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Stat. 770, 774 (1972) (current version at 5

U.S.C. app. section 10(a)(2) (1988); 41 CFR

101–6.1015 (1990).

Dated: October 15, 1997.

Wendy M. Comes,

Executive Director.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Committee on Vital and Health

Statistics; Meeting

Purusant 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).

Times and Dates: 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.,

November 5, 1997; 9:00 a.m.–4:15 p.m.,

November 6, 1997.

Place: Conference Room 303A–339A,

Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200

Independence Avenue S.W.,

Washington D.C. 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: The meeting will focus on a

variety of data policy and privacy

issues. The Committee will review its

progress and consider next steps in

addressing new responsibilities in

health data standards and health

information privacy as outlined in the

administrative simplification provisions

of P.L. 104–191, the Health Insurance

Portability and Accountability Act of

1996 (HIPAA), as well as on related

matters. Department officials will brief

the Committee on recent activities of the

HHS Data Council, the status of HHS

activities in implementing the

administrative simplification provisions

of P.L. 104–191, and related date policy

activities.

The Committee also will hear a

briefing on data needs and issues by the

Director of the National Center for

Health Statistics. Presentations also are

schedued relating to the President’s

Commission on Quality and Consumer

Protection, the National Vital Statistics

Program and Standard Certificates, and

confidentiality and anti-discrimination

issues in genetic testing. Breakout

sessions are planned for the

Subcommittee on Health Data Needs,

Standards and Security, the

Subcommittee on Privacy and

Confidentiality, and the Subcommittee

on Population-Specific Issues. In

addition, the Committee will discuss its

recent recommendations relating to the

unique health identifier for individuals,

and will discuss priorities and work

plans. All topics are tentative and

subject to change. Please check the

NCVHS website for a detailed agenda.

Contact Person for More Information:

Substantive information as well as

summaries of the meeting and a roster

of committee members may be obtained

by visiting the NCVHS website (http://

aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs) or by calling

James Scanlon, NCVHS Executive Staff

Director, Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation,

DHHS, Room 440–D Humphrey

Building, 200 Independence Avenue

S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201,

telephone (202) 690–7100, or Marjorie

S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary,

NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100,

Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest

Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782,

telephone 301/436–7050.

Dated: October 14, 1997.

James Scanlon,

Director, Division of Data Policy.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry

Board of Scientific Counselors,

Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry; Meeting

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Pub. L. 92–463), the Agency for Toxic

Substances and Disease Registry

(ATSDR) announces the following

committee meeting.

Name: Board of Scientific Counselors,

Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry (BSC, ATSDR).

Times and Dates: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.,

November 19, 1997, and 8:30 a.m.–4

p.m., November 20, 1997.

Place: ATSDR, 35 Executive Park

Drive, Training Room, Atlanta, Georgia

30329.

Status: Open to the public, limited by

the space available. The meeting room

accommodates approximately 60

people.

Purpose: The Board of Scientific

Counselors, ATSDR, advises the

Secretary; the Assistant Secretary for

Health; and the Administrator, ATSDR,

on ATSDR programs to ensure scientific

quality, timeliness, utility, and

dissemination of results. Specifically,

the Board advises on the adequacy of

the science in ATSDR-supported

research, emerging problems that

require scientific investigation, accuracy

and currency of the science in ATSDR

reports, and program areas to emphasize

and/or to de-emphasize.

Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda

items will include introduction of

members and special consultants to the

Community/Tribal Subcommittee,

updates on ATSDR medical monitoring

at Hanford and Bunker Hill, ATSDR’s

methyl parathion experience, the

programs and activities of the ATSDR

Office of Urban Affairs, the Great Lakes

Human Health Effects Research, the

ATSDR Child Health Initiative, and the

National Institute of Environmental

Health Sciences Worker Safety and

Training Program; a discussion on

ATSDR/Native American cooperation;

an overview for determining

contaminant levels in water distribution

systems; and a presentation of ATSDR’s

interim policy on dioxins in soil.

Written comments are welcome and

should be received by the contact

person listed below prior to the opening

of the meeting.

Agenda items are subject to change as

priorities dictate.

CONTACT PERSONS FOR MORE

INFORMATION: Charles Xintaras, Sc.D.,

Executive Secretary, BSC, ATSDR, M/S

E–28, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta,

Georgia 30333, telephone 404/639–

0708.

Dated: October 9, 1997.

Carolyn J. Russell,

Director, Management Analysis and Services

Office, Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC).

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

Citizens Advisory Committee on Public

Health Service Activities and Research

at Department of Energy (DOE) Sites:

Fernald Health Effects Subcommittee

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Pub. L. 92–463), the Agency for Toxic

Substances and Disease Registry

(ATSDR) and the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC) announce

the following meeting.

Name: Citizens Advisory Committee

on Public Health Service Activities and

Research at DOE Sites: Fernald Health

Effects Subcommittee.

Times and Dates: 1 p.m.–9 p.m.,

November 5, 1997, and 8:30 a.m.–5

p.m., November 6, 1997.
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Place: The Plantation, 9660 Dry Fork

Road, Harrison, Ohio 45020, telephone

513/367–5610.

Status: Open to the public, limited

only by the space available. The meeting

room accommodates approximately 50

people.

Background: Under a Memorandum

of Understanding (MOU) signed in

December 1990 with DOE and replaced

by an MOU signed in 1996, the

Department of Health and Human

Services (HHS) was given the

responsibility and resources for

conducting analytic epidemiologic

investigations of residents of

communities in the vicinity of DOE

facilities, workers at DOE facilities, and

other persons potentially exposed to

radiation or to potential hazards from

non-nuclear energy production use.

HHS delegated program responsibility

to CDC.

In addition, an MOU was signed in

October 1990 and renewed in November

1992 between ATSDR and DOE. The

MOU delineates the responsibilities and

procedures for ATSDR’s public health

activities at DOE sites required under

sections 104, 105, 107, and 120 of the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act (CERCLA or ‘‘Superfund’’). These

activities include health consultations

and public health assessments at DOE

sites listed on, or proposed for, the

Superfund National Priorities List and

at sites that are the subject of petitions

from the public; and other healthrelated activities such as epidemiologic

studies, health surveillance, exposure

and disease registries, health education,

substance-specific applied research,

emergency response, and preparation of

toxicological profiles.

Purpose: This subcommittee is

charged with providing advice and

recommendations to the Director, CDC,

and the Administrator, ATSDR,

regarding community, American Indian

Tribes, and labor concerns pertaining to

CDC’s and ATSDR’s public health

activities and research at this DOE site.

The purpose of this meeting is to

provide a forum for community,

American Indian Tribal, and labor

interaction and serve as a vehicle for

community concern to be expressed as

advice and recommendations to CDC

and ATSDR.

Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda

items include: presentations from the

National Center for Environmental

Health (NCEH) regarding current

activities, the National Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health and

ATSDR will provide updates on the

progress of current studies, and an

overview of the Fernald Health Effects

Subcommittee’s mission and activities

will be part of the evening session.

Agenda items are subject to change as

priorities dictate.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Steven A. Adams, Radiation Studies

Branch, Division of Environmental

Hazards and Health Effects, NCEH, CDC,

4770 Buford Highway, NE. (M/S F–35),

Atlanta, Georgia 30341–3724, telephone

770/488–7040, FAX 770/488–7044.

Dated: October 15, 1997.

Nancy C. Hirsch,

Acting Director, Management Analysis and

Services Office, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

Advisory Committee for Injury

Prevention and Control: Meeting

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC)

announces the following committee

meeting.

Name: Advisory Committee for Injury

Prevention and Control (ACIPC).

Time and Date: 1–4:30 p.m., November 18,

1997.

Place: Sheraton Washington Hotel, 2660

Woodley Road at Connecticut Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20008.

Status: Open to the public, limited only by

the space available.

Purpose: The Committee advises and

makes recommendations to the Secretary, the

Assistant Secretary for Health, and the

Director, CDC, regarding feasible goals for the

prevention and control of injury. The

Committee makes recommendations

regarding policies, strategies, objectives, and

priorities, and reviews progress toward injury

prevention and control. The Committee

provides advice on the appropriate balance

and mix of intramural and extramural

research, including laboratory research, and

provides guidance on intramural and

extramural scientific program matters, both

present and future, particularly from a longrange viewpoint. The Committee provides

second-level scientific and programmatic

review for applications for research grants,

cooperative agreements, and training grants

related to injury control and violence

prevention, and recommends approval of

projects that merit further consideration for

funding support. The Committee

recommends areas of research to be

supported by contracts and provides concept

review of program proposals and

announcements.

Matters To Be Discussed: The Science and

Program Review Work Group (SPRWG) will

meet to discuss a research grants update,

upcoming program announcements, and

related issues. Following the Work Group

meeting, the full Committee will meet to

discuss (1) Safe America Partnership

Council; (2) National Partnership Council

including Federal and corporate components;

(3) a report from SPRWG; and (4) status of

the Institute of Medicine study on injury

prevention and control.

Agenda items are subject to change as

priorities dictate.

Contact Person for more Information:

Mr. Thomas E. Blakeney, Executive

Secretary, ACIPC, National Center for

Injury Prevention and Control, CDC,

4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S K61,

Atlanta, Georgia 30341–3724, telephone

770/488–1481.

Dated: October 15, 1997.

Nancy C. Hirsch,

Acting Director, Management Analysis and

Services Office, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs

Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

This notice announces a forthcoming

meeting of a public advisory committee

of the Food and Drug Administration

(FDA). The meeting will be open to the

public.

Name of Committee: Dermatologic

and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory

Committee.

General Function of the Committee:

To provide advice and

recommendations to the agency on FDA

regulatory issues.

Date and Time: The meeting will be

held on November 13 and 14, 1997, 8:30

a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Location: Holiday Inn, Versailles

Ballrooms I and II, 8120 Wisconsin

Ave., Bethesda, MD.

Contact Person: Tracy Riley or Angie

Whitacre, Center for Drug Evaluation

and Research (HFD–21), Food and Drug

Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857, 301–443–5455, or

FDA Advisory Committee Information

Line, 1–800–741–8138 (301–443–0572

in the Washington, DC area), code

12534. Please call the Information Line

for up-to-date information on this

meeting.