[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 164 (Thursday, August 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21392]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


National Center for Environmental Health Advisory Committee

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 
as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 2), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the establishment by the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, August 2, 1996, of the following Federal advisory 
committee:
    Designation: Advisory Committee to the Director, National Center 
for Environmental Health.
    Purpose: The Advisory Committee to the Director, National Center 
for Environmental Health (NCEH), will provide advice and guidance to 
the Secretary, HHS; the Assistant Secretary for Health; the Director, 
CDC; and the Director, NCEH, CDC, regarding program goals and 
objectives, strategies, and priorities. The Committee will provide 
advice on: (1) Environmental public health problems that potentially 
pose the greatest risks to human health and may not be receiving 
adequate attention; (2) the primary prevention of birth defects and 
developmental and other disabilities; (3) the prevention of secondary 
conditions in those with a primary disability; and (4) the research 
agenda needed to improve the science base relative to human health 
effects and environmental exposures, which will ultimately provide 
sound human health data for policy and decision-making.
    Authority for this committee will expire on August 2, 1998, unless 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with the concurrence of the 
Committee Management Secretariat, General Services Administration, 
formally determines that continuance is in the public interest.

    Dated: August 16, 1996.
Nancy C. Hirsch,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 96-21392 Filed 8-21-96; 8:45 am]
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