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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Workshop on Community Involvement in Public Health Service
Activities and Research at Department of Energy Sites
The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), announce the following
workshop.
NAME: Workshop on Community Involvement in Public Health Service
Activities and Research at Department of Energy Sites.
TIMES AND DATES: 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., February 25, 1994. 8:30 a.m.-6
p.m., February 26, 1994. 9 a.m.-12 noon, February 27, 1994.
PLACE: Northeast Atlanta Hilton Hotel, 5993 Peachtree Industrial
Boulevard, Norcross, Georgia 30092.
STATUS: Open to the public for observation and comment, limited only by
space available. The meeting room will accommodate approximately 200
people.
PURPOSE: Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in December
1990 with the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) has been given the responsibility and resources
for conducting analytic epidemiologic investigations of residents of
communities in the vicinity of DOE facilities and other persons
potentially exposed to radiation or to potential hazards from non-
nuclear energy production and use. HHS delegated program responsibility
to CDC.
In addition, an MOU was signed in October 1990 and renewed in
November 1992 between ATSDR and DOE. The MOU delineates the
responsibilities and procedures for ATSDR's public health activities at
DOE sites required under sections 104, 107, and 120 of the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA, or ``Superfund''). These activities include health
consultations and public health assessments at DOE sites listed on, or
proposed for, the Superfund National Priorities List and at sites that
are the subject of petitions from the public; and other health-related
activities such as epidemiologic studies, health surveillance, exposure
and disease registries, health education, substance-specific applied
research, emergency response, and preparation of toxicological
profiles.
Community involvement is a critical part of the HHS energy-related
research and activities. The availability of a formal site-specific
advisory committee composed of citizens of certain affected areas to
provide consensus advice to CDC and ATSDR regarding these activities is
necessary. CDC and ATSDR are currently taking steps to obtain
authorization for a ``Citizens' Advisory Committee on Public Health
Service Activities and Research at Department of Energy Sites'' to be
chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide interested parties an
opportunity to give individual advice and recommendations regarding:
(1) Community involvement between representatives of affected
populations, Native American Nations, and CDC and ATSDR; (2) the
principles and process of public involvement given the diversities of
interests and needs of affected and potentially affected populations
and Native American Nations; (3) the concerns and needs which may be
common to all; and, (4) provide a public forum for citizens of affected
populations. A copy of the proposed ``Citizens' Advisory Committee on
Public Health Service Activities and Research at DOE Sites'' draft
charter is available upon request from the contact person listed below.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Leeann S. Denham, Radiation
Studies Branch, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects,
NCEH, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE., (F-35), Atlanta, Georgia, 30341-
3724, telephone 404/488-7040, FAX 404/488-7044.
Dated: February 8, 1994.
Elvin Hilyer,
Associate Director for Policy Coordination, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 94-3459 Filed 2-11-94; 8:45 am]
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