[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 168 (Friday, August 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 45786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-22987]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council; Notice of Meeting
AGENCIES: Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture; National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council; notice of
meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) announce the meeting of the National
Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council.
DATES: The Council will meet September 18, 1997 for a full-day meeting
(8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. e.s.t.) in the Williamsburg Room, 104-A, of USDA's
Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building, 14th and Independence Avenues, SW.,
Washington, DC 20250.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Junko Alice Tamaki, M.P.H., USDA Co-
Executive Secretary to the National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory
Council, National Program Staff, Agricultural Research Service, 10300
Baltimore Blvd, Bldg. 005, Room 336, Beltsville, MD 20705, (301) 504-
6216 or Ronette Briefel, Dr. P.H., HHS Co-Executive Secretary to the
National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council, National Center for
Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Department of Health and Human Services, 6525 Belcrest Road, Room 1000,
Hyattsville, MD 20782, (301) 436-3473 x157.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council Task
The purpose of the nine member Council, consisting of 5
Presidential appointees and 4 Congressional appointees, is to provide
scientific and technical guidance to improve the National Nutrition
Monitoring and Related Research Program and the Ten-Year Comprehensive
Plan. The Council was established by an Executive Order of the
President of the United States, pursuant to Public Law No. 101-445, the
National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990.
The agenda is in the process of being finalized. The tentative
agenda includes discussion of welfare reform and nutrition data needs,
survey coordination plans for the NHANES (National Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey) and CSFII (Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by
Individuals), and food composition-related projects. The final agenda
is obtainable from the contact persons listed above after August 22,
1997.
Public Participation at Meeting
The meeting is open to the public. Written comments may be sent to
the contact persons listed above before or after the meeting. Please
call Junko Tamaki (301-504-6216) by September 5 if you will require a
sign language interpreter at the meeting.
Dated: August 22, 1997.
I. Miley Gonzalez,
Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics, Department of
Agriculture.
[FR Doc. 97-22987 Filed 8-28-97; 8:45 am]
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