[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 246 (Friday, December 21, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 65974]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31462]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health: Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following committee meeting.

    Name: Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH).
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., January 22, 2002.
    8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., January 23, 2002.
    Place: Holiday Inn on the Hill, 415 New Jersey Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20001, telephone 202/638-1616, fax 202/347-1813.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.
    Background: The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health 
(the Board) was established under the Energy Employees Occupational 
Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to advise the President on 
a variety of policy and technical functions required to implement 
and effectively manage the new compensation program. Key functions 
of the Board include providing advice on the development of 
probability of causation guidelines which are being promulgated by 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), advice on methods of 
dose reconstruction which have been promulgated as an interim final 
rule, evaluation of the validity and quality of dose reconstructions 
conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and 
Health (NIOSH) for qualified cancer claimants, and advice on the 
addition of classes of workers to the Special Exposure Cohort.
    In December 2000, the President delegated responsibility for 
funding, staffing, and operating the Board to HHS, which 
subsequently delegated this authority to the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC). NIOSH implements this responsibility 
for CDC. The charter was signed on August 3, 2001, and in November 
2001, the President completed the appointment of an initial roster 
of 10 Board members. The initial tasks of the Board will be to 
review and provide advice on the proposed and interim rules of HHS.
    Purpose: This board is charged with (a) providing advice to the 
Secretary, HHS, on the development of guidelines under Executive 
Order 13179; (b) providing advice to the Secretary, HHS, on the 
scientific validity and quality of dose reconstruction efforts 
performed for this Program; and (c) upon request by the Secretary, 
HHS, advise the Secretary on whether there is a class of employees 
at any Department of Energy facility who were exposed to radiation 
but for whom it is not feasible to estimate their radiation dose, 
and on whether there is reasonable likelihood that such radiation 
doses may have endangered the health of members of this class.
    Matters to be Discussed: Agenda for this meeting will focus on 
member orientation and include briefings by NIOSH, CDC Committee 
Management Office, Office of the General Counsel and/or Office of 
Government Ethics. The Board will also review, evaluate, and comment 
on the rule on probability of causation.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
    Larry Elliott, Executive Secretary, ABRWH, NIOSH, CDC, 4676 
Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, telephone 513/841-4498, 
fax 513/841-4470.
    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 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

    Dated: December 17, 2001.
John Burkhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention .
[FR Doc. 01-31462 Filed 12-20-01; 8:45 am]
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