[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 2, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-4685]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Savannah River Site Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project;
Public Meetings
The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announce the following
meetings.
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 1994, Wednesday, March 30, 1994.
Time: 1 p.m.-7 p.m., 1 p.m.-7 p.m.
Place: City of Aiken Conference Center, 215 ``The Alley,''
Aiken, South Carolina 29801; Savannah Coastal Georgia Conference
Center, 305 Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard, Savannah, Georgia
31401.
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 1994.
Time: 1 p.m.-7 p.m.,
Place: Ramada Hotel, 8105 Two Notch Road, Columbia, South
Carolina 29223.
Status: Open to the public for observation and comment, limited
only by space available. The meeting room will accommodate
approximately 100 people.
Purpose: Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in
December 1990 with the Department of Energy (DOE), 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 and
other persons potentially exposed to radiation or to potential
hazards from non-nuclear energy production and use. HHS delegated
program responsibility to CDC.
In addition, an 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, 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.
Community involvement is a critical part of the HHS energy-
related research and activities. With an environmental dose
reconstruction for DOE's Savannah River Site near Augusta, Georgia,
as well as a worker study at the same site, the availability of a
formal site-specific advisory committee composed of South Carolina
and Georgia citizens to provide consensus advice regarding these
projects is necessary. CDC and ATSDR are currently taking steps to
obtain authorization for a ``Citizen' Advisory Committee on Public
Health Service Activities and Research at Department of Energy
Sites'' to be chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
The draft charter for this proposed committee states, ``Because
of the varying concerns within communities at each DOE site,
operational guidelines at each site must be developed separately to
clarify the scope of activities and the responsibilities of the
Committee members and agencies.'' Therefore, CDC and ATSDR are
holding a series of public meetings to begin developing operational
guidelines at specific DOE sites. The purpose of these public
meetings is to update the public on the status of CDC's and ATSDR's
community involvement plans and to seek individual advice and
recommendations from interested parties concerning operational
guidelines. A copy of the proposed ``Citizens' Advisory Committee on
Public Health Service Activities and Research at DOE Sites'' draft
charter is available upon request from the contact person listed
below.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Person for More Information: Paul Renard, Radiation
Studies Branch, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health
Effects, NCEH, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE., (F-35), Atlanta,
Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 404/488-7040, FAX 404/488-7044.
Dated: February 24, 1994.
Elvin Hilyer,
Associate Director for Policy Coordination, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 94-4685 Filed 3-1-94; 8:45 am]
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