[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 22, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2890-2891]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1219]


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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: 9 a.m.--5 p.m., February 13, 2002. 8:30 a.m.--3 
p.m., February 14, 2002.
    Place: Washington Court Hotel on Capitol Hill, 525 New Jersey 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20001, telephone 202/628-2100, fax 202/879-
7938.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 65 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

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authority to 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, advises 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 
progress reports, recap of Board comments on probability of causation 
rule, status of rule promulgation, status of rule on dose 
reconstruction, special exposure cohort petitioning process, and Board 
discussion.
    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 513/458-7125.
    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: January 11, 2002.
Joseph E. Salter,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-1219 Filed 1-18-02; 8:45 am]
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