[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 36693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17125]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) 
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the 
following meeting

    Name: Progress and Proposed Future Activities of the NIOSH 
Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative--Public meeting.
    Time and Date: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., September 22, 1999.
    Place: Hyatt Regency Washington, One Capitol Hill, 400 New 
Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001, telephone 202/737-1234.
    Status: Open to the public, limited by space available. The 
meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.
    Purpose: The purpose of the meeting is to seek public comments 
on the progress and proposed future activities of the Childhood 
Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative implemented by NIOSH in 
October 1996.
    The problem of children being injured while living, working, or 
visiting agricultural work environments (primarily farms) has been 
recognized for several decades. The most recent data suggest about 
100 youths under the age of 20 die on farms each year and more than 
100,000 farm-related injuries occur to the same age group. Many 
individuals and groups have advocated for the prevention of 
agricultural injuries inflicted upon youths, and media attention has 
been generated on the issue, but until recently a national 
coordinated effort to address the problem has not existed. In late 
1994, a core of 42 individuals from both the public and private 
sectors formed the National Committee for Childhood Agricultural 
Injury Prevention (NCCAIP). The Committee had broad stakeholder 
representation, including researchers, farmers, agricultural groups, 
safety and health professionals, and government officials. Over a 
16-month period, the members of the committee reviewed relevant 
information from previous reports, developed new recommendations 
based on current injury data along with other scientific evidence, 
and refined and prioritized recommendations to be clearly understood 
and acted upon by relevant individuals and agencies.
    In April 1996, NCCAIP published a report entitled Children and 
Agriculture: Opportunities for Safety and Health, A National Action 
Plan to promote the health and safety of children exposed to 
agricultural hazards. The National Action Plan recommends 
leadership, surveillance, research, education, and public policy. 
The plan specifically recommended that NIOSH serve as the lead 
federal agency in preventing childhood agricultural injury. Due in 
large part to the efforts by NCCAIP to raise awareness and concern 
about childhood agricultural injury issues, in October 1996, NIOSH 
began implementing a Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention 
Initiative. To date, NIOSH has undertaken a number of activities, 
both intramurally and extramurally, to address the recommendations 
in the National Action Plan.
    Matters to be Discussed: The agenda for the meeting includes an 
overview of progress to date and proposed future activities to be 
implemented by NIOSH, and time for individuals to provide oral 
comments to NIOSH on the initiative.
    Contact Persons for Additional Information: Technical 
information may be obtained from David Hard, Ph.D., NIOSH, CDC, 1095 
Willowdale Road, M/S P-1133, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26505, 
telephone 304/285-6068, e-mail address: [email protected].
    Persons wishing to attend or make a presentation at the meeting 
(limited to 10 minutes), should respond by August 27, 1999 to Diane 
Miller, NIOSH Docket Office, Education and Information Division, 
4676 Columbia Parkway, M/S C-34, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45226. A copy of 
the document which includes a summary of progress to date and 
proposed future activities for the initiative will be available 
after July 15, 1999 through the NIOSH web site at http://
www.cdc.gov/niosh or by written or e-mail request to the NIOSH 
docket office.
    Persons interested in providing written comments on this 
document should submit comments by August 27, 1999 to Diane Miller 
at the above address. Comments or presentation requests may also be 
submitted by e-mail to: [email protected] as WordPerfect 6.0/6.1, 
8.0, or ASCII files.
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services office has been 
delegated the 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: June 29, 1999.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-17125 Filed 7-6-99; 8:45 am]
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