[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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