[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 96 (Monday, May 19, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28740-28741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-11460]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of 
Meeting

    Pursuant to section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is hereby given of a meeting of the 
Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee.
    The meeting will be open to the public, with attendance limited to 
space available. Individuals who plan to attend and need special 
assistance, such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable 
accommodations, should notify the Contact Person listed below in 
advance of the meeting.

    Name of Committee: Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee.
    Date: June 10-11, 2014.
    Time: June 10, 2014, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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    Agenda: The NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) will 
hear from experts on genome editing technologies about the state of 
the science and the development of preclinical assays in support of 
clinical applications. Please check the meeting agenda at OBA 
Meetings Page (available at the following URL: http://oba.od.nih.gov/rdna_rac/rac_meetings.html) for more information.
    Place: National Institutes of Health, Building 35, Conference 
Room 620/630, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892.
    Time: June 11, 2014, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
    Agenda: The RAC will review selected human gene transfer 
protocols, including the first gene transfer application for Leber's 
Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, a disease caused by a mutation in 
mitochondrial DNA. In addition there will be a presentation on the 
recommendations made by an Institute of Medicine Committee charged 
with assessing the role of the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory 
Committee in the review of human gene transfer protocols. Please 
check the meeting agenda at OBA Meetings Page (available at the 
following URL: http://oba.od.nih.gov/rdna_rac/rac_meetings.html) 
for more information.
    Place: National Institutes of Health, Building 35, Conference 
Room 620/630, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892.
    Contact Person: Chris Nice, Program Assistant, Office of 
Biotechnology Activities, National Institutes of Health, 6705 
Rockledge Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301-496-9838, 
[email protected].
    Any interested person may file written comments with the 
committee by forwarding the statement to the Contact Person listed 
on this notice. The statement should include the name, address, 
telephone number and when applicable, the business or professional 
affiliation of the interested person.
    In the interest of security, NIH has instituted stringent 
procedures for entrance onto the NIH campus. All visitor vehicles, 
including taxicabs, hotel, and airport shuttles will be inspected 
before being allowed on campus. Visitors will be asked to show one 
form of identification (for example, a government-issued photo ID, 
driver's license, or passport) and to state the purpose of their 
visit.
    Information is also available on the Institute's/Center's home 
page: http://oba.od.nih.gov/rdna/rdna.html, where an agenda and any 
additional information for the meeting will be posted when 
available.
    OMB's ``Mandatory Information Requirements for Federal 
Assistance Program Announcements'' (45 FR 39592, June 11, 1980) 
requires a statement concerning the official government programs 
contained in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. Normally 
NIH lists in its announcements the number and title of affected 
individual programs for the guidance of the public. Because the 
guidance in this notice covers virtually every NIH and Federal 
research program in which DNA recombinant molecule techniques could 
be used, it has been determined not to be cost effective or in the 
public interest to attempt to list these programs. Such a list would 
likely require several additional pages. In addition, NIH could not 
be certain that every Federal program would be included as many 
Federal agencies, as well as private organizations, both national 
and international, have elected to follow the NIH Guidelines. In 
lieu of the individual program listing, NIH invites readers to 
direct questions to the information address above about whether 
individual programs listed in the Catalog of Federal Domestic 
Assistance are affected.

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.14, 
Intramural Research Training Award; 93.22, Clinical Research Loan 
Repayment Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds; 
93.232, Loan Repayment Program for Research Generally; 93.39, 
Academic Research Enhancement Award; 93.936, NIH Acquired 
Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Loan Repayment Program; 93.187, 
Undergraduate Scholarship Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged 
Backgrounds, National Institutes of Health, HHS)

    Dated: May 13, 2014.
Carolyn A. Baum,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 2014-11460 Filed 5-16-14; 8:45 am]
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