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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 
The Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Center for 
Environmental Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 
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) announce the following committee meeting.

Name: Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), National Center for 
Environmental Health (NCEH).

Time and Dates: 1 p.m.-5:30 p.m., December 1, 2003; 8:30 a.m.-4: 30 
p.m., December 2, 2003.

Place: Hilton Atlanta Hotel, 255 Courtland Street, NE., Atlanta, GA 
30303.

Status: Open to the public for observation, limited only by the space 
available. The meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people.

Purpose: The Secretary, and by delegation, the Director of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, are authorized under Section 301 
(42 U.S.C. 241) and Section 311 (42 U.S.C. 243) of the Public Health 
Service Act, as amended, to (1) conduct, encourage, cooperate with, and 
assist other appropriate public authorities, scientific institutions, 
and scientists in the conduct of research, investigations, experiments, 
demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, 
treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and 
other impairments; (2) assist states and their political subdivisions 
in the prevention of infectious diseases and other preventable 
conditions and in the promotion of health and well being; and (3) train 
state and local personnel in health work.

Matters to be Discussed: The agenda items for the meeting on December 
1-2, 2003, will include but are not limited to an update and 
discussions on the consolidation of NCEH and the Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR); review of discussions for 
consolidating the ATSDR Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) and the 
ACD, NCEH; discussion on peer review background and process; and an 
overview of existing ACD and BSC subcommittees and working groups. 
Agenda items are tentative and subject to change.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Individuals interested in attending 
the meeting, please contact Priscilla Patin, CMP, Program Analyst, CDC, 
4770 Buford Highway NE, MS F-29, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724; telephone 770-488-7629, fax 770-488-7024; e-mail: ppatin@cdc.gov. The deadline 
for notification of attendance is November 24, 2003.
    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: November 3, 2003.
Joseph E. Salter,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 03-28028 Filed 11-6-03; 8:45 am]

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