99-27723. Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Health Service (PHS) Activities and Research at Department of Energy (DOE) Sites: Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee  

  • [Federal Register Volume 64, Number 205 (Monday, October 25, 1999)]
    [Notices]
    [Page 57467]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 99-27723]
    
    
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    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
    
    Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
    
    
    Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Health Service (PHS) 
    Activities and Research at Department of Energy (DOE) Sites: Hanford 
    Health Effects Subcommittee
    
        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 PHS Activities and Research 
    at DOE Sites: Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee (HHES).
        Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., November 18, 1999; 8 a.m.-4 
    p.m., November 19, 1999.
        Place: Cavanaughs at Columbia Center, 1101 North Columbia Center 
    Boulevard, Kennewick, Washington 99336. Telephone: 509/783-0611.
        Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
    The meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people.
        Background: Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 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, 
    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.
        In addition, under an MOU signed in December 1990 with DOE and 
    replaced by an MOU signed in 1996, 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, workers at DOE 
    facilities, and other persons potentially exposed to radiation or to 
    potential hazards from non-nuclear energy production and use. HHS 
    has delegated program responsibility to CDC.
        Purpose: This subcommittee is charged with providing advice and 
    recommendations to the Director, CDC, and the Administrator, ATSDR, 
    regarding community, American Indian Tribes, and labor concerns 
    pertaining to CDC's and ATSDR's public health activities and 
    research at this DOE site. The purpose of this meeting is to receive 
    an update from the Inter-tribal Council on Hanford Health Projects; 
    to review and approve the Minutes of the previous meeting; to 
    receive updates from ATSDR/NCEH and NIOSH; to receive reports from 
    the Outreach, Public Health Assessment, Public Health Activities, 
    and the Studies Workgroups; and to address other issues and topics, 
    as necessary.
        Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items include a presentation and 
    discussion on the health effects subcommittee evaluations, Health of 
    Hanford November 3 & 4 meeting update, issues related to combining 
    doses from multiple environmental exposures, and a presentation and 
    discussion on current activities with Consortium for Risk Evaluation 
    and Stakeholder participation (CRESP).
        Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
        Contact Persons for More Information: Leslie C. Campbell, 
    Executive Secretary, HHES, or Marilyn Palmer, Committee Management 
    Specialist, Division of Health Assessment and Consultation, ATSDR, 
    1600 Clifton Road, NE, M/S E-56, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 
    1-888/42-ATSDR(28737), fax 404/639-6075.
        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.
    
        Dated: October 19, 1999.
    Carolyn J. Russell,
    Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
    Control and Prevention.
    [FR Doc. 99-27723 Filed 10-22-99; 8:45 am]
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Document Information

Published:
10/25/1999
Department:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
99-27723
Dates:
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., November 18, 1999; 8 a.m.-4 p.m., November 19, 1999.
Pages:
57467-57467 (1 pages)
PDF File:
99-27723.pdf