[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 42 (Thursday, March 5, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9617-9618]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-4643]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subcommittee for Dose Reconstruction Reviews (SDRR), Advisory
Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH), National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, announces the following meeting for the aforementioned
subcommittee:
Time and Date:
9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., March 12, 2009.
Place: Cincinnati Airport Marriott, 2395 Progress Drive, Hebron,
Kentucky 41018. Telephone (859) 334-4611, Fax (859) 334-4619.
Status: Open to the public, but without a public oral comment
period. To access by conference call dial the following information 1
(866) 659-0537, Participant Pass Code 9933701.
Background: The Advisory 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 Advisory Board include providing advice
on the development of probability of causation guidelines that have
been promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
as a final rule; advice on methods of dose reconstruction which have
also been promulgated by HHS as a final rule; advice on the scientific
validity and quality of dose estimation and reconstruction efforts
being performed for purposes of the compensation program; and advice on
petitions to add classes of workers to the Special Exposure Cohort
(SEC).
In December 2000, the President delegated responsibility for
funding, staffing, and operating the Advisory Board to HHS, which
subsequently delegated this authority to CDC. NIOSH implements this
responsibility for CDC. The charter was issued on August 3, 2001,
renewed at appropriate intervals, and will expire on August 3, 2009.
Purpose: The Advisory 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 whether
there is reasonable likelihood that such radiation doses may have
endangered the health of members of this class. The Subcommittee for
Dose Reconstruction
[[Page 9618]]
Reviews was established to aid the Advisory Board in carrying out its
duty to advise the Secretary, HHS, on dose reconstruction.
Matters To Be Discussed: The agenda for the Subcommittee meeting
includes: the selection of an 11th set of dose reconstructions for
review; discussion of cases under review from the 6th, 7th, and 8th
sets of individual dose reconstructions; preparation of a letter report
on the first 100 dose reconstruction cases reviewed; and, discussion of
selection criteria and review rate for 2009.
The agenda is subject to change as priorities dictate. Written
comments may be submitted from the public. Any written comments
received will be provided at the meeting and should be submitted to the
contact person below well in advance of the meeting.
This meeting was previously scheduled to convene on January 29,
2009, but was cancelled due to inclement weather and airport facility
inaccessibility. The meeting was scheduled to reconvene as soon as
possible; therefore, this Federal Register notice is being published
less than fifteen days prior to the meeting date.
Contact Person for More Information: Theodore Katz, Designated
Federal Officer, CDC, NIOSH, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop E-20, Atlanta,
GA 30333, Telephone (513) 533-6800, Toll Free 1 (800) CDC-INFO, E-mail
[email protected].
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 CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Dated: February 26, 2009.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E9-4643 Filed 3-4-09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4163-18-P