UNLAcie: be ade She Committee Representation Representative(s) of HHSwill serve as non-voting member(s) of the DOE Advisory Committee which will provide direction, oversight, and evaluation to the DOE's Office of Environment, Safety and Health. Additionally, there exist currently DOE-funded host State health agreements. For these existing and future agreements, HHS representatives will provide technical and public health assistance to the host States, including partidpating on the Technical. Review /Oversight Committees at the requestof the hostStates. DHHS'role in future analytic epidemiologic studies conducted through States will be discussed by DOE with HHS prior to negotiations of their agreement with States. Establishing the Research Agenda The HHS Advisory Committee will provide advice and recommendations to HHS onestablishing the research agenda. All energy-related analytic epidemiologic health studies proposed by DOE HHS Advisory Committee will take into consideration information and proposals provided by DOEandits Advisory Committee as well as information and proposals from other agencies and organizations. HHS will then establish the research agenda and develop a research plan. HHSwill provide DOE the research plan for review and comment. The HHS research plan will be revised eachfiscal year to incorporate changes in the research agenda andto reflect changes in available resources. All DOEinitiated analytic epidemiologic research projects, including dose reconstruction and exposure assessmentstudies essential for conducting these epidemiologic studies, would be offered first to HHS — for consideration. However, DOE may conduct throughalternate meansan analytic epidemiologic study that it referred to HHS ifthe HHS Advisory Committee has recommended the study but HHS has chosen not to includeit in its research agenda. Funding for such will come from a DOE sourceseparate from that fundinglevel set aside for HHS-managed studies to be conducted under this MOU. =~ I UMELAC Cre te wd 5 " oe and HHSwill be submitted to the HHS Advisory Committee. The