[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 120 (Thursday, June 22, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32556-32557]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15245]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Statement of
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
Part H, Chapter HC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of
the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
of the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-67776,
dated October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980,
as amended most recently at 59 FR 62406-62407, dated December 5, 1994)
is amended to reflect the transfer of quarantine activities within the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from the National
Center for Prevention Services (NCPS) to the National Center for
Infectious Diseases (NCID).
Revise the functional statement for the National Center for
Prevention Services (HCM) as follows:
Delete item (8) in its entirety and renumber the remaining items
accordingly.
Following the functional statement for the Division of STD/HIV
Prevention (HCM4), delete in its entirety the title and functional
statement for the Division of Quarantine (HCM5).
Following the functional statement for the Office of Program
Resources (HCR14), National Center for Infectious Diseases (HCR),
insert the following:
Division of Quarantine (HCR2). (1) Administers a national
quarantine program to protect the United States against the
introduction of diseases from foreign countries; (2) administers an
overseas program for the medical examination of immigrants and others
with excludable health conditions that would impose an economic burden
on public health and hospital facilities; (3) maintains liaison with
and provides information on quarantine matters to other Federal
agencies, State, and local health departments, and interested
industries; (4) provides liaison with international health
organizations, such as the Pan American Health Organization and the
World Health Organization, and participates in the development of
international agreements affecting quarantine; (5) conducts studies to
provide new information about health hazards abroad, measures for their
prevention, and the potential threat of disease introduction into the
United States; and (6) provides logistic support to other programs of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the distribution of
requested biologicals.
Office of the Director (HCR21). (1) Manages, directs, and
coordinates the activities of the Division; (2) provides leadership in
development of Division policy, program planning, implementation, and
evaluation; (3) identifies needs and resources for new initiatives and
assigns responsibilities for their development; (4) coordinates liaison
with other Federal agencies, State, and local health departments, and
interested industries; (5) coordinates liaison with international
health organizations; (6) provides administrative, fiscal management,
information, and computer support and data management services to the
Division.
Program Operations Branch (HCR22). (1) Develops, reviews, and
evaluates operations in the United States and abroad involving
inspection of persons, conveyances, airports, seaports, and
importations; (2) conducts a continuing review of operations to assure
the most effective application of epidemiologic data on quarantinable
and specified other disease prevalences; (3) reviews and evaluates
field inspectional operations, plans and develops staffing studies and
procedures, and launches new programs and refocuses activities as
necessary; (4) provides training and general supervision of field staff
in the technical, management, and administrative facets of quarantine
operations; (5) works cooperatively and in concert with other Federal
agencies at home and abroad in connection with improving and
implementing new inspectional activities at ports of entry; (6)
provides coordination and liaison with State and local health
departments in all activities affecting the possible transmission and
spread of quarantinable diseases; (7) coordinates and provides
immunization data and advice on health precautions for international
travel, and develops and issues vaccination documents and validation
stamps in accordance with the International Health Regulations.
Travelers' Health Section (HCR222). (1) Directs and coordinates the
collection, analysis, and dissemination of data on worldwide
quarantinable and other communicable diseases; (2) develops,
implements, and maintains systems to provide immunization data and
advice on health precautions for international travel; (3) develops and
issues vaccination documents and validation stamps in accordance with
the International Health Regulations; (4) notifies the World Health
Organization of the incidence of quarantinable diseases in the United
States as required by the International Health Regulations; (5)
maintains liaison with State and local health authorities, the travel
industry, the World Health Organization, and other interested
organizations.
Quarantine Section (HCR223). (1) Performs quarantine inspections
and medical inspections of aliens through staff at quarantine stations
located at major ports of entry; (2) provides logistic support to other
programs of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the
distribution of requested biologicals; (3) initiates surveillance and
other health control measures at sea, air, and land ports of entry to
the United States and its possessions.
Medical Screening and Health Assessment Branch (HCR23). (1)
Develops, reviews, and evaluates operations in the United States and
abroad involving the administration of alien medical examination
activities; (2) conducts a continuing review of medical screening
procedures to assure the most effective application of current medical
practices; (3) plans and develops staffing studies and procedures, and
launches new programs and refocuses activities as necessary; (4)
provides training to field staff and general supervision of field staff
assigned to the Branch in the technical, managerial, and administrative
facets of alien medical examination operations; (5) works cooperatively
and in concert with other Federal and international agencies, voluntary
agencies, and foreign governments, both in the United States and
abroad, in efficiently administering the alien medical screening
program; (6) provides coordination and liaison with State and local
health departments on the followup of aliens with serious disease and
mental problems; (7) administers a grant program to assist States in
carrying out health assessments of refugees.
Medical Screening Section (HCR232). (1) Administers and monitors
activities related to the overseas and domestic medical examinations of
aliens, including preparation, publication, and distribution of manuals
for examining physicians; (2) establishes and maintains procedures to
process requests for waivers of excludable medical conditions; (3)
establishes, maintains, and evaluates alien medical inspection and
notification procedures at ports-of-entry; (4) provides training and
general supervision of field staff [[Page 32557]] assigned to the
Section; (5) convenes boards of medical officers to reexamine aliens,
when necessary.
Health Assessment Section (HCR233). (1) Administers a grant program
for the health assessment of refugees, including the development,
publication, and distribution of manuals for examining physicians,
public health personnel, and others involved in refugee resettlement;
(2) reviews and evaluates the efficiency and effectiveness of domestic
followup of notifiable diseases and conditions for aliens with
tuberculosis or Hansen's disease, and aliens requiring evaluation for
mental conditions; (3) provides training and general supervision of
field staff assigned to the Section; (4) coordinates activities related
to followup with State and local health departments.
Effective Date: June 7, 1995.
Donna E. Shalala,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-15245 Filed 6-21-95; 8:45 am]
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