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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 15 / Wednesday, January 23, 2008 / Notices 3973 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health 

Final Effect of Designation of a Class 

of Employees for Addition to the 

Special Exposure Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) gives notice 

concerning the final effect of the HHS 

decision to designate a class of 

employees at Nuclear Materials and 

Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in 

Apollo, Pennsylvania, as an addition to 

the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) 

under the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation 

Program Act of 2000. On November 29, 

2007, as provided for under 42 U.S.C. 

7384q(b), the Secretary of HHS 

designated the following class of 

employees as an addition to the SEC: 

Atomic Weapons Employer (AWE) 

employees who were monitored or should 

have been monitored for exposure to ionizing 

radiation while working at the Nuclear 

Materials and Equipment Corporation 

(NUMEC) in Apollo, Pennsylvania from 

January 1, 1957, through December 31, 1983, 

for a number of work days aggregating at least 

250 work days or in combination with work 

days within the parameters established for 

one or more other classes of employees in the 

Special Exposure Cohort. 

This designation became effective on 

December 29, 2007, as provided for 

under 42 U.S.C. 7384l(14)(C). Hence, 

beginning on December 29, 2007, 

members of this class of employees, 

defined as reported in this notice, 

became members of the Special 

Exposure Cohort. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry Elliott, Director, Office of 

Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia 

Parkway, MS C–46, Cincinnati, OH 

45226, Telephone 513–533–6800 (this is 

not a toll-free number). Information 

requests can also be submitted by e-mail 

to OCAS@CDC.GOV. 

Dated: January 15, 2008. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Findings of Scientific Misconduct 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) 

and the Assistant Secretary for Health 

have taken final action in the following 

case: 

Scott E. Monte, Huntington Memorial 

Hospital: Based on the findings of an 

investigation conducted by Huntington 

Memorial Hospital (HMH) and 

information obtained by the Office of 

Research Integrity (ORI) during its 

oversight review, the U.S. Public Health 

Service (PHS) found that Scott E. Monte, 

L.V.N., former Clinical Research 

Associate, HMH, engaged in scientific 

misconduct by knowingly and 

intentionally falsifying and fabricating 

clinical research records in HMH cancer 

prevention and treatment protocols 

supported by National Cancer Institute 

(NCI), National Institutes of Health 

(NIH), awards U10 CA69651, U10 

CA12027, U10 CA32012, and U10 

CA86004. 

Specifically, Mr. Monte knowingly 

and intentionally: 

(1) Entered falsified and fabricated 

laboratory data or physical examination 

results on five (5) research protocol case 

report forms (CRFs); 

(2) Falsified a gynecological 

examination report in a physician’s 

progress note and entered the falsified 

document in the patient’s research 

chart; and 

(3) Fabricated progress notes for four 

patients and a case report form for one 

of these patients. 

ORI has implemented the following 

administrative actions for a period of 

three (3) years, beginning on January 7, 

2008: 

(1) Dr. Monte is debarred from any 

contracting or subcontracting with any 

agency of the United States Government 

and from eligibility or involvement in 

nonprocurement programs of the United 

States Government pursuant to HHS’ 

implementation of the OMB Guidelines 

to Agencies on Governmentwide 

Debarment and Suspension at 2 CFR 

Part 376; and 

(2) Dr. Monte is prohibited from 

serving in any advisory capacity to PHS, 

including but not limited to service on 

any PHS advisory committee, board, 

and/or peer review committee, or as a 

consultant. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Director, Division of Investigative 

Oversight, Office of Research Integrity, 

1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 750, 

Rockville, MD 20852, (240) 453–8800. 

Chris B. Pascal, 

Director, Office of Research Integrity. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator for 

Health Information Technology (ONC), 

DHHS 

Notice of Availability: Secretarial 

Recognition of Certain Healthcare 

Information Technology Standards 

Panel (HITSP) Interoperability 

Specifications as Interoperability 

Standards for Health Information 

Technology 

AGENCY: Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology (ONC), DHHS. 

Authority: Executive Order 13335 

(‘‘Incentives for the Use of Health 

Information Technology and 

Establishing the Position of the National 

Health Information Technology 

Coordinator’’), Executive Order 13410 

(‘‘Promoting Quality and Efficient 

Health Care in Federal Government 

Administered or Sponsored Health Care 

Programs’’), Public Law 110–161, 

(‘‘Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2008’’), 42 U.S.C.1395nn(b)(4), 42 U.S.C. 

1302(a), and 42 CFR 411.357(w). 

SUMMARY: By publication of this 

document, we are informing the public 

of the Secretary’s recognition of certain 

Healthcare Information Technology 

Standards Panel (HITSP) 

‘‘Interoperability Specifications’’ as 

interoperability standards for health 

information technology. The Secretary 

accepted these HITSP ‘‘Interoperability 

Specifications’’, Version 1.2, in 

December of 2006, and hereby 

recognizes them as interoperability 

standards in updated versions in 

January of 2008. The list of recognized 

interoperability standards is provided 

below and is available at http:// 

www.hitsp.org; click on ‘‘HITSP 

Interoperability Specifications HERE’’ 

box. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Healthcare Information Technology 

Standards Panel (HITSP) was created in 

2005 to serve as a cooperative 

partnership between the public and 

private sectors for the purpose of 

achieving a widely accepted and useful 

set of standards specifically to enable 

and support widespread interoperability