[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 164 (Thursday, August 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 43366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21392]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Environmental Health Advisory Committee
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463,
as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 2), the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) announces the establishment by the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, August 2, 1996, of the following Federal advisory
committee:
Designation: Advisory Committee to the Director, National Center
for Environmental Health.
Purpose: The Advisory Committee to the Director, National Center
for Environmental Health (NCEH), will provide advice and guidance to
the Secretary, HHS; the Assistant Secretary for Health; the Director,
CDC; and the Director, NCEH, CDC, regarding program goals and
objectives, strategies, and priorities. The Committee will provide
advice on: (1) Environmental public health problems that potentially
pose the greatest risks to human health and may not be receiving
adequate attention; (2) the primary prevention of birth defects and
developmental and other disabilities; (3) the prevention of secondary
conditions in those with a primary disability; and (4) the research
agenda needed to improve the science base relative to human health
effects and environmental exposures, which will ultimately provide
sound human health data for policy and decision-making.
Authority for this committee will expire on August 2, 1998, unless
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with the concurrence of the
Committee Management Secretariat, General Services Administration,
formally determines that continuance is in the public interest.
Dated: August 16, 1996.
Nancy C. Hirsch,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 96-21392 Filed 8-21-96; 8:45 am]
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