[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 168 (Friday, August 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 45786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-22987]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council; Notice of Meeting

AGENCIES: Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture; National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council; notice of 
meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS) announce the meeting of the National 
Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council.

DATES: The Council will meet September 18, 1997 for a full-day meeting 
(8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. e.s.t.) in the Williamsburg Room, 104-A, of USDA's 
Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building, 14th and Independence Avenues, SW., 
Washington, DC 20250.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Junko Alice Tamaki, M.P.H., USDA Co-
Executive Secretary to the National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory 
Council, National Program Staff, Agricultural Research Service, 10300 
Baltimore Blvd, Bldg. 005, Room 336, Beltsville, MD 20705, (301) 504-
6216 or Ronette Briefel, Dr. P.H., HHS Co-Executive Secretary to the 
National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council, National Center for 
Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
Department of Health and Human Services, 6525 Belcrest Road, Room 1000, 
Hyattsville, MD 20782, (301) 436-3473 x157.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council Task

    The purpose of the nine member Council, consisting of 5 
Presidential appointees and 4 Congressional appointees, is to provide 
scientific and technical guidance to improve the National Nutrition 
Monitoring and Related Research Program and the Ten-Year Comprehensive 
Plan. The Council was established by an Executive Order of the 
President of the United States, pursuant to Public Law No. 101-445, the 
National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990.
    The agenda is in the process of being finalized. The tentative 
agenda includes discussion of welfare reform and nutrition data needs, 
survey coordination plans for the NHANES (National Health and Nutrition 
Examination Survey) and CSFII (Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by 
Individuals), and food composition-related projects. The final agenda 
is obtainable from the contact persons listed above after August 22, 
1997.

Public Participation at Meeting

    The meeting is open to the public. Written comments may be sent to 
the contact persons listed above before or after the meeting. Please 
call Junko Tamaki (301-504-6216) by September 5 if you will require a 
sign language interpreter at the meeting.

    Dated: August 22, 1997.
I. Miley Gonzalez,
Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics, Department of 
Agriculture.
[FR Doc. 97-22987 Filed 8-28-97; 8:45 am]
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