[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 99 (Monday, May 22, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 32110]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12741]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Advisory Committee for Energy-Related Epidemiologic Research 
(ACERER) and ACERER Subcommittee for Community Affairs: Meetings

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following Federal advisory committee 
meetings.

    Name: Advisory Committee for Energy-Related Epidemiologic Research 
(ACERER) Subcommittee for Community Affairs (SCA).
    Time and Date: 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., June 6, 2000.
    Place: Sheraton Columbia Hotel, 10207 Wincopin Circle, Columbia, 
Maryland 21044, telephone 410/730-3900, fax 410/730-1290.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 70 people.
    Purpose: This subcommittee advises ACERER on matters related to 
community needs.
    Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items will include a discussion of 
the SCA recommendation concerning cumulative risk and dose; an update 
from CDC and the National Cancer Institute program development planning 
for communicating Iodine-131 exposures from nuclear weapons testing 
fallout; a panel discussion on community-based education and capacity 
building; and an update on the status and plans for CDC's and ATSDR's 
mechanisms for public participation at different Department of Energy 
sites.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Paul G. Renard, Executive 
Secretary, SCA, ACERER, Radiation Studies Branch, Division of 
Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for 
Environmental Health (NCEH), CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, (E-39), 
Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/639-2550, fax 404/639-2575.

    Name: Advisory Committee for Energy-Related Epidemiologic Research 
(ACERER).
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., June 7, 2000; 8 a.m.-5 p.m., 
June 8, 2000.
    Place: Sheraton Columbia Hotel, 10207 Wincopin Circle, Columbia, 
Maryland 21044, telephone 410/730-3900, fax 410/730-1290.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 70 people.
    Purpose: This committee is charged with providing advice and 
recommendations to the Secretary, Department of Health and Human 
Services; and to the Director, CDC; and the Administrator, Agency for 
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), on establishment of a 
research agenda and the conduct of a research program pertaining to 
energy-related epidemiologic studies.
    Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items will include an update from 
the ACERER Subcommittee for Management Review of the Chernobyl Studies; 
an update from the ACERER SCA; a report on the status of the CDC report 
to Congress on fallout; an update on the Republic of the Marshall 
Islands Study; an update on the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study; and a 
workshop on the consideration of targeted screening for thyroid and 
parathyroid disease in a higher risk population exposed to Iodine-131.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Michael J. Sage, Executive 
Secretary, ACERER, NCEH, CDC, 4700 Buford Highway, NE, (F-29), Atlanta, 
Georgia 30333, telephone 770/488-7002, fax 770/488-7015.
    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 CDC and ATSDR.

    Dated: May 16, 2000.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 00-12741 Filed 5-19-00; 8:45 am]
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