[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 94 (Friday, May 14, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 26870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-10977]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services; 
Notice of Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Public Law 92-463), notice is hereby given that the 
following committee will convene its forty-seventh meeting.

    Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services.
    Dates and Times: June 6, 2004, 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.; June 7, 2004, 
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; June 8, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
    Place: Arbor Day Farm Lied Lodge and Conference Center, 2700 
Sylvan Road, Nebraska City, NE 68410, Phone: 402-873-8733, Fax: 402-
873-4999.
    Status: The meeting will be open to the public.
    Purpose: The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and 
Human Services provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary 
with respect to the delivery, research, development and 
administration of health and human services in rural areas.
    Agenda: Sunday afternoon, June 6, 2004, at 2 p.m., the 
Chairperson, the Honorable David Beasley, will open the meeting and 
welcome the Committee. The first session will open with a discussion 
of the Committee business and updates by Federal staff. This will be 
followed by an overview of Nebraska by Committee Member Keith 
Mueller and a discussion of Health Care in Nebraska by Sandy 
Johnson, Executive Director of the State Medical Association. The 
final two sessions of the day will consist of a panel discussion on 
obstetrics and obesity in Nebraska and a dialogue on human services 
in Nebraska. The Sunday meeting will close at 4:30 p.m.
    Monday morning, June 7, 2004, at 8:30 a.m. the Committee will 
break into Subcommittees and conduct site visits to local health and 
human services facilities. Transportation to these facilities will 
not be provided to the public. The Integrated Programs Subcommittee 
will visit Crete, NE; the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families 
Subcommittee will visit Beatrice, NE; the Obesity Subcommittee will 
visit Syracuse, NE; and the Obstetrics Subcommittee will visit 
Tecumseh, NE. The Committee will conduct a joint site visit in 
Fairbury, NE. The Committee will reconvene at 2:15 p.m. in Nebraska 
City, NE, for an overview of the site visits. The Committee will 
break into Subcommittees to work on the 2005 report. The Monday 
meeting will adjourn at 4:30 p.m.
    The final session will be convened Tuesday morning, June 8, 
2004, at 8:30 a.m. The Committee will summarize the Subcommittees 
discussions and draft an outline for the annual report. The meeting 
will conclude with a discussion of the letter to the Secretary. The 
meeting will be adjourned at 10:30 a.m.
    For Further Information Contact: Anyone requiring information 
regarding the Committee should contact Tom Morris, M.P.A., Executive 
Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn 
Building, Room 9A-55, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 
telephone (301) 443-0835, Fax (301) 443-2803.
    Persons interested in attending any portion of the meeting 
should contact Michele Pray-Gibson, HRSA's Office of Rural Health 
Policy (ORHP), telephone (301) 443-0835. The Committee meeting 
agenda will be posted on ORHP's Web site http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov.

    Dated: May 7, 2004.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 04-10977 Filed 5-13-04; 8:45 am]
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