[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 98 (Friday, May 21, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 28626]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12306]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Subcommittee on Procedures Review, Advisory Board on Radiation 
and Worker Health (ABRWH), National Institute for Occupational Safety 
and Health (NIOSH)

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following meeting for the aforementioned 
subcommittee:
    Time and Date: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., June 8, 2010.
    Place: Cincinnati Airport Marriott, 2395 Progress Drive, Hebron, 
Kentucky 41018, Telephone: (859) 334-4611, Fax: (859) 334-4619.
    Status: Open to the public, but without a public comment period. To 
access by conference call dial the following information: (866) 659-
0537, Participant Pass Code 9933701.
    Background: The ABRWH was established under the Energy Employees 
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to advise the 
President on a variety of policy and technical functions required to 
implement and effectively manage the compensation program. Key 
functions of the ABRWH include providing advice on the development of 
probability of causation guidelines that have been promulgated by the 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a final rule; advice 
on methods of dose reconstruction which have also been promulgated by 
HHS as a final rule; advice on the scientific validity and quality of 
dose estimation and reconstruction efforts being performed for purposes 
of the compensation program; and advice on petitions to add classes of 
workers to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC).
    In December 2000, the President delegated responsibility for 
funding, staffing, and operating the ABRWH to HHS, which subsequently 
delegated this authority to CDC. NIOSH implements this responsibility 
for CDC. The charter was issued on August 3, 2001, renewed at 
appropriate intervals, and will expire on August 3, 2011.
    Purpose: The ABRWH 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, advising 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 a 
reasonable likelihood that such radiation doses may have endangered the 
health of members of this class. The Subcommittee on Procedures Review 
was established to aid the ABRWH in carrying out its duty to advise the 
Secretary, HHS, on dose reconstructions. The Subcommittee on Procedures 
Review is responsible for overseeing, tracking, and participating in 
the reviews of all procedures used in the dose reconstruction process 
by the NIOSH Division of Compensation Analysis and Support (DCAS) and 
its dose reconstruction contractor.
    Matters to be Discussed: The agenda for the Subcommittee meeting 
includes: discussion of a draft prototype document for informing the 
public on completed Subcommittee procedure reviews; discussion of the 
following ORAU & OCAS procedures: PER-012 (``Evaluation of Highly 
Insoluble Plutonium Compounds''), OTIB-013 (``Special External Dose 
Reconstruction Considerations for Mallinckrodt Workers''), OTIB-014 
(``Rocky Flats Internal Dosimetry Co-Worker Extension''), OTIB-019 
(``Analysis of Coworker Bioassay Data for Internal Dose Assignment''), 
OTIB-0029 (``Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for Y-12''), OTIB-0049 
(``Estimating Doses for Plutonium Strongly Retained in the Lung''), 
OTIB-0047 (External Radiation Monitoring at the Y-12 Facility During 
the 1948-1949 Period''), OTIB-0047 (``Estimating Doses for Plutonium 
Strongly Retained in the Lung''), OTIB-0051 (``Effect of Threshold 
Energy and Angular Response of NTA Film on Missed Neutron Dose at the 
Oak Ridge Y-12 Facility''), OTIB-0054 (``Fission and Activation Product 
Assignment for Internal Dose-Related Gross Beta and Gross Gamma 
Analyses''), OTIB-0054 (``External Radiation Dose Estimates For 
Individuals Near the 1958 Criticality Accident at the Oak Ridge Y-12 
Plant''), OTIB-0070 (``Dose Reconstruction During Residual 
Radioactivity Periods at Atomic Weapons Employer Facilities''), and TBD 
6000 (``Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium 
and Thorium Metals''); and a continuation of the comment-resolution 
process for other dose reconstruction procedures under review by the 
Subcommittee.
    The agenda is subject to change as priorities dictate.
    This meeting is open to the public, but without a public comment 
period. In the event an individual wishes to provide comments, written 
comments may be submitted. Any written comments received will be 
provided at the meeting and should be submitted to the contact person 
below in advance of the meeting.
    Contact Person for More Information: Theodore Katz, Executive 
Secretary, NIOSH, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop E-20, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30333, Telephone: (513) 533-6800, Toll Free: 1 (800) CDC-INFO, 
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: May 14, 2010.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-12306 Filed 5-20-10; 8:45 am]
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