[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28159-28160]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13123]



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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), the Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and the Radiological 
Assessments Corporation announce the following meetings.

    Name: Savannah River Site Environmental Dose Reconstruction 
Project.

Date: Tuesday, June 27, 1995--Wednesday, June 28, 1995
Time: 7 p.m.-9 p.m.--7 p.m.-9 p.m.
Place: Holiday Inn Coliseum at the University of South Carolina, 630 
Assembly Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201--Radisson Riverfront 
Augusta Hotel, Two Tenth Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901.

Date: Thursday, June 29, 1995
Time: 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
Place: Savannah DeSoto Hilton, 15 East Liberty Street, Savannah, 
Georgia 31401

    Status: Open to the public for observation and comment, limited 
only by the space available. Seating space for 50 individuals will 
be available at each meeting.
    Background: 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 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, 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.
    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 (SRS) near Augusta, 
Georgia, as well as a worker study at the same site, the 
availability of a formal site-specific advisory committee composed 
of citizens of the communities surrounding the DOE sites is 
necessary to provide consensus advice regarding these projects. On 
December 1, 1994, the ``Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Health 
Service Activities and Research at DOE Sites'' was chartered. This 
charter is in response to the requests by representatives of the 
communities surrounding DOE sites to provide consensus advice and 
recommendations on community concerns related to CDC's and ATSDR's 
activities related to the sites. Committee members will be 
representatives of the concerned and affected community, Native 
American Tribes, [[Page 28160]] and labor; they shall bring valuable 
experiential qualifications and scientific/technical knowledge.
    The purpose of these public meetings is to provide a final 
update on the completion of Phase I: Data Assessment and Retrieval 
for the SRS Dose Reconstruction Study. The objective of Phase I is 
to locate, evaluate, and catalog historical records that can be used 
to reconstruct contaminant releases and public exposures from the 
SRS. Phase I will be completed on June 30, 1995. Meeting agenda 
items will include: review of the key records found in both 
classified and unclassified repositories; summaries of task reports; 
a demonstration of the final computerized database; updates on the 
proposed SRS Health Effects Subcommittee and the SRS Phase II 
Contract; and public comments and suggestions.
    Agenda items are identical for each meeting, and subject to 
change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Persons for a copy of the Charter or More Information: 
Paul G. Renard or Nadine Dickerson, Radiation Studies Branch, 
Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National 
Center for Environmental Health, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, 
MailStop F-35, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 404/488-7040.

    Dated: May 23, 1995.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 95-13123 Filed 5-26-95; 8:45 am]
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