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facilitate planning for the meeting, 

persons interested in providing formal 

oral comments are asked to notify Dr. 

Barbara Shane, NTP Executive 

Secretary, NIEHS, P.O. Box 12233, MD 

A3–01, Research Triangle Park, NC 

27709; telephone: 919–541–0530; and email: shane@niehs.nih.gov by October 

18, 2004. Persons may also submit 

written comments in lieu of making oral 

comments. Written comments should be 

sent to the NTP Executive Secretary and 

must be received by October 18, 2004, 

to enable review by the NTP Board and 

NTP staff prior to the meeting.

Persons submitting written comments 

should include their name, affiliation, 

mailing address, phone, fax, e-mail, and 

sponsoring organization (if any) with 

the document. Individuals will also be 

able to register to give oral public 

comments on-site at the meeting. 

However, if registering on-site and 

reading from written text, please bring 

30 copies of the statement for 

distribution to the NTP Board and NTP 

staff and to supplement the record. 

Registration 

The NTP Board meeting is open to the 

public. Due to changes in security 

policies at the NIEHS, individuals who 

plan to attend are asked to pre-register 

with the NTP Executive Secretary 

(contact information above). The names 

of those registered will be given to the 

NIEHS Security Office in order to gain 

access to the campus. Persons attending 

who have not pre-registered may be 

asked to provide pertinent information 

about the meeting such as the title or 

host of the meeting before gaining 

access to the campus. All visitors 

(whether or not you are pre-registered) 

will need to be prepared to show 2 

forms of identification (ID), for example, 

a driver’s license and one other form of 

ID, such as company ID, government ID, 

or university ID. 

NTP Board of Scientific Counselors 

The NTP Board is a technical advisory 

body comprised of scientists from the 

public and private sectors who provide 

primary scientific oversight to the 

overall program and its centers. 

Specifically, the NTP Board advises the 

NTP on matters of scientific program 

content, both present and future, and 

conducts periodic review of the program 

for the purposes of determining and 

advising on the scientific merit of its 

activities and their overall scientific 

quality. Its members are selected from 

recognized authorities knowledgeable in 

fields, such as toxicology, 

pharmacology, pathology, biochemistry, 

epidemiology, risk assessment, 

carcinogenesis, mutagenesis, molecular 

biology, behavioral toxicology and 

neurotoxicology, immunotoxicology, 

reproductive toxicology or teratology, 

and biostatistics. The NTP strives for 

equitable geographic distribution and 

minority and female representation on 

the NTP Board. Its members are invited 

to serve overlapping terms of up to four 

years and meetings are held once or 

twice annually for the NTP Board and 

its two standing subcommittees (the 

Report on Carcinogens Subcommittee 

and the Technical Reports Review 

Subcommittee).

Dated: September 15, 2004. 

Samuel Wilson, 

Deputy Director, National Toxicology 

Program.

Preliminary Agenda 

National Toxicology Program (NTP) 

Board of Scientific Counselors 

October 26, 2004 

National Institute of Environmental 

Health Sciences, Rodbell Auditorium, 

Rall Building, 111 T.W. Alexander 

Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC.

8:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening 

Comments. 

NTP Update. 

NTP Initiatives to Enhance 

Toxicology. 

Concept Review. 

• Evaluation of Chemicals for Their 

Potential to Modulate Immune 

Responses. 

• Chemical Characterization of 

Substances for Testing in NTP 

Studies. 

• Application of Automated 

Techniques to Toxicity Testing. 

12 p.m. Lunch. 

12:45 p.m. NTP Testing Program. 

• Study Nominations. 

• New Approaches to Statistical 

Analyses for 2-year Toxicology and 

Carcinogenicity Studies. 

• Center for the Evaluation of Risks to 

Human Reproduction—Proposed 

Process for Evaluating Chemicals 

with Limited Data Sets. 

• Research Program on 

Caenorhabditis elegans.

4:45 p.m. Adjourn.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health 

Services Administration 

Center for Substance Abuse 

Prevention; Notice 

Pursuant to Pub. L. 92–463, notice is 

given of the meeting of the Substance 

Abuse and Mental Health Services 

Administration (SAMHSA) Drug Testing 

Advisory Board (DTAB) that was held 

on September 14 and 15, 2004, at the 

Residence Inn by Marriott, 7335 

Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland 

20814. 

A summary of the meeting is as 

follows. The Board met in an open 

session on September 14 from 8:30 a.m. 

to 11:15 a.m. The open session included 

a Department of Health and Human 

Services drug testing program update, a 

presentation on the comments 

submitted on the proposed revisions to 

the ‘‘Mandatory Guidelines for Federal 

Workplace Drug Testing’’ published in 

the Federal Register on April 13, 2004 

(69 FR 19673–19732), and a Department 

of Transportation drug testing program 

update. 

The Board met in closed sessions on 

September 14 from 11:15 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m. and on September 15 from 8:30 

a.m. to noon to review and discuss the 

public comments submitted regarding 

the Revised Mandatory Guidelines for 

Federal Workplace Drug Testing 

Programs (69 FR 19644, April 13, 2004) 

and the Notice of Proposed Revisions to 

the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal 

Workplace Drug Testing Program (69 FR 

19673, April 13, 2004). This meeting 

was conducted in closed sessions since 

discussing preliminary information on 

the Guidelines in open session would 

significantly frustrate the Department’s 

ability to develop the Final Notice of 

Revisions to the Mandatory Guidelines 

for Federal Workplace Drug Testing 

Programs, which must include the 

policies and procedures that will assure 

accurate and reliable specimen validity 

testing as well as drug testing using 

alternative specimens and when using 

on-site drug tests. 

A roster of the board members may be 

obtained from: Mrs. Giselle Hersh, 

Division of Workplace Programs, 1 

Choke Cherry Road, Room 2–1035, 

Rockville, MD 20857, 240–276–2600 

(voice). To ensure that all interested 

parties receive information presented at 

the DTAB meeting, the transcript of the 

open session will be available on the 

following Web site http://

workplace.samhsa.gov as soon as 

possible after the meeting.

Dated: September 20, 2004. 

Toian Vaughn, Committee Management 

Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health 

Services Administration.

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