[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 25, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16334-16335]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06452]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)


Subcommittee on Procedures Review, Advisory Board on Radiation 
and Worker Health (ABRWH or Advisory Board), 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., EST, April 16, 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. 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 Advisory Board 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, 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, providing advice to the Secretary on whether there is a class 
of employees at any Department of Energy facility who were

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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 For Discussion: The agenda for the Subcommittee meeting 
includes: discussion of procedures in the following ORAU and DCAS 
technical documents: 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 [Technical Basis Document] TBD 
and TIB Revisions''), PER 020 (``Blockson 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''); discussion of 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 NE., 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. 2014-06452 Filed 3-24-14; 8:45 am]
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