[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 77 (Thursday, April 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23497-23498]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09268]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subcommittee on Procedures Review (SPR), 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: 11:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., EDT, May 16, 2016.
Place: Audio Conference Call via FTS Conferencing.
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 at 1-866-659-
0537 and the pass code 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. NIOSH implements this
responsibility for CDC. The charter was issued on August 3, 2001,
renewed at appropriate intervals, rechartered on March 22, 2016,
pursuant to Executive Order 13708, and will expire on September 30,
2017.
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 on
whether there is
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reasonable likelihood that such radiation doses may have endangered the
health of members of this class. SPR was established to aid the
Advisory Board in carrying out its duty to advise the Secretary, HHS,
on dose reconstruction. SPR 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:
OCAS Technical Information Bulletin (TIB) 0014 (``Rocky Flats
Internal Dosimetry Coworker Extension''), ORAU OTIB 0013 (``Individual
Dose Adjustment Procedures for Y-12 Dose Reconstructions''), ORAU OTIB
0029 (``Internal Dose Reconstructions for Y-12''), ORAU OTIB 0039
(``Internal Dose Reconstructions for Hanford''), ORAU OTIB 0050 (``The
Use of Rocky Flats Neutron Dose Reconstruction Project Data in Dose
Reconstructions''), ORAU OTIB 0060 (``Internal Dose Reconstructions''),
Program Evaluation Report (PER) 003 (``The Effects of Adding Ingestion
Intakes to Bethlehem Steel Cases''), PER 004 (``Application of
Photofluorography at the Pinellas Plant''), PER 005 (``Misinterpreted
Application of External Dose Factor for Hanford Dose
Reconstructions''), PER 029 (``Hanford TBD Revision''), PER 042
(``Linde Ceramic Plant TBD Revision''), PER 045 (``Aliquippa Forge TBD
Revision''), ORAU PROC 0042 (``Incomplete Monitoring at Y-12''), ORAU
RPRT 0044 (``Analysis of Bioassay Data with Significant Fraction of
Less-Than Results''); 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, Mailstop E-20, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329-4027, 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. 2016-09268 Filed 4-20-16; 8:45 am]
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