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wATER.GREMLIN PUBLIC HEALTH AsS•lkS5MFNT: PU.BL.fC COMMENT DRAFT <br />Using the assumptions just described, thOncreased cancer risk is estimated to be an additional 1.5 <br />cases of cancer In-i0,dW people exposed in this hypothetical scenario. if such exposures were to occur; <br />this cancer risk would exceed Minnesota's acceptable caricer risicievel of I additional cancercase in <br />100,000 exposed people, but would be indistinguishable from the lifetimebackground. rate In :Minnesota <br />of i cancer case in every 2=3 people. 5ince.this calculation is forthe RME, the risk would be muah lower <br />for the majority of plausible exposures (scenarios that involve'fewer: years of exposure, exposure to <br />lowetTCE eonceiitratioris, etc.) among people who lived,. workedor_Q.therwise migh# have.spentttme in <br />the area surrounding the Water Gremlin facility. <br />71 <br />