[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 246 (Friday, December 21, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 65974]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31462]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health: Meeting
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 committee meeting.
Name: Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH).
Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., January 22, 2002.
8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., January 23, 2002.
Place: Holiday Inn on the Hill, 415 New Jersey Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20001, telephone 202/638-1616, fax 202/347-1813.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.
Background: The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health
(the 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 new compensation program. Key functions
of the Board include providing advice on the development of
probability of causation guidelines which are being promulgated by
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), advice on methods of
dose reconstruction which have been promulgated as an interim final
rule, evaluation of the validity and quality of dose reconstructions
conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) for qualified cancer claimants, and advice on the
addition of classes of workers to the Special Exposure Cohort.
In December 2000, the President delegated responsibility for
funding, staffing, and operating the Board to HHS, which
subsequently delegated this authority to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). NIOSH implements this responsibility
for CDC. The charter was signed on August 3, 2001, and in November
2001, the President completed the appointment of an initial roster
of 10 Board members. The initial tasks of the Board will be to
review and provide advice on the proposed and interim rules of HHS.
Purpose: This 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, advise 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.
Matters to be Discussed: Agenda for this meeting will focus on
member orientation and include briefings by NIOSH, CDC Committee
Management Office, Office of the General Counsel and/or Office of
Government Ethics. The Board will also review, evaluate, and comment
on the rule on probability of causation.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Larry Elliott, Executive Secretary, ABRWH, NIOSH, CDC, 4676
Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, telephone 513/841-4498,
fax 513/841-4470.
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: December 17, 2001.
John Burkhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention .
[FR Doc. 01-31462 Filed 12-20-01; 8:45 am]
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