[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 14, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42658-42659]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-20372]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

[Program Announcement 01192]


Feasibility Investigation of GAF-Mattel-Tyco Site; Beaverton, 
Oregon; Site-Specific Health Activities; Notice of Availability of 
Funds

A. Purpose

    The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) 
announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2001 funds for a 
cooperative agreement program to conduct a feasibility investigation at 
the former GAF-Mattel-Tyco site in Beaverton, Oregon where 
contamination of trichloroethylene (TCE) in the drinking water was 
discovered. This program addresses the ``Healthy People 2010'' focus 
area of Environmental Health.
    The purpose of this program is to assess the feasibility of 
quantifying individual exposure to TCE and to initiate efforts to 
establish a cohort of all former workers including obtaining 
demographic information and work histories of all former workers. The 
information gathered in the development of the cohort will serve as a 
basis for future studies of this cohort.

B. Eligible Applicants

    Assistance will be provided only to the Oregon Department of Human 
Services, Health Division. No other applications are solicited.
    The Oregon Department of Human Services, Health Division is the 
most appropriate and qualified recipient to conduct the activities 
specified under this cooperative agreement because:
    1. The Oregon Department of Human Services, Health Division is 
involved with this site and has been responding to health concerns of 
former workers since 1998.
    2. The Oregon Department of Human Services has unique access to 
state records that will be necessary in obtaining needed information on 
the cohort of former workers.
    3. Under the consent decree, the potentially responsible parties 
are required to compile a database of former workers. The potentially 
responsible parties are further required to provide the database to 
Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) (Order on Consent 
No. WMCSR-NWR-98-17). For the purposes of conducting health studies, 
DEQ will share the database only with ATSDR and the Oregon Department 
of Human Services. Access

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to this database is essential for constructing the cohort of former 
workers and assessing the feasibility of conducting future health 
studies.

    Note: Title 2 of the United States Code, Chapter 26, Section 
1611 states that an organization described in section 501(c)(4) of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engages in lobbying 
activities is not eligible to receive federal funds constituting an 
award, grant, cooperative agreement, contract, loan, or any other 
form.

C. Availability of Funds

    Approximately $100,000 is available in FY 2001 to fund one award to 
the Oregon Department of Human Services, Health Division. The award is 
expected to begin on or about September 30, 2001, and will be made for 
a 12-month budget within a project period of up to 2 years.

D. Where To Obtain Additional Information

    Program technical assistance may be obtained from:
Curtis Noonan, PhD, Epidemiologist, Division of Health Studies, Agency 
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Executive Park, Building 4, 
Suite 1300, Atlanta, GA 30305, Telephone: (404) 498-0588, E-mail 
Address: [email protected]
      or
Maggie Warren, Funding Resource Specialist, Division of Health Studies, 
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 1600 Clifton Rd., 
NE., Mail Stop E-31, Atlanta, GA 30333, Telephone: (404) 498-0546, E-
mail Address: [email protected]

    Business management technical assistance may be obtained from: 
Nelda Y. Godfrey, Grants Management Specialist, Grants Management 
Branch, Procurement & Grants Office, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Room 3000, 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341-4146. 
Telephone number: (770) 488-2722. Email address: [email protected]

    Dated: August 7, 2001.
Georgi Jones,
Director, Office of Policy and External Affairs, Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry.
[FR Doc. 01-20372 Filed 8-13-01; 8:45 am]
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