[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 227 (Friday, November 26, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 72829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-29778]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment (LAHDRA) 
Project

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency 
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announces the 
following meeting.

    Name: Public Meeting to release CDC's recommendations to the 
Department of Energy resulting from the release of the Final Report 
of the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment 
(LAHDRA)Project.
    Time and Date: 5 p.m.-7 p.m., (Mountain Time), Wednesday, 
December 8, 2010 and 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Thursday, December 9, 2010.
    Place: December 8, 2010, Santa Claran Hotel & Casino in Espanola 
(25 miles north of Santa Fe on US 84/285), 460 Riverside Drive, 
Espanola, New Mexico 87532, telephone 877-505-4949.
    December 9, 2010, Tularosa Senior & Community Center in Tularosa 
(14 miles north of Alamogordo on US 70), 1050 Bookout Rd., Tularosa, 
New Mexico 88352, telephone 575-585-4532.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room(s) accommodates approximately 100 people.
    Background: Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in 
December 1990 with the Department of Energy (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 the Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry (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 a 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 study group was charged with locating, evaluating, 
cataloguing, and copying documents that contain information about 
historical chemical or radionuclide releases from facilities at the 
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Trinity Site since its inception. 
The purpose of this meeting is to release the CDC's recommendations 
to the Department of Energy as a result of the release of the Final 
Report (http://www.Lahdra.org).
    Matters to Be Discussed: Agenda items for the December 8th 
meeting include a presentation from the National Center for 
Environmental Health (NCEH) and poster sessions on various report 
topics. There will be time for the public to ask questions. At the 
December 9th meeting, ChemRisk personnel will present on the Final 
Report's Trinity Site chapter. All agenda items are subject to 
change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for Additional Information: Phillip R. Green, 
Public Health Advisor, Radiation Studies Branch, Division of 
Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, NCEH, CDC, 1600 Clifton 
Road, NE., (Mailstop F-58), Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 770/
488-3748, fax 770/488-1539, or e-mail address: [email protected].

    Dated: November 19, 2010.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-29778 Filed 11-24-10; 8:45 am]
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