[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 209 (Wednesday, October 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 56197]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28598]


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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 51474 and 51479, dated October 1, 1997) 
is amended to reflect organizational changes within the National Center 
for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    Delete the functional statement for the Scientific Resources 
Program (CRL) and insert the following:
    (1) Provides animals, animal blood products, glassware, mammalian 
tissue cultures, microbiological media, special reagents, and other 
laboratory materials in support of research and service activities to 
NCID laboratories and other CDC organizations; (2) installs, 
fabricates, modifies, services, and maintains laboratory equipment used 
in the research and service activities of CDC; (3) develops and 
implements applied research programs to expand and enhance the use of 
animal models necessary to support research and diagnostic programs and 
to improve breeding and husbandry procedures; (4) conducts both basic 
and applied research in cell biology and in the expansion of tissue 
culture technology as a research and diagnostic tool for infectious 
disease activities; (5) provides services for NCID investigators in 
protein and DNA synthesis and sequencing; (6) maintains a bank of serum 
specimens of epidemiological and special significance to CDC's research 
and diagnostic activities; (7) obtains and distributes experimental 
vaccines and drugs, antisera and antitoxins, and immune globulins; (8) 
for reagents prepared at CDC, maintains a computerized inventory; 
provides dispensing, lyophilization, capping, and labeling; and 
retrieves from storage and ships to requesters; (9) provides support 
for liquid nitrogen freezers; (10) maintains an international 
hemoglobinometry reference laboratory; (11) produces, maintains, and 
distributes national and international hemoglobin reference standard 
preparations; (12) administratively and technically supports the CDC 
Animal Policy Board and the Atlanta Area Animal Care and Use Committee; 
(13) provides computer support services for the Program's activities.
    Delete the title and functional statement for the Molecular 
Pathology and Ultrastructure Activity (CRUE) and insert the following:

Infectious Disease Pathology Activity (CRUE)

    (1) Serves as a scientific and technical resource to NCID by 
providing expertise in molecular pathology, histopathology, and 
ultrastructural analysis for detecting infectious disease agents and 
studying the interactions between microbial agents and host cells; (2) 
develops, improves, evaluates, and applies special ultrastructural, 
immunohistologic, and/or nucleic acid probe technologies for detecting 
microbial agents and/or expressed gene products in tissue specimens or 
tissue culture; (3) conducts basic and applied research into the 
pathogenesis of infectious diseases; (4) provides intramural and 
extramural technical and professional expertise for assistance in 
training in infectious disease pathology and molecular approaches to 
the identification of specific nucleic acid sequences and specific 
antigens in tissue specimens; (5) provides for tracking, distribution, 
and testing of reference /diagnostic pathology specimens submitted 
through the data and special handling system; (6) provides molecular 
pathology, histopathology, and ultrastructure reference/diagnostic 
support and epidemic aid to state and local health departments, other 
federal agencies, and national and international health organizations.

    Dated: October 16, 1997.
David Satcher,
Director.
[FR Doc. 97-28598 Filed 10-28-97; 8:45 am]
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