Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 188 / Thursday, September 29, 2005 / Notices 56901 

Charles N. Kahn III, President, 

Federation of American Hospitals, 

Steven S. Reinemund, CEO and 

Chairman, PepsiCo, Scott P. Serota, 

President and CEO, Blue Cross Blue 

Shield Association. From the public 

sector listed alphabetically: Julie Louise 

Gerberding, M.D., Director Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, Mark B. 

McClellan, M.D. Administrator, Centers 

for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 

Michelle O’neill, Acting Under 

Secretary for Technology, Department of 

Commerce, Jonathan B. Perlin, M.D., 

Under Secretary for Health, Department 

of Veterans Affairs, E. Mitchell Roob, 

Secretary, Indiana Family and Social 

Services Administration, Linda M. 

Springer, Director, Office of Personnel 

Management, Mark J. Warshawsky, 

Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, 

Department of the Treasury, William 

Winkenwerder Jr., M.D., Assistant 

Secretary of Defense, Department of 

Defense. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

http://www.hhs.gov/healthit. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

American Health Information 

Community will advise the Secretary 

and recommend specific actions to 

achieve a common interoperability 

framework for health information 

technology (IT) and serve as a forum for 

participation from a broad range of 

stakeholders to provide input on 

achieving interoperability of health IT. 

The Community shall not exceed 17 

voting members, including the Chair, 

and members shall be appointed by the 

Secretary. 

Dated: September 23, 2005. 

Dana Haza, 

Acting Director of the Office of Programs and 

Coordination, Office of the National 

Coordinator. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator; 

American Health Information 

Community Meeting 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

first meeting of the American Health 

Information Community in accordance 

with the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App.) The 

American Health Information 

Community will advise the Secretary 

and recommend specific actions to 

achieve a common interoperability 

framework for health information 

technology (IT). 

DATES: October 7th, 2005 from 8:30 a.m. 

to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Hubert H. Humphrey 

building (200 Independence Ave., 

Southwest, Washington, DC 20201), 

conference room 705A. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

http://www.hhs.gov/healthit. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

In accordance with GSA regulations 

implementing the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, ONC intends to publish 

a Federal Register meeting 

announcement at least 15 calendar days 

before the date of an American Health 

Information Community meeting for all 

dates in the future. The GSA 

regulations, however, also provide that 

an agency may give less than 15 days 

notice if the reasons for doing so are 

included in the Federal Register 

meeting notice. Due to the recent events 

in the gulf coast and the Department of 

Health and Human Services and Office 

of the National Coordinator’s response 

to hurricane Katrina it has not been 

possible for ONC to announce the date 

and location of the first AHIC meeting 

before today. It should also be noted 

that the following meeting may be 

postponed if DHHS and ONC are 

involved in a response to hurricane Rita. 

The URL for the webcast of the first 

AHIC meeting has not yet been 

established and will be announced on 

the ONC Web site http://www.hhs.gov/ 

healthit before the scheduled date 

above. 

Dated: September 23, 2005. 

Dana Haza, 

Acting Director of the Office of Programs and 

Coordination, Office of the National 

Coordinator. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[CMS–2230–FN] 

State Children’s Health Insurance 

Program (SCHIP); Redistribution of 

Unexpended SCHIP Funds From the 

Appropriation for Fiscal Year 2002 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS. 

ACTION: Final notice. 

SUMMARY: This final notice describes 

and finalizes the procedure, which was 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on January 19, 2005 (70 FR 

3036) as a notice with comment period, 

for redistribution of States’ unexpended 

Federal fiscal year (FY) 2002 SCHIP 

allotments remaining at the end of FY 

2004 to those States that fully expended 

the allotments. These redistributed 

allotments will be available through the 

end of FY 2005 (September 30, 2005). 

DATES: The provisions described in this 

final notice are effective on September 

29, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard Strauss, (410) 786–2019. 

I. Background 

A. Extension of Availability and 

Redistribution of SCHIP Fiscal Year 

1998 Through 2001 Allotments 

Title XXI of the Social Security Act 

(the Act) sets forth the State Children’s 

Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to 

enable States, the District of Columbia, 

and specified Commonwealths and 

Territories to initiate and expand health 

insurance coverage to uninsured, lowincome children. In this notice, unless 

otherwise indicated, the terms ‘‘State’’

and ‘‘States’’ refer to any or all of the 50 

States, the District of Columbia, and the 

Commonwealths and Territories. States 

may implement the SCHIP through a 

separate child health program under 

title XXI of the Act, an expanded 

program under title XIX of the Act, or 

a combination of both. 

Under section 2104(e) of the Act, the 

SCHIP allotments for a Federal fiscal 

year are available to match expenditures 

under an approved State child health 

plan for an initial 3-fiscal year ‘‘period 

of availability,’’ including the fiscal year 

for which the allotment was provided. 

After the initial period of availability, 

the amount of unspent allotments is 

reallotted and continues to be available 

during a subsequent period of 

availability, specified in SCHIP statute. 

With the exception described below for 

the allotments made in FYs 1998 

through 2001, allotments that are 

unexpended at the end of the initial 3- 

year period of availability are 

redistributed from the States that did 

not fully spend the allotments to States 

that fully spent their allotments for that 

fiscal year. 

The Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP 

Benefits Improvement and Protection 

Act of 2000 (BIPA), enacted as part of 

Pub. L. 106–554 on December 21, 2000, 

amended title XXI of the Act in part by 

establishing requirements for a 

subsequent extended period of 

availability with respect to the amounts 

of States’ FY 1998 and FY 1999 

allotments that were unspent during the 

initial 3-year period of availability.