[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 69 (Monday, April 13, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 16878]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-8335]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subcommittee on Procedures Reviews, 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 (CDC) announces the following meeting for the aforementioned
subcommittee:
Time and Date: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., May 1, 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 on Procedures Reviews was established to aid
the Advisory Board in carrying out its duty to advise the Secretary,
HHS, on dose reconstruction. It will be responsible for overseeing,
tracking, and participating in the reviews of all procedures used in
the dose reconstruction process by the NIOSH Office of Compensation
Analysis and Support (OCAS) and its dose reconstruction contractor.
Matters to be Discussed: The agenda for the Subcommittee meeting
includes: a discussion of proposed new versions of the computer-
assisted telephone interview scripts and procedures NIOSH uses to
interview claimants at the outset of the dose reconstruction
process; a discussion of ORAUT-OTIB-0054 (``Fission and Activation
Product Assignment for Internal Dose-Related Gross Beta and Gross
Gamma Analyses''), ORAUT-OTIB-0052 (``Parameters for Processing
Claims for Construction Workers''); ORAU-OTIB-0029 (Internal
Dosimetry Coworker Data for Y-12); and, a continuation of the
comment-resolution process for other dose reconstruction procedures
under review by the Subcommittee.
The agenda is subject to change as priorities dictate.
This meeting is open to the public, but without a public oral
comment period. In the event an individual wishes to provide
comments, written comments may be submitted. Any written comments
received will be provided at the meeting and should be submitted to
the contact person below in advance of the meeting.
Contact Person for More Information: Theodore Katz, Executive
Secretary, NIOSH, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, N.E., Mailstop E-20,
Atlanta, Georgia 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: April 3, 2009.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E9-8335 Filed 4-10-09; 8:45 am]
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