[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 101 (Thursday, May 24, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31041-31042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-12527]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Justice Programs

[OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1591]


Draft Standards and Best Practices for Interaction Between 
Medical Examiner/Coroner and Organ and Tissue Procurement Organizations

AGENCY: National Institute of Justice, DOJ.

ACTION: Notice of extended comment period and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In an effort to obtain further comments from interested 
parties, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 
National Institute of Justice, Scientific Working Group for Medicolegal 
Death Investigation has extended the deadline for comments on the draft 
document titled ``Organ and Tissue Procurement Committee Standards and 
Best Practices for Interaction Between Medical Examiner/Coroner Offices 
and Organ Tissue Procurement Organizations'' from May 12, 2012, to June 
11, 2012. Notice of the availability of this document was published 
previously in the Federal Register at 77 FR 24573, on April 24, 2012, 
as OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1589. The opportunity to provide comments on 
this document is open to coroner/medical examiner office 
representatives, law enforcement agencies, organizations, and all other 
stakeholders and interested parties. Those individuals wishing to 
obtain and provide comments on the draft document under consideration 
are directed to the following Web site: http://www.swgmdi.org.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before the extended deadline of 
June 11, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Kashtan, by telephone at 202-
353-1856 [Note: this is not a toll-free

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telephone number], or by email at [email protected].

John H. Laub,
Director, National Institute of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2012-12527 Filed 5-23-12; 8:45 am]
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