[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 209 (Wednesday, October 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 56197]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28598]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Statement of
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as
amended most recently at 62 FR 51474 and 51479, dated October 1, 1997)
is amended to reflect organizational changes within the National Center
for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows:
Delete the functional statement for the Scientific Resources
Program (CRL) and insert the following:
(1) Provides animals, animal blood products, glassware, mammalian
tissue cultures, microbiological media, special reagents, and other
laboratory materials in support of research and service activities to
NCID laboratories and other CDC organizations; (2) installs,
fabricates, modifies, services, and maintains laboratory equipment used
in the research and service activities of CDC; (3) develops and
implements applied research programs to expand and enhance the use of
animal models necessary to support research and diagnostic programs and
to improve breeding and husbandry procedures; (4) conducts both basic
and applied research in cell biology and in the expansion of tissue
culture technology as a research and diagnostic tool for infectious
disease activities; (5) provides services for NCID investigators in
protein and DNA synthesis and sequencing; (6) maintains a bank of serum
specimens of epidemiological and special significance to CDC's research
and diagnostic activities; (7) obtains and distributes experimental
vaccines and drugs, antisera and antitoxins, and immune globulins; (8)
for reagents prepared at CDC, maintains a computerized inventory;
provides dispensing, lyophilization, capping, and labeling; and
retrieves from storage and ships to requesters; (9) provides support
for liquid nitrogen freezers; (10) maintains an international
hemoglobinometry reference laboratory; (11) produces, maintains, and
distributes national and international hemoglobin reference standard
preparations; (12) administratively and technically supports the CDC
Animal Policy Board and the Atlanta Area Animal Care and Use Committee;
(13) provides computer support services for the Program's activities.
Delete the title and functional statement for the Molecular
Pathology and Ultrastructure Activity (CRUE) and insert the following:
Infectious Disease Pathology Activity (CRUE)
(1) Serves as a scientific and technical resource to NCID by
providing expertise in molecular pathology, histopathology, and
ultrastructural analysis for detecting infectious disease agents and
studying the interactions between microbial agents and host cells; (2)
develops, improves, evaluates, and applies special ultrastructural,
immunohistologic, and/or nucleic acid probe technologies for detecting
microbial agents and/or expressed gene products in tissue specimens or
tissue culture; (3) conducts basic and applied research into the
pathogenesis of infectious diseases; (4) provides intramural and
extramural technical and professional expertise for assistance in
training in infectious disease pathology and molecular approaches to
the identification of specific nucleic acid sequences and specific
antigens in tissue specimens; (5) provides for tracking, distribution,
and testing of reference /diagnostic pathology specimens submitted
through the data and special handling system; (6) provides molecular
pathology, histopathology, and ultrastructure reference/diagnostic
support and epidemic aid to state and local health departments, other
federal agencies, and national and international health organizations.
Dated: October 16, 1997.
David Satcher,
Director.
[FR Doc. 97-28598 Filed 10-28-97; 8:45 am]
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