[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 237 (Friday, December 9, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 89103]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-29454]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Environmental 
Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (BSC, NCEH/
ATSDR)

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC), announces the following meeting of the aforementioned 
committee:
    Times and Dates:

8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., EST, January 17, 2017
8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., EST, January 18, 2017

    Place: CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, Georgia 30341
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 60 people. The public is 
welcome to participate during the public comment period which in 
tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 from 1:30 p.m. until 
1:45 p.m., and on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 from 10:30 a.m. until 
10:45 a.m. This meeting will also be available by teleconference. 
Please dial (877) 315-6535 and enter code 383520#.
    Purpose: The Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services 
(HHS) and by delegation, the Director, CDC and Administrator, NCEH/
ATSDR, are authorized under Section 301 (42 U.S.C. 241) and Section 311 
(42 U.S.C. 243) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended, to: (1) 
Conduct, encourage, cooperate with, and assist other appropriate public 
authorities, scientific institutions, and scientists in the conduct of 
research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies 
relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention 
of physical and mental diseases and other impairments; (2) assist 
states and their political subdivisions in the prevention of infectious 
diseases and other preventable conditions and in the promotion of 
health and wellbeing; and (3) train state and local personnel in health 
work. The BSC, NCEH/ATSDR provides advice and guidance to the 
Secretary, HHS; the Director, CDC and Administrator, ATSDR; and the 
Director, NCEH/ATSDR, regarding program goals, objectives, strategies, 
and priorities in fulfillment of the agency's mission to protect and 
promote people's health. The board provides advice and guidance that 
will assist NCEH/ATSDR in ensuring scientific quality, timeliness, 
utility, and dissemination of results. The board also provides guidance 
to help NCEH/ATSDR work more efficiently and effectively with its 
various constituents and to fulfill its mission in protecting America's 
health.
    Matters for Discussion: The agenda items for the BSC Meeting will 
include NCEH/ATSDR Office of the Director updates; Hydraulic 
Fracturing; NCEH/ATSDR Program Responses to BSC Guidance and Action 
Items; HUD's Lead Hazard Control Program and Implications for a Change 
in the CDC Reference Value; Update on NCEH/ATSDR Support for Flint, 
Michigan; Update on NCEH Lead Surveillance Program; Recommendations 
from the BSC Lead Poisoning Prevention Subcommittee; NCEH/ATSDR 
response to Public Health Emergencies; Federal Research Action Plan on 
Tire Crumb Used on and Playing Fields and Playgrounds; updates from the 
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the U.S. Department of 
Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Amanda Malasky, ORISE Fellow, 
NCEH/ATSDR, 4770 Buford Highway, Mail Stop F-45, Atlanta, Georgia 
30341; Telephone 770/488-7699; Email: [email protected]. The deadline for 
notification of attendance is January 13, 2017.
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been 
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining to 
announcements of meetings and other committee management activities for 
both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for 
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2016-29454 Filed 12-8-16; 8:45 am]
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