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the period August 25, 1996 through

October 18, 1996, without having a tariff

for such services on file and effective

with the Commission;

(4) Whether, in the event violations of

sections 8, 10(a)(1) and 10(b)(1) of the

1984 Act and Commission regulations

are found, civil penalties should be

assessed against Shipman International

and, if so, the amount of penalties to be

assessed;

(5) Whether, in the event violations of

sections 10(a)(1) and 10(b)(1) of the

1984 Act are found, the tariff of

Shipman International should be

suspended; and

(6) Whether, in the event violations

are found, an appropriate cease and

desist order should be issued.

It is further ordered, that a public

hearing be held in this proceeding and

that this matter be assigned for hearing

before an Administrative Law Judge of

the Commission’s Office of

Administrative Law Judges at a date and

place to be hereafter determined by the

Administrative Law Judge in

compliance with Rule 61 of the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure, 46 C.F.R. § 502.61. The

hearing shall include oral testimony and

cross-examination in the discretion of

the Presiding Administrative Law Judge

only after consideration has been given

by the parties and the Presiding

Administrative Law Judge to the use of

alternative forms of dispute resolution,

and upon a proper showing that there

are genuine issues of material fact that

cannot be resolved on the basis of sworn

statements, affidavits, depositions, or

other documents or that the nature of

the matters in issue is such that an oral

hearing and cross-examination are

necessary for the development of an

adequate record;

It is further ordered, that Shipman

International (Taiwan) Ltd. is

designated as Respondent in this

proceeding;

It is further ordered, that the

Commission’s Bureau of Enforcement is

designated a party to this proceeding;

It is further ordered, that notice of this

Order be published in the Federal

Register, and a copy be served on

parties of record;

It is further ordered, that other

persons having an interest in

participating in this proceeding may file

petitions for leave to intervene in

accordance with Rule 72 of the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure, 46 C.F.R. § 502.72;

It is further ordered, that all further

notices, orders, and/or decisions issued

by or on behalf of the Commission in

this proceeding, including notice of the

time and place of hearing or prehearing

conference, shall be served on parties of

record;

It is further ordered, that all

documents submitted by any party of

record in this proceeding shall be

directed to the Secretary, Federal

Maritime Commission, Washington,

D.C. 20573, in accordance with Rule 118

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure, 46 C.F.R. § 502.118, and

shall be served on parties of record; and

It is further ordered, that in

accordance with Rule 61 of the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure, the initial decision of the

Administrative Law Judge shall be

issued by March 31, 1998 and the final

decision of the Commission shall be

issued by July 29, 1998.

Joseph C. Polking,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–8635 Filed 4–3–97; 8:45 am]

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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: 10:00 a.m., Wednesday,

April 9, 1997.

PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal

Reserve Board Building, C Street

entrance between 20th and 21st Streets,

N.W., Washington, DC 20551.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

1. Personnel actions (appointments,

promotions, assignments, reassignments, and

salary actions) involving individual Federal

Reserve System employees.

2. 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: April 2, 1997.

Jennifer J. Johnson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 97–8771 Filed 4–2–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Meeting of the Secretary’s Council on

Health Promotion and Disease

Prevention Objectives for 2010

AGENCY: Office of Public Health and

Science, Office of Disease Prevention

and Health Promotion.

ACTION: Secretary’s Council on Health

Promotion and Disease Prevention

Objectives for 2010: Notice of Inaugural

Meeting.

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and

Human Services is providing notice of

the first annual meeting of the

Secretary’s Council on Health

Promotion and Disease Prevention

Objectives for 2010.

DATES: The Council will hold its

meeting on April 21, 1997 from 9:30

a.m. to approximately 4:30 p.m. E.S.T.

ADDRESSES: Department of Health and

Human Services, Sixth floor conference

room, Hubert H. Humphrey Building,

200 Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20201. The meeting is

open to the public; seating is limited.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ellis Davis, Office of Disease Prevention

and Health Promotion, Room 738G,

Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20201, (202) 260–2873.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Council was established by charter on

September 5, 1996 to provide assistance

to the Secretary and the Department of

Health and Human Services in the

development of health promotion and

disease prevention objectives to

enhance the health of Americans by

2010. The Council will meet

approximately once a year and will

terminate two years from its charter

date, unless renewed prior to its

expiration.

The Council is charged to advise the

Secretary on the development on

national health promotion and disease

prevention goals and objectives and to

provide links with States, communities,

and the private sector to ensure their

involvement in the process of

developing these goals and objectives.

The Secretary of Health and Human

Services chairs the Council, with the

Assistant Secretary for Health as Vice

Chair. Other members include the

Operating Division Heads of the

Department and the former Assistant

Secretaries for Health. Management and

support services are provided by the

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Promotion, Office of Public Health and

Science, Office of the Secretary.

At its first meeting, the membership

will establish procedures for conducting

the business of the Council and for

reporting the results of its meetings to

the Secretary. Other items on the agenda

include consideration of reports from

Healthy People 2000 Consortium focus

groups, discussion of data developments

relevant to Healthy People 2010, and

strategies for engaging the business

community in the Department’s

prevention efforts. During its tenure, the

Council will oversee the development of

Healthy People 2010, the third

generation of a national initiative to

prevent disease and promote the health

of the American people. It is anticipated

that a call for submission by the public

of health promotion/disease prevention

objectives for 2010 will be published in

the fall of 1997. At a second meeting

proposed for spring of 1998, the Council

will consider the resulting submissions

as the basis for a draft of the 2010

objectives to be published in the fall of

1998.

If time permits at the conclusion of

the formal agenda of the Council, the

Chair may allow brief oral statements

from interested parties and persons in

attendance. The meeting is open to the

public; however, seating is limited. If

you will require a sign language

interpreter, please call Gloria Robledo

(202) 401–7736 by 4:30 p.m. E.S.T on

April 7, 1997.

Dated: March 27, 1997.

Susanne A. Stoiber,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health

(Disease Prevention and Health Promotion).

[FR Doc. 97–8598 Filed 4–3–97; 8:45 am]

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Notice of a Meeting of the National

Bioethics Advisory Commission

(NBAC); Human Subjects

Subcommittee

On Saturday, April 12, 1997, in

conjunction with National Bioethics

Advisory Commission’s April 13

meeting, the Human Subjects

Subcommittee is now scheduled to meet

from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Crystal City

Marriott, Salon E, Jefferson Davis

Highway, Arlington, VA. 22202. The

meeting is open to the public. For

public statements, please contact the

person listed below.

For Further Information Contact: Ms.

Henrietta D. Hyatt-Knorr, National

Bioethics Advisory Commission, MSC–

7508, 6100 Executive Boulevard, Suite

3C01, Rockville, Maryland 20892–7508,

telephone 301–402–4242, fax number

301–480–6900.

Dated: March 31, 1997.

Henrietta D. Hyatt-Knorr,

Deputy Executive Director (Acting), National

Bioethics Advisory Commission.

[FR Doc. 97–8596 Filed 4–3–97; 8:45 am]

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National Committee on Vital and Health

Statistics; Meetings

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, the Department of

Health and Human Services announces

the following advisory committee

meetings.

Name: National Committee on Vital and

Health Statistics (NCVHS), Subcommittee on

Health Data Needs, Standards, and Security.

Times and Dates: 9:30 a.m.–6 p.m., April

15, 1997; 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m., April 16, 1997.

Place: Room 503A, Hubert H. Humphrey

Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: Under the Administrative

Simplification provisions of Pub. L. 104–191,

the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the

Secretary of Health and Human Services is

required to adopt standards for specified

transactions to enable health information to

be exchanged electronically. The law

requires that, within 24 months of adoption,

all health plans, health care clearinghouses,

and health care providers who choose to

conduct these transactions electronically

must comply with these standards. The law

also requires the Secretary to adopt a number

of supporting standards including standards

for code sets and classifications systems. The

Secretary is required to consult with the

National Committee on Vital and Health

Statistics (NCVHS) in complying with these

provisions. The NCVHS is the Department’s

federal advisory committee on health data,

privacy and health information policy.

To assist in the development of the NCVHS

recommendations to HHS, the NCVHS

Subcommittee on Health Data Needs,

Standards, and Security has been holding a

series of public meetings to obtain the views,

perspectives and concerns of interested and

affected parties. On the morning of April 15,

the Subcommittee’s Working Group on Data

Standards and Security will hold a public

meeting at which they will be briefed by HHS

on the status of and plans for unique

identifiers for providers and payers.

On the afternoon of April 15th and all day

on April 16th, the full Subcommittee will

consider and discuss perspectives on medical

and clinical coding and classification issues

in the implementation of Pub. L. 104–191.

For the meeting, the Subcommittee is

inviting specific organizations representing

both the users and developers of medical and

clinical classification systems to address the

following questions in writing, to make brief

oral presentations of their answers, and to

answer further questions from the

Subcommittee. Other organizations that

would also like to submit written statements

on these issues are invited to do so.

Questions to be Addressed:

1. What medical/clinical codes and

classifications do you use in administrative

transactions now? What do you perceive as

the main strengths and weaknesses of current

methods for coding and classification of

encounter and/or enrollment data?

2. What medical/clinical codes and

classifications do you recommend as initial

standards for administrative transactions,

given the time frames in the HIPAA? What

specific suggestions would you like to see

implemented regarding coding and

classification?

3. Prior to the passage of HIPAA, the

National Center for Health Statistics initiated

development of a clinical modification of

ICD–10 (ICD–10–CM) and the Health Care

Financing Administration undertook

development of a new procedure coding

system for inpatient procedures (called ICD–

10–PCS), with a plan to implement them

simultaneously in the year 2000. On the preHIPAA schedule, they will be released to the

field for evaluation and testing by 1998. If

some version of ICD is to be used for

administrative transactions, do you think it

should be ICD–9–CM or ICD–10–CM and

ICD–10–PCS, assuming that field evaluations

are generally positive?

4. Recognizing that the goal of Pub. L. 104–

191 is administrative simplification, how,

from your perspective, would you deal with

the current coding environment to improve

simplification and reduce administrative

burden, but also obtain medically meaningful

information?

5. How should the ongoing maintenance of

medical/clinical code sets and the

responsibility, intellectual input and funding

for maintenance be addressed for the

classification systems included in the

standards? What are the arguments for having

these systems in the public domain versus in

the private sector, with or without copyright?

6. What would the resource implications

be of changing from the coding and

classification systems that you currently are

using in administrative transactions to other

systems?

7. A Coding and Classification

Implementation Team has been established

within the Department of Health and Human

Services to address the requirements of Pub.

L. 104–191. Does your organization have any

concerns about the process being undertaken

by the Department to carry out the

requirements of the law in regard to coding

and classification issues? If so, what are those

concerns and what suggestions do you have

for improvements?

Notice: In the interest of security, the

Department has instituted stringent

procedures for entrance to the Hubert H.

Humphrey building by non-government

employees. Thus, persons without a

government identification card will need to

have the guard call for an escort to the

meeting.

Contact Person for More Information:

Substantive program information as well as

summaries of the meeting and a roster of

committee members may be obtained from

James Scanlon, NCVHS Executive Staff