[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 247 (Wednesday, December 24, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74589-74590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-31663]


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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 Department of Energy (DOE) Sites: Idaho 
National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Health Effects 
Subcommittee (INEELHES).
    Times and Dates: 1 p.m.-4:45 p.m., January 21, 2004. 8 a.m.-4:30 
p.m., January 22, 2004.
    Place: The Hilton Garden Inn, 145 East Riverside Drive, Eagle, 
Idaho 83616, telephone 208-938-9600, fax 208-938-5200.
    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 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, a memo was signed in October 1990 and renewed in 
November 1992, 1996, and in 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

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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 Status of Stanford 
Cohen & Associates' Draft Report; INEEL Oversight Program of Food 
Products Grown Near the Aquifer; Presentation on Additional Food 
Products Grown Near the Aquifer; Overview of the Cancer Data 
Registry of Idaho and Minority Data; Progress Report on the National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health INEEL Cohort Data; 
Presentation of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation and Liability Act and the Relationship Between Maximum 
Contaminant Levels and Risk; Presentation on Fish as 
Bioconcentrators; and a Report on Other Activities at the Radiation 
Studies Branch. Agenda items are subject to change as priorities 
dictate.
    For Further Information Contact: Ms. 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: December 18, 2003.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 03-31663 Filed 12-23-03; 8:45 am]
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