Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 165 / Friday, August 26, 2005 / Notices 50349

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, August 22, 2005.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Committee on Vital and Health 

Statistics: Meeting 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, the Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS) 

announces the following advisory 

committee meeting. 

Name: National Committee on Vital 

and Health Statistics (NCVHS). 

Time and Date: September 8, 2005,

9 a.m.–3:15 p.m.; September 9, 2005,

10 a.m.–3 p.m. 

Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 

200 Independence Avenue SW., Room 

705A, Washington, DC 20201. 

Status: Open. 

Purpose: At this meeting the 

Committee will hear presentations and 

hold discussions on several health data 

policy topics. On the morning of the 

first day the committee will hear 

updates and status reports from the 

Department on various topics including 

activities of the HHS Data Council, the 

adoption of Clinical Data Standards, and 

HIPAA Privacy Rule compliance. They 

will also hear a presentation on personal 

health records systems and discuss a 

letter to the HHS Secretary from the 

Workgroup on the National Health 

Information Infrastructure. In the 

afternoon the Committee will discuss its 

annual report along with its 7th report 

to Congress on implementation of 

HIPAA and hear an update from the 

Office of the National Coordinator for 

Health Information Technology. 

On the morning of the second day the 

Committee will review and identify 

preliminary issues for action at its 

November meeting and hear a report 

from the Executive Subcommittee’s 

retreat. There will also be briefing on 

the Agency for Healthcare Quality and 

Research’s reports on health disparities 

and quality. In the afternoon, there will 

be reports from the Subcommittees and 

a discussion of agendas for future 

Committee meetings. 

The times shown above are for the full 

Committee meeting. Subcommittee 

breakout sessions are scheduled for late 

in the afternoon of the first day and in 

the morning prior to the full Committee 

meeting on the second day. Agendas for 

these breakout sessions will be posted 

on the NCVHS Web site (URL below) 

when available. 

For Further Information Contact:

Substantive program information as 

well as summaries of meetings and a 

roster of committee members may be 

obtained from Marjorie S. Greenberg, 

Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National 

Center for Health Statistics, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 

Toledo Road, Room 2402, Hyattsville, 

Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 458–

4245. Information also is available on 

the NCVHS home page of the HHS Web 

site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where 

further information including an agenda 

will be posted when available. 

Should you require reasonable 

accommodation, please contact the CDC 

Office of Equal Employment 

Opportunity at (301) 458–4EEO (4336) 

as soon as possible.

Dated: August 12, 2005. 

James Scanlon, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science 

and Data Policy, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[Program Announcement AA095] 

Pilot Projects to Expand Existing Birth 

Defects Surveillance Systems To 

Include All Fetal Death Data; Notice of 

Intent To Fund Single Eligibility Award 

A. Purpose 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) announces the intent 

to fund fiscal year (FY) 2005 funds for 

a cooperative agreement program to: 

1. Evaluate the feasibility of 

expanding a population-based birth 

defects surveillance system to 

incorporate data from existing records 

on fetal deaths; 

2. Monitor and report, as feasible, on 

the occurrence of fetal deaths in the 

study population; 

3. Serve as a registry for etiologic 

studies of fetal deaths (note that no 

research studies are planned under this 

project); and 

4. Serve as a resource for education 

and evaluation of prevention programs 

that aim to reduce the occurrence of 

fetal deaths (note that no education or 

prevention programs are planned under 

this study).

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

number for this program is 93.283.

B. Eligible Applicant 

In 2004, the state of Iowa passed 

legislation to add stillbirths to the 

information that the state collects for its 

birth registries. The Iowa birth defects 

monitoring program is an active 

ascertainment system that was 

established in 1983. The monitoring 

program currently collects data on fetal 

deaths related to birth defects, and can 

be expanded to include all fetal death 

data. This model program is a center for 

excellence in birth defects surveillance, 

the largest case control study on birth 

defects in the United States. 

H.R. Conf. Rep. No. 108–792, at 1162 

(2004), references the Iowa Department 

of Health. Applications may be 

submitted only by the Iowa Department 

of Health. No other applications are 

solicited. 

C. Funding 

Approximately $400,000 is available 

in FY 2005 to fund this award. It is 

expected that the award will begin on or 

before August 31, 2005, and will be 

made for a 12-month budget period 

within a project period of up to one 

year. Funding estimates may change. 

D. Where To Obtain Additional 

Information 

For general comments or questions 

about this announcement, contact: 

Technical Information Management, 

CDC Procurement and Grants Office, 

2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 

30341–4146, Telephone: 770–488–2700. 

For technical questions about this 

program, contact: Stephanie Henry, 

Project Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, 

Mailstop E–86, Atlanta, GA 30333, 

Telephone: (404) 498–3809, E-mail: 

SHenry@cdc.gov.

Dated: August 22, 2005. 

Alan A. Kotch, 

Deputy Director, Procurement and Grants 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention.

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