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US Department of Health and Human Services

Centers for Disease Control

National Institute for Occupational Safety and 

Health

Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health

140th Meeting

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

The Board convened via teleconference at 10:30 a.m. 

Eastern Time, Henry A. Anderson, Chair, presiding.
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Members Present: 

Rashaun Roberts, Designated Federal Official

Henry A. Anderson, Chair

Josie Beach, Member

Bradley P. Clawson, Member

R. William Field, Member

David Kotelchuck, Member

James E. Lockey, Member

Genevieve S. Roessler, Member

Phillip Schofield, Member

Loretta R. Valerio, Member

Paul L. Ziemer, Member

Also Present: 

Barrie, Terrie, ANWAG

Barton, Bob, SC&A

Behling, Kathy, SC&A

Buchanan, Ron, SC&A

Fitzgerald, Joe, SC&A

Hughes, Lara, DCAS

Naylor, Jenny, HHS OGC

Nelson, Chuck, ORAU Team

Rutherford, LaVon, DCAS

Taulbee, Tim, DCAS
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Contents

US Department of Health and Human Services 

Centers for Disease Control National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board on 

Radiation and Worker Health 140th Meeting 

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 1

Welcome and Roll Call 4

Update on Cybersecurity Modernization 

Initiative 7

SEC Petition Status Update 10

Updates from Work Groups and 

Subcommittees 10

Plans for the December 2021 Board Meeting

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Proceedings

(10:31 a.m.)

Welcome and Roll Call

Welcome and Roll Call

Dr. Roberts: All right, great. Thank you so much. So 

it's about 10:31 a.m. Eastern Time. So time to 

officially open this meeting. I'd like to wish everyone 

a good morning and a welcome. I'm Rashaun 

Roberts. I'm the Designated Federal Official for the 

Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, and 

this is a full Board meeting.

So let me just get through the preliminaries as per 

usual. The meeting agenda is posted on the NIOSH 

website under the schedule of meetings for this 

month. So you can go to the website to access it. 

Since this is a telephonic meeting, I do want to make 

sure that our use of technology is non-disruptive. 

So in order to keep the meeting moving forward 

without interruption, I have asked each of you to 

please mute your phone unless you need to speak. If 

you don't have a mute button, press *6 to mute. If 

you need to take yourself off, press *6 again. And 

also because we're unable to see each other for this 

meeting, please identify yourself before comments or 

questions.

So with that, I'd like to formally start this meeting. 

The primary purpose of today is to prepare for a 

December 8th or 9th, 2021 Board meeting, which will 

take place virtually. So with that said, let me move 

into roll call now. I'll start with the Board members in 

alphabetical order, and it so happens with we start 

with our Chair Anderson.

(Roll call.)

Dr. Roberts: Again, just to keep things moving, let's 

periodically check our phone to see that we're on 

mute. Again, *6 to mute, *6 to unmute, and without 
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further delay I'll go ahead and turn the floor over to 

Dr. Henry Anderson, our Board Chair.

Chair Anderson: Thanks Rashaun. Welcome 

everybody to our 140th meeting. Time flies. I hope 

everybody had a good summer as we move into fall, 

and winter is coming. Just a couple of update pieces 

of information I have. As you know, that we've 

recruited for new Board members to be made, and 

that has closed.

It was extended for another month to encourage 

more people to apply, and I hear from NIOSH that 

there was a good spread of nominations that were 

received, and NIOSH is moving forward with review 

and making proposals. So hopefully early next year 

if not earlier we'll -- they will announce to us a 

selection of new Board members. So that's the 

update that I have on that.

I don't have much else. Rashaun, does Jenny want to 

give us an update on her status and her activities?

Dr. Roberts: Yes Jenny, over to you.

Ms. Naylor: Great. Thank you so much and thank you 

for the opportunity for me to address the Board. As 

you heard from the roll call, there are actually three 

attorneys from HHS OGC, and that's because I'm 

actually leaving CDC and my last day with the 

organization is November 6th.

But I'll be taking leave starting on October 25th, so 

this Monday, and then lastly I will have access to my 

CDC emails and (telephonic interference) is actually 

October 21st. So I just wanted to quickly say that, 

you know, I joined HHS OGC in October 2009 and I 

have been with the same organization since then, 

and I remember when we, you know, with the Board 

and the supporting staff used to have in-person 

meetings that lasted three days, it would take up a 

whole week.

And I think my first SEC petition was Blockson, so it's 
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been a while. I'm very grateful for the work that you 

do and the value the amount of effort that you have 

put into the SEC and the Dose Reconstruction 

Program. I know that the work that you has 

tremendous impact on the workers and the claimants 

and their families.

Aside from our professional relationship, I have also 

come to call many of you my friends, and there are 

so many memories that I will always treasure, our 

winery trip, organized by Wanda. So I hope you'll 

stay in touch and I'm sure our paths will cross again 

in an interagency setting maybe, and thank you for 

your public service. Thank you Rashaun.

Chair Anderson: Thanks a lot Jenny. On behalf of the 

Board, I want to also offer my thanks for all you did, 

and I think the Board isn't aware of all you did kind 

of behind the scenes as well to keep everything on 

track and be sure that we're all up to snuff on the 

legal issues that are faced by the Board, that 

oftentimes we don't necessarily have a full 

appreciation for what are the issues and concerns.

So unfortunately we can't have a cake or donuts or 

anything as we would usually do for somebody who's 

retiring from the Board as you are, but that's as it 

may and again we offer our thanks and a round of 

applause from everybody, and as you say at one 

point we may have the opportunity to have you come 

back and speak to us, give us an update on your new 

assignment.

So with that, let me again say thank you and I don't 

know if any other Board members would like to say 

a few words or not. Feel free.

Member Kotelchuck: Jenny, sorry to see you go. 

Dave.

Member Ziemer: This is Paul Ziemer, and I don't 

know if all the Board members will have an 

opportunity to speak, but I think a simple way to do 

it would be that I would like to make a motion that 
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the Board pay tribute to Jenny and thank her for all 

that she has done for the Board over her time with 

us. 

In all of the legal areas where we've needed her help. 

So I would like to move that we pay tribute to Jenny.

Chair Anderson: Do I have a second?

Member Kotelchuck: Second, Dave.

Chair Anderson: Thank you Paul. That's exactly what 

I was looking for, so we will -- I don't think we need 

to do a vote.

Member Ziemer: We don't need a --

Chair Anderson: Don't need to do a roll call vote.

(Simultaneous speaking.)

Member Ziemer: We can all say aye.

Chair Anderson: Everybody say aye and we'll --

(Chorus of aye.)

Chair Anderson: Okay. Thank you very much. So with 

that, let's move on to LaVon, you want to give us an 

update on the Cybersecurity Modernization Initiative?

Update on Cybersecurity Modernization Initiative

Mr. Rutherford: Yeah, okay. Thanks Dr. Anderson. 

Can everybody here me?

Participant Yes.

Mr. Rutherford: Okay, good. Well the good news is 

we -- say that again?

Member Valerio: LaVon, it's Loretta. I don't mean to 

interrupt, I do apologize. I am on the call. A little late, 

but I am here. Just to let Rashaun know. Thank you.

Dr. Roberts: Yes, thank you Loretta. Sorry LaVon.
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Mr. Rutherford: Hey, no problem at all. No problem. 

So the good news is we are really starting to see 

some positive movement forward. As of last week, 

we have entered all of the cases sent to us by DOL 

into the new environment, so that our contractor 

ORAU can start processing them.

We have sent all final dose reconstructions to DOL. 

They have been received without any significant 

delay. We have processed all terminal expedite 

claims as we would use, you know, as we would 

usually with no delay. Although still a manual 

process, draft dose reconstruction production is 

steadily increasing. We have 157 drafts out since the 

pause as of yesterday.

Many of those have gone out in the last few weeks as 

new functions and increased productivity. We're still 

working on additional improvements in automation, 

which will help increase production in the short term. 

We have set up areas in the new environment for the 

Board members and SC&A access documents upon 

request, and we still do not have an automated 

system for searching and retrieving documents from 

the Site Research Database.

But we can manually retrieve and place documents 

in a Phase 4 Review when requested. SEC Petition 

reviews continue without really any significant delay, 

and other applications that we are used to seeing 

such as that search engine for the Site Research 

Database are in development, and I really can't give 

you a concrete date on when that, you know, that 

search engine will be complete. That's about all I got 

on cybersecurity. But questions?

Member Beach: LaVon, do you have anything 

tentative about when that might occur for the 

search?

Mr. Rutherford: Josie, I'll be absolutely honest with 

you. We ask about it all the time, just as you, 

because it's not only slowing the Board, SC&A down, 

it slows us down as well. With that, I mean it makes 
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things difficult. So we haven't really got even a 

tentative date. As soon as we get a tentative date, a 

good date, we will get -- we'll sit with, we'll let the 

Board and SC&A know.

Member Beach: Okay, great. Thank you.

Mr. Rutherford: Yes.

Chair Anderson: And LaVon, is the process then for 

the various -- it sounds like there is access, although 

it's somewhat problematic as far as the volume and 

the speed of it.

But so is our process that if Committee members 

need to access specific documents or are looking for 

certain documents, should they be contacting you? 

Should they contact Rashaun who will then forward 

that to you, so you can pull those manually and put 

them into the special area?

Mr. Rutherford: Yeah. Rashaun can decide if it wants 

to be funneled through her. But it will -- from a DCAS 

standpoint send her -- do send the request through 

me.

Chair Anderson: Okay.

Dr. Roberts: Right, and as a general rule, the 

requests have been funneled through me as well so 

FYI.

Chair Anderson: Well, I'd just remind the Board 

members if you would normally be going to the 

database to find documents, won't be able to do that. 

So for the foreseeable future perhaps, let's route 

them through Rashaun and I think that has already 

been working to a certain degree. So let's just 

continue with that. Any other questions on the 

Modernization Initiative?

(No audible response.)

Chair Anderson: Okay. Then let's move on to LaVon 

continue with the Special Exposure Cohort Petition 
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Status Update.

SEC Petition Status Update

Mr. Rutherford: Okay. Yeah, I don't have a lot to 

report here. We have one evaluation report we will 

present at the December Advisory Board meeting. 

That's the Pinellas Evaluation Report. That has taken 

some time. The pandemic has slowed the process 

down considerably.

However, the report was finalized late last week and 

is in final ADC review. We expect the report will be 

sent to the Petitioner and the Advisory Board next 

week once that review is complete. 

So the only thing we've got from a new standpoint is 

this petition evaluation report for the December 

meeting, and that's all I've got.

Chair Anderson: Okay. Any questions people have?

(No audible response.)

Chair Anderson: Okay. Updates, we're moving along 

here quickly so we can have a lot of time to plan for 

December. But let's talk about the Work Groups. I 

think we had one Work Group meeting since the last 

--

Updates from Work Groups and Subcommittees

Member Kotelchuck: Well, we had a -- this is Dave. 

We had a Dose Reconstruction Review Subcommittee 

meeting on the 29th of September. 

It was wonderful to get back together and to take 

care of, take care of our responsibilities. Thanks very 

much to Lori Marion-Moss and Rose Gogliotti for 

helping us navigate the new modernization, the 

Cybersecurity Modernization. 

We got started, we've met, we have now another 

meeting planned for January, January 19th. So 

moving again or finally moving right along.
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Member Beach: Andy, this is Josie. I don't have any 

Work Group announcements, but I do have the 

Procedure Subcommittee is meeting on November 

3rd. So that will be the next one taking place I 

believe. That's all I have.

Chair Anderson: And no update on MC&A?

Member Beach: No, nothing new there.

Chair Anderson: Other committees?

(No audible response.)

Chair Anderson: Okay. We've been a little bit slow on 

committee issues, so Committee chairs take a look 

and if we need to start things up again or just get 

people together to remind them on what are the 

outstanding issues that we need to work on, think

about that.

So I guess that brings us to planning for December. 

I'll turn it back to Rashaun to give an update on that.

Plans for the December 2021 Board Meeting

Dr. Roberts: Okay, thanks Andy. So I just wanted to 

get together about the agenda for December. Again, 

we're meeting Wednesday, December 8th and 

Thursday, December 9th. As far as the agenda, at the 

front end we have the typical agenda items. The 

NIOSH Program Update, DOL and DOE Program 

Updates, each slotted for 15 minutes apiece.

LaVon, I'm not sure but for the program update do 

you think Grady's going to need any more than 15 

minutes?

Mr. Rutherford: You know, I think he'll focus that 

update on where we are with the Cybersecurity 

Modernization. So but I think you may need just a 

little bit more, but it won't be much more time.

Dr. Roberts: Okay. So more like 25 minutes or 

something like that?
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Mr. Rutherford: Yes.

Dr. Roberts: Okay, all right. So I will definitely make 

that adjustment. I assume that DOL and DOE is fine 

with 15 minutes. That seems to generally work for 

them. 

LaVon, you mentioned that there would be a 

presentation on the Pinellas Plant Evaluation Report. 

I have Dr. Lobaugh down for that, and I've allotted 

about an hour and a half for that presentation with 

discussion. Does that seem sufficient, too much, too 

little? 

Mr. Rutherford: I think that seems fine. We kind of -

- she's already worked on her presentation 

considerably and got a good feel that she will 

probably take about 40 to 45 minutes. Tim, do you 

agree with that, that the hour and a half should be 

fine?

Dr. Taulbee: Yeah, I think an hour and a half will be 

fine.

Dr. Roberts: Okay. All right. Then of course we have 

our Board session that will run for about an hour, 

which I assume will be sufficient. Andy, do you think 

we need any more than an hour for the work session?

Chair Anderson: I don't think so, unless something 

comes up between now and then that will take up 

more time. But I think it's been pretty quiet action, 

so I don't think we have that much to review.

Dr. Roberts: Okay, and then of course we have the 

public comment session that will go for an hour at the 

end of the first day. So I also have an allotment of 15 

minutes for the SEC Petition Status Update from 

Chuck Nelson. I assume that that's sufficient?

Mr. Rutherford: Yes, that's fine.

Dr. Roberts: Okay. I have an hour on the agenda 

Josie for, you know, the Procedures Review 
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finalization and document approvals.

Member Beach: Yeah. Did we -- we had that hour the 

last, the last subcommittee meeting also didn't we, 

or not for subcommittee --

Dr. Roberts: Yes, I think there was an hour, and that 

seemed to work okay I'm thinking.

Member Beach: Yeah, I think so too, and we'll do 

some more planning during our call I'm sure on the 

3rd. Is Kathy on the phone?

Ms. Behling: Josie yes, this is Kathy Behling. In fact, 

I was going to make mention to you. I think Anne 

sent out a handout that we are planning on hopefully 

we'll have time to discuss during our November 3rd 

meeting.

However, perhaps you and I or the subcommittee, 

we could talk offline and just let a few issues may --

yeah, issues resolution matrices that we want to 

prepare for the meeting, just so that I can get them 

prepared and through the Privacy Act procedure 

before the Board meeting. 

So we may have to do that prior to our November 3rd 

meeting if that's okay with you.

Member Beach: Yes, that's fine.

Ms. Behling: Just a session on picking out a few, a 

few procedures that we want to present.

Member Beach: Okay. Do you want to just send that 

around or would that work for you?

Ms. Behling: I can. Yeah, I can. In fact, I had in mind 

that when I gave the presentation on the issues 

resolution matrix approach, there were two 

procedures, PROC 22 and a PER that I discussed 

during that time, and but we didn't, we didn't vote on 

those. We didn't discuss those.

So those might be two that seemed pretty obvious 
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that we could discuss again, and I have some of the 

preparation already done for those, and I'm thinking 

we could add one or two additional procedures prior 

to that.

Member Beach: Okay. If you send that to Rashaun, 

and Rashaun, if you could send that to the other 

subcommittee members, you could probably if Paul 

and Loretta, if everybody agrees, we could probably 

do that fair quickly via email.

Ms. Behling: Okay, okay. I'll do that. I'll probably put 

together at least four.

Member Beach: Okay, thank you.

Ms. Behling: Very good, thank you.

Member Beach: Sounds great. Thanks.

Dr. Roberts: Okay. But for the time being we are, we 

are thinking an hour is sufficient for the December 

9th session roughly for this document approval 

process; correct? 

Member Beach: Correct. I would say yes.

Ms. Behling: Yes.

Dr. Roberts: Okay, perfect. Okay, great, great, and 

I'll wait to get the email from you Kathy. Okay, and 

then there is an agenda item for the -- an update and 

discussion from the Subcommittee on Dose 

Reconstruction Reviews. I was thinking about an hour 

and a half for that update and to -- which would 

include discussion of any special issues. 

I know that that Subcommittee wanted to raise a 

couple of things with the full Board. But Dave, how 

does that sound to you?

Member Kotelchuck: Sounds a little long to me, but I 

was trying to think about -- I mean there's not, 

there's not much to report for our one meeting for 

the -- in September. I'm trying to think what I would 
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be, we would be raising and we can talk a bit about 

the professional judgment. 

But I don't recall having anything major to bring to 

the Board. Would other, would other Board member 

-- would other subcommittee members remind me if 

we have, what we might want to bring up?

Member Clawson: Dave, this is Brad. Remember the 

one case we brought up that NIOSH was still using 

the same process, even though they knew that it was 

a problem with the Work Group for over ten years?

Member Kotelchuck: Yes, yes. That, okay.

Member Clawson: That's the one that we wanted to 

bring to the full Board.

Member Kotelchuck: That's it. Okay, thank you very 

much. Right. Still, I think probably -- honestly, I 

think a half an hour would be more than enough, 

because we would bring that case up before the 

Board, and there's just simply a short summary of 

what we did in Set 30, because we did Category 1 

cases in September, which don't really require much 

discussion with the Board. So I would say half an

hour for that, because we have --

Member Beach: And Dave on the -- this is Josie. On 

the professional judgment, we had talked about 

getting the Methods Subcommittee back together to 

discuss that unless -- I don't remember that there 

was anything to bring forward at this time to the full 

Board. 

Member Clawson: That's right, no. That's correct. 

What we -- professional judgment, we were talking 

about that as we accumulate more data, that we're 

going to have a meeting of the Methods 

Subcommittee to talk about that. But right now, 

there's nothing to report from that Committee.

Member Kotelchuck: Right. So I think a half an hour 

really is, would be fine.
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Dr. Roberts: Okay, okay. Well then I will adjust 

things to a half hour for the Subcommittee on Dose 

Reconstruction Reviews report and discussion.

Member Kotelchuck: Right, right.

Dr. Roberts: Okay, all right. Well that is all that I had 

in terms of specific agenda items. Are we missing 

anything? Okay. I don't hear anything. If anything 

occurs to anyone, please feel free to reach out via 

email and we can make additions from there. 

Chair Anderson: So Procedures will be on the 9th?

Dr. Roberts: No. Procedures will be November 3rd.

Chair Anderson: No, I mean we have -- we're holding 

the 8th and the 9th. I was just saying what --

(Simultaneous speaking.)

Dr. Roberts: Oh, I'm sorry. I was thinking of -- yeah. 

So right now, Procedures would be on Thursday, 

along with Dose Reconstruction would be on 

Thursday, uh-huh.

Chair Anderson: Okay.

Member Kotelchuck: I'm wondering folks, whether 

we really are -- have scheduled enough items for 

needing two days. It does seem to me that we have 

about, unless I'm wrong, we have about a day's 

worth of work. Of course other things may come up, 

so we certainly want to hold that. But I think we 

should give consideration possibly to just a single 

day. Henry and Rashaun you --

Chair Anderson: Well that's kind of what, what I was 

looking at. We don't want to cram too much, but if 

we couldn't do -- if we needed longer on the 8th.

Member Kotelchuck: You know actually I'm -- wait a 

minute. Let me back off on that, because we're only 

talking about an afternoon because we're having 
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Zoom meetings.

Chair Anderson: Yeah.

Member Kotelchuck: So we're really -- if we had, if 

we had a get-together agenda, then this would be a 

day. But for the two afternoon meetings, that's fine. 

That's I think we have -- I do think we have enough 

for two days, two short days on Zoom.

Dr. Roberts: Uh-huh, yeah, agreed, agreed. I think 

it's better, you know, given that we're on the Zoom 

platform, you know, to try to divvy it up as opposed 

to doing one long session.

Member Kotelchuck: Yeah, okay.

Dr. Roberts: Okay. All right. Well that is all I have, 

unless there are more comments or suggestions. 

Chair Anderson: I think we've got prospective dates 

set. We did that the last time, so we've got the 

schedule for next year ready to go.

Dr. Roberts: Yes.

Member Kotelchuck: I do hope we'll have a chance to 

have some face to face meetings this year. I miss 

them. 

Chair Anderson: Yeah.

Member Beach: Agreed Dave, I hope we do too.

Dr. Roberts: We are hopeful for spring.

Member Kotelchuck: I hope so.

Chair Anderson: Okay, are there any other issues? 

Rashaun, Board members, NIOSH?

Dr. Roberts: Nope.

Chair Anderson: Well this is a quick one then. So I 

look forward to it's been awhile in the works in 

December hearing about Pinellas. That will be good, 
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and we'll keep you up to date on what's happening 

with new Board members. So I don't believe we'll 

have that in hand by the December meeting, but we'll 

see if there's -- at least there's some movement out 

of NIOSH up to HHS. So we'll be hearing on that.

Dr. Roberts: Okay.

Chair Anderson: Oh, the only other, other thing, as 

we went through it on trying to recruit Board 

members and all and talking to some of those current 

Board members, I was just noting that most of us are 

now retired and some mentioned they might be 

interested in retiring.

I just wanted to say that if we don't yet how many 

new Board members there will be, but we don't want 

to have a lot of people decide they want to retire just 

as we're bringing on a new set of Board members. 

So I would encourage those who are thinking about 

retiring to think in terms of far enough into the 

future, so that we don't end up with, you know, twothirds of the Board being all new and not have much 

experience there.

So I would hope people will stay with the Board to 

begin to mentor the new Board members that come 

along, and then that would be I think the best 

opportunity after that. If you're interested in stepping 

down to let Rashaun know and get as firm a date, 

time. But think in terms of giving a lot of notice if at 

all possible.

Member Ziemer: Well Andy, this is Ziemer. One 

additional thing in relation to that, since it's been 

quite a while since we've had new Board members, I 

want to remind folks, and may be mention to 

Rashaun that in the past we've always had special 

orientation sessions for new Board members.

I think typically they were done in Cincinnati and they 

covered at least a full day and maybe, maybe a little 

more than that, and involved not only the NIOSH 
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staff but a couple of the Board members who, you 

know, went over all of the procedures and details on 

how we operate and so on.

So it might not be a bad idea to start thinking about 

developing an up-to-date current orientation session 

for when those Board members come aboard, and 

not have them hit a meeting cold.

Chair Anderson: Yeah, absolutely, and I just 

remembered the early training sessions. It was, as I 

said, not particularly easy to navigate the online 

system to find documents, and I think the training we 

got as with our little CDC computers as to how you 

get into the system and how you find things, more of 

us that are currently on the Board may need an 

update when we get into the cybersecurity changes 

that may be made, and what we are used to doing 

may have changed as well.

So we ought to think -- I agree with you, that we 

ought to be when the new Board members get 

appointed. Hopefully it isn't just a few days before a 

meeting, so we can begin to plan how we would do 

that kind of a training.

Member Clawson: And Andy, this is Brad. Don't 

forget the ever, ever-importance of ethics training.

Chair Anderson: Yes.

Member Kotelchuck: Right. But having a training, 

particularly now that we're really going to have a new 

system and, you know, as much as we got in for our 

September 29th meeting, there's just lots of new 

bells and whistles, and we have to get used to them. 

So with training for the Board, once the 

Modernization Initiative has completed, will be -- will 

be valuable for all us.

Chair Anderson: That was good. Rashaun just want 

to take a look at our file to keep that in mind, and we 

may want to think about one of the Board meetings, 

having that kind of a training session.
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We'll see what we have for SECs coming up and 

things like that. But if we have a bit of a slow period 

here, as we begin to ramp up to in-person meetings, 

getting kind of this administrative activities, fit that 

in is I think would be an opportune time to do that 

before we get overly-busy.

And again memberships on the various committees 

as well, we can take a look at and see where we're at 

on some of these. We've sort of been on cruise 

control here, and I think we need to take a close look 

at what we can do to streamline things moving 

forward. So any other comments people have?

Member Beach: None here Andy, but those are all 

good suggestions. This is Josie. I agree with all of 

that.

Chair Anderson: Okay Rashaun, anything else?

Dr. Roberts: No. Yeah, I'm done with what I need to 

review. So everything's fine.

Chair Anderson: So LaVon anything else from 

NIOSH?

Mr. Rutherford: No, we're good here.

Chair Anderson: No new staff coming on?

Mr. Rutherford: No. Actually, we did have a new 

health physicist that came on, but it's been a while 

back. I think it was reported to the Advisory Board 

that we had a new HP. However, we do have -- we 

do have an additional position that we are going to 

be filling this year.

Chair Anderson: Oh good, good. Okay. I will accept a 

proposal to adjourn the Board meeting.

Member Clawson: Move to adjourn.

Member Beach: I second it.

Chair Anderson: Okay. All in favor say aye?
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(Chorus of aye.)

Chair Anderson: So we have a couple of meetings 

coming up, and then we'll see everybody on the 

Zoom meeting in December.

Member Kotelchuck: Very good.

Chair Anderson: We stand adjourned, thank you.

(Whereupon, the above-entitled matter went off the 

record at 11:12 a.m.)