[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 52 (Friday, March 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10767-10768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6191]



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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, Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry (BSC, ATSDR).
    Times and Dates:

1 p.m.-5 p.m., April 16, 1996.
8 a.m.-3:15 p.m., April 17, 1996.

    Place: The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 
Training Room, Building 35, 35 Executive Park Drive, NE, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30329.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    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.
    Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items will include an update on 
Superfund reauthorization and will also focus on other issues of 
concern to ATSDR, including the ATSDR Minority Health and 
Environmental Justice Program, Mississippi Delta Project (Health and 
Environment), Assessing Demographic Parameters at National 
Priorities List (NPL) Sites, Howard Emergency Medicine Rotation 
Program, Hispanic Internship Program, Tribal Cooperative Agreement 
Program, Head Start Environmental Health Program, Risk Communication 
Project (Sheboygan Harbor and River), Enhancing Community 
Involvement (ATSDR Cooperative Agreements), Work Group on Health 
Studies Update, ATSDR's Children's Health Initiative, Laboratory 
Methods to Measure Contaminants in Biological Media, and Significant 
Human Exposure Levels Update.

    Written comments are welcome and should be received by the contact 
person listed below prior to the opening of the meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles Xintaras, Sc.D., Executive 
Secretary, BSC, ATSDR, M/S E-28, 1600

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Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/639-0708.

    Dated: March 11, 1996.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 96-6191 Filed 3-14-96; 8:45 am]
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