[Federal Register: February 5, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 24)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH); Meeting
ACTION: Publication of closed meeting summary of the Advisory Board on
Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH), National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
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Committee 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
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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.
Background: The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health met
on January 8, 2003, in closed session to discuss the Proposed
Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) for a contract. This
contract, once awarded, will provide technical support to assist the
Board in fulfilling its statutory duty to advise the Secretary of
Health and Human Services regarding the dose reconstruction efforts
under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
Act. A Determination to Close the meeting was approved and published,
as required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
Summary of the Meeting: Attendance was as follows:
Board Members:
Paul L. Ziemer, Ph.D., Chair
Larry J. Elliott, Executive Secretary
Henry A. Anderson, M.D., Member
Antonio Andrade, Ph.D., Member
Roy L. DeHart, M.D., M.P.H., Member
Richard L. Espinosa, Member
Michael H. Gibson, Member
Mark A. Griffon, Member
James M. Melius, M.D., Dr.P.H., Member
Robert W. Presley, Member
Genevieve S. Roessler, Ph.D., Member
NIOSH Staff:
Jim Neton
David Naimon
Liz Homoki-Titus
Martha DiMuzio
Cori Homer
Ray S. Green, Court Recorder.
Summary/Minutes
Dr. Ziemer called to order the Advisory Board on Radiation and
Worker Health (ABRWH) in closed session on January 8, 2003 at 9:45 a.m.
The purpose of the closed meeting was to develop the Independent
Government Cost Estimate for a contract to provide technical support to
the ABRWH review of completed dose reconstructions.
Dr. Ziemer noted that Ms. Wanda Munn and Mr. Leon Owens were not
available to attend and could not be connected via conference call due
to telephone line security issues.
General topics discussed:
[sbull] Closed session procedures.
[sbull] Independent Government Cost Estimate.
[sbull] Member of Board to be appointed to the Technical Review
Panel for this procurement.
Dr. Paul Ziemer adjourned the closed session of the ABRWH meeting
at 11:18 a.m. with no further business being conducted by the ABRWH.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker
Health (``the Board'') was established under the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) of 2000 to
advise the President, through the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (HHS), 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 HHS
as a final rule, advice on methods of dose reconstruction which have
also been promulgated by HHS as a final rule, 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.
In December 2000 the President delegated responsibility for
funding, staffing, and operating the Board to HHS, which subsequently
delegated this authority to the 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. In April, and again in August 2002, the
President appointed additional members to ensure more balanced
representation on the Board.
FOR FURTHER 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: January 30, 2003.
Joseph E. Slater,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-2652 Filed 2-4-03; 8:45 am]
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