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13. Environmental Protection Agency · Notable

Reassess the Linear Non-Threshold radiation standard

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Printed page 427 13. Environmental Protection Agency

“Level-set past, misleading statements regarding radiological risk and reassess the Linear Non-Threshold standard.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    No reassessment of the linear no-threshold model has been published, and no EPA statement corrects the record on radiological risk. The model still underlies the agency's radiation risk assessments, and nothing in the Federal Register or on an allowlisted EPA page in this window reopens it.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Negative search (2026-08-27): a Federal Register full-text search restricted to EPA for the linear no-threshold model returns zero documents in the window; the EPA Federal Register notices we keep and search carry nothing on radiological risk.
  • EO 14303 Restoring Gold Standard Science (2025-05-23) tells agencies that “[h]ighly unlikely and overly precautionary assumptions and scenarios should only be relied upon in agency decision-making where required by law”, which is the general instruction a linear no-threshold reassessment would sit under. It does not name the model or radiation, so it is a lead here rather than Evidence. The same order is noted at #1060.
  • EPA’s full regulatory agenda, read 2026-09-01. The full EPA Unified Agenda was read on reginfo.gov (214 entries across the active, long-term and completed stages), because the Federal Register prints only the entries that need a Regulatory Flexibility analysis and the 2026-08-27 negative search was taken from that abbreviated version. No entry anywhere in the 214 mentions radiation or the Linear Non-Threshold model. The negative now reaches the agenda as well as the Federal Register.
Action
other
Object
Linear Non-Threshold radiation standard
ID
1100