[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 14, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 37984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17899]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


National Center for Environmental Health; Meeting

    The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announces the following 
meeting.

    Name: Public Meeting of the Study Team for the Los Alamos 
Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Project.

    Time and Date: 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., July 27, 1999.
    Place: Santa Fe Community College, Lecture Hall Room 216, 6401 
Richards Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505, telephone 505/428-1675.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people.
    Background: Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in 
December 1990 with DOE and replaced by an MOU signed in 1996, the 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is given the 
responsibility and resources for conducting analytic epidemiologic 
investigations of residents of communities in the vicinity of DOE 
facilities, workers at DOE facilities, and other persons potentially 
exposed to radiation or to potential hazards from non-nuclear energy 
production use. HHS delegated program responsibility to CDC.
    In addition, a memo was signed in October 1990 and renewed in 
November 1992 between ATSDR and DOE. The MOU delineates the 
responsibilities and procedures for ATSDR's public health activities 
at DOE sites required under sections 104, 105, 107, and 120 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act (CERCLA or ``Superfund''). These activities include health 
consultations and public health assessments at DOE sites listed on, 
or proposed for, the Superfund National Priorities List and at sites 
that are the subject of petitions from the public and other health-
related activities such as epidemiologic studies, health 
surveillance, exposure and disease registries, health education, 
substance-specific applied research, emergency response, and 
preparation of toxicological profiles.
    Purpose: This Study Team is charged with locating, evaluating, 
cataloguing, and copying documents that contain information about 
historical chemical or radionuclide releases from facilities at the 
Los Alamos National Laboratory since its inception. The purposes of 
this meeting is to review the goals, methods, and schedule of the 
project, discuss progress to date, provide a forum for community 
interaction, and serve as a vehicle for members of the public to 
express concerns to CDC.
    Matters to be discussed: Agenda items include presentations from 
NCEH and/or its contractor regarding the information gathering 
project that recently began, and presentations from the National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Agency 
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) regarding the 
progress of current studies. There will be time for public input, 
questions, and comments. All agenda items are subject to change as 
priorities dictate.
    Contact persons for additional information: Paul G. Renard, 
Radiation Studies Branch, Division of Environmental Hazards and 
Health Effects, NCEH, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, (M/S F-35), 
Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-7040, fax 770/488-
7044.
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office has been 
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining 
to announcements of meetings and other committee management 
activities for both CDC and ATSDR.

    Dated: July 6, 1999.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-17899 Filed 7-13-99; 8:45 am]
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