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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service

 

National Toxicology Program; Board of Scientific Counselors; 
Meeting

    Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given of a meeting 
of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Board of Scientific 
Counselors, U.S. Public Health Service, in the Conference Center, 
Building 101, South Campus, National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences (NIEHS), 111 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North 
Carolina, on October 18, 1994.
    The meeting will open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to adjournment 
with attendance limited only by space available. The preliminary agenda 
topics with approximate times are as follows:

8:30 a.m.-8:45 a.m.--Report of the Director, NTP
8:45 a.m.-9:05 a.m.--Report of the Director, Environmental Toxicology 
Program (ETP):

--Update on Activities of the Technical Reports Review Subcommittee
--Report on NTP Executive Committee
--Upcoming SOT Workshop on Dose Selection
--Upcoming Workshop on Mechanism Based Cancer Risk Assessment: 
Implications for Research, Regulation, and Legislation

9:05 a.m.-9:20 a.m.--NTP Grants:

--Developmental Biology RFA--Progress Report
--Alternative Methods RFA--Preliminary Report

9:20 a.m.-9:30 a.m.--Alternative Methods--Status and Plans
9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.--Biennial Report on Carcinogens and Role of the 
Board--Update
10:20 a.m.-12:00 p.m.--NTP FY 1995 Research and Testing Plans--Comments 
by Board and Interactive Discussion with Agency Staff
1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.--Chemicals Nominated and Recommended for Study by 
the Interagency Committee for Chemical Evaluation and Coordination on 
September 22, 1994, will be presented for discussion and time will be 
allowed for public comment
2:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m.--Report from Advisory Group on Toxicokinetics
2:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.--Interagency Collaborative Studies:

--Chemical Studies with NCTR/FDA

3:05 p.m.-4:30 p.m.--Concept Reviews:

--Quantitative Relationship Between Immune Function Changes and Host 
Resistance
--Chemical Induction of Transmissible Genetic Damage in Mammalian Germ 
Cells
--Estrogenic and Anti-androgenic Environmental Xenobiotics: Effect on 
Reproduction and Incidence of Reproductive Cancers in Rats
--Chemistry Support Services
--Research on the Inhalation Toxicology of Environmental Chemicals 
Adjournment

    The Executive Secretary, Dr. Larry G. Hart, National Toxicology 
Program, P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, 
telephone (919) 541-3971, will have available a roster of Board members 
prior to the meeting and summary minutes subsequent to the meeting.

    Dated: September 12, 1994.
Richard A. Griesemer,
Deputy Director, National Toxicology Program.
[FR Doc. 94-22996 Filed 9-15-94; 8:45 am]
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