72436 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 232 / Monday, December 5, 2005 / Notices 

Dated: November 29, 2005. 

Joan Karr, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E5–6811 Filed 12–2–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Board of Scientific Counselors, 

National Center for Infectious 

Diseases: 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: Board of Scientific Counselors, 

National Center for Infectious Diseases 

(NCID). 

Times and Dates: 1 p.m.–5:30 p.m., 

November 29, 2005. 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., 

November 30, 2005. 

Place: CDC, Building 19, 1600 Clifton 

Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30333. 

Status: Open to the public, limited only by 

the space available. 

Purpose: The Board of Scientific 

Counselors, NCID, provides advice and 

guidance to the Director, CDC, and Director, 

NCID, in the following areas: Program goals 

and objectives; strategies; program 

organization and resources for infectious 

disease prevention and control; and program 

priorities. 

Matters to Be Discussed: Agenda items will 

include: 

1. Opening Session: NCID Update. 

2. CCID Update. 

3. Environmental Microbiology. 

4. Development of CDC Research Agenda. 

5. Veterinary-Human Public Health Interface. 

6. Global Disease Detection Initiative. 

7. Topic Updates. 

a. Chronic Wasting Disease. 

b. Quarantine Update. 

Other agenda items include 

announcements/introductions; follow-up on 

actions recommended by the Board May 

2005; consideration of future directions, 

goals, and recommendations. 

Agenda items are subject to change as 

priorities dictate. 

Written comments are welcome and should 

be received by the contact person listed 

below prior to the opening of the meeting. 

The Federal Register notice is being 

published less than fifteen days before the 

date of the meeting. 

Contact Person for More Information: Tony 

Johnson, Office of the Director, NCID, CDC, 

Mailstop E–51, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., 

Atlanta, Georgia 30333, e-mail 

tjohnson3@cdc.gov; telephone 404/498–3249. 

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: November 29, 2005. 

Diane Allen, 

Acting Director, Management Analysis and 

Services Office, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 05–23599 Filed 11–30–05; 9:56 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

The National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH) 

Name: Continued Discussions of 

Concepts for Standards for Approval of 

Respirators for Use against Chemical, 

Biological, Radiological and Nuclear 

Agents (CBRN) and Concepts for 

Standards for Industrial, Powered Air 

Purifying Respirator (PAPR). 

Date and Time: December 13, 2005, 9 

a.m.–4 p.m. 

The meeting will address concepts for 

standards for CBRN Closed Circuit, SelfContained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA), 

CBRN PAPR, and Industrial PAPR. 

Place: Sheraton Station Square Hotel, 

300 W. Station Square Drive, Pittsburgh, 

Pennsylvania 15219–1162. 

Purpose: NIOSH will continue 

discussions of concepts for standards 

and testing processes for PAPR and 

Closed Circuit, SCBA suitable for 

respiratory protection against CBRN 

agents. NIOSH will also continue 

conceptual discussions for establishing 

Industrial PAPR requirements. NIOSH, 

along with the United States Army 

Research, Development and Engineering 

Command (RDECOM) and the National 

Institute for Standards and Technology 

(NIST), will present information to 

attendees concerning the concept 

development for the CBRN PAPR 

standard and the CBRN Closed Circuit, 

SCBA standard. Participants will be 

given an opportunity to ask questions 

on these topics and to present 

individual comments for consideration. 

Interested participants may obtain a 

copy of the CBRN PAPR, the Industrial 

PAPR concept paper, the CBRN Closed 

Circuit and SCBA concept paper, as 

well as earlier versions of other concept 

papers used during the standard 

development effort, from the NIOSH 

National Personnel Protective 

Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) Web 

site, address: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ 

npptl. The November 4, 2005 concept 

paper will be used as the basis for 

discussion at the public meeting. 

Municipal, state, and Federal responder 

groups, particularly in locations 

considered potential terrorism targets, 

have been developing and modifying 

response and consequence management 

plans for domestic security and 

preparedness issues. Since the World 

Trade Center and anthrax incidents, 

most emergency response agencies have 

operated with a heightened appreciation 

of the potential scope and sustained 

resource requirements for coping with 

such events. The Federal Interagency 

Board for Equipment Standardization 

and Interoperability (IAB) has worked to 

identify personal protective equipment 

that is already available on the market 

for responders’ use. The IAB has 

identified the development of standards 

or guidelines for respiratory protection 

equipment as a top priority. NIOSH, 

NIST, the National Fire Protection 

Association (NFPA), and the 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration have entered into a 

Memorandum of Understanding 

defining each agency or organization’s 

role in developing, establishing, and 

enforcing standards or guidelines for 

responders’ respiratory protective 

devices. NIST has initiated Interagency 

Agreements with NIOSH and RDECOM 

to aid in the development of appropriate 

protection standards or guidelines. 

NIOSH has the lead in developing 

standards or guidelines to test, evaluate, 

and approve respirators. NIOSH, 

RDECOM, and NIST hosted public 

meetings on April 17 and 18, 2001; June 

18 and 19, 2002; October 16 and 17, 

2002; April 29, 2003; June 25, 2003; 

October 16, 2003; May 4, 2004; 

December 15, 2004; and July 19 and 20, 

2005; presenting their progress in 

assessing respiratory protection needs of 

responders to CBRN incidents. The 

methods or models for developing 

hazard and exposure estimates, and the 

status in evaluating test methods and 

performance standards that may be 

applicable as future CBRN respirator 

standards or guidelines were discussed 

at these meetings. Three NIOSH CBRN 

respirator standards and several NFPA 

standards for ensembles, SCBA, and 

protective clothing were the first 

adopted by the U.S. Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS). On February 

26, 2004, DHS adopted, as DHS 

standards, three NIOSH criteria for 

testing and certifying respirators for 

protection against CBRN exposures. 

NIOSH uses the criteria to test (1) SCBA 

for use by emergency responders against 

CBRN, (2) PAPR for use by emergency 

responders against CBRN exposures,