Meetings: Scientific Counselors Board,

[Federal Register: April 20, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 75)]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Community/Tribal Subcommittee and the Board of Scientific Counselors, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: Meetings

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announces the following subcommittee and committee meetings.

Name: Community/Tribal Subcommittee.

Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., May 4, 1999; 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., May 5, 1999.

Place: The Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, 210 Peachtree Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303.

Status: Open to the public, limited by the available space. The meeting room accommodates approximately 60 people.

Purpose: This subcommittee will bring to the Board of Scintific Counselors advice and citizen input, as well as recommendations on community and tribal programs, practices, and policies of the Agency. The subcommittee will report directly to the Board of Scientific Counselors.

Matters To Be Discussed: Issues and concerns of the Community/ Tribal Subcommittee relates to ATSDR's community and tribal programs. ATSDR will present issues and concerns on which it wishes community/tribal input. Policies and activities will be identified and recommendations for the Agency will be developed. The subcommittee will discuss CTS procedures; ways and means of outreaching to communities affected by hazardous substances in the environment; possibilities for providing funding to communities to obtain their own health study expertise; the specific problems with Federal facilities and community access to health services. A report will be prepared and presented to the Board of Scientific Counselors.

Name: Board of Scientific Counselors, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., May 6, 1999, 8:30 a.m.- 2:00 p.m., May 7, 1999.

Place: The Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, 210 Peachtree Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303.

Status: Open to the public, limited by the available space. The meeting room accommodates approximately 60 people.

Purpose: The Board of Scientific Counselors, ATSDR, advises the Secretary; the Assistant Secretary for Health; and the Administrator, ATSDR, on ATSDR programs to ensure scientific quality, timeliness, utility, and dissemination of results. Specifically, the Board advises on the adequacy of the science in ATSDR-supported research, emerging problems that require scientific investigation, accuracy and currency of the science in ATSDR reports, and program areas to emphasize and/or to de-emphasize. In addition, the Board recommends research programs and conference support for which the Agency seeks to make grants to universities, colleges, research institutions, hospitals, and other public and private organizations.

Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items will include an overview and panel discussions of ATSDR's plans, approaches, and time schedule for developing, with BSC collaboration and input, a five- year environmental public health research agenda; a report to the Board of Scientific Counselors from the Community/Tribal Subcommittee on issues and concerns related to hazardous waste sites; a presentation on an ATSDR/Department of Energy (DOE) coordinated research and public health activities plan for selected DOE sites; and brief ATSDR presentations on translating science to service, counter-terrorism activities, and international health.

Written comments are welcome and should be received by the contact person listed below prior to the opening of the meeting.

Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.

Due to administrative delays, this notice has not been published fifteen days prior to the start of the meeting.

Contact Person for More Information: Robert F. Spengler, Sc.D., Executive Secretary, BSC, ATSDR, M/S E-28, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/639-0708.

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 CDC and ATSDR.

Dated: April 13, 1999. Carolyn J. Russell Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

[FR Doc. 99-9823Filed4-19-99; 8:45 am]

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