[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 217 (Wednesday, November 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61351-61352]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29407]
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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:
Meeting
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Public Law 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: Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory Health Effects Subcommittee (INEELHES).
Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m., December 7, 1999; 8:30
a.m.-12:30 p.m., December 8, 1999.
Place: Elkhorn Resort, 1 Elkhorn Road, Sun Valley, Idaho 83354,
telephone 208/622-4511, fax 208/622-3261.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates approximately 75 people.
Background: Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in
December 1990 with the Department of Energy (DOE) and replaced by an
MOU signed in 1996, the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) was 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 use. HHS has delegated program
responsibility to CDC.
In addition, a memo 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, 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, 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 provide
a forum for community, American Indian Tribal, and labor
interaction, and serve as a vehicle for community concern to be
expressed as advice and recommendations to CDC and ATSDR.
Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include an update on the
Pit 9/ICPP Cleanup from the Idaho State Oversight Committee; a
presentation from Risk Assessment Corporation (RAC) on the Rocky
Flats findings; a presentation on the response to the INEELHES'
recommendations on Limited Dose Reconstructions from the National
Center for Environmental Health, CDC; and an update on the
Evaluation Work Group project.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Person for More Information: Arthur J. Robinson, Jr.,
Radiation Studies Branch, Division of Environmental Hazards and
Health Effects, NCEH, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S F-35,
Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-7040, fax 770/488-
7044.
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.
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Dated: November 3, 1999.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-29407 Filed 11-9-99; 8:45 am]
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