[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 15, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18211-18212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-9134]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: Meeting

    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: (NIOSH) 
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the 
following meeting:

    Name: Priorities, strategies and methods for long-term health 
monitoring of World Trade Center exposed rescue, recovery and 
restoration workers and volunteers.
    Time and Date: 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., May 2, 2003.
    Place: New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue (corner 
of 103rd St.), NY, NY 10029, (212) 822-7200. Directions are 
available at http://www.nyam.org/directions.shtml.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by space available. 
Seating will be limited to approximately 75 people. Due to limited 
conference space, notification of intent to attend the meeting must 
be made with Ms. Lou Bagley at (513) 841-4336 or e-mail 
[email protected]. Requests to attend will be accommodated on a first 
come basis.
    Purpose: To request public assistance in identifying the needs, 
issues, and priorities for providing long-term medical monitoring to 
emergency response personnel who responded to the September 11, 
2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, and personnel who 
participated in the recovery and restoration efforts at the World 
Trade Center site or at the Staten Island Landfill.
    Public Law 108-7 directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
(FEMA), now part of Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate, 
Department of Homeland Security, to make available $90 million from 
funds appropriated to FEMA in Public Law 107-117 to administer 
baseline and follow-up screening, clinical examinations, long-term 
health monitoring and analysis for emergency services, rescue and 
recovery personnel who responded to the terrorist attacks in New 
York City. For such services, Public Law 108-7 further directs FEMA 
to make available not less than $25 million from this amount for 
current and retired New York City firefighters. FEMA will be 
providing the $90 million in appropriated funds to NIOSH to oversee 
the development and funding of this long-term medical monitoring 
program. NIOSH now is requesting input from the public in 
determining priorities for use of these funds.

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    Contact Persons for Additional Information: Sherry Baron, MD, 
MPH, NIOSH, CDC, 4676 Columbia Parkway, M/S R10, Cincinnati, OH 
45226-1998, telephone (513) 458-7159, fax (513) 458-7105, e-mail 
[email protected].
    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 CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry.

    Dated: April 8, 2003.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-9134 Filed 4-14-03; 8:45 am]
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