[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 162 (Wednesday, August 21, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 54218]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-21400]


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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).
    Time and Date: 1 p.m.-2 p.m., August 22, 2002.
    Place: Teleconference call will originate at the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes for Occupational 
Safety and Health, Atlanta, Georgia. Please see SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION for details on accessing the teleconference.
    Status: Open to the public, teleconference access limited only 
by ports available.
    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 have been 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 have been 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 
the Board finalizing comments on the Procedures for Designating 
Classes of Employees as Members of the Special Exposure Cohort Under 
the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act 
of 2000; proposed rule 42 CFR part 83. The period for comment closes 
on August 26, 2002, and the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker 
Health is required to comment as mandated by the Energy Employees 
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    This request has been submitted late as this conference call was 
scheduled on August 15, 2002. This conference call cannot be delayed 
as the open comment period closes on August 26, 2002; two business 
days after this conference call takes place.
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This conference call is scheduled for 
1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. To access the teleconference you 
must dial 1/800-311-3437. To be automatically connected to the call, 
you will need to provide the operator with the participant code 
``984100'' and you will be connected to the call.
    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: August 16, 2002.
Joseph E. Salter,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-21400 Filed 8-20-02; 8:45 am]
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