[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 143 (Friday, July 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 40092]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19601]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control: Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following committee meeting.

    Name: Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control 
(ACIPC).
    Times and Dates: 2 p.m.-4 p.m., August 11, 1997; 2 p.m.-4 p.m., 
August 12, 1997.
    Place: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 
(NCIPC), CDC, Koger Center, Vanderbilt Building, 1st Floor, 
Conference Room 1006, 2939 Flowers Road, South, Atlanta, Georgia 
30341. (Exit Chamblee-Tucker Road off I-85.)
    Status: Closed: 2 p.m.-4 p.m., August 11, 1997; Open: 2 p.m.-
3:10 p.m., August 12, 1997; Closed: 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m., August 12, 
1997.
    Purpose: This committee makes recommendations regarding 
policies, strategies, objectives, and priorities, and reviews 
progress toward injury prevention and control. The Committee 
provides advice on the appropriate balance and mix of intramural and 
extramural research, including laboratory research, and provides 
guidance on intramural and extramural scientific program matters, 
both present and future, particularly from a long-range viewpoint. 
The Committee provides second-level scientific and programmatic 
review for applications for research grants, cooperative agreements, 
and training grants related to injury control and violence 
prevention, and recommends approval of projects that merit further 
consideration for funding support. The Committee recommends areas of 
research to be supported by contracts and provides concept review of 
program proposals and announcements.
    Matters To Be Discussed: The meeting will convene in closed 
session from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on August 11, 1997. The purpose of 
this closed session is for the Science and Program Review Work Group 
to consider individual injury control research grant applications 
recommended for further consideration by the CDC Injury Research 
Grant Review Committee. On August 12, 1997, from 3:10 p.m. to 4 
p.m., the meeting will convene in closed session in order for the 
full Committee to vote on a funding recommendation. These portions 
of the meeting will be closed to the public in accordance with 
provisions set forth in section 552(c) (4) and (6) of title 5 
U.S.C., and the Determination of the Associate Director for 
Management and Operations, CDC, pursuant to Public Law 92-463.
    During the open portion of the meeting, the Committee will 
discuss (1) the status of the Institute of Medicine study on injury 
prevention and control; (2) the next meeting of the Advisory 
Committee on November 18, 1997, to be held in conjunction with the 
Safe America National Conference on Injury Prevention and Control, 
in Washington, D.C., on November 19-21; and (3) the development of 
the Safe America Partnership.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Mr. Thomas E. Blakeney, 
Acting Executive Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, 
NE, M/S K61, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-1481.

    Dated: July 21, 1997.
Nancy C. Hirsch,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-19601 Filed 7-24-97; 8:45 am]
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