[Federal Register: October 3, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 191)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
Part J (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) of the
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of
the Department of Health and Human Services (50 FR 25129-25130, dated
June 17, 1985, as amended most recently at 71 FR 44297, dated August 4,
2006) is amended to reflect the reorganization of the Division of
Health Assessment and Consultation, Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry.
Section J-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows:
Delete in its entirety the functional statements for the Division
of Health Assessment and Consultation (JAAC), Office of the Director
(JAA), Office of the Administrator (JA), and insert the following:
Division of Health Assessment and Consultation (JAAC). (1) Conducts
public health assessments, health consultations, and other related
public health activities, to determine the health implications of
releases or threatened releases of toxic substances into the
environment; in particular, such activities are conducted for
Superfund, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), petition
requests, and other sites or instances where communities have been or
may have been exposed to toxic substances in the environment; (2)
conducts and evaluates exposure pathways analyses and other exposure
screening analyses to identify impacted communities, to include
exposure investigations (biologic sampling, personal monitoring, etc.),
exposure-dose reconstruction, and related environmental assessments, as
appropriate; (3) identifies appropriate interventions for impacted
communities to prevent exposures and/or adverse health effects; (4)
issues public health advisories when a release or threatened release of
a toxic substances pose an imminent health hazard; (5) plans, prepares,
and executes appropriate health communications and health educational
strategies/activities/programs for communities affected or potentially
affected by toxic substances released into the environment; (6) manages
the ATSDR-mandated program for conducting site-specific activities at
petitioned sites; (7) manages and implements ATSDR's Site-Specific
Cooperative Agreement Program and the ATSDR tribal programs for
external partners; (8) coordinates the agency's environmental public
health training program; and (9) provides technical support and
resources for National public health emergencies and disaster response
as appropriate.
Office of the Director (JAAC1). (1) Provides overall leadership in
directing, coordinating, evaluating, and managing all programmatic and
administrative operations of the Division of Health Assessment and
Consultation (DHAC); (2) develops programmatic goals and objectives and
provides leadership, policy formation, and guidance in program planning
and development; (3) provides program management, administrative,
logistical support services for the division; (4) coordinates division
activities with other components of ATSDR and other federal, state and
local agencies and tribal governments; (5) initiates specific research
and medical activities as appropriate to further DHAC's mission and
program needs; (6) provides overall leadership and management of DHAC
resources for disaster response activities to public health
emergencies; and (7) assesses the need and develops training for public
health professionals conducting site-specific activities, and
coordinates the delivery of these courses for the training of federal
staff, tribal members, and state partners.
Health Promotion and Community Involvement Branch (JAACB). (1)
Plans, coordinates, implements, and evaluates ATSDR's health promotion
and community involvement site-specific programs; (2) communicates the
agency's roles, responsibilities, and public health information to
public and professional audiences to mitigate health effects from
potential and actual exposures to toxic substances; (3) monitors the
progress of work plan activities, and reviews and evaluates the
accuracy and clarity of community outreach and health education
materials; (4) uses best practices and evidence-based approaches from
community involvement and public health promotion; (5) develops and
delivers environmental public health information for public and
professional audiences including translating scientific documents into
plain language; (6) advocates for the public health needs of
communities affected by environmental hazards; links members of the
public in communities affected by hazardous waste with technical and
scientific staff and resources, where appropriate; (7) develops,
manages, and evaluates the health education and promotion component of
ATSDR's state-based cooperative agreement program with external
partners to ensure that the technical and administrative requirements
of the program are met; (8) provides technical assistance and
leadership on community involvement and environmental health promotion
to ATSDR and ATSDR partners; (9) advocates for advances in
environmental public health promotion to address community concerns and
support community needs; and, (10) collaborates with other ATSDR
program areas and partners to ensure cultural awareness and respect are
observed and practiced in all activities that involve communities,
tribes, tribal governments and tribal organizations.
Exposure Investigations and Site Assessment Branch (JAACC). (1)
Manages a wide range of public health assessment requests, including
private-sector petitions and regional-lead activities, that are
assigned based on branch staff expertise; (2) monitors the progress of
work plan activities, and reviews and evaluates the scientific accuracy
and clarity of public health assessments, health consultations, and
related materials; (3) serves as the lead branch for planning,
directing, coordinating, evaluating, conducting, and managing DHAC's
operations and activities for exposure investigations, exposure-dose
reconstruction, and modeling; (4) serves as the lead branch for
processing intake of regional requests for DHAC assistance; (5)
coordinates within and across branch and divisional units to provide
technical expertise for a wide-range of activities that support the
division and agency's public health mandates and priorities; (6) issues
public health assessments, health consultations, public health
advisories, and provides technical assistance; and, (7) develops
programmatic goals and objectives, and contributes to policy formation
and guidance in program planning and development.
Site and Radiological Assessment Branch (JAACD). (1) Manages a wide
range of public health assessment requests, including private-sector
petitions and regional-lead activities, that are assigned based on
branch staff expertise; (2) monitors the progress of work plan
activities, and reviews and evaluates the scientific accuracy and
clarity of public health assessments, health consultations, and related
materials; (3) serves as the lead branch for planning, directing,
coordinating, evaluating, conducting, and managing DHAC's operations
and activities at national priorities list sites, federal sites, and
RCRA sites; (4) provides radiation
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physics expertise for all division public health assessment activities,
and serves as the division's liaison to radiation disaster response
teams; (5) coordinates within and across branch and divisional units to
provide technical expertise for a wide-range of activities that support
the division and agency's public health mandates and priorities; (6)
issues public health assessments, health consultations, public health
advisories, and provides technical assistance; and (7) develops
programmatic goals and objectives, and contributes to policy formation
and guidance in program planning and development.
Cooperative Agreement and Program Evaluation Branch (JAACE). (1)
Plans, directs, coordinates, and manages ATSDR's Site-Specific
Cooperative Agreement Program; (2) collaborates with other program
areas within ATSDR to develop annual plans of work with each of the
cooperative agreement partners; (3) monitors the progress of work plan
activities and reviews and evaluates the scientific accuracy and
clarity of public health assessments, health consultations, and
community outreach and health education materials; (4) evaluates the
integration of health assessment, health education, health study, and
community involvement activities, the performance of cooperative
agreement partners, and the public health impact of partner conducted
activities; (5) advises cooperative agreement partners on scientific
and procedural developments in the area of environmental public health;
(6) directs and coordinates the DHAC's site-specific evaluation
activities to identify the short-term and long-term benefit of site-
specific public health assessment, community health education, and
community involvement activities; (7) develops and refines performance
measures for reporting DHAC's products and intervention activities for
Congressional Justification Reports and to meet OMB Performance
Assessment and Rating Tool reporting requirements; (8) directs and
coordinates the extraction of information from the division's products
and entry of this information into ATSDR's HAZDAT; (9) conducts
database queries to analyze and identify trends in site-related public
health issues; and (10) develops programmatic goals and objectives and
contributes to policy formation and guidance in program planning and
development.
The Chief Operating Officer, CDC, has been delegated the authority
to sign general Federal Register notices for both the CDC and ATSDR.
Dated: September 25, 2006.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
[FR Doc. 06-8416 Filed 10-2-06; 8:45 am]
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