[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 165 (Friday, August 24, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51543-51544]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-20932]


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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 (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given that the 
following committee will convene its seventy-second meeting.
    Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services.
    Dates and Times: September 26, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-5 p.m.; September 
27, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-5 p.m.; September 28, 2012, 8:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
    Place: Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin Downtown, 111 East Cesar 
Chavez Street, Austin, TX 78701.
    Phone: (512) 478-9611.
    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: Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m., the meeting will be called 
to order by the Chairman of the Committee, the Honorable Ronnie 
Musgrove. The Committee will be examining the future of the rural 
health care infrastructure and the rural effects of recent changes to 
the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program. The day 
will conclude with a period of public comment at approximately 5:00 
p.m.
    Thursday morning at approximately 9:00 a.m., the Committee will 
break into Subcommittees and depart for site visits to rural healthcare 
and human services providers in Texas. One panel from the Health 
Infrastructure Subcommittee will visit the Llano Memorial Hospital in 
Llano, TX. Another panel from the Health Infrastructure Subcommittee 
will visit Gonzales Healthcare System--Memorial Hospital, in Gonzales, 
TX. The day will conclude at the Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin 
Downtown with a period of public comment at approximately 5:00 p.m.
    The final session will be convened on Friday morning at 9 a.m. The 
Committee will summarize key findings from the meeting and develop a 
work plan for the next quarter and the following meeting. The meeting 
will adjourn at 11:15 a.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Hirsch, MSLS, Executive

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Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn 
Building, Room 5A-05, 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 Nathan Nash at the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) via 
telephone at (301) 443-0835 or by email at [email protected]. The 
Committee meeting agenda will be posted on ORHP's Web site http://www.hrsa.gov/advisorycommittees/rural/.

    Dated: August 16, 2012.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2012-20932 Filed 8-23-12; 8:45 am]
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