[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34204-34205]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16092]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Public Meeting of the Inter-tribal Council on Hanford Health
Projects (ICHHP) in Association With the Citizens Advisory Committee on
Public Health Service (PHS) Activities and Research at Department of
Energy (DOE) Sites: Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee
Name: Public meeting of the Inter-tribal Council on Hanford Health
Projects (ICHHP) in association with the Citizens Advisory Committee on
PHS Activities and Research at DOE Sites: Hanford Health Effects
Subcommittee (HHES).
Time and Date: 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., July 25, 2001.
Place:: Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, 72789 Highway 331,
Pendleton, OR. Telephone: (541) 276-2323.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.
Background: A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed in October
1990 and renewed in September 2000, between ATSDR and DOE delineates
the responsibilities and procedures for ATSDR's public health
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activities at DOE sites required under sections 104, 105, 107, and 120
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act (CERCLA or ``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.
In addition, under an MOU signed in December 1990 with DOE and
replaced by an MOU signed in 2000, the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) has been 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 and use. HHS has
delegated program responsibility to CDC.
Community Involvement is a critical part of ATSDR's and CDC's
energy-related research and activities and input from members of the
ICHHP is part of these efforts. The ICHHP will work with the HHES to
provide input on American Indian health effects at the Hanford,
Washington, site.
Purpose: The purpose of this meeting is to address issues that are
unique to tribal involvement with the HHES, and agency updates.
Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items will include a dialogue on
issues that are unique to tribal involvement with the HHES. This will
include presentations and discussions on each tribal members respective
environmental health activities, and agency updates. Agenda items are
subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Persons for More Information: Dean Seneca, Executive
Secretary, or Marilyn Palmer, Committee Management Specialist, Division
of Health Assessment and Consultation, ATSDR, 1600 Clifton Road, NE M/S
E-54 Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 1-888-42-ATSDR (28737), fax 404/
498-1744.
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.
Dated: June 21, 2001.
John Burckhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 01-16092 Filed 6-26-01; 8:45 am]
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