Meetings: Subcommittee on Procedures Reviews, Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Federal Register: November 2, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 210)

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Subcommittee on Procedures Reviews, Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH), 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: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., November 17, 2009.

Place: Cincinnati Airport Marriott, 2395 Progress Drive, Hebron,

Kentucky 41018. Telephone (859)334-4611, Fax (859)334-4619.

Status: Open to the public, but without a public comment period.

To access by conference call, use the following information 1(866)659-0537, Participant Pass Code 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 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, and will expire on August 3, 2011.

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 reasonable likelihood that such radiation doses may have endangered the health of members of this class. The Subcommittee on Procedures Reviews was established to aid the Advisory Board in carrying out its duty to advise the

Secretary, HHS, on dose reconstruction. It is responsible for overseeing, tracking, and participating in the reviews of all procedures used in the dose reconstruction process by the NIOSH

Office of Compensation Analysis and Support (OCAS) and its dose reconstruction contractor.

Matters to be Discussed: The agenda for the Subcommittee meeting includes: Discussion of the following ORAU & OCAS procedures: OTIB- 013 (``Special External Dose Reconstruction Considerations for

Mallinckrodt Workers''), OTIB-014 (``Rocky Flats Internal Dosimetry

Co-Worker Extension''), OTIB-0029 (``Internal Dosimetry Co-Worker

Data for Y-12''), OTIB-0049 (``Estimating Doses for Plutonium

Strongly Retained in the Lung''), OTIB-0051 (``Effect of Threshold

Energy and Angular Response of NTA Film on Missed Neutron Dose at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Facility''), OTIB-0054 (``Fission and Activation

Product Assignment for Internal Dose-Related Gross Beta and Gross

Gamma Analyses''), and OTIB-0070 (``Dose Reconstruction During

Residual Radioactivity Periods at Atomic Weapons Employer

Facilities''); 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.

This meeting is open to the public, but without a public comment period. In the event an individual wishes to provide comments, written comments may be submitted. Any written comments received will be provided at the meeting and should be submitted to the contact person below in advance of the meeting.

Contact Person for More Information: Theodore Katz, Executive

Secretary, NIOSH, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop E-20, Atlanta, GA 30333, Telephone (513) 533-6800, Toll Free 1 (800) CDC-INFO, E-mail ocas@cdc.gov.

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 the Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry.

Dated: October 27, 2009.

Elaine L. Baker,

Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention.

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