[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 32891]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15921]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease 
Meeting: Congressionally-Directed Diabetes Research Working Group

    The Congressionally-Directed Diabetes Research Working Group is 
seeking public comment on future directions for diabetes and diabetes-
related research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    In report language accompanying the fiscal year 1998 appropriations 
for the NIH and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and 
Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), both the House of Representatives and the 
Senate urged the NIH Director, in collaboration with the Director of 
the NIDDK, to establish an external Diabetes Research Working Group. 
Further, the Congress charged the Working Group with developing a 
comprehensive plan for NIH-funded diabetes research that would include 
recommendations for future diabetes research initiatives and 
directions. The plan is to be submitted to the Congress in November 
1998.
    Notice is hereby given of the meeting of the Congressionally-
Directed Diabetes Research Working Group to take place on July 9, 1998. 
The meeting will run approximately from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in 
Conference Room D of the William H. Natcher Building, National 
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. A two-hour portion of this 
open meeting--from approximately 10:00 a.m. until approximately 12:00 
p.m., will be reserved for the Working Group to hear public comment 
from private citizens and from individuals representing voluntary 
health, research, and professional organizations, and other 
organizations concerned about diabetes will be made in the order in 
which requests are made to the Working Group and shall not exceed five 
minutes in length. Written statements of unspecified length may also be 
submitted to the Working Group.
    Persons and organizations having an interest in making a statement 
during the open session of the Working Group meeting, and/or in 
submitting a written statement to the Working Group, should contact Ms. 
Carol Feld, Executive Secretary, Diabetes Research Working Group, at 
301-496-6623 this is not a toll-free number) on or before July 1.

    Dated: June 9, 1998.
Ms. Carol Feld,
Executive Secretary of the Congressionally-Directed Diabetes Research 
Working Group.
[FR Doc. 98-15921 Filed 6-15-98; 8:45 am]
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