[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 199 (Monday, October 15, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51985-51986]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-22511]
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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 Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-
5:00 p.m., Central Time, in Jackson, MS.
PLACE: This meeting will occur in Jackson, Mississippi at the Hilton
Garden Inn Jackson/Downtown, Triple C's: Club, Crown, Coronet, 2nd
Floor, 235 W Capitol Street, Jackson, MS 39201. 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
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information: Teleconference number: 1-800-667-5617; Conference ID:
6973399; Conference Title: NCD Meeting; Host Name: Neil Romano.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The Council will receive agency updates on
policy projects, finance, governance, and other business. Following
agency updates, the Council will receive a presentation on 14(c) of the
Fair Labor Standards Act before lunch. Following lunch, the Council
will receive a presentation on its latest report, ``New Deal to Real
Deal: Joining the Industries of the Future,'' including a consumer
panel to discuss it. Lunch will follow that panel. Following lunch, the
Council will receive a series of presentations from a bioethics and
disability panel on the topics of genetic testing and gene editing,
organ transplant policy, the use of quality adjust life years to limit
healthcare, and physician-assisted suicide. Following a brief break,
the Council will next receive a presentation regarding involuntary
institutionalization as a result of disasters. The meeting will then
include a time for public comment on NCD's bioethics topics, before
concluding with a brief period for any unfinished business.
AGENDA: The times provided below are approximations for when each
agenda item is anticipated to be discussed (all times Central):
Tuesday, October 23
9:00-9:15 a.m.--Welcome and introductions
9:15-9:45 a.m.--Executive reports
9:45-11:45 a.m.--``From the New Deal to the Real Deal: Joining the
Industries of the Future'' national disability employment policy and
consumer panel
11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.--LUNCH BREAK
1:15-3:15 p.m.--Bioethics and disability policy panel
3:15-3:30 p.m.--BREAK
3:30-4:15 p.m.--Involuntary institutionalization as a result of
disasters policy panel
4:15-4:45 p.m.--Town hall to receive comments about bioethics and
disability (The five areas NCD is conducting research on include: Organ
transplants; medical futility; Quality Adjusted Life Years; physician
assisted suicide; and genetic testing.)
4:45-5:00 p.m.--Unfinished business
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 Monday, October 22, 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
October quarterly meeting will be limited to those regarding NCD's
bioethics and disability research areas--organ transplants; medical
futility; Quality Adjusted Life Years; physician assisted suicide; and
genetic testing.
CONTACT PERSON: Anne Sommers, NCD, 1331 F Street NW, Suite 850,
Washington, DC 20004; 202-272-2004 (V), 202-272-2074 (TTY).
ACCOMMODATIONS: A CART streamtext link has been arranged for this
meeting. The web link to access CART on Tuesday, October 23, 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: October 11, 2018.
Sharon M. Lisa Grubb,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 2018-22511 Filed 10-11-18; 4:15 pm]
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