[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 13, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14587-14588]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-6130]


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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 (P.L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following committee and subcommittee 
meetings.

    Name: Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control 
(ACIPC).
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.--4:25 p.m., March 28, 2001.
    Place: DoubleTree Hotel Atlanta-Buckhead, 3342 Peachtree Road, 
N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30326
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The Committee advises and makes recommendations to the 
Secretary, Health and Human Services, the Director, CDC, and 
Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) 
regarding feasible goals for the prevention and control of injury. 
The Committee makes recommendations regarding policies,

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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 meeting will convene in open 
session from 8:30 a.m. to 4:25 p.m. on March 28, 2001. Following the 
NCIPC Director's update, the Committee will discuss the role of 
ACIPC; NCIPC growth areas, including presentations on fire-related 
injury prevention and child maltreatment prevention research; NCIPC 
budget; and current spending plan in violence against women. The 
Committee will also discuss reports from a March 12, 2001, 
conference call meeting of the Subcommittee on Family and Intimate 
Violence Prevention and the March 28, 2001, meeting of the Science 
and Program Review Subcommittee. Other topics include patient safety 
as an injury prevention and control issue, and small business 
innovative research.
    Name: ACIPC Science and Program Review Subcommittee.
    Times and Dates: 11:30 a.m.--12:30 p.m., March 28, 2001.
    Place: DoubleTree Hotel Atlanta-Buckhead, 3342 Peachtree Road, 
N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30326.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee provides advice on the needs, 
structure, progress and performance of NCIPC programs. The 
Subcommittee 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 Subcommittee also advises on 
priorities for research to be supported by contracts, grants, and 
cooperative agreements and provides concept review of program 
proposals and announcements.
    Matters to be Discussed: The meeting will convene in open 
session from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on March 28, 2001. The 
Subcommittee will discuss an update on NCIPC's evaluation and 
planning.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Mr. Thomas E. Blakeney, 
Acting Executive Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, 
NE, M/S K61, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-1481.

    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: March 7, 2001.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 01-6130 Filed 3-12-01; 8:45 am]
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