[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 249 (Friday, December 27, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 78965]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-30908]


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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: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, February 13, 
2014.
    Place: Audio Conference Call via FTS Conferencing. The USA toll-
free, dial-in number is 1-866-659-0537 and the pass code is 9933701.
    Status: Open to the public, without a verbal public comment 
period. The public is welcome to submit written comments in advance 
of the meeting, to the contact person below. Written comments 
received in advance of the meeting will be included in the official 
record of the meeting. The public is also welcome to listen to the 
meeting by joining the teleconference at the USA toll-free, dial-in 
number, 1-866-659-0537 and the passcode is 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. The charter was issued 
on August 3, 2001, renewed at appropriate intervals, and will expire 
on August 3, 2015.
    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 (Oak Ridge Associated 
Universities--ORAU).
    Matters To Be Discussed: The agenda for the Subcommittee meeting 
includes discussion of the following ORAU and DCAS procedures: ORAU 
Team Technical Information Bulletin (OTIB) 0034 (``Internal Dose 
Coworker Data for X-10''), OTIB 0054 (``Fission and Activation 
Product Assignment for Internal Dose-Related Gross Beta and Gross 
Gamma Analyses''), OTIB 0083 (Dissolution Models for Insoluble 
Plutonium 238''), Program Evaluation Report (PER) 011 (``K-25 TBD 
and TIB Revisions''), PER 014 (``Construction Trades Workers''), PER 
020 (``Blockson TBD Revision''), PER 25 (``Huntington Pilot Plant 
TBD Revision''), PER 031 (``Y-12 TBD Revisions''), PER 033 
(``Reduction Pilot Plant TBD Revision''), PER 038 (``Hooker 
Electrochemical TBD Revisions''); Update on Review of ORAU Team 
Report 0053 (``Stratified Co-Worker Sets); estimating radiation 
doses associated with localized skin exposures to uranium at Atomic 
Weapons Employer facilities; 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.
    Contact Person for More Information: Theodore Katz, Designated 
Federal Officer, NIOSH, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop E-20, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30333, Telephone (513) 533-6800, Toll Free 1 (800) 
CDC-INFO, Email [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 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2013-30908 Filed 12-26-13; 8:45 am]
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