[Federal Register: May 22, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 99)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Health Service Activities
and Research at Department of Energy (DOE) Sites: Idaho National
Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Health Effects Subcommittee
(INEELHES)
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) announce the following meeting.
Name: Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Health Service Activities
and Research at DOE Sites: INEELHES.
Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., July 1, 2003.
8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m., July 2, 2003.
Place: The Grove Hotel, A WestCoast Grand Hotel, 245 South Capitol
Boulevard, Boise, Idaho 83702, telephone 208-333-8000, fax 208-333-
8800.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. The
meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.
Background: Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in
December 1990 with DOE, and replaced by MOUs signed in 1996 and 2000,
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was given the
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responsibility and resources for conducting analytic epidemiologic
investigations of residents of communities in the vicinity of DOE
facilities, workers at DOE facilities, and other persons potentially
exposed to radiation or to potential hazards from non-nuclear energy
production use. HHS delegated program responsibility to CDC.
In addition, an MOU was signed in October 1990 and renewed in 1992,
1996, and 2000, between ATSDR and DOE. The MOU delineates the
responsibilities and procedures for ATSDR's public health activities at
DOE sites required under sections 104, 105, 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.
Purpose: This subcommittee is charged with providing advice and
recommendations to the Director, CDC, and the Administrator, ATSDR,
regarding community concerns pertaining to CDC's and ATSDR's public
health activities and research at this DOE site. The purpose of this
meeting is to provide a forum for community interaction and to serve as
a vehicle for community concerns to be expressed as advice and
recommendations to CDC and ATSDR.
Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include a presentation on
Concentrations of Pollutants in the Aquifer over a Long Period of Time;
Status Report on Dose Reconstruction; DOE Low-Level Radiation Research
Program; and a presentation by ATSDR on the Public Comment Draft of the
Public Health Assessment. Agenda items are subject to change as
priorities dictate.
Contact Person for More Information: Natasha Friday, Executive
Secretary, INEELHES, Radiation Studies Branch, Division of
Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for
Environmental Health, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., (E-39), Atlanta,
Georgia 30333, telephone 404-498-1800, fax 404-498-1811.
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 ATSDR.
Dated: May 15, 2003.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 03-12837 Filed 5-21-03; 8:45 am]
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