[Federal Register: November 20, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 224)]
[Notices]               
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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).
    Time and Date: 1 p.m.-4 p.m., December 12, 2002.
    Place: Teleconference call will originate at the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes for Occupational 
Safety and Health, Atlanta, Georgia. Please see Supplementary 
Information for details on accessing the teleconference.
    Status: Open to the public, teleconference access limited only by 
ports available.

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 have been promulgated by Department of Health and 
Human Services (HHS) as Final Rule: Guidelines for Determining 
Probability of Causation--42 CFR part 81; advice on methods of dose 
reconstruction which have been promulgated as Final Rule: Methods for 
Radiation Dose Reconstruction Under the Act--42 CFR part 82; evaluation 
of the scientific 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.

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    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 have been to review and provide 
advice on the proposed, interim, and final 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 the 
Scope of Work and the Evaluation Plan for the procurement of technical 
consultation to the Board regarding the scientific validity and quality 
of completed dose reconstructions.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This conference call is scheduled for 1 p.m. 
Eastern Standard Time. To access the teleconference you must dial 1-
800-311-3437. To be automatically connected to the call, you will need 
to provide the operator with the participant code ``278909'' and you 
will be connected to the call.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Elliott, Executive Secretary, 
ABRWH, NIOSH, CDC, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, 
telephone 513/841-4498, fax 513/458-7125.
    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: November 14, 2002.
John C. Burckhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-29412 Filed 11-19-02; 8:45 am]

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