[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 228 (Friday, November 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65597-65598]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-31604]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


State Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance of 
Blood Lead Levels in Childhood Grantees

    The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following 
meeting.

    Name: State Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance 
of Blood Lead Levels in Children Grantees.
    Times and Dates: 8 a.m.-5 p.m., February 1, 1999. 8:30 a.m.-5 
p.m., February 2, 1999. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., February 3, 1999. 9 a.m.-
12 noon, February 4, 1999.
    Place: Holiday Inn SunSpree Resort and Conference Center, 715 
South Gulfview Boulevard, Clearwater Beach, Florida, 33767, 
telephone 813/447-9566.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by space available. The 
meeting room accommodates approximately 140 people.
    Purpose: The purpose of this meeting is to provide a forum for 
childhood lead poisoning prevention coordinators and data 
administrators to review program progress and discuss prevention 
issues and concerns.
    Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include screening issues; 
surveillance systems issues; alternative methods of surveillance; 
data release; coalition building; healthy homes; STELLAR; GIS; and 
program evaluation. There will be information presented regarding 
computer programming issues and how it is related to data analysis, 
and the use of data to make decisions.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Claudette Grant-Joseph, 
Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, Division of Environmental Hazards 
and Health Effects, NCEH, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S F-42, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-7330.
    Persons wishing to make written or oral comments at the meeting 
should notify the contact person in writing or by telephone no later 
than close of business January 20, 1999. Requests to make oral 
comments should contain the name, address, telephone number, and 
organizational affiliation of the presenter. Depending on the time 
available and the number of requests to make oral comments, it may 
be necessary to limit the time of each presenter.
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services office has been 
delegated the

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authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining to 
announcements of meetings and other committee management activities, 
for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the 
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

    Dated: November 20, 1998.
John C. Burckhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 98-31604 Filed 11-25-98; 8:45 am]
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