[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 236 (Thursday, December 9, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 71686]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-27019]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Change in Date of Publication of Final HIV Content Guidelines for 
AIDS-Related Materials, Pictorials, Audiovisuals, Questionnaires, 
Survey Instruments, Marketing, Advertising and Web Site Materials, and 
Educational Sessions in CDC School-Based Assistance Programs

AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

ACTION: General notice.

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SUMMARY: On June 16, 2004, CDC published a notice in the Federal 
Register entitled ``Interim HIV Content Guidelines for AIDS-Related 
Materials, Pictorials, Audiovisuals, Questionnaires, Survey 
Instruments, Marketing, Advertising, and Web Site Materials, and 
Educational Sessions in CDC School-based Assistance Programs.'' The 
purpose of the notice was to request public comment on the Interim 
Guidelines. Also in the notice, CDC stated that it anticipated 
publishing a Final Guidance document within 120 days of the close of 
the public comment period.
    The purpose of this notice is to announce a revised publication 
date of the Final Guidance document. CDC anticipated receiving 
approximately 500 public comments but received nearly 5,000 comments to 
both notices published on June 16, 2004. CDC is working to 
appropriately consider each of the comments it received. Because of the 
increased time that it will take to adequately review the nearly 5,000 
comments, CDC now intends to publish the ``Final HIV Content Guidelines 
for AIDS-related Materials, Pictorials, Audiovisuals, Questionnaires, 
Survey Instruments, Marketing, Advertising and Web Site Materials, and 
Educational Sessions in CDC School-based Assistance Programs'' by 
spring, 2005.
    On June 16, 2004, CDC also published another notice in the Federal 
Register entitled ``Proposed Revision of Interim HIV Content Guidelines 
for AIDS-Related Materials, Pictorials, Audiovisuals, Questionnaires, 
Survey Instruments, Marketing, Advertising, and Web Site Materials, and 
Educational Sessions in CDC Regional, State, Territorial, Local, and 
Community Assistance Programs''. Like the notice for School-based 
assistance programs, this notice requested public comment on proposed 
revisions of the Interim HIV Content Guidelines first published in 1992 
and stated that CDC anticipated publishing a Final Guidance document 
within 120 days of the close of the public comment period. CDC now also 
intends to publish the ``Final HIV Content Guidelines for AIDS-Related 
Materials, Pictorials, Audiovisuals, Questionnaires, Survey 
Instruments, Marketing, Advertising, and Web Site Materials, and 
Education Sessions in CDC Regional, State, Territorial, Local and 
Community Assistance Programs'' by spring, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim Hack, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and 
Health Promotion, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Mailstop K29, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30333. Telephone: (770) 488-3249.

    Dated: December 1, 2004.
James D. Seligman,
Associate Director for Program Services, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-27019 Filed 12-8-04; 8:45 am]
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