[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 27, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4269-4270]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01380]


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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 a.m.-5 p.m., EST, February 18, 2015.
    Place: Audio Conference Call via FTS Conferencing. The USA toll-
free, dial-in number, 1-866-659-0537 and the passcode 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 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: Procedures for reconstructing dose associated 
with potential skin contamination, ORAU Team Technical Information 
Bulletin (OTIB) 0054 (``Fission and Activation Product Assignment 
for Internal Dose-Related Gross Beta and Gross Gamma Analyses''), 
OTIB 0082 (``Dose Reconstruction Method for Chronic Lymphocytic 
Leukemia''), Program

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Evaluation Report (PER) 009 (``Target Organs for Lymphoma''); PER 
011 (``K-25 [Technical Basis Document] TBD and TIB Revisions''), PER 
018 (``Los Alamos National Laboratory TBD Revision, Rev. 00,''), PER 
031 (``Y-12 TBD Revisions''), PER 042 (``Linde Ceramic Plant TBD 
Revision''), PER 043 (``Internal and External Dosimetry Organs and 
IREP Model Selection by ICD-9 Code Revision''), PER 045 (``Aliquippa 
Forge TBD Revision''), PER 0052 (``Westinghouse Nuclear Fuels 
Division''); Update on Review of ORAU Team Report 0053 (``Stratified 
Co-Worker Sets''); 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.
[FR Doc. 2015-01380 Filed 1-26-15; 8:45 am]
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