[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16389]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subcommittee on Procedures Review, 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., July 26, 2010.
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 comment period.
To access by conference call dial the following information: (866)
659-0537, Participant Pass Code 9933701.
Background: The ABRWH 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 compensation program. Key
functions of the ABRWH 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 ABRWH 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, 2011.
Purpose: The ABRWH 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, advising 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 a reasonable likelihood that such radiation
doses may have endangered the health of members of this class. The
Subcommittee on Procedures Review was established to aid the ABRWH
in carrying out its duty to advise the Secretary, HHS, on dose
reconstructions. The Subcommittee on Procedures Review is
responsible for overseeing, tracking, and participating in the
reviews of all procedures used in the dose reconstruction process by
the NIOSH Division of Compensation Analysis and Support (DCAS) and
its dose reconstruction contractor.
Matters To Be Discussed: The agenda for the Subcommittee meeting
includes: Discussion of a draft prototype document for informing the
public on completed Subcommittee procedure reviews; discussion of
the following ORAU & OCAS procedures: PER-012 (``Evaluation of
Highly Insoluble Plutonium Compounds''), PER-009 (``Target Organs
for Lymphoma''), OCAS TIB-0013 (``Special External Dose
Reconstruction Considerations for Mallinckrodt Workers''), OTIB-014
(``Rocky Flats Internal Dosimetry Co-Worker Extension''), OTIB-019
(``Analysis of Coworker Bioassay Data for Internal Dose
Assignment''), OTIB-0029 (``Internal Dosimetry Coworker Data for Y-
12''), OTIB-0049 (``Estimating Doses for Plutonium Strongly Retained
in the Lung''), OTIB-0047 (External Radiation Monitoring at the Y-12
Facility During the 1948-1949 Period''), OTIB-0049 (``Estimating
Doses for Plutonium Strongly Retained in the Lung''), OTIB-0051
(``Effect of Threshold Energy and Angular Response of NTA Film on
Missed Neutron Dose at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Facility''), OTIB-0054
(``Fission and Activation Product Assignment for Internal Dose-
Related Gross Beta and Gross Gamma Analyses''), OTIB-0057
(``External Radiation Dose Estimates For Individuals Near the 1958
Criticality Accident at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant''), OTIB-0070
(``Dose Reconstruction During Residual Radioactivity Periods at
Atomic Weapons Employer Facilities''), and TBD 6000 (``Site Profile
for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium and Thorium
Metals''); 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 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, 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: June 28, 2010.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-16389 Filed 7-6-10; 8:45 am]
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