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The Administrator also finds that insufficient evidence exists to request a recommendation of the WTC Health Program Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), to publish a proposed rule, or to publish a determination not to publish a proposed rule.","action":"Denial of petition for addition of a health condition.","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"}],"body_html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2018/04/24/2018-08456.html","cfr_references":[{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":88,"title":42}],"citation":"83 FR 17783","comment_url":null,"comments_close_on":null,"correction_of":null,"corrections":[],"dates":"The Administrator of the WTC Health Program is denying this petition for the addition of a health condition as of April 24, 2018.","disposition_notes":null,"docket_ids":["NIOSH Docket 094"],"dockets":[],"document_number":"2018-08456","effective_on":null,"end_page":17787,"executive_order_notes":null,"executive_order_number":null,"explanation":null,"full_text_xml_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/xml/2018/04/24/2018-08456.xml","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/24/2018-08456/world-trade-center-health-program-petition-018-hypertension-finding-of-insufficient-evidence","images":{},"images_metadata":{},"json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/2018-08456?publication_date=2018-04-24","mods_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/metadata/granule/FR-2018-04-24/2018-08456/mods.xml","not_received_for_publication":null,"page_length":5,"page_views":{"count":595,"last_updated":"2026-04-03 16:15:03 -0400"},"pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-04-24/pdf/2018-08456.pdf","presidential_document_number":null,"proclamation_number":null,"public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-08456.pdf?1524487523","publication_date":"2018-04-24","raw_text_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2018/04/24/2018-08456.txt","regulation_id_number_info":{},"regulation_id_numbers":[],"regulations_dot_gov_info":{"supporting_documents":[{"title":"Select Agent: Determination that Vaccine Strain, TC-83(A3G) of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus is a Regulated Strain of VEEV","document_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001-0125"},{"title":"Order Suspending Introduction of Persons from a Country Where a Communicable Disease Exists","document_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001-0118"},{"title":"World Trade Center Health Program: Petition 025-Parkinson's Disease and Parkinsonism, Including Heavy Metal-Induced Parkinsonism; Finding of Insufficient Evidence","document_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001-0116"},{"title":"Guidelines for Determining the Probability of Causation Under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act","document_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001-0109"},{"title":"World Trade Center Health Program: Petition 021-Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism; Finding of Insufficient Evidence","document_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001-0107"},{"title":"World Trade Center Health Program: Petition 018-Hypertension; Finding of Insufficient Evidence","document_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001-0103"},{"title":"Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins: Addition of Certain Influenza Virus Strains to the List of Select Agents and Toxins","document_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001-0101"},{"title":"Foreign Quarantine Regulations, Proposed Revision of HHS/CDC Animal Importation Regulations","document_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001-0099"},{"title":"Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins-Addition of Bacillus Cereus Biovar Anthracis to HHS List of Select Agents and Toxins","document_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001-0096"},{"title":"Control of Communicable Diseases; Delay of Effective Date","document_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001-0093"}],"comments_url":"https://www.regulations.gov/docketBrowser?rpp=50&so=DESC&sb=postedDate&po=0&dct=PS&D=CDC_FRDOC_0001","supporting_documents_count":0,"docket_id":"CDC_FRDOC_0001","regulation_id_number":null,"title":"Recently Posted CDC Rules and Notices.","checked_regulationsdotgov_at":"2018-05-14T10:00:16Z"},"regulations_dot_gov_url":null,"significant":null,"signing_date":null,"start_page":17783,"subtype":null,"title":"World Trade Center Health Program; Petition 018-Hypertension; Finding of Insufficient Evidence","toc_doc":"Petition 018Hypertension; Finding of Insufficient Evidence","toc_subject":"World Trade Center Health Program:","topics":[],"type":"Proposed Rule","volume":83}