SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Purpose: The Board is charged with providing advice and making recommendations to the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services; the Director, CDC; and the ( printed page 54218) Director, NCHS, regarding the scientific and technical program goals and objectives, strategies, and priorities of NCHS.

Matters To Be Considered: The meeting agenda will include a Center update by the NCHS Director in addition to updates on NCHS data collection, analysis, and reporting activities, including upcoming changes to the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS); status of a National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) pilot and plans for obtaining clinician visit data; a new project to improve metadata and catalogs for the public to access restricted use data files; and new releases of linked data sets. The Board's Workgroup to Consider and Assess Measures of Discrimination for Use in NCHS Surveys will brief the Board with findings from 6 months of information-gathering and assessment work. The Committee will reserve time for public comment at the end of the day. Meeting times and topics are subject to change as priorities dictate.

Meeting Information: Please visit the BSC, NCHS website for details: https://www.cdc.gov/​nchs/​about/​bsc/​bsc_​meetings.htm. Further information and the meeting agenda will be available on the BSC website, including instructions for accessing the live meeting broadcast.

The Director, Strategic Business Initiatives Unit, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 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.

87 FR 54217