[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 19, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11216-11217]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6583]



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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 April 17, 1996.
    The meeting will be open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 
adjournment with attendance limited only by space available. 
Preliminary agenda topics include: discussion of research partnerships 
on transgenic models; new research initiatives on environmental 
hormones, `dioxin-like' chemicals, and health hazards of 
electromagnetic fields (EMF); activities in development and validation 
of alternative animal test methods; a final report on the review of the 
criteria for the Biennial Report on Carcinogens; status reports on 
interagency collaborative studies with NIOSH in immunotoxicity and with

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NCTR in comprehensive toxicological assessment of chemicals; and review 
by the Board of concept proposals in the areas of chemical disposition 
and reproductive and developmental toxicity.
    The Executive Secretary, Dr. Larry G. Hart, National Toxicology 
Program, P.O. Box 12233, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 
27709, telephone (919) 541-3971, FAX (919) 541-0719, will have 
available a firm agenda with times and a roster of Board members prior 
to the meeting and summary minutes subsequent to the meeting.

    Dated: March 8, 1996
Kenneth Olden,
Director, National Toxicology Program.
[FR Doc. 96-6583 Filed 3-18-96; 8:45 am]
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