61678 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 202 / Wednesday, October 20, 2004 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Committee on Vital and Health 

Statistics: Meeting 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, the Department of 

Health and Human Services announces 

the following advisory committee 

meeting.

Name: National Committee on Vital and 

Health Statistics (NCVHS), Subcommittee on 

Populations. 

Time and Date: 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., 

October 26, 2004. 

Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 

Room 705A, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20201. 

Status: Open. 

Purpose: The purpose of the meeting is to 

discuss and plan future population-based 

data activities of the Subcommittee on 

Populations. 

For Further Information Contact:

Additional information about this meeting as 

well as summaries of past meetings and a 

roster of committee members may be 

obtained from Audrey L. Burwell, Office of 

Minority Health, 1101 Wooton Parkway, 6th 

Floor, Room 600, Rockville, Maryland 20852, 

telephone: (301) 443–9923, e-mail 

alburwell@osophs.dhhs.gov; or Marjorie S. 

Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, 

National Center for Health Statistics, Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention, Room 

2413, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, 

Maryland 20782, telephone: (301) 458–4245. 

Information also is available on the NCVHS 

home page of the HHS Web site: http://

www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/ where an agenda and 

more details about participation in the 

meeting or Subcommittee deliberations will 

be posted when available. 

Should you require reasonable 

accommodation, please contact the CDC 

Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on 

(301) 458–4EEO (4336) as soon as possible.

Dated: October 6, 2004. 

James Scanlon, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science 

and Data Policy, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary/Administration 

on Aging; Performance Review Board 

Members 

Title 5, U.S.C. Section 4314(c)(4) of 

the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, 

Public Law 95–454, requires that the 

appointment of Performance Review 

Board Members be published in the 

Federal Register. 

The following persons will serve on 

the Performance Review Boards or 

Panels, which oversee the evaluation of 

performance appraisals of Senior 

Executive Service members of the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, Office of the Secretary/

Administration on Aging: Evelyn White, 

Chair; David Cade; Robinsue Frohboese; 

George Strader; Edwin L. Walker; Ann 

Marie Lynch; John Jarman.

Dated: October 12, 2004. 

Evelyn White, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Administration and Management.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30 Day–05–0448] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of 

information collection requests under 

review by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). To request a copy of these 

requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance 

Officer at (404) 498–1210 or send an 

email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Human 

Resources and Housing Branch, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 

395–6974. Written comments should be 

received within 30 days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

The Minority HIV/AIDS Research 

Initiative: Access to HIV Care and 

Testing in the Rural South—New—The 

National Center for HIV, STD, and TB 

Prevention (NCHSTP), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background 

CDC is requesting from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) a 2-year 

approval to administer a survey to local 

health departments and testing sites. As 

part of the Minority HIV/AIDS Research 

Initiative (MARI), CDC is funding a 

study that examines access to HIV care 

and testing in the rural South. The 

objectives of the study are twofold: (1) 

Determine the local availability of HIV 

counseling and testing, and identify HIV 

treatment venues (HIV doctor or clinic) 

in non-urban counties in the South, and 

(2) provide information to improve the 

availability of testing and treatment in 

the South. 

Identifying barriers to accessing care 

in the South is relevant to selected goals 

and objectives in the CDC’s ‘‘HIV 

Prevention Strategic Plan Through 

2005.’’ This plan identifies the goal to 

increase from the current estimated 70% 

to 95% the proportion of HIV-infected 

people in the United States who know 

they are infected through voluntary 

counseling and testing. CDC plans to 

meet this goal by: (1) Increasing the 

motivation of at-risk individuals to 

know their infection status and decrease 

real and perceived barriers to HIV 

testing; and (2) improve access to 

voluntary, client-centered counseling 

and testing (VCT) in high 

seroprevalence communities and 

populations at risk, focusing 

particularly on populations with high 

rates of undiagnosed infection. This 

study is relevant to the goals of CDC’s 

Strategic Plan for 2005 and the 

Advancing HIV Prevention Initiative 

(AHP) to reduce barriers to HIV testing 

that impede those at risk from receiving 

HIV prevention services. Moreover, this 

study complements the AHP by 

providing the local service systems with 

a current visual depiction of HIV testing 

barriers in rural counties that will help 

address programming concerns to 

ultimately improve access to HIV testing 

and prevention services. 

A sample from 325 counties will be 

selected from ten U.S. Southern states 

(Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, 

Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, 

South Carolina, Tennessee, and 

Virginia). Census Bureau Statistical 

Area data were used to identify 325 

rural counties within the 10 Southern 

states that meet the definition of a nonmetropolitan statistical area and/or 

cluster with a population of less than 

50,000. There will be two phases to the 

survey of the rural counties. The first 

phase will be based on quantitative 

survey design, while the second will use 

qualitative face-to-face, one-on-one 

interviewing techniques. 

During the initial phase, the following 

will be contacted and surveyed from 

each county: (a) Local Health 

Department; (b) two HIV testing & 

counseling venues; and (c) two HIV 

treatment sites. This will result in a total 

of 2,275 contacts over a 2-year period. 

To help reduce burden, respondents 

will be interviewed by survey over the 

telephone using a Computer Assisted 

Telephone Interview (CATI) technology. 

Telephone surveys will take 

approximately 30 minutes to complete, 

and will be limited to the absolute 

minimum number of questions required 

for the intended use of the data. 

CDC has contracted this study to an 

Alliance Quality Education organization