[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 250 (Wednesday, December 31, 1997)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-34045]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Health Service 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 Public Health Service
Activities and Research at DOE Sites: Hanford Health Effects
Subcommittee (HHES).
Times and Dates: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., January 15, 1998; 6:30 p.m.-8:30
p.m., January 15, 1998; 8 a.m.-3 p.m., January 16, 1998.
Place: Doubletree Hotel/Jantzen Beach, 909 North Hayden Island
Drive, Portland, Oregon 97217, telephone 503/283-4466, fax 503/283-
4743.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates approximately 150 people.
Background: A Memorandum of Understanding (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,
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. Activities shall focus on providing 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: ATSDR's proposed
medical monitoring program, ATSDR's planning for an exposure
subregistry program, and solicitations of subcommittee concerns to
be addressed by ATSDR and CDC. There will also be updates from the
Inter-tribal Council on Hanford Health Projects, and reports from
the following Work Groups: Outreach/Special Populations, Public
Health Activities, and Health Studies.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Person for More Information: Jim Carpenter, Public
Health Advisor, ATSDR, E-32, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia
30333, telephone 404/639-6027, fax 404/639-4699.
Dated: December 19, 1997.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-34045 Filed 12-30-97; 8:45 am]
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