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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

 

Board of Scientific Counselors, Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry; Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry (ATSDR) announces the following committee meeting.

    Name: Board of Scientific Counselors, ATSDR.
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., April 14, 1994. 8:30 a.m.-
3:30 p.m., April 15, 1994.
    Place: The Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, Confederate Room, 
Peachtree at International Boulevard, Atlanta, Georgia 30343.
    Status: The entire meeting will be open to the public.
    Purpose: The Board of Scientific Counselors, ATSDR, advises the 
Administrator, ATSDR, on ATSDR programs to ensure scientific 
quality, timeliness, utility, and dissemination of results. 
Specifically, the Board advises on the adequacy of the science in 
ATSDR-supported research, emerging problems that require scientific 
investigation, accuracy and currency of the science in ATSDR 
reports, and program areas to emphasize and/or to de-emphasize.
    Agenda: The agenda will include an update on Superfund 
reauthorization and will also focus on other issues of concern to 
ATSDR, including an overview of risk assessment in public health 
practice; the science base for ATSDR Minimal Risk Levels, 
Environmental Media Evaluation Guides, and Significant Human 
Exposure Levels; an overview of ATSDR Health Assessments and 
discussion on whether they should be more risk based; criteria for 
evacuation of communities; and the role and expectations of the 
ATSDR Board of Scientific Counselors.
    Written comments are welcome and should be received by the 
contact person listed below prior to the opening of the meeting.
    Contact Person for More Information: Charles Xintaras, Sc.D., 
Executive Secretary, Board of Scientific Counselors, ATSDR, Mailstop 
E-28, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/
639-0708.

    Dated: February 28, 1994.
Elvin Hilyer,
Associate Director for Policy Coordination.
[FR Doc. 94-5112 Filed 3-4-94; 8:45 am]
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