Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 190 / Wednesday, October 1, 1997 / Notices 51473

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Board of

Governors of the Federal Reserve

System.

TIME AND DATE: 10:00 a.m., Monday,

October 6, 1997.

PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal

Reserve Board Building, C Street

entrance between 20th and 21st Streets,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20551.

STATUS: Open.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

1. Proposed 1998–99 Federal Reserve

Board budget objective.

2. Any items carried forward from a

previously announced meeting.

Note: This meeting will be recorded for the

benefit of those unable to attend. Cassettes

will be available for listening in the Board’s

Freedom of Information Office, and copies

may be ordered for $5 per cassette by calling

(202) 452–3684 or by writing to: Freedom of

Information Office, Board of Governors of the

Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C.

20551.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Mr. Joseph R. Coyne, Assistant to the

Board; (202) 452–3204.

Dated: September 29, 1997.

William W. Wiles,

Secretary of the Board.

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Board of

Governors of the Federal Reserve

System.

TIME AND DATE: Approximately 10:30

a.m., Monday, October 6, 1997,

following a recess at the conclusion of

the open meeting.

PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal

Reserve Board Building, C Street

entrance between 20th and 21st Streets,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20551.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

1. Federal Reserve Bank and Branch

director appointments.

2. Personnel actions (appointments,

promotions, assignments,

reassignments, and salary actions)

involving individual Federal Reserve

System employees.

3. Any items carried forward from a

previously announced meeting.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Mr. Joseph R. Coyne, Assistant to the

Board; (202) 452–3204. You may call

(202) 452–3207, beginning at

approximately 5 p.m. two business days

before this meeting, for a recorded

announcement of bank and bank

holding company applications

scheduled for the meeting.

Dated: September 29, 1997.

William W. Wiles,

Secretary of the Board.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry

[ATSDR–126]

Formation of the Community/Tribal

Subcommittee of the ATSDR Board of

Scientific Counselors and Solicitation

of Volunteers To Serve as Special

Consultants

AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances

and Disease Registry (ATSDR),

Department of Health and Human

Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces

ATSDR’s intent to establish the

Community/Tribal Subcommittee of the

Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC),

ATSDR and solicits interested parties to

serve as special consultants. This will

be a standing Subcommittee to provide

the Board with input, recommendations,

and advice on ATSDR’s community and

tribal community involvement

practices, programs, and policies from

community/tribal members who live

near hazardous waste sites or are

otherwise affected by hazardous

substances in the community

environment. The Subcommittee will be

established, at the request of the

Assistant Administrator, ATSDR, to

provide the agency, through its Board of

Scientific Counselors with a formal

vehicle for citizen input.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

express interest in serving as special

consultants and obtain additional

information, contact: Triangle

Associates, Inc., 811 First Avenue, Suite

255, Seattle, WA 98104, telephone 800–

216–1743 (toll free) or 206–583–0655,

FAX 206–382–0669. Applications must

be received by Triangle Associates by

October 15, 1997.

The ATSDR contact person for this

program is: Charles Xintaras, Sc.D.,

Executive Secretary, Board of Scientific

Counselors, ATSDR (MS E–28), 1600

Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta, GA 30333,

telephone (404) 639–0708.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ATSDR

conducts public health-related activities

at hazardous waste sites and releases,

pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act

(CERCLA or Superfund) (42 U.S.C. 9601

et seq.). ATSDR established a BSC

which is chartered under the Federal

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app.).

In 1994, the chair of the BSC, ATSDR,

appointed three community/tribal

representatives as consultants to ensure

that its deliberations include the views

of community and tribal members who

live around Superfund and other

hazardous waste sites and are

representatives of groups that work at

local, regional, or national locations

with these affected communities. To

supplement the work of these

consultants, nine additional

community/tribal representatives will

be added as consultants to this newly

formed standing Subcommittee of the

BSC. Two members of the BSC will

serve on this Subcommittee, one of

which will be appointed as chair.

The Community/Tribal

Subcommittee’s objective will be to

provide the BSC, ATSDR, with the

views and recommendations of

community/tribal representatives on

ATSDR’s community involvement

program, practices and policies, and

other relevant issues impacting

communities and tribes who live near

Superfund and hazardous waste sites.

The Subcommittee will review ATSDR’s

community involvement practices,

programs, and policies; provide advice,

findings, and recommendations to the

Board on these issues; and bring broadbased community/tribal involvement

issues to the attention of the Board of

Scientific Counselors.

The Subcommittee will present

findings, advice, and recommendations

to the full Board. The BSC will discuss

and review reports of the Subcommittee

and may forward recommendations to

ATSDR for action. The Community/

Tribal Subcommittee will periodically

meet or hold conference calls.

A slate of candidates for the

Community/Tribal Subcommittee will

be selected by a Planning Committee

consisting of a BSC member, the three

above-mentioned community/tribal

consultants, and two additional

community representatives. The

Planning Committee, assisted by an

ATSDR-contracted facilitator, will

perform outreach activities at

communities around National Priorities

List (NPL) and other hazardous wastes
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sites to elicit interest by community

members in serving on the Community/

Tribal Subcommittee. From responses to

these efforts and to this Federal Register

notice, a pool of applicants will be

obtained from which the Planning

Committee will recommend a slate of

candidates. The BSC will then select the

nine community representatives of the

Community/Tribal Subcommittee from

the pool, with special consideration

given to the recommended slate.

Accordingly, any person who lives in a

community affected by an NPL or other

hazardous waste site, or is a

representative of a group that works at

local, regional, or national locations

with these communities, who wishes to

be considered for serving on this

Subcommittee should write to Triangle

Associates, Inc. at the address above to

express their interest and obtain

additional information.

Dated: September 25, 1997.

Georgi Jones,

Director, Office of Policy and External Affairs,

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease

Registry.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Public Health Service

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention; Statement of Organization,

Functions, and Delegations of

Authority

Part C (Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention) of the Statement of

Organization, Functions, and

Delegations of Authority of the

Department of Health and Human

Services (45 FR 67772–76, dated

October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR

69296, October 20, 1980, as amended

most recently at 62 FR 46751, dated

September 4, 1997) is amended to

reflect the reorganization of the

Epidemiology Program Office (EPO) as

follows: revise the functional statement

for the EPO to more accurately reflect

the mission of the office; establish the

Office of Program Management and

Operations; revise the functional

statement for the Scientific Information

and Communications Program and

retitle as the Office of Scientific and

Health Communications; revise the

functional statement for the Division of

Surveillance and Epidemiology and

retitle as Division of Public Health

Surveillance and Informatics; revise the

functional statement for the Division of

Training and retitle as the Division of

Applied Public Health Training;

establish the Division of Prevention

Research and Analytic Methods;

establish the Division of International

Health; abolish the Division of Field

Epidemiology.

Section C–B, Organization and

Functions, is hereby amended as

follows:

Delete the functional statement for the

Epidemiology Program Office (EPO)

(CB) and insert the following:

(1) Plans, directs, and manages CDCwide training and service programs,

including the Epidemic Intelligence

Service (EIS), the Preventive Medicine

Residency (PMR), and the Public Health

Program Specialist (PHPS) programs, as

well as various internship and

fellowship programs; (2) plans,

develops, edits, publishes and

disseminates the Morbidity and

Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR),

related publications, and various

scientific and health communication

documents and special reports; (3)

serves as a focal point for the

development of innovative methods for

the collection, analysis, and

communication of public health

surveillance information (e.g. National

Electronic Telecommunications System

for Surveillance, 122 Cities Mortality

Reporting System, and CDC WONDER);

(4) in collaboration with other Centers,

Institutes, and Offices (CIOs) and state

health departments, coordinates,

develops, implements, and supports

various public health information

systems for agency application; (5)

provides consultation, technical

assistance, and training on

epidemiology, public health

surveillance and informatics, health

information systems, prevention

effectiveness, scientific

communications, behavioral science,

statics, and development of community

health practice guidelines to CDC/

ATSDR, states, other agencies, other

countries, and domestic and

international organizations; (6) provides

policy and staff support for CDC’s

Health Information and Surveillance

Systems Board; (7) provides

epidemiologic assistance and epidemic

aid through the field assignment of

epidemiologists; (8) provides liaison

with governmental agencies,

international organizations, the Council

of State and Territorial Epidemiologists,

and other outside groups; (9) plans

conducts, and evaluates research

activities in various aspects of disease

and injury control for global programs;

(10) promotes the development of

international field epidemiologic

training programs; (11) develops,

promotes, and implements programs for

international and domestic data policy

formation for decision makers to

identify information needs and to use

information for improved decision

making; (12) in carrying out the above

functions, collaborates, as appropriate,

with the CDC Office of the Director,

other CDC CIOs, domestic and

international agencies and

organizations.

Delete the functional statement for the

Office of the Director (CB1) and insert

the following:

(1) Manages, directs, coordinates, and

evaluates the activities of EPO; (2)

develops goals and objectives and

provides leadership, policy formation,

scientific oversight, and guidance in

program planning and development; (3)

coordinates EPO program activities with

other CDC components, other PHS

agencies, other federal agencies, other

international organizations, state and

local health departments, communitybased organizations, business, and

industry; (4) consults and coordinates

activities with medical, scientific and

other professional organizations

interested in epidemiology, public

health surveillance and informatics,

health information systems, behavioral

science, statistics, scientific

communications, community health

practice guidelines, prevention

effectiveness, and training activities; (5)

ensures quality of scientific products of

EPO staff and adherence to ethical

principles and guidelines as specified in

Department of Health and Human

Services (DHHS) policy statements; (6)

coordinates technical assistance to

states, other nations and international

organizations; (7) advises the Director,

CDC, on policy matters concerning EPO

activities.

Delete the title and functional

statement for the Scientic information

and Communications Program (CB12)

and insert the following:

Office of Scientific and Health

Communications (CB12). (1) Plans,

coordinates, edits, and produces the

MMWR series and various special

reports and publications; (2) provides

editorial services and support to EPO;

(3) develops, implements, and evaluates

innovative methods for the

communication of scientific and health

information by EPO and its domestic

and international constituents; (4)

assists EPO and its constituents in

identifying and building needed

expertise, state-of-the-art technology,

logistical support, and other capabilities

required to conduct effective scientific

and health communication in domestic

and international settings; (5) provides

expert consultation and training to EPO,

other CIOs, and outside domestic and