[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 1, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 65319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27986]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)


The Advisory Committee to the Director, National Center for 
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC); 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 to the Director, NCEH.
    Times and Dates: 9 am-5 pm (EST), November 20, 2000; 9 am-12 pm 
(EST), November 21, 2000.
    Place: Swissotel, 3391 Peachtree Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30326.
    Status: Open to the public for observation and comment, limited 
only by the space available. The meeting room accommodates 
approximately 45 people.
    Purpose: The Secretary, and by delegation, the Director, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, are authorized under Section 
301(42 U.S.C. 241) and Section 311(42 U.S.C. 243) of the Public 
Health Service Act, as amended, to (1) conduct, encourage, cooperate 
with, and assist other appropriate public authorities, scientific 
institutions, and scientists in the conduct of research, 
investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to 
the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of 
physical and mental diseases, and other impairments; (2) assist 
States and their political subdivisions in the prevention of 
infectious diseases and other preventable conditions, and in the 
promotion of health and well being; and (3) train State and local 
personnel in health work. The purpose of this meeting is to provide 
advice on: (1) Environmental public health problems that potentially 
pose the greatest risks to human health and may not be receiving 
adequate attention; (2) the primary prevention of birth defects and 
developmental and other disabilities; (3) the prevention of 
secondary conditions in persons with a primary disability; and (4) 
the research agenda needed to improve the science base relative to 
human health effects and environmental exposures, and that will 
ultimately provide sound human health data for policy and decision-
making.
    Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items will include implications 
of the Child Health Bill, the National Exposure Report, the Genetics 
Assessment Testing Program, and on a shared vision of environmental 
health between NCEH and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease 
Registry (ATSDR) at CDC.
    Agenda items are tentative and subject to change as priorities 
dictate.
    Contact Person for more Information: Michael J. Sage, Designated 
Federal Official, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, MS F-29, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30341-3724; telephone 770-488-7020, fax 770-488-7024; e-
mail: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6b0601185d2b080f08450c041d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d1bcbba2e791b2b5b2ffb6bea7">[email protected]</span></a>.
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been 
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining 
to announcements of meetings and other committee management 
activities for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

    Dated: October 27, 2000.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 00-27986 Filed 10-31-00; 8:45 am]
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