[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 245 (Monday, December 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60695-60696]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23802]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health,
Subcommittee for Procedure Reviews, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the
following meeting for the Subcommittee on Procedures Reviews (SPR) of
the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the
Advisory Board). This meeting is open to the public, but without a
public comment period. The public is welcome to submit written comments
in advance of the meeting, to the contact person below. The public is
also welcome to listen to the meeting by joining the audio conference
(information below). The audio conference line has 150 ports for
callers.
DATES: The meeting will be held on January 28, 2026, from 11 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., EST.
Written comments must be received on or before January 21, 2026.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by mail to: Rashaun Roberts, Ph.D.,
Designated Federal Officer, National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1090 Tusculum
Avenue, Mailstop C-24, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226. Email: [email protected].
Written comments received in advance of the meeting will be
included in the official record of the meeting.
Meeting Information: Audio Conference Call via FTS Conferencing.
The USA toll-free dial-in number is 1-866-659-0537; the passcode is
9933701.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rashaun Roberts, Ph.D., Designated
Federal Officer, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1090 Tusculum Avenue,
Mailstop C-24, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, Telephone: (513) 533-6800,
Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Advisory Board 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 Advisory Board include providing advice on the
development of probability of causation guidelines, which 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 the CDC. NIOSH implements this
responsibility for CDC.
The charter was issued on August 3, 2001, renewed at appropriate
intervals, and rechartered under Executive Order 14109 (September 29,
2023) on March 22, 2024. Unless continued by the President, the
Advisory Board will terminate on September 30, 2027, consistent with
Executive Order 14354 of September 29, 2025.
Purpose: The Advisory Board 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 reasonable likelihood that such radiation doses may
have endangered the health of members of this class. The ABRWH
Subcommittee on Procedure Reviews (SPR) 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 Considered: The agenda will include discussions on
the following:
1. Administrative items, including: a. SPR-approved documents for
next Full Board meeting, b. discussion of professional judgement
assessment of six PER-017 case reviews. c. list of documents awaiting
NIOSH responses, including: i. Discussion of SPR priorities, and 2.
Carry-over items from March 14, 2024, SPR Meeting including a. ORAUT-
OTIB-0036, rev. 00 ``Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for Portsmouth
Gaseous Diffusion Plant'' b. ORAUT-OTIB-0040, rev. 00 PC-1 ``External
Coworker Dosimetry Data for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.'';
3. NIOSH responses to Board questions and SC&A review including: a.
ORAUT-OTIB-0052, rev. 00 ``Parameters to Consider When Processing
Claims for Construction Trade Workers,'' b. ORAUT-RPRT-0071, rev. 00
``External Dose Coworker Methodology,'' and c. ``Internal Dosimetry
Coworker Data for Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant''; 4. SC&A issued
reviews: a. DCAS-PER-075, rev. 0 ``Battelle Memorial Institute TBD
revision,'' b. DCAS-PER-040, rev. 0 ``Mallinckrodt TBD Revisions,'' c.
DCAS-PER-051, rev. 0, ST4 ``Weldon Spring Plant,'' d. DCAS-PER-083,
rev. 0, ST4 ``Weldon Spring Plant,'' e. DCAS-PER-079 rev. 0 ``Pinellas
TBD Revision,'' f. DCAS-PER-034 rev. 0 ``Harshaw Chemical Company TBD
Revision,'' g. DCAS-PER-036, rev. 0 ``Blockson TBD Revision,'' h. DCAS-
PER-039, rev. 0 ``Baker Perkins TBD Revision,'' 5. Newly-Issued
Guidance and Supplemental Topics. Agenda items are subject to change as
priorities dictate. For additional information, please contact Toll
Free 1(800) 232-4636.
The Director, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of
the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 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
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Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Kalwant Smagh,
Director, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief
Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2025-23802 Filed 12-23-25; 8:45 am]
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