this project.

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