[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 208 (Thursday, October 28, 1999)] [Notices] [Page 58068] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 99-28135] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., November 16, 1999; 8:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m., November 17, 1999. Place: Holiday Inn Select Atlanta-Decatur Hotel and Conference Plaza, 130 Clairemont Avenue, Decatur, Georgia 30030. Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 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 provides advice on the appropriate balance of intramural and extramural research, and also provides guidance on the needs, structure, progress and performance of intramural programs, and on extramural scientific program matters. 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 also recommends areas of research to be supported by contracts and cooperative agreements and provides concept review of program proposals and announcements. Matters to be Discussed: The purpose of the November 16 meeting is for the Science and Program Review Work Group (SPRWG) to review program oversight issues which include discussions on the biomechanics review; non-Office of Research Grants/National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) extramural fiscal year 1999 awards; BioCAD and whiplash projects; Injury Control Research Center request for proposals; and NCIPC research agenda. At the November 17 meeting of the full Committee, following introduction of the new NCIPC Acting Director, and the Acting Director's update on NCIPC, discussions will include (1) A strategic planning update; (2) NCIPC Division of Violence Prevention update on youth violence and suicide prevention efforts; reports from the November 16 meetings of the (3) Subcommittee on Family and Intimate Violence Prevention and (4) SPRWG; and (5) NCIPC Research priorities. Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate. Contact person for more information: Mr. Wayne Stephens, Executive Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S K61, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-1465. 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: October 21, 1999. Carolyn J. Russell, Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [FR Doc. 99-28135 Filed 10-27-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163-18-P