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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

agency requests nominations for a novoting industry representative to the 

advisory committee identified below.

I. Function

The Cellular, Tissue and Gene 

Therapies Advisory Committee 

(formerly the Biological Response 

Modifiers Advisory Committee) reviews 

and evaluates available data relating to 

the safety, effectiveness, and 

appropriate use of human cells, human 

tissues, gene transfer therapies and 

xenotransplantation products which are 

intended for transplantation, 

implantation, infusion and transfer in 

the prevention and treatment of a broad 

spectrum of human diseases and in the 

reconstruction, repair or replacement of 

tissues for various conditions. The 

committee also considers the quality 

and relevance of FDA’s research 

program which provides scientific 

support for the regulation of these 

products, and makes appropriate 

recommendations to the Commissioner 

of Food and Drugs.

II. Selection Procedure

Any organization in the biologics 

manufacturing industry wishing to 

participate in the selection of a 

nonvoting member to represent industry 

on the Cellular, Tissue and Gene 

Therapies Advisory Committee 

(formerly the Biological Response 

Modifiers Advisory Committee) should 

send a letter stating that interest to FDA 

contact identified above within 30 days 

of publication of this notice. Persons 

who nominate themselves as an 

industry representative for the advisory 

committee will not participate in the 

selection process. It is, therefore, 

recommended that nominations be 

made by someone within an 

organization, trade association, or firm 

who is willing to participate in the 

selection process. Within the 

subsequent 30 days, FDA will send a 

letter to each organization and a list of 

all nominees along with their resumes. 

The letter will state that the interested 

organizations are responsible for 

conferring with one another to select a 

candidate, within 60 days after 

receiving the letter, to serve as the 

nonvoting member representing 

industry interests on the advisory 

committee. If no individual is selected 

within the 60 days, the Commissioner of 

Food and Drugs may select the 

nonvoting member to represent industry 

interests. 

III. Application Procedure

Individuals may nominate themselves 

or an organization representing the 

biologics manufacturing industry may 

nominate one or more individuals to 

serve as nonvoting industry 

representatives. A current curriculum 

vitae (which includes the nominee’s 

business address, telephone number, 

and e-mail address) and the name of the 

committee of interest should be sent to 

FDA contact person. FDA will forward 

all nominations to the organizations that 

have expressed interest in participating 

in the selection process for that 

committee.

FDA has a special interest in ensuring 

that women, minority groups, 

individuals with physical disabilities, 

and small businesses are adequately 

represented on its advisory committees. 

Therefore, the agency encourages 

nominations for appropriately qualified 

candidates from these groups.

This notice is issued under the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 

U.S.C. app. 2) and 21 CFR part 14, 

relating to advisory committees.

Dated: November 29, 2004. 

Sheila Dearybury Walcoff, 

Associate Commissioner for External 

Relations.

[FR Doc. 04–26673 Filed 12–3–04; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–01–S

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Recruitment of Clinicians To Become 

Commissioned Officers; Recruitment 

of Sites for Assignment of 

Commissioned Officers

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), HHS.

ACTION: General notice.

SUMMARY: The Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA) 

announces that applications will be 

accepted from clinicians seeking to be 

hired as commissioned officers in the 

U.S. Public Health Service and from 

sites seeking the assistance of these 

commissioned officers. These 

commissioned officers will be primary 

care clinicians who are physicians, 

dentists, family nurse practitioners, 

physician assistants, clinical 

psychologists, clinical social workers 

and registered nurses (baccalaureate 

level) and will be considered for 

placement in ambulatory communitybased systems of care. These officers 

will be assigned by the National Health 

Service Corps (NHSC) Ready Responder 

Program to the neediest Health 

Professional Shortage Areas throughout 

the Nation. The NHSC will pay the 

salaries, moving expenses and benefits 

for these commissioned officers. 

These officers will be part of a mobile 

cadre of health care professionals who, 

in addition to the services they will 

provide to patients at their assigned 

sites, may be called upon to respond to 

regional and/or national emergencies. 

The NHSC will assist the officers in 

acquiring, maintaining and enhancing 

emergency response skills. Their initial 

assignments will be up to three years in 

duration, after which, should these 

clinicians choose to stay in the U.S. 

Public Health Service, they will 

progress to new assignments. 

Eligible Applicants 

Clinicians—Applicants must file a 

U.S. Public Health Service 

Commissioned Corps application and 

meet the requirements for such 

commissioning. For example, all 

clinicians must be U.S. citizens under 

44 years of age (age may be offset by 

prior active duty Uniformed Service 

time and/or civil service work 

experience in a Public Health Service 

(PHS) agency at a PHS site at a level 

commensurate with the duties of a 

commissioned officer), and have served 

less than 8 years of active duty if the 

clinician is/was a member of another 

Uniformed Service. Also, applicants 

must meet medical requirements, and 

pass an initial suitability investigation. 

In addition, prior to the start of their 

assignment at an NHSC site, these 

clinicians must meet the following 

requirements: 

(1) Physicians must have completed a 

residency in Family Practice, Internal 

Medicine, combined Internal Medicine 

and Pediatrics, General Psychiatry or 

Obstetrics and Gynecology and be a 

diplomate of their respective Allopathic 

or Osteopathic Specialty Boards; 

(2) Family Nurse Practitioners must 

have national certification by the 

American Nurses Credentialing Center 

or the American Academy of Nurse 

Practitioners; 

(3) Physician Assistants must have 

national certification by the National 

Commission on Certification of 

Physician Assistants; 

(4) Clinical Psychologists must have a 

doctoral degree in clinical psychology, 

have a minimum of 1 year of 

postgraduate supervised clinical 

experience, have passed the 

Examination for Professional Practice in 

Psychology, and be able to practice 

independently and unsupervised as a 

clinical psychologist; 

(5) Clinical Social Workers must have 

a masters degree in social work, have 

passed the Association of Social Work 

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Board’s (ASWB) Clinical or Advanced 

licensing exam prior to July 1, 1998 or 

the ASWB Clinical exam on or after July 

1, 1998, and be able to practice 

independently and unsupervised as a 

clinical social worker; and 

(6) All clinicians must possess a 

current, unrestricted, and valid license 

to practice their health profession in at 

least one of the 50 States, Washington, 

DC, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 

the U.S. Virgin Islands, or Guam. 

Sites—Applicants must be located in 

a Health Professional Shortage Area 

(HPSA) and submit a Proposal for Use 

of a Commissioned Officer 2005. 

Applicants must also submit a 

Recruitment and Retention Assistance 

Application, if not yet approved as an 

NHSC site. Sites applying for a 

physician, family nurse practitioner, 

physician assistant or registered nurse 

must be located in a primary medical 

care HPSA; sites applying for a dentist 

must be located in a dental HPSA; and 

sites applying for a psychiatrist, a 

clinical psychologist, or a clinical social 

worker must be located in a mental 

health HPSA. All sites to which NHSC 

clinicians are assigned must accept 

assignment under Medicare, have 

appropriate agreements with the 

applicable State entity to participate in 

Medicaid and the State Children’s 

Health Insurance Program, see all 

patients regardless of their ability to 

pay, and use and post a discounted fee 

plan. Sites must also understand and 

accept that these officers will 

periodically be away from their assigned 

locations as they train for, or respond to, 

a regional and/or national health 

emergency. 

Application Requests, Dates and 

Addresses 

Application materials are available for 

downloading via the Web at http://

nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov or by calling the 

National Health Service Corps ‘‘Call 

Center’’ at 1–800–221–9393. 

Clinicians—The original of the 

completed application must be mailed 

or delivered no later than September 30, 

2005 to: Office of Commissioned Corps 

Operations, ATTN: Division of 

Commissioned Corps Assignments, 

1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 100, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. A copy of 

the completed application must be 

postmarked or delivered no later than 

September 30, 2005 to: HRSA 

Commissioned Corps Operations Office, 

Parklawn Building, Room 14A–12, 5600 

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. 

Clinicians are encouraged to submit an 

application early, as applications will be 

considered as soon as they are received. 

Applications delivered or postmarked 

after the deadline date or sent to a 

different address will be returned to the 

applicant and not considered. 

Sites—Completed applications must 

be postmarked or delivered to the NHSC 

by no later than September 30, 2005. 

Site applications will be evaluated as 

soon as they are received at NHSC 

headquarters. Sites will be deemed 

qualified based on the quality of the 

application submitted and the score of 

the HPSA in which they are located. 

Preference will be given to NHSCapproved sites in HPSAs with higher 

scores (the neediest HPSAs). Officers 

will be assigned to qualified sites on an 

ongoing basis. Sites are encouraged to 

apply early so as to have a better chance 

of acquiring one of the commissioned 

officers. The number of qualified sites is 

expected to exceed the limited supply of 

commissioned officers. Completed site 

applications should be mailed or 

delivered to: National Health Service 

Corps, Effectiveness and Preparedness 

Unit, Parklawn Building, Room 8A–55, 

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 

20857. Applications delivered or 

postmarked after the deadline date or 

sent to a different address will be 

returned to the applicant and not 

considered.

Dated: November 24, 2004. 

Elizabeth M. Duke, 

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 04–26674 Filed 12–3–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4165–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Office of the Secretary 

[DHS–2004–0015] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Systems of 

Records

AGENCY: Privacy Office, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of Privacy Act systems of 

records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of 

Homeland Security is giving notice that 

it proposes to add three systems of 

records to its inventory of record 

systems. The systems of records are: (1) 

The Freedom of Information Act and 

Privacy Act System; (2) the DHS Mailing 

and Other Lists System; and (3) the Civil 

Rights and Civil Liberties Matters 

System.

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 5, 2005.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket Number DHS–

2004–0015, by one of the following 

methods: 

• EPA Federal Partner EDOCKET 

Web Site: http://www.epa.gov/

feddocket. Follow instructions for 

submitting comments on the Web site. 

DHS has joined the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) online public 

docket and comment system on its 

Partner Electronic Docket System 

(Partner EDOCKET). DHS and its 

component agencies (excluding the 

United States Coast Guard and 

Transportation Security Administration) 

will use the EPA Partner EDOCKET 

system. The USCG and TSA (legacy 

Department of Transportation (DOT) 

agencies) will continue to use the DOT 

Docket Management System until full 

migration to the electronic rulemaking 

federal docket management system in 

2005. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 202–772–5036 (This is not a 

toll-free number). 

• Mail: Department of Homeland 

Security, Attn: Privacy Office/Nuala 

O’Connor Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer/

202–772–9848, Washington, DC 20528. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Department 

of Homeland Security, Attn: Privacy 

Office/Nuala O’Connor Kelly, Chief 

Privacy Officer/202–772–9848, 

Anacostia Naval Annex, 245 Murray 

Lane, SW., Building 410, Washington, 

DC 20528, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this notice. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change to http://www.epa.gov/

feddocket, including any personal 

information provided. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.epa.gov/feddocket. You may also 

access the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

at http://www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Nuala O’Connor Kelly, DHS Chief 

Privacy Officer, Department of 

Homeland Security, Washington, DC 

20528 by telephone 202–772–9848 or 

facsimile 202–772–5036.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) is establishing two new 

department-wide systems of records and 

one new system of records within DHS 

headquarters under the Privacy Act of 

1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a). These systems of 

records are part of DHS’s ongoing 

integration and management efforts. 

The Privacy Act embodies fair 

information principles in a statutory