Notice2026-06029
Meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, Subcommittee for Procedure Reviews, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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Published
March 30, 2026
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Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following meeting for the Subcommittee on Procedures Reviews (SPR) of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the Advisory Board). This meeting is open to the public, but without a public comment period. The public is welcome to submit written comments in advance of the meeting, to the contact person below. The public is also welcome to listen to the meeting by joining the audio conference (information below). The audio conference line has 150 ports for callers.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 60 (Monday, March 30, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15619-15620]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-06029]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health,
Subcommittee for Procedure Reviews, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the
following meeting for the Subcommittee on Procedures Reviews (SPR) of
the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the
Advisory Board). This meeting is open to the public, but without a
public comment period. The public is welcome to submit written comments
in advance of the meeting, to the contact person below. The public is
also welcome to listen to the meeting by joining the audio conference
(information below). The audio conference line has 150 ports for
callers.
DATES: The meeting will be held on June 5, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., EDT.
Written comments must be received on or before May 29, 2026.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by mail to: Rashaun Roberts, Ph.D.,
Designated Federal Officer, National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1090 Tusculum
Avenue, Mailstop C-24, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226. Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bbd4d8dac8fbd8dfd895dcd4cd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="19767a786a597a7d7a377e766f">[email protected]</span></a>.
Written comments received in advance of the meeting will be
included in the official record of the meeting.
Meeting Information: Audio Conference Call via FTS Conferencing.
The USA toll-free dial-in number is 1-866-659-0537; the passcode is
9933701.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rashaun Roberts, Ph.D., Designated
Federal Officer, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1090 Tusculum Avenue,
Mailstop C-24, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, Telephone: (513) 533-6800,
Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6b04080a182b080f08450c041d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="345b575547745750571a535b42">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Advisory Board was established under the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to
advise the President on a variety of policy and technical functions
required to implement and effectively manage the compensation program.
Key functions of the Advisory Board include providing advice on the
development of probability of causation guidelines, which have been
promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a
final rule; advice on methods of dose reconstruction, which have also
been promulgated by HHS as a final rule; advice on the scientific
validity and quality of dose estimation and reconstruction efforts
being performed for purposes of the compensation program; and advice on
petitions to add classes of workers to the Special Exposure Cohort
(SEC). In December 2000, the President delegated responsibility for
funding, staffing, and operating the Advisory Board to HHS, which
subsequently delegated this authority to the CDC. NIOSH implements this
responsibility for CDC.
The charter was issued on August 3, 2001, renewed at appropriate
intervals, and rechartered under Executive Order 14109 (September 29,
2023) on March 22, 2024. Unless continued by the President, the
Advisory Board will terminate on September 30, 2027, consistent with
Executive Order 14354 of September 29, 2025.
Purpose: The Advisory Board is charged with (a) providing advice to
the Secretary, HHS, on the development of guidelines under Executive
Order 13179 ; (b) providing advice to the Secretary, HHS, on the
scientific validity and quality of dose reconstruction efforts
performed for this program; and (c) upon request by the Secretary, HHS,
advising the Secretary on whether there is a class of employees at any
Department of Energy facility who were exposed to radiation but for
whom it is not feasible to estimate their radiation dose, and on
whether there is reasonable likelihood that such radiation doses may
have endangered the health of members of this class. The ABRWH
Subcommittee on Procedure Reviews (SPR) is responsible for overseeing,
tracking, and participating in the reviews of all procedures used in
the dose reconstruction process by the NIOSH Division of Compensation
Analysis and Support (DCAS) and its dose reconstruction contractor (Oak
Ridge Associated Universities--ORAU).
Matters to be Considered: The agenda will include discussions on
the following:
1. Administrative items, including: a. SPR-approved documents for
August Board meeting, b. SC&A revised PER protocol presentation, and c.
Updated list of documents awaiting NIOSH responses; 2. Carry-over items
from January 28, 2026, SPR Meeting including a. ORAUT-RPRT-0071, rev.
00 ``External Dose Coworker Methodology'' including: i. SC&A memo, ii.
BRS update, iii. Closeout discussion, b. DCAS-PER-079 rev. 0 ``Pinellas
TBD Revision'' presentation, c.DCAS-PER-036, rev. 0 ``Blockson TBD
Revision'' presentation, d. DCAS-PER-039, rev. 0, ``Baker Perkins TBD
Revision'' presentation; 3. NIOSH responses to SC&A reviews including:
a. Battelle-TIB-5000, rev. 00 ``Default Assumptions and Methods for
Atomic Weapons Employer Dose Reconstructions,'' and b. ORAUT-RPRT-0087,
rev. 00, ``Applications of Regression in External Dose
Reconstruction''; 4. SC&A issued reviews: a. ORAUT-OTIB-0092, rev. 00
``Correction Factors for Neutron Dose Measured with Nuclear Track
Emulsion, Type A Film'' presentation including: i. NIOSH response to
OTIB-0092 observation, b. DCAS-PER-090, rev. 0 ``Grand Junction
Operations Office'' presentation, c. ORAUT-OTIB-0034, rev. 04
``Internal Dosimetry Co-Exposure Data for Oak Ridge National
Laboratory'' presentation, d. DCAS-PER-069, rev. 0 ``Jessop Steel
Company'' presentation, e. DCAS-PER-078, rev. 0 ``Extrusion Plant''
presentation, f. ORAUT-TKBS-0020, rev. 00 ``Technical Basis Document:
Basis for the Development of an Exposure Matrix for Tennessee Valley
Authority, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Period of Operations: 1951-1955''
presentation, and g. ORAUT-TKBS-0016-4, rev. 02 ``Mound Plant--
Occupational Environmental Dose'' presentation, and h. ORAUT-TKBS-0016-
5, rev. 03 ``Mound Plant--Occupational Internal Dose'' presentation; 5.
Newly-Issued Guidance and Supplemental Topics. Agenda items are subject
to change as priorities dictate. For additional information, please
contact Toll Free 1(800) 232-4636.
The Director, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of
the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, has been delegated the authority to sign Federal Register
notices pertaining to
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announcements of meetings and other committee management activities,
for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Kalwant Smagh,
Director, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief
Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2026-06029 Filed 3-27-26; 8:45 am]
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