[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 204 (Monday, October 21, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 54668]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26850]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
Office of Public Health and Science; Secretary's Council on
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2010
AGENCY: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion/OPHS/DHHS.
SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is providing
notice of the chartering of the Secretary's Council on Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Claude Earl Fox, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Health (Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion), Room 738G, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence
Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, (202) 401-6295.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Council's Task
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-493
as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 2), and section 222 of the Public Health
Service Act as amended (42 U.S.C. 217a), the Secretary's Council on
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2010 is
established to provide assistance to the Secretary and the Department
of Health and Human Services in the development of health promotion and
disease prevention objectives to enhance the health of Americans by
2010. The Council is charged to advise the Secretary on the development
of national health promotion and disease prevention goals and
objectives and to provide links with States, communities, and the
private sector to ensure their involvement in the process of developing
these goals and objectives.
Structure and Duration
The Council is to be chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human
Services with the Assistant Secretary for Health as a vice chair. The
Council will consist of Operating Division Heads of the Department of
Health and Human Services and the former Assistant Secretaries for
Health. The total membership may be increased by the addition of
Assistant Secretaries for Health as they resign from the office.
Management and support services will be provided by the Office of
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Public Health and
Science, Office of the Secretary. Unless renewed by appropriate action
prior to expiration, the Council will terminate two years from its
charter date of September 5, 1996.
Meetings
The Council will meet approximately once a year, at the call of the
co-chairs, who will aslo approve the agenda. Meetings will be open to
the public, unless the Secretary should determine otherwise, and notice
of all meetings will be provided to the public. Meetings will be
conducted and records of the proceedings kept as required by applicable
laws and departmental regulations.
Dated: October 10, 1996.
Philip R. Lee,
Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.
[FR Doc. 96-26850 Filed 10-18-96; 8:45 am]
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