[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 142 (Monday, July 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40376-40377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-19083]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control: 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)
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announces the following committee meeting.
Name: Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control
(ACIPC).
Times and Dates: 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., August 3, 1999. 8:30 a.m.-
3:00 p.m., August 4, 1999.
Place: JW Marriott Hotel at Lenox, 3300 Lenox Road, NE, Atlanta,
Georgia 30326.
Status: Closed: 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m., August 3, 1999, and 8:30
a.m.-9 a.m., August 4, 1999; Open: 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., August 3,
1999, and 9 a.m.-3:00 p.m., August 4, 1999.
Purpose: The Committee advises and makes recommendations to the
Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Director,
CDC, regarding feasible goals for the prevention and control of
injury. The Committee makes recommendations regarding policies,
strategies, objectives, and priorities, and reviews progress toward
injury prevention and control. The Committee provides advice on the
appropriate balance and mix of intramural and extramural research,
including laboratory research, and provides guidance on intramural
and extramural scientific program matters, both present and future,
particularly from a long-range viewpoint. The Committee provides
second-level scientific and programmatic review for applications for
research grants, cooperative agreements, and training grants related
to injury control and violence prevention, and recommends approval
of projects that merit further consideration for funding support.
The Committee recommends areas of research to be supported by
contracts and provides concept review of program proposals and
announcements.
Matters to be Discussed: The meeting will convene in closed
session from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on August 3, 1999. The purpose
of this closed session is for the Science and Program Review Work
Group (SPRWG) to consider individual injury control research grant
applications recommended for further consideration by the CDC Injury
Research Grant Review Committee. On August 4, 1999, from 8:30 a.m.
to 9 a.m., the ACIPC voting members will convene in closed session
to vote on a funding recommendation. These portions of the meeting
will be closed to the public in accordance with provisions set forth
in section 552(c)(4) and (6) title 5 U.S.C., and the Determination
of the Associate Director for Management and Operations, CDC,
pursuant to Pub. L. 92-463.
Following the SPRWG closed session, there will be a program
oversight session which will include discussion of a biomechanics
review update, status of program announcements for fiscal year 2000,
whiplash project, research agenda for the National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC), and progress on standing Work Group
issues. The Committee will also discuss (1) an update from the
Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC);
(2) strategic planning update and (3) SPRWG report on the results of
their August 3 meeting.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Due to programmatic issues that had to be resolved, the Federal
Register notice is being published less than fifteen days before the
date of the meeting.
Contact Person for More Information: Mr. Wayne Stephens, Executive
Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S K61,
Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-1465.
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: July 21, 1999.
John C. Burckhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-19083 Filed 7-23-99; 8:45 am]
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