[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 70 (Thursday, April 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17694-17695]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-8838]


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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.-4:30 p.m., May 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., 
May 3, 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 authority to the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC). NIOSH implements this responsibility for CDC.

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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 the 
draft Special Exposure Cohort Petitioning Process Guidelines, other 
Board business, and Board discussion. Agenda items are subject to 
change as priorities dictate.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 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: April 3, 2002.
Alvin Hall,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-8838 Filed 4-10-02; 8:45 am]
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