[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 210 (Thursday, October 30, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64601-64602]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25776]
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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 or Advisory Board), National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); Meeting
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: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., EST, November 25, 2014.
Place: Audio Conference Call via FTS Conferencing. The USA toll-
free, dial-in number, 1-866-659-0537 and the passcode is 9933701.
Status: Open to the public but without a 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 on Radiation and Worker Health 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 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, 2015.
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, providing advice
to 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 (Oak
Ridge Associated Universities-ORAU).
Matters For Discussion: The agenda for the Subcommittee meeting
includes: Discussion of procedures in the following ORAU and DCAS
technical documents: Procedures for reconstructing dose associated with
potential skin contamination, External Dose Reconstruction
Implementation Guide (IG 001), ORAU Team Technical Information Bulletin
(OTIB) 0034 (``Internal Dose Coworker Data for X-10''), OTIB 0054
(``Fission and Activation Product Assignment for Internal Dose-Related
Gross Beta and Gross Gamma Analyses''), OTIB 0082 (``Dose
Reconstruction Method for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia''), OTIB 0083
(``Dissolution Models for Insoluble Plutonium 238''), Program
Evaluation Report (PER) 011 (``K-25 [Technical Basis Document] TBD and
TIB Revisions''), PER 018 (``Los Alamos National Laboratory TBD
Revision, Rev. 00,''), PER 031 (``Y-12 TBD Revisions''), PER 038
(``Hooker Electrochemical TBD Revisions''), PER 042 (``Linde Ceramic
Plant TBD Revision''), PER 043 (``Internal and External Dosimetry
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Organs and IREP Model Selection by ICD-9 Code Revision''), PER 045
(``Aliquippa Forge TBD Revision''), PER 0052 (``Westinghouse Nuclear
Fuels Division''); Update on Review of ORAU Team Report 0053
(``Stratified Co-Worker Sets''); 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.
Contact Person For More Information: Theodore Katz, Designated
Federal Officer, NIOSH, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road NE., 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.
Claudette Grant,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-25776 Filed 10-29-14; 8:45 am]
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