[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9089-9090]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4603]


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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.-4 p.m., March 14, 2003.
    Place: Teleconference call will originate at the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational 
Safety and Health (NIOSH), 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, 
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 as a Final Rule, advice 
on methods of dose reconstruction which have also been promulgated as a 
Final Rule, evaluation of the scientific validity and quality of dose 
reconstructions conducted by 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 members to 
the Board to ensure a balanced representation on the Board. 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, 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 
Special Exposure Cohort Notice of Proposed Rule Making finalization of 
recommendations.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This conference call is scheduled for 1 p.m. 
Eastern 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 ``528890'' 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

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry.

    Dated: February 21, 2003.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-4603 Filed 2-26-03; 8:45 am]
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