[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 140 (Thursday, July 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 43852]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16669]


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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: 1:30 p.m.--4:45 p.m., August 10, 2004. 8:30 
a.m.--2:45 p.m., August 11, 2004.
    Place: The Shilo Inn, 780 Lindsay Boulevard, Idaho Falls, Idaho 
83402, telephone 208-523-0088 Ext. 100, fax 208-522-7420.
    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 of CDC and the Administrator of 
ATSDR 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, American Indian Tribal, and labor 
interaction, and to serve as a vehicle for communities, American 
Indian Tribes, and labor to express concerns and provide advice and 
recommendations to CDC and ATSDR.
    Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items include a presentation of 
the Sanford Cohen & Associates Report; a report on the Final INEEL 
Public Health Assessment; the INEEL Worker Cohort Mortality Study; 
and a Historical Review of the INEEL Dose Reconstruction Project: 
CDC's Perspective. Agenda items are subject to change as priorities 
dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: 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: July 16, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 04-16669 Filed 7-21-04; 8:45 am]
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