[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 249 (Friday, December 27, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78964-78965]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-30907]
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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 or the Advisory Board),
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: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, February 6,
2014.
Place: Audio Conference Call via FTS Conferencing.
Status: Open to the public, without a verbal public comment
period. The public is welcome to submit written comments in advance
of the meeting, to the contact person below. Written comments
received in advance of the meeting will be included in the official
record of the meeting. The public is also welcome to listen to the
meeting by joining the teleconference at the USA toll-free, dial-in
number, 1-866-659-0537 and the passcode is 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.
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NIOSH implements this responsibility for CDC. The charter was issued
on August 3, 2001, renewed at appropriate intervals, and will expire
on August 3, 2015.
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 (DOE) 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. The Subcommittee for Dose Reconstruction 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 following dose reconstruction program quality
management and assurance activities: Discussion of current findings
from NIOSH internal dose reconstruction blind reviews; discussion of
dose reconstruction cases under review (set 9, and cases involving
Portsmouth, Hanford, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Y-12, K-25, and
other DOE and Atomic Weapons Employer sites from sets 10-13); and
preparation of the Advisory Board's next report to the Secretary,
HHS, summarizing the results of completed dose reconstruction
reviews.
The agenda is subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Person For More Information: Theodore Katz, Designated
Federal Officer, NIOSH, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop E-20,
Atlanta, Georgia 30333, Telephone (513) 533-6800, Toll Free 1 (800)
CDC-INFO, Email [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 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2013-30907 Filed 12-26-13; 8:45 am]
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