The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Announces the Following Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 76 (Wednesday, April 21, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 19542]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-9925]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Announces the 
Following Meeting

    Name: Advisory Committee to the Director, National Center for 
Environmental Health.
    Times and Dates: 10 a.m.-5:15 p.m., May 3, 1999. 8:30 a.m.-3:30 
p.m., May 4, 1999.
    Place: Swissotel, 3391 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 
30326 (next to Lenox Square), in the ``Zermatt'' room, telephone 404/
365-0065.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room will accommodate approximately 20 committee members 
and presenters, plus 20 observers.

Matters to be Discussed

    The Committee will provide advice on the following: environmental 
public health problems that potentially pose the greatest risks to 
human health and may not be receiving adequate attention; the primary 
prevention of birth defects and developmental and other disabilities; 
the prevention of secondary conditions in persons with a primary 
disability; and the research agenda needed to improve the science base 
relative to human health effects and environmental exposures and that 
will ultimately provide sound human health data for policy and 
decision-making. Particular attention will be paid to the matters of 
NCEH surveillance systems and the relationship between genetics and 
public health.
    Persons wishing to make written or oral comments at the meeting 
should notify the contact person in writing or by telephone no later 
than close of business April 26, 1999.
    Requests to make oral comments should contain the name, address, 
telephone number, and organizational affiliation of the presenter. 
Depending on the time available and the number of requests to make oral 
comments, it may be necessary to limit the time of each presenter.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Anne Wilson, Program Analyst, 
Office of the Director, NCEH, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S F49, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-7321, fax 770/488-7024, 
e-mail: amw6@cdc.gov
    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 CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

    Dated: April 15, 1999.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-9925 Filed 4-20-99; 8:45 am]
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