[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 116 (Monday, June 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41243-41244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-15273]


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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 a.m.-5 p.m., July 1, 2002; 8 a.m.-5 p.m., 
July 2, 2002.
    Place: Hyatt Regency Denver, 1750 Welton Street, Denver, 
Colorado 80202, telephone (303) 295-5885, fax (303) 296-6352.
    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, through the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), 
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 have been promulgated by 
HHS, advice on methods of dose reconstruction which have also been 
promulgated as a 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 CDC. NIOSH implements this 
responsibility for CDC. The charter was signed on August 3, 2001, 
and in November 2001, the President completed the initial 
appointment of Board members. The initial tasks of the Board have 
been to review and provide advice on the proposed, interim, and 
final 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, advising 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

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Exposure Cohort Petitioning Process Procedures, NIOSH-IREP concerns 
and model transparency, dose reconstruction workgroup discussion and 
issues, and Board discussion.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    For Further 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: June 12, 2002.
John C. Burckhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-15273 Filed 6-14-02; 8:45 am]
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