[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 135 (Friday, July 13, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36790-36791]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17583]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the 
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of 
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated 
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as 
amended most recently at 66 FR 29577, dated May 31, 2001) is amended to 
establish the Office of Compensation and Analysis within the Office of 
the Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    After the mission statement for the Office of Administrative and 
Management Services (CC11), Office of the Director (CC1), National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CC), insert the 
following:
    Office of Compensation Analysis and Support (CC12). (1) Conducts a 
program in support of Federal rulemaking to promulgate science-based 
methods and guidelines mandated by the Energy Employees Occupational 
Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (``the Act'') to estimate the 
occupational radiation doses of claimants under the Act and evaluate 
the relationship between such doses and cancers incurred by the 
claimants; (2) develops and implements a program of science-based 
analysis and policymaking by which the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall consider and

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issue determinations on petitions by classes of employees to be 
included as members of the Special Exposure Cohort established under 
the Act; (3) conducts a program of individual dose reconstruction to 
estimate and report the radiation doses of claimants under the Act; and 
(4) identifies and recommends the appointment of occupational 
physicians to physician panels to be established by the Secretary of 
Energy to consider the claims of workers with illnesses applying for 
compensation under state workers' compensation programs.

    Dated: July 2, 2001.
Martha Katz,
Acting Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 01-17583 Filed 7-12-01; 8:45 am]
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