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Practice Guidelines and Topics under

Consideration for Development of

Clinical Practice Guidelines’’ (58 FR

49308). This solicitation of topics is a

further step in determining priorities for

future guideline development.

Process for Selection of Guideline

Topics

The AHCPR’s method for setting

priorities and selecting guideline topics

consists of the process outlined below:

1. Inviting suggestions for guideline

topics with supporting information

through published notice in the Federal

Register and from HCFA, PHS agencies,

professional organizations, managed

care organizations, and professional

review and other health care

organizations;

2. Determining what consensus

statements, practice parameters, and

evidence-based guidelines have been

recently developed or are under

development by other organizations in

order to avoid unnecessary duplication

of effort;

3. Studying the topics proposed and

the supporting documentation to

determine compliance with AHCPR

criteria and legislative requirements;

4. Determining compliance with the

legislation by assessing, among other

factors, the adequacy of the available

scientific evidence; the prevalence and

cost of the particular topic/condition,

with particular concern for the Medicare

and Medicaid populations; the potential

for improvement in health outcomes;

the potential for reducing clinically

significant and unexplained variations

in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment,

management, and outcomes of health

services; and the potential for

improvement of methods of prevention;

5. Seeking advice of public and

private sector experts on setting

priorities for proposed topics;

6. Determining resource availability

from AHCPR and other sources to

develop the priority guidelines for the

current and upcoming fiscal years; and

7. Considering recommendations from

the National Advisory Council on

Health Care Policy, Research, and

Evaluation.

Clinical Practice Guidelines Completed

and Under Development

The following guidelines have been

released and disseminated:

1. Acute Pain Management: Operative or

Medical Procedures and Trauma

2. Urinary Incontinence in Adults

3. Pressure Ulcers in Adults: Prediction

and Prevention

4. Cataract in Adults: Management of

Functional Impairment

5. Depression in Primary Care: Volume

I: Detection and Diagnosis, and

Volume II: Treatment of Major

Depression

6. Sickle Cell Disease: Screening,

Diagnosis, Management, and

Counseling in Newborns and

Infants

7. Evaluation and Management of Early

HIV Infection

8. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia:

Diagnosis and Treatment

9. Management of Cancer Pain

10. Unstable Angina: Diagnosis and

Management

11. Heart Failure: Evaluation and Care

of Patients with Left Ventricular

Systolic Dysfunction

12. Otitis Media With Effusion in Young

Children

13. Treatment of Pressure Ulcers in

Adults

14. Acute Low Back Problems in Adults

15. Quality Determinants of

Mammography

The following guidelines and one

guideline update are under

development:

1. Post Stroke Rehabilitation

2. Cardiac Rehabilitation

3. Recognition and Initial Assessment of

Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias

4. Smoking Prevention and Cessation

5. Screening for Colorectal Cancer

6. Chronic Pain: Headache

7. Urinary Incontinence in Adults

(Update)

Nominations of new guideline topics

with supporting rationale, including

specific evidence and other data, must

be received by July 18, 1995 at the

following address: Douglas B. Kamerow,

M.D., M.P.H., Director, Office of the

Forum for Quality and Effectiveness in

Health Care, Agency for Health Care

Policy and Research, 6000 Executive

Boulevard, Suite 310, Rockville,

Maryland 20852.

Dated: May 15, 1995.

Clifton R. Gaus,

Administrator.

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Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

National Institute for Occupational

Safety and Health

[Announcement 554]

Enhancing Young Workers’

Occupational Health and Safety

Through Community Education Efforts

Introduction

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) announces the

availability of fiscal year (FY) 1995

funds for a cooperative agreement

program for enhancing young workers’

occupational health and safety through

community education efforts. The

Public Health Service (PHS) is

committed to achieving the health

promotion and disease prevention

objectives of Healthy People 2000, a

PHS-led national activity to reduce

morbidity and mortality and improve

the quality of life. This announcement

is related to the priority area of

Occupational Health and Safety. (For

ordering a copy of Healthy People 2000,

see the Section Where to Obtain

Additional Information.)

Authority

This program is authorized under

Section 21(a) of the Occupational Safety

and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C.

670(a)).

Smoke-Free Workplace

The PHS strongly encourages all grant

recipients to provide a smoke-free

workplace and promote the nonuse of

all tobacco products, and Public Law

103–227, the Pro-Children Act of 1994,

prohibits smoking in certain facilities

that receive Federal funds in which

education, library, day care, health care,

and early childhood development

services are provided to children.

Eligible Applicants

Applications may be submitted by

public and private, non-profit and forprofit organizations and governments

and their agencies. Thus, universities,

colleges, research institutions, hospitals,

other public and private organizations,

agencies whose principal interest is the

welfare of youth, State and local

governments or their bona fide agents,

federally recognized Indian tribal

governments, Indian tribes or Indian

tribal organizations and small, minorityand/or women-owned businesses are

eligible to apply.

Availability of Funds

Approximately $200,000 is available

in FY 1995 to fund one to two awards.

It is expected that the award(s) will

begin on or about September 30, 1995,

and that the award(s) will be made for

a 12-month budget period within a

project period up to 2 years. Funding

estimates may vary and are subject to

change.

Continuation awards within the

project period will be made on the basis

of satisfactory progress and the

availability of funds.
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Purpose

This award will assist in the

development of an intervention to raise

the awareness of occupational health

and safety issues relevant to young

workers throughout a community. The

objectives are: a) to recruit both a

community and a school district within

that community to participate in a

demonstration project on young worker

health and safety issues; b) with

community and school cooperation,

develop education and information

strategies for adults and for adolescents;

c) implement those strategies as a

demonstration project; and d) evaluate

the implementation and develop guides

for other communities to establish and

sustain similar efforts. Experience from

the project should also allow health

program planners to develop a process

model that can be used to extend the

intervention to broader geographic

areas.

Program Requirements

In conducting activities to achieve the

purposes of this program, the recipient

will be responsible for conducting

activities under A. (Recipient

Activities), and CDC/NIOSH will be

responsible for conducting activities

under B. (CDC/NIOSH Activities).

A. Recipient Activities

1. Plan and implement a

demonstration education program

within a cooperating community and

one (or more) school systems in that

community.

2. Advisory Panel. Establish within

the community a project-advisory panel

that includes representatives from the

community and from the school system.

The Panel would be responsible for

overseeing and coordinating the

organization and application of all

community resources to the project. The

cooperating entity must use the advisory

panel to augment its own resources for

program activities. An existing

community committee may be used if

that committee: a) already has

substantial representation from the

recruitment list developed as part of

Item 1, above; b) has both school district

and community representation; and c)

agrees to serve in an advisory capacity

to the project. The advisory panel will

work with the recipient of this

cooperative agreement but will not

direct the activities of the organizations

directly involved in the cooperative

agreement.

Output for This Requirement

Minutes of all meetings of the

advisory panel.

3. Needs Assessment. Collect relevant

data concerning the population of young

workers in the community and the

school system using quantitative and

qualitative data collection methods.

Examples of quantitative data are local

employment data for both the

community and the student body,

adolescent work permit information,

and characterization of the local

business community that uses young

workers. Qualitative data includes in

depth interviews and/or focus groups

with students, employers, parents,

teachers, public health officials and

others. Such interviews should result in

a community portrait of the typical

young worker (and his or her employer)

in terms of knowledge, attitudes, and

behaviors related to occupational safety

and health. Examples of knowledge

areas for inquiry must include young

worker morbidity and mortality,

common hazards, employees’ and

employers’ legal rights and

responsibilities, and other methods of

hazard control. Examples of attitudes to

be measured are occupational safety and

health concern, perceived susceptibility

to injury, and perceived social norms for

safety and health behaviors. Examples

of behaviors are (for employers) training

and supervision of young workers, (for

the young workers) adherence to safety

and health training and use of personal

protective equipment. Information

should also be collected from

cooperating community groups as to

what would help each group contribute

to the reduction of occupationallyrelated injury and illness among

working youth in the community. This

information must be used in the

education activities described next.

Output for This Requirement

Using the data collected in this

activity, the recipient must prepare a

summary describing young worker

employment in the community,

knowledge of and attitudes toward

young worker occupational safety and

health among adults and youth, and

education needs on this issue for both

students and adults in the community.

The report must include an analysis of

the implications of the data for the

educational interventions.

4. Develop, Demonstrate, and

Evaluate Adult Awareness Strategies.

Using the needs assessment report from

the last requirement, the recipient must

develop, demonstrate, and evaluate

customized activities whose objectives

are to raise the awareness of young

worker safety and health issues among

parents, teachers, employers, public

health workers, union leaders and other

opinion leaders in the community.

Examples of such activities are

presentations to and public information

campaigns for community groups,

business groups, and education groups

such as parent/teacher organizations

and parent/teacher associations. Special

attention must be devoted to assisting

employers in developing administrative

structures and actions that will prevent

young worker illness and injury. For

example, the recipient might assist in

develop training materials for young

workers at a particular company. This

would qualify as assistance to adults if

it builds the capacity of the company’s

personnel to develop such materials.

Teachers in the cooperating school must

be another important target audience

because some of them must play a role

in the curriculum development for

students, described in the following

requirement. Every activity undertaken

under this step must be evaluated using

either behavioral observation, pencil

and paper self-report, and/or records

methods. Changes in knowledge of

young worker health and safety issues,

attitudes toward these issues, and

behaviors to protect young workers are

the outcomes of interest.

Outputs for This Requirement

(a) A record of strategies developed.

(b) A record of where, when, and how

strategies were used.

(c) Copies of visual aids and other

educational materials used.

(d) Evaluation protocols, evaluation

data collection instruments, and

evaluation data analysis results.

5. Develop, Demonstrate, and

Evaluate Student Education Strategies.

Using the ‘‘needs assessment report’’

from requirement three, the recipient

must develop, demonstrate, and

evaluate customized activities whose

objectives are to raise the awareness of

young worker safety and health issues

among high school students in the

cooperating school. Participation of

school faculty (motivated by activities

under requirement four, above) in this

process is very important. Curriculum

materials and classroom activities

should be planned and implemented

not necessarily comprehensively across

the curriculum, but selectively, based

on the interest and commitment of

specific faculty who are willing to

incorporate work-related safety and

health education in their courses and to

support evaluation efforts. Strategies

may also (or alternatively) be used in

students’ extracurricular activities (e.g.,

journalism, performing arts, law clubs,

debate societies) if there is faculty

participation in the implementation of

those strategies. Every activity

undertaken under this step must be
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evaluated using either behavioral

observation, pencil and paper selfreport, or records methods. Changes in

knowledge of young worker health and

safety issues, attitudes toward these

issues, and behaviors to protect young

workers (either self- protection or

informing others) are the outcomes of

interest.

Output for This Requirement

(a) A record of strategies developed

under this requirement.

(b) A record of where, when, and how

the strategies were used.

(c) Copies of visual aids and other

educational materials used.

(d) Evaluation protocols, evaluation

data collection instruments, and

evaluation data analysis results.

6. Summary Activities. Design and

execute an evaluation plan for the entire

project that will occur concurrently

with the project. It must assess

community-level, school-level,

employer-level, and individual-level

outcomes. It must feature the

evaluations specified as outputs from

requirements four and five, but it must

also assess overall impacts of the

program. Outcome measures such as

pre- and post-intervention knowledge of

and attitudes toward occupational

health and safety issues among target

audiences listed above, workplace

behaviors of both young workers and

their employers, and emergency room

visits for occupationally-related injuries

to youth are examples of what might be

used to help assess the project’s

effectiveness. The evaluation must draw

conclusions from the evaluation data

and make recommendations for: (a)

efforts to sustain the awareness of young

worker safety and health issues in the

demonstration community and school,

(b) pilot efforts in other communities,

and (c) efforts to enlarge this community

education effort to regional, State, and

national levels. The overall evaluation

must include copies of all outputs from

the previous requirements (1–5). It must

also include a model for communitybased efforts to stimulate an awareness

of young workers’ safety and health

issues and a ‘‘how to’’ guide for

communities who might undertake

similar efforts. Disseminate these results

to participants and other interested

parties.

Outputs of This Requirement

(a) An overall evaluation of the

program that details evaluation

protocols, data collection activities,

analysis and interpretation of data, and

recommendations for sustaining and

enlarging the program.

(b) A guide for other communities and

school systems to use to start and

maintain a similar program.

(c) Recommendations for

dissemination of the evaluation

document and the ‘‘how-to’’ guide.

7. The recipient must collaborate with

CDC in the planning of how best to

extend the work of this project.

B. CDC/NIOSH Activities

1. Provide technical assistance and

consultation, through site visits and

correspondence, in areas of identifying

needs, and program development and

implementation.

2. Provide limited scientific and

technical consultation in the

modification of curriculum materials

and their subsequent review.

3. Provide limited graphic design,

audio production, video production,

multimedia production, and other

creative services where possible to assist

the activities of the project.

4. Provide existing educational or

informational materials where

appropriate and needed, as supplies

permit.

5. Provide technical assistance in the

evaluation of the results and efficacy of

the process used in this project.

6. Assist in the dissemination of the

results of this project to other interested

groups.

7. Participate in the planning of the

extension of the work of this project to

broader geographic areas.

Evaluation Criteria

Applications will be reviewed and

evaluated according to the following

criteria (maximum 100 total points):

1. Background and Need (10%)

The extent to which the applicant

presents data justifying need for the

program in terms of magnitude of the

related injury problem, and identifies

suitable target populations. The extent

to which a description of current and

previous related experiences:

(a) Is inclusive in terms of young

worker health education interventions

and their evaluation; and

(b) Demonstrates capacity to conduct

the program.

2. Goals and Specific Time-Framed

Objectives (15%)

The extent to which the applicant has

included goals and objectives which are

relevant to the purpose of the proposal

and feasible to be accomplished during

the project period and the extent to

which these are specific and

measurable. The extent to which the

objectives are specific, time-framed, and

measurable. The extent to which the

applicant documents an intention to

undertake additional activities to either

sustain or enlarge this activity should

additional funds become available.

3. Methods (30%)

The extent to which the applicant

provides a detailed description of

proposed activities which are likely to

achieve each objective and overall

program goals and which includes

designation of responsibility for each

action undertaken. The extent to which

the applicant provides a reasonable and

complete schedule for implementing all

activities. The extent to which roles of

each unit, organization, or agency are

described, and coordination and

supervision of staff, organizations, and

agencies involved in activities are

apparent. The extent to which

documentation of program

organizational location is clear, and

shows a coordinated relationship among

components forming the applicant’s

intervention program. The extent to

which position descriptions, curriculum

vitae, and lines of command are

appropriate to accomplishment of

program goals and objectives. The

extent to which concurrences with the

applicant’s plans are specific and

documented.

4. Evaluation (30%)

The extent to which the proposed

evaluation system is detailed and will

document program process,

effectiveness (of strategies employed on

intermediate outcomes), and impacts (of

strategies and intermediate outcomes on

broader outcome measures). The extent

to which the applicant demonstrates

potential data sources for evaluation

purposes, and documents staff

availability, expertise, and capacity to

perform the evaluation. The extent to

which a feasible plan for reporting

evaluation results for programmatic

decisions is included.

5. Collaboration (15%)

The extent to which relationships

between the program and other

organizations, agencies, and health

department units that will relate to the

program or conduct related activities are

clear, complete, and provide for

complimentary or supplementary

working interactions. The extent to

which coalition membership and roles

are documented and appropriate to the

program. The extent to which the

relationship with local community

entities are activity-specific and show

evidence of specific support.
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6. Budget and Justification (Not Scored)

The extent to which the applicant

provides a detailed budget and narrative

justification consistent with stated

objectives and planned program

activities. The budget information will

be reviewed to determine if it is

reasonable, clearly justified, and

consistent with the intended use of

funds.

Executive Order 12372 Review

Applications are subject to

Intergovernmental Review of Federal

Programs as governed by Executive

Order (E.O.) 12372. E.O. 12372 sets up

a system for State and local government

review of proposed Federal assistance

applications. Applicants (other than

federally recognized Indian tribal

governments) should contact their state

Single Point of Contact (SPOC) as early

as possible to alert them to the

prospective applications and receive

any necessary instructions on the State

process. For proposed projects serving

more than one State, the applicant is

advised to contact the SPOC for each

affected State. Indian tribes are strongly

encouraged to request tribal government

review of the proposed application. A

current list of SPOCs is included in the

application kit.

If SPOCs or tribal governments have

any State process recommendations on

applications submitted to CDC, they

should send them to Henry S. Cassell,

III, Grants Management Officer, Grants

Management Branch, Procurement and

Grants Office, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC), 255 East

Paces Ferry Road, NE., Atlanta, GA

30305, no later than 60 days after the

application deadline date. The Program

Announcement Number and Program

Title should be referenced on the

document. The granting agency does not

guarantee to ‘‘accommodate or explain’’

State or tribal process recommendations

it receives after that date.

Public Health System Reporting

Requirements

This program is subject to the Public

Health System Reporting Requirements.

Under these requirements, all

community-based non-governmental

applicants must prepare and submit the

items identified below to the head of the

appropriate State and/or local health

agency(s) in the program area(s) that

may be impacted by the proposed

project no later than the receipt date of

the Federal application. The appropriate

State and/or local health agency is

determined by the applicant. The

following information must be

provided:

1. A copy of the face page of the

application (SF 424).

2. A summary of the project that

should be titled ‘‘Public Health System

Impact Statement’’ (PHSIS), not

exceeding one page, and include the

following:

a. A description of the population to

be served;

b. A summary of the services to be

provided; and

c. A description of the coordination

plans with the appropriate State and/or

local health agencies.

If the State and/or local health official

should desire a copy of the entire

application, it may be obtained from the

State SPOC or directly from the

applicant.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Number

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance number is 93.263.

Other Requirements

Paperwork Reduction Act

Projects that involve the collection of

information from 10 or more individuals

and funded by the cooperative

agreement will be subject to approval by

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction

Act.

Human Subjects

If the proposed project involves

research on human subjects, the

applicant must comply with the

Department of Health and Human

Services Regulations, 45 CFR Part 46,

regarding the protection of human

subjects. Assurance must be provided to

demonstrate that the project will be

subject to initial and continuing review

by an appropriate institutional review

committee. The applicant will be

responsible for providing assurance in

accordance with the appropriate

guidelines and form provided in the

application kit.

In addition to other applicable

committees, Indian Health Service (IHS)

institutional review committees also

must review the project if any

component of IHS will be involved or

will support the research. If any

American Indian community is

involved, its tribal government must

also approve that portion of the project

applicable to it.

Application Submission and Deadline

The original and two copies of the

PHS Form 5161–1 (Revised 7/92, OMB

Number 0937–0189) must be submitted

to Henry Cassell, III, Grants

Management Officer, Grants

Management Branch, Procurement and

Grants Office, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC), Mailstop

E–13, 255 East Paces Ferry Road, NE.,

Room 300, Atlanta, GA 30305, on or

before July 5, 1995.

1. Deadline: Applications shall be

considered as meeting the deadline if

they are either:

(a) Received on or before the deadline

date; or

(b) Sent on or before the deadline date

and received in time for submission to

the independent review group.

(Applicants must request a legibly dated

U.S. Postal Service postmark or obtain

a legibly dated receipt from a

commercial carrier or the U.S. Postal

Service. Private metered postmarks shall

not be acceptable as proof of timely

mailing.)

2. Late Applications: Applications

which do not meet the criteria in 1.(a)

or 1.(b) above are considered late

applications. Late applications will not

be considered in the current

competition and will be returned to the

applicant.

Where To Obtain Additional

Information

To receive additional written

information, call (404) 332–4561. You

will be asked to leave your name,

address, and telephone number and will

need to refer to Announcement 554.

You will receive a complete program

description, information on application

procedures, and application forms.

If you have questions after reviewing

the contents of all the documents,

business management technical

assistance may be obtained from Oppie

Byrd, Grants Management Specialist,

Grants Management Branch,

Procurement and Grants Office, Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention

(CDC), Mailstop E–13, 255 East Paces

Ferry Road, NE., Room 300, Atlanta, GA

30305, telephone (404) 842–6546.

Programmatic technical assistance

may be obtained from Ray Sinclair,

Television Production Specialist,

DTMD, National Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health, MS

C–3, Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC), 4676 Columbia

Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226,

telephone (513) 533–8172.

Please refer to Announcement 554

when requesting information and

submitting an application.

Potential applicants may obtain a

copy of Healthy People 2000 (Full

Report, Stock No. 017–001–00474–0) or

Healthy People 2000 (Summary Report,

Stock No. 017–001–00473–1) referenced

in the Introduction through the

Superintendent of Documents,

Government Printing Office,
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Washington, DC 20402–9325, telephone

(202) 512–1800.

Dated: May 15, 1995.

Diane D. Porter,

Acting Director, National Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

References

1. U.S. General Accounting Office, (1991).

Child Labor: Characteristics of Working

Children. Publication No. GAO/HRD–

91–83BR. Washington, D.C.: Author.

2. Castillo KN, Landen DD, Layne LA, (1994).

Occupational injury deaths of 16- and

17-year olds in the United States.

American Journal of Public Health 19:

739–45.

3. Layne LA, Castillo DN, Stout N, Cutlip P,

(1994). Adolescent occupational injuries

requiring hospital emergency department

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4. Centers for Disease Control, (1983)

Surveillance of occupational injuries

treated in hospital emergency rooms—

United States, 1982. Morbidity and

Mortality Weekly Report 32 (2SS): 713–

716.

5. Knight EB, Castillo DN, Layne LA (in

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emergency departments. American

Journal of Industrial Medicine.

6. Bush D, Baker, R (1994). Young Workers

at Risk: Health and Safety Education and

the Schools. Berkeley, CA: Labor

Occupational Health Program.

7. Borman KM, Izzo MV, Penn E, Reisman J,

(1984). The Adolescent Worker.

Columbus, OH: National Center for

Research in Vocational Education.

8. Jackson C, Fortmann SP, Flora JA, Melton

RJ, Snider JP, Littlefield D, (1994) The

capacity-building approach to

intervention maintenance implemented

by the Stanford Five-City Project, Health

Education Research, 9, 3:385–396.

9. Rogers EM, Shoemaker F (1973).

Communication of Innovations. New

York: Free Press.

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Hospital Infection Control Practices

Advisory Committee: 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 meeting.

Name: Hospital Infection Control Practices

Advisory Committee.

Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., June

12, 1995. 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m., June 13, 1995.

Place: CDC, Auditorium A, 1600 Clifton

Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.

Status: Open to the public, limited only by

the space available.

Purpose: The committee is charged with

providing advice and guidance to the

Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health,

the Director, CDC, and the Director, National

Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID),

regarding the practice of hospital infection

control and strategies for surveillance,

prevention, and control of nosocomial

infections in U.S. hospitals and updating of

guidelines and other policy statements

regarding prevention of nosocomial

infections.

Matters to be Discussed: The agenda will

include review and discussion of public

comments regarding the draft Guideline for

Isolation Precautions in Hospitals, review of

the status of the draft Guideline for the

Prevention of Nosocomial Intravascular

Device-Related Infections, review of the

status of the proposed first draft of the

Guideline for Infection Control in Hospital

Personnel, and an update on CDC activities

of interest to the committee. Agenda items

are subject to change as priorities dictate.

Contract Person for More Information:

Marsha A. Jones, Associate Director for

Management, Hospital Infections Programs,

NCID, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Mailstop

A–07, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/

639–6402.

Dated: May 12, 1995.

Julia M. Fuller,

Acting Director, Management Analysis and

Services Office, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

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National Committee on Vital and Health

Statistics: Meeting

Pursuant to Pub. L. 92–463, the

National Center for Health Statistics

(NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC), announces the

following committee meeting.

Name: National Committee on Vital and

Health Statistics (NCVHS).

Times and Dates: 1 p.m.–5 p.m., June 14,

1995. 9 a.m.–5 p.m., June 15, 1995. 9 a.m.–

3 p.m., June 16, 1995.

Place: Room 703A, Hubert H. Humphrey

Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: The purpose of this meeting is for

the committee to consider reports from each

NCVHS subcommittee; to receive reports

from offices of the Department of Health and

Human Services; to receive a report from the

Center for Health Policy Studies on a

working compendium of core health data sets

currently in use or proposed for use for

person level and event level in the United

States; to discuss the Unified Medical

Language System developed by the National

Library of Medicine; and to address new

business as appropriate.

Contact Person for More Information:

Substantive program information as well as

summaries of the meeting an a roster of

committee members may be obtained from

Gail F. Fisher, Ph.D, Executive Secretary,

NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100,

Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road,

Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 301/

436–7050.

Dated: May 12, 1995.

Julia M. Fuller,

Acting Director, Management Analysis and

Services Office, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

[FR Doc. 94–12327 Filed 5–18–94; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4163–18–M

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. 94F–0431]

Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.;

Filing of Food Additive Petition

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) is announcing

that Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.,

has filed a petition proposing that the

food additive regulations be amended to

provide for the safe use of two grades of

dimethylpolysiloxane with viscosities of

100 centistokes and 50 centistokes,

intended for use as release agents in the

manufacture of thermoplastic

elastomers.

DATES: Written comments on the

petitioner’s environmental assessment

by June 19, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

to the Dockets Management Branch

(HFA–305), Food and Drug

Administration, rm. 1–23, 12420

Parklawn Dr., Rockville, MD 20857.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Julius Smith, Center for Food Safety and

Applied Nutrition (HFS–216), Food and

Drug Administration, 200 C St. SW.,

Washington, DC 20204, 202–418–3091.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

(sec. 409(b)(5) (21 U.S.C. 348(b)(5))),

notice is given that a petition (FAP

3B4396) has been filed by Asahi

Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., HibiyaMitsui Bldg., 1–2, Yuraku-cho 1–

Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, T100,

Japan. The petition proposes to amend

the food additive regulations to provide

for the safe use of two grades of

dimethylpolysiloxane with viscosities of

100 centistokes and 50 centistokes,

intended for use as release agents in the

manufacture of thermoplastic

elastomers.

The potential environmental impact

of this action is being reviewed. To

encourage public participation

consistent with regulations promulgated

under the National Environmental

Policy Act (40 CFR 1501.4(b)), the

agency is placing the environmental