[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 204 (Monday, October 21, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 54668]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26850]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service


Office of Public Health and Science; Secretary's Council on 
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2010

AGENCY: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion/OPHS/DHHS.

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is providing 
notice of the chartering of the Secretary's Council on Health Promotion 
and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Claude Earl Fox, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Health (Disease Prevention and Health 
Promotion), Room 738G, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, (202) 401-6295.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Council's Task

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-493 
as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 2), and section 222 of the Public Health 
Service Act as amended (42 U.S.C. 217a), the Secretary's Council on 
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2010 is 
established to provide assistance to the Secretary and the Department 
of Health and Human Services in the development of health promotion and 
disease prevention objectives to enhance the health of Americans by 
2010. The Council is charged to advise the Secretary on the development 
of national health promotion and disease prevention goals and 
objectives and to provide links with States, communities, and the 
private sector to ensure their involvement in the process of developing 
these goals and objectives.

Structure and Duration

    The Council is to be chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services with the Assistant Secretary for Health as a vice chair. The 
Council will consist of Operating Division Heads of the Department of 
Health and Human Services and the former Assistant Secretaries for 
Health. The total membership may be increased by the addition of 
Assistant Secretaries for Health as they resign from the office. 
Management and support services will be provided by the Office of 
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Public Health and 
Science, Office of the Secretary. Unless renewed by appropriate action 
prior to expiration, the Council will terminate two years from its 
charter date of September 5, 1996.

Meetings

    The Council will meet approximately once a year, at the call of the 
co-chairs, who will aslo approve the agenda. Meetings will be open to 
the public, unless the Secretary should determine otherwise, and notice 
of all meetings will be provided to the public. Meetings will be 
conducted and records of the proceedings kept as required by applicable 
laws and departmental regulations.

    Dated: October 10, 1996.
Philip R. Lee,
Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services.
[FR Doc. 96-26850 Filed 10-18-96; 8:45 am]
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