[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 99 (Thursday, May 22, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28008-28009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-12837]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Health Service Activities 
and Research at Department of Energy (DOE) Sites: Idaho National 
Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Health Effects Subcommittee 
(INEELHES)

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announce the following meeting.

Name: Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Health Service Activities 
and Research at DOE Sites: INEELHES.

Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., July 1, 2003.
    8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m., July 2, 2003.

Place: The Grove Hotel, A WestCoast Grand Hotel, 245 South Capitol 
Boulevard, Boise, Idaho 83702, telephone 208-333-8000, fax 208-333-
8800.

Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. The 
meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.

Background:  Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in 
December 1990 with DOE, and replaced by MOUs signed in 1996 and 2000, 
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was given the

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responsibility and resources for conducting analytic epidemiologic 
investigations of residents of communities in the vicinity of DOE 
facilities, workers at DOE facilities, and other persons potentially 
exposed to radiation or to potential hazards from non-nuclear energy 
production use. HHS delegated program responsibility to CDC.
    In addition, an MOU was signed in October 1990 and renewed in 1992, 
1996, and 2000, between ATSDR and DOE. The MOU delineates the 
responsibilities and procedures for ATSDR's public health activities at 
DOE sites required under sections 104, 105, 107, and 120 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
(CERCLA or ``Superfund''). These activities include health 
consultations and public health assessments at DOE sites listed on, or 
proposed for, the Superfund National Priorities List and at sites that 
are the subject of petitions from the public; and other health-related 
activities such as epidemiologic studies, health surveillance, exposure 
and disease registries, health education, substance-specific applied 
research, emergency response, and preparation of toxicological 
profiles.

Purpose: This subcommittee is charged with providing advice and 
recommendations to the Director, CDC, and the Administrator, ATSDR, 
regarding community concerns pertaining to CDC's and ATSDR's public 
health activities and research at this DOE site. The purpose of this 
meeting is to provide a forum for community interaction and to serve as 
a vehicle for community concerns to be expressed as advice and 
recommendations to CDC and ATSDR.

Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include a presentation on 
Concentrations of Pollutants in the Aquifer over a Long Period of Time; 
Status Report on Dose Reconstruction; DOE Low-Level Radiation Research 
Program; and a presentation by ATSDR on the Public Comment Draft of the 
Public Health Assessment. Agenda items are subject to change as 
priorities dictate.

Contact Person for More Information: Natasha Friday, Executive 
Secretary, INEELHES, Radiation Studies Branch, Division of 
Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for 
Environmental Health, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., (E-39), Atlanta, 
Georgia 30333, telephone 404-498-1800, fax 404-498-1811.
    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 ATSDR.

    Dated: May 15, 2003.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 03-12837 Filed 5-21-03; 8:45 am]
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