[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 26, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14662-14663]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-7182]


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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).
    Time and Date: 2 p.m.-5 p.m., March 28, 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 the 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 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. 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: The agenda for this meeting will focus 
on the continuation of discussion and finalization of 
recommendations regarding the Special Exposure Cohort Notice of 
Proposed Rule Making.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Supplementary Information: This conference call is scheduled for 
2 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 ``943833,'' 
and you will be connected to the call.
    This meeting is being published late as the meeting date and 
time was not confirmed until March 14th, which did not allow the 
notice to be published in the Federal Register at least 15 days 
before the date of the meeting.
    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: March 20, 2003.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-7182 Filed 3-25-03; 8:45 am]
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