Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control: Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 142 (Monday, July 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40376-40377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-19083]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control: Meeting

    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)

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announces the following committee meeting.

    Name: Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control 
(ACIPC).
    Times and Dates: 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., August 3, 1999. 8:30 a.m.-
3:00 p.m., August 4, 1999.
    Place: JW Marriott Hotel at Lenox, 3300 Lenox Road, NE, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30326.
    Status: Closed: 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m., August 3, 1999, and 8:30 
a.m.-9 a.m., August 4, 1999; Open: 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., August 3, 
1999, and 9 a.m.-3:00 p.m., August 4, 1999.
    Purpose: The Committee advises and makes recommendations to the 
Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Director, 
CDC, regarding feasible goals for the prevention and control of 
injury. The Committee makes recommendations regarding policies, 
strategies, objectives, and priorities, and reviews progress toward 
injury prevention and control. The Committee provides advice on the 
appropriate balance and mix of intramural and extramural research, 
including laboratory research, and provides guidance on intramural 
and extramural scientific program matters, both present and future, 
particularly from a long-range viewpoint. The Committee provides 
second-level scientific and programmatic review for applications for 
research grants, cooperative agreements, and training grants related 
to injury control and violence prevention, and recommends approval 
of projects that merit further consideration for funding support. 
The Committee recommends areas of research to be supported by 
contracts and provides concept review of program proposals and 
announcements.
    Matters to be Discussed: The meeting will convene in closed 
session from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on August 3, 1999. The purpose 
of this closed session is for the Science and Program Review Work 
Group (SPRWG) to consider individual injury control research grant 
applications recommended for further consideration by the CDC Injury 
Research Grant Review Committee. On August 4, 1999, from 8:30 a.m. 
to 9 a.m., the ACIPC voting members will convene in closed session 
to vote on a funding recommendation. These portions of the meeting 
will be closed to the public in accordance with provisions set forth 
in section 552(c)(4) and (6) title 5 U.S.C., and the Determination 
of the Associate Director for Management and Operations, CDC, 
pursuant to Pub. L. 92-463.
    Following the SPRWG closed session, there will be a program 
oversight session which will include discussion of a biomechanics 
review update, status of program announcements for fiscal year 2000, 
whiplash project, research agenda for the National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control (NCIPC), and progress on standing Work Group 
issues. The Committee will also discuss (1) an update from the 
Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC); 
(2) strategic planning update and (3) SPRWG report on the results of 
their August 3 meeting.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Due to programmatic issues that had to be resolved, the Federal 
Register notice is being published less than fifteen days before the 
date of the meeting.
    Contact Person for More Information: Mr. Wayne Stephens, Executive 
Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S K61, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-1465.
    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.

    Dated: July 21, 1999.
John C. Burckhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-19083 Filed 7-23-99; 8:45 am]
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