[Federal Register: November 8, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 217)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

 
Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Health Service (PHS) 
Activities and Research at Department of Energy (DOE) Sites: Hanford 
Health Effects Subcommittee

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announce the following meeting.
    Name: Citizens Advisory Committee on PHS Activities and Research at 
DOE Sites: Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee (HHES).
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., January 30, 2003. 5:30 p.m.-
7:30 p.m., January 30, 2003. 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., January 31, 2003.
    Place: West Coast Tri-Cities, 1101 North Columbia Center Blvd., 
Kennewick, WA 99336. Telephone: (509) 783-0611.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people.
    Background: Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in 
October 1990 and renewed in September 2000 between ATSDR and DOE. The 
MOU delineates the responsibilities and procedures for ATSDR's public 
health 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.
    Purpose: This subcommittee is charged with providing advice and 
recommendations to the Director, CDC, and the Administrator, ATSDR, 
regarding community, American Indian Tribes, and labor concerns 
pertaining to CDC's and ATSDR's public health activities and research 
at this DOE site. The purpose of this meeting is to receive an update 
from the Inter-tribal Council on Hanford Health Projects; to review and 
approve the Minutes of the previous meeting; to receive updates from 
ATSDR/NCEH and NIOSH; to receive reports from the Outreach, Public 
Health Assessment, Public Health Activities, and the Studies 
Workgroups; and to address other issues and topics, as necessary.
    Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include a presentation and 
discussion on introduction to public health assessment, continued 
discussion of the Hanford Community Health Project, agency updates, and 
an evening session with an endocrinologist.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Persons for More Information: French Bell, Executive 
Secretary HHES, or Marilyn Palmer, Committee

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Management Specialist, Division of Health Assessment and Consultation, 
ATSDR, 1600 Clifton Road, NE M/S E-32, 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: October 31, 2002.
John Burckhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-28453 Filed 11-7-02; 8:45 am]

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