[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 145 (Wednesday, July 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40529-40530]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-20222]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Meeting
Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Health Service Activities and
Research at Department of Energy (DOE) Sites: Savannah River Site
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: Savannah River Site Health
Effects Subcommittee (SRS).
Times and dates: 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m., August 13, 1998. 8:30
a.m.-12 noon, August 14, 1998.
Place: Holiday Inn Select, 130 Clairemont Avenue, Decatur,
Georgia 30030, telephone 404/371-0204, fax 404/377-2726.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.
Background: Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in
December 1990 with DOE and replaced by an MOU signed in 1996, the
Department of Health and
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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. Activities shall focus on providing a
forum for community, American Indian Tribal, and labor interaction,
and serve as a vehicle for communities, American Indian Tribes, and
labor to express concerns and provide advice and recommendations to
CDC and ATSDR.
Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items include: presentations
from the Radiological Assessments Corporation on the SRS Dose
Reconstruction, Phase II--An Overview of the Project; the National
Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) regarding current activities
and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will
provide updates on the progress of current studies; and working
group updates from the subcommittee.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Person for More Information: Paul G. Renard, 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.
Dated: July 22, 1998.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 98-20222 Filed 7-28-98; 8:45 am]
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