[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5647-5648]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-02597]


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NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY


Sunshine Act Meetings

TIME AND DATES: The Members of the National Council on Disability (NCD) 
will hold a quarterly meeting on Thursday, March 8, from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 
p.m., Eastern Time, in Washington, DC.

PLACE: This meeting will occur in Washington, DC, at the Access Board 
Conference Room, 1331 F Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20004. 
Interested parties may join the meeting in person at the meeting 
location or may join by phone in a listening-only capacity (other than 
the period allotted for public comment noted below) using the following 
call-in information: Teleconference number: 1-888-599-8667; Conference 
ID: 9890793; Conference Title: NCD Meeting; Host Name: Clyde Terry.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The Council will receive agency updates on 
policy projects, finance, governance, and other business. The Council 
will receive an update on the work done to date for its 2018 Progress 
Report to Congress and the President, which this year will focus on 
monitoring and enforcement efforts in three federal agencies. The 
Council will next release its latest report titled, ``U.S. Foreign 
Policy and Disability 2017: Progress and Promise'' with a summary of 
the report followed by a respondent panel. The Council will then 
revisit its 2017 Progress Report, which explored the intersection of 
disability and poverty, and receive public comments on which of the 
report's recommendations are of greatest importance for NCD's immediate 
follow-up activities. Following the public comment, the Council will 
discuss future 2018 policy activity building off of the 2017 Progress 
Report. The Council will conclude its meeting with a policy panel 
including representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice 
(invited), who have been asked to speak about recent ADA regulation 
rescissions as well as their work in the area of service animals.

AGENDA: The times provided below are approximations for when each 
agenda item is anticipated to be discussed (all times Eastern):

Thursday, March 8

9:00-9:30 a.m.--Welcome and introductions
9:30-10:15 a.m.--2018 Progress Report update and discussion
10:15-10:30 a.m.--Break
10:30-11:30 a.m.--Foreign policy report release and respondent panel
11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.--NCD business meeting
12:00-12:15 p.m.--Training on Council Member time reports
12:15-1:45 p.m.--LUNCH BREAK
1:45-2:00 p.m.--Recap of 2017 Progress Report (intersection of poverty 
and disability)
2:00-2:30 p.m.--Public comments (focused on recommendations of the 2017 
NCD Progress Report on poverty)
2:30-2:45 p.m.--BREAK
2:45-3:45 p.m.--Policy recommendations for FY 2018 building off 2017 
Progress Report
3:45-5:00 p.m.--Panel of Department of Justice representatives 
regarding rescinded ADA regulations and agency activities regarding 
service animals (invited)
5:00 p.m.--Adjourn

PUBLIC COMMENT: To better facilitate NCD's public comment, any 
individual interested in providing public comment is asked to register 
his or her intent to provide comment in advance by sending an email to 
[email protected] with the subject line ``Public Comment'' with 
your name, organization, state, and topic of comment included in the 
body of your email. Full-length written public comments may also be 
sent to that email address. All emails to register for public comment 
at the quarterly meeting must be received by Wednesday, March 7, 2018. 
Priority will be given to those individuals who are in-person to 
provide their comments during the public comment period. Those 
commenters on the phone will be called on per the list of those 
registered via email. Due to time constraints, NCD asks all commenters 
to limit their comments to three minutes. Comments received at the 
March quarterly meeting will be limited to those regarding the public's 
input on which of the 2017 NCD Progress Report's recommendations are of 
greatest importance for NCD's immediate follow-up activities in 2018.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Anne Sommers, NCD, 1331 F Street 
NW, Suite 850, Washington, DC 20004; 202-272-2004 (V), 202-272-2074 
(TTY).

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ACCOMMODATIONS: A CART streamtext link has been arranged for this 
meeting. The web link to access CART on Thursday, March 8, 2018 is: 
http://www.streamtext.net/player?event=NCD-QUARTERLY.
    Those who plan to attend the meeting in-person and require 
accommodations should notify NCD as soon as possible to allow time to 
make arrangements. To help reduce exposure to fragrances for those with 
multiple chemical sensitivities, NCD requests that all those attending 
the meeting in person refrain from wearing scented personal care 
products such as perfumes, hairsprays, and deodorants.

    Dated: February 6, 2018.
Deb Cotter,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 2018-02597 Filed 2-6-18; 11:15 am]
 BILLING CODE 8421-03-P