[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 143 (Monday, July 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40124-40125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-19927]


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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: 1 p.m.-4 p.m., August 11, 1998; 8:30 a.m.-3:30 
p.m., August 12, 1998.
    Place: JW Marriott at Lenox, 3300 Lenox Road, Atlanta, Georgia 
30336.
    Status: Closed: 1 p.m.-3 p.m., August 11, 1998, and 8:30-9 a.m., 
August 12, 1998; Open: 3 p.m.-4 p.m., August 11, 1998, and 9 a.m.-
3:30 p.m., August 12, 1998.
    Purpose: The Committee advises and makes recommendations to the 
Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Director, 
CDC, regarding feasible goals for the prevention and control of 
injury. The Committee makes recommendations regarding policies, 
strategies, objectives, and priorities, and reviews progress toward 
injury prevention and control. The Committee

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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 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on August 11, 1998. The purpose of 
this closed session is for the Science and Program Review Work Group 
(SPRWG) to consider Injury Control Research Center grant 
applications recommended for further consideration by the CDC Injury 
Research Grant Review Committee. On August 12, 1998, from 8:30 a.m. 
to 9 a.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) title 5 
U.S.C., and the Determination of the Associate Director for 
Management and Operations, CDC, pursuant to Pub. L. 92-463. 
Following the SPRWG closed session, there will be a program 
oversight session which will include (1) discussion of the 
extramural research budget, (2) intramural/extramural program 
oversight, (3) upcoming program announcements, (4) upcoming Injury 
Research Grant Review Committee and ACIPC meeting dates, (5) State 
and Territorial Injury Control Research Center funding/program 
balance, (6) progress on standing Work Group issues, and (7) 
extramural research review process. The full Committee will discuss 
(1) an update from the Director, National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control (NCIPC); (2) updates on Safe America/
Partnership Council; (3) translation/communicating research 
findings; and (4) a report from the Science and Program Review Work 
Group, including a programmatic review of biomechanics.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Mr. Thomas E. Blakeney, 
Executive Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S 
K61, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-1481.

    Dated: July 20, 1998.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 98-19927 Filed 7-24-98; 8:45 am]
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