[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 3 (Friday, January 4, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 864-865]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-6274]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary


Notice of Meeting: Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, 
Health, and Society

    Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given of the 
fifteenth meeting of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, 
Health, and Society (SACGHS), U.S. Public Health Service. The meeting 
will be held from 8:30 a.m. to approximately 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 
February 12, 2008 and 8 a.m. to approximately 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 
February 13, 2008, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building--200 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201. The meeting will be open to the 
public with attendance limited to space available. The meeting also 
will be Web cast.
    The main agenda item will involve deliberations on the oversight of 
genetic testing, including an overview of public comments received on 
the Committee's draft report U.S. System of Oversight of Genetic 
Testing: A Response to the Charge of the Secretary of HHS and the 
formulation of final recommendations to the Secretary.
    As always, the Committee welcomes hearing from anyone wishing to 
provide public comment on any issue related to genetics, health and 
society. Individuals who would like to provide public comment should 
notify the SACGHS Executive Secretary, Ms. Sarah Carr, by telephone at 
301-496-9838 or e-mail at [email protected]. The SACGHS office is 
located at 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20892. Anyone 
planning to attend the meeting who is in need of special assistance, 
such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable 
accommodations, is asked to contact the Executive Secretary.
    Under authority of 42 U.S.C. 217a, section 222 of the Public Health 
Service Act, as amended, the Department of Health and Human Services 
established SACGHS to serve as a public forum for deliberations on the 
broad range of human health and societal issues raised by the 
development and use of genetic and genomic technologies and, as

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warranted, to provide advice on these issues. The draft meeting agenda 
and other information about SACGHS, including information about access 
to the Web cast, will be available at the following Web site: http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/sacghs.htm.

    Dated: December 21, 2007.
Jennifer Spaeth,
Director, NIH Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 07-6274 Filed 1-3-08; 8:45 am]
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