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needs on the registration Web site. The 

registration deadline is Tuesday, 

September 30, 2008. If there are 

technical problems gaining access to the 

Web site, please contact Tamar R. 

Shealy, Meetings Manager, Conference 

and Meetings Management, Altarum 

Institute, telephone: (202) 828–5100. 

Purpose: The ACHDNC was 

established to advise and guide the 

Secretary regarding the most 

appropriate application of universal 

newborn screening tests, technologies, 

policies, guidelines and programs for 

effectively reducing morbidity and 

mortality in newborns and children 

having or at risk for heritable disorders. 

The ACHDNC also provides advice and 

recommendations concerning the grants 

and projects authorized under the 

Heritable Disorders Program. 

Agenda: The meeting will include 

presentations and continued 

discussions on the nomination/ 

evaluation process for newborn 

screening candidate conditions. There 

will be presentations on emergency 

preparedness and contingency planning 

for newborn screening, as well as 

presentations on the continued work 

and reports of the ACHDNC’s 

subcommittees on laboratory standards 

and procedures, follow-up and 

treatment, and education and training. 

Proposed agenda items are subject to 

change as priorities dictate. The 

Agenda, Committee Roster and Charter, 

presentations, and meeting materials 

can be located at the home page of the 

Web site at http://events.SignUp4.com/ 

ACHDNC1008. 

Public Comments: Members of the 

public can present oral comments 

during the public comment period of 

the meeting. Those individuals are 

required to register online by Tuesday, 

September 30, 2008, at http:// 

events.SignUp4.com/ACHDNC1008. 

Requests will contain the name, 

address, telephone number, and any 

professional or business affiliation of 

the person desiring to make an oral 

presentation. Groups having similar 

interests are requested to combine their 

comments and present them through a 

single representative. The list of public 

comment participants will be posted on 

the Web site. Parties wishing to submit 

written comments should ensure that 

the comments are postmarked or emailed no later than Friday, September 

26, 2008, for consideration. Comments 

should be submitted to Tamar R. Shealy, 

Meetings Manager, Conference and 

Meetings Management, Altarum 

Institute, 1200 18th Street, NW., Suite 

700, Washington, DC 20036, telephone: 

(202) 828–5100; fax: (202) 785–3083, or 

e-mail: Tamar.Shealy@altarum.org. 

Contact Person: Anyone interested in 

obtaining other relevant information 

should write or contact Jill F. Shuger, 

M.S., Maternal and Child Health 

Bureau, Health Resources and Services 

Administration, Room 18A–19, 

Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Rockville, Maryland 20857, telephone 

(301) 443–1080, jshuger@hrsa.gov. 

Information on the Advisory Committee 

is available at http://mchb.hrsa.gov/ 

heritabledisorderscommittee. 

Dated: August 27, 2008. 

Alexandra Huttinger, 

Director, Division of Policy Review and 

Coordination. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Center for Scientific Review; Amended 

Notice of Meeting 

Notice is hereby given of a change in 

the meeting of the Biomedical 

Computing and Health Informatics 

Study Section, October 2, 2008, 8 a.m. 

to October 2, 2008, 5 p.m., Hilton 

Washington DC/Rockville, 1750 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, 

which was published in the Federal 

Register on August 18, 2008, 73 FR 

48219–48220. 

The meeting will be held October 2, 

2008, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The meeting 

location remains the same. The meeting 

is closed to the public. 

Dated: August 25, 2008. 

Jennifer Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. E8–20192 Filed 9–2–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Clinical Center; Notice of Closed 

Meeting 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice 

is hereby given of a meeting of the 

Board of Scientific Counselors of the 

NIH Clinical Center. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public as indicated below in accordance 

with the provisions set forth in section 

552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., as amended 

for the review, discussion, and 

evaluation of individual intramural 

programs and projects conducted by the 

Clinical Center, including consideration 

of personnel qualifications and 

performance, and the competence of 

individual investigators, the disclosure 

of which would constitute a clearly 

unwarranted invasion of personal 

privacy. 

Name of Committee: Board of Scientific 

Counselors of the NIH Clinical Center. 

Date: September 8–9, 2008. 

Time: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate the 

Transfusion Medicine Department Review. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Building 10, 10 Center Drive, Room 4–2551, 

Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Contact Person: David K. Henderson, MD, 

Deputy Director for Clinical Care, Office of 

the Director, Clinical Center, National 

Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 6– 

1480, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 496–3515. 

This notice is being published less than 15 

days prior to the meeting due to the urgent 

need to meet timing limitations imposed by 

the intramural research review cycle. 

Dated: August 25, 2008. 

Jennifer Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Center for Scientific Review; Amended 

Notice of Meeting 

Notice is hereby given of a change in 

the meeting of the Cellular, Molecular 

and Integrative Reproduction Study 

Section, September 15, 2008, 8 a.m. to 

September 16, 2008, 3 p.m., Mayflower 

Park Hotel, 405 Olive Way, Seattle, WA 

98101, which was published in the 

Federal Register on August 18, 2008, 73 

FR 48219–48220. 

The meeting will be held one day 

only September 15, 2008, from 8 a.m. to 

6 p.m. The meeting location remains the 

same. The meeting is closed to the 

public. 

Dated: August 25, 2008. 

Jennifer Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. E8–20193 Filed 9–2–08; 8:45 am] 

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