[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 147 (Wednesday, July 31, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49699-49700]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-19283]


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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

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Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following committee meeting.
    Name: Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH).
    Times and Dates: 12:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., August 14, 2002. 8 a.m.-5 
p.m., August 15, 2002.
    Place: Hyatt Regency Cincinnati, 151 West Fifth Street, Cincinnati, 
Ohio 45202, telephone 513/579-1234, fax 513/352-0245.
    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 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 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. In April 2002 the President appointed an 
additional member to ensure more balanced representation on the Board. 
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 include 
presentations for the Board's information on the adjudication of claims 
for atomic veterans, dose reconstruction for atomic veterans, and 
probability of causation determination for atomic veterans. The Board's 
agenda also includes development of comments on the Special Exposure 
Cohort Petitioning Process Guidelines (NPRM), dose reconstruction 
workgroup discussion and issues, and Board discussion of Board 
responsibilities.
    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: July 25, 2002.
John C. Burckhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-19283 Filed 7-30-02; 8:45 am]
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