[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 51 (Tuesday, March 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 13876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-06007]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Renewal of Charter for the Advisory Council on Blood Stem Cell 
Transplantation

AGENCY: Healthcare Systems Bureau, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services is hereby giving 
notice that the Advisory Council on Blood Stem Cell Transplantation 
(ACBSCT) is being rechartered. The effective date of the current 
charter was February 19, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Stroup, MBA, MPA, Executive 
Secretary, Advisory Council on Blood Stem Cell Transplantation, Health 
Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human 
Services, Room 17W65 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Phone: (301) 
443-1127; fax: (301) 594-6095; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 42 U.S.C. 274k; section 379 of the Public 
Health Service Act. The Council is governed by the provisions of Public 
Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. appendix 2), which sets forth 
standards for the formation and use of advisory committees. ACBSCT 
advises and makes recommendations to the Secretary on matters related 
to the activities of the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program 
and the National Cord Blood Inventory Program.
    Its principal functions shall be to provide unbiased analyses and 
recommendations to the Secretary on the latest advances in the science 
of blood stem cell transplantation.
    On February 13, 2013, the Secretary approved the ACBSCT charter to 
be renewed. The filing date of the renewed charter was February 19, 
2013. There was one amendment to the previous charter, which was 
approved by the Secretary on May 14, 2014, with an amended filing date 
of May 15, 2014. Renewal of the ACBSCT charter gives authorization for 
the Council to operate until February 19, 2017.
    A copy of the ACBSCT charter is available on the Web site for the 
blood cell transplant program, at http://bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov/. A copy of the charter also can be 
obtained by accessing the FACA database that is maintained by the 
Committee Management Secretariat under the General Services 
Administration. The Web site address for the FACA database is http://www.facadatabase.gov/.

    Dated: March 4, 2015.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2015-06007 Filed 3-16-15; 8:45 am]
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