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The ACBSA provides advice to the
Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for
Health on blood safety policy issues
which encompass broad public health
and societal implications that cannot be
resolved through analysis of scientific
data alone.
DATES: All nominations must be
received at the address below no later
than 4 p.m. e.s.t. May 30, 2005.
ADDRESSES: All nominations should be
mailed or delivered to Jerry Holmberg,
Ph.D., Executive Secretary, Advisory
Committee on Blood Safety and
Availability, Office of Public Health and
Science, Department of Health and
Human Services, 1101 Wootton
Parkway, Suite 250, Rockville, MD
20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry
Holmberg, Ph.D., Executive Secretary,
Advisory Committee on Blood Safety
and Availability, Office of Public Health
and Science, Department of Health and
Human Services, 1101 Wootton
Parkway, Suite 250, Rockville, MD
20852. Telephone (301) 443–2331.
A copy of the Committee charter and
a list of the current membership can be
obtained by contacting Dr. Holmberg.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
ACBSA provides advice to the Secretary
and the Assistant Secretary for Health
on a broad range of policy issues
regarding the collection, preparation,
and distribution of blood and blood
products, and regulations related to the
transmission of communicable diseases.
The range of policy issues that the
ACBSA provides advice on includes: (1)
Definition of public health parameters
around safety and availability of blood
supply; (2) broad public health, ethical
and legal issues related to blood safety,
and (3) the implications for blood safety
availability of various economic factors
affecting product cost and supply.
The ACBSA consists of 18 voting
members. The Committee is composed
of 12 members, including the Chair, and
6 representative members. The public
members are selected from State and
local organizations, advocacy groups,
provider organizations, academic
researchers, ethicists, private
physicians, scientists, consumer
advocates, legal organizations, and from
among communities of persons who are
frequent recipients of blood or blood
products. The representative members
are designated to serve as official
representatives of the blood and blood
products industry or professional
organizations. The representative
members shall represent the American
Association of Blood Banks, one or two
major distributors of blood on a rotating
basis, a trade organization or
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manufacturer of blood test kits or
equipment, a company that produces
leukoreduction processes, a major
hospital organization that purchases
blood and blood products, and a plasma
protein therapeutic association.
Nominations
The Office of Public Health and
Science is seeking nominations to fill
several positions on the ACBSA that are
scheduled to be vacated on September
30, 2005. The positions to be vacated are
from both classifications—the public
members and the representative
members.
To qualify for consideration as a
public member, individuals should
possess authoritative knowledge in
blood banking, transfusion medicine,
plasma therapies, bioethics, and/or
related disciplines. Public members will
be selected from the categories
previously described.
The terms of appointment for the
representative member of the following
also are scheduled to end: a trade
organization or manufacturer of blood
test kits or equipment, a company that
produces leukoreduction processes, a
major hospital organization that
purchases blood and blood products,
and a plasma protein therapeutic
association. This notice is intended to
solicit nominations from the blood and
blood products industry and
professional organizations of qualified
candidates to serve as official
representatives for the specified interest
groups or industry.
Individuals are invited to serve as
members of the Committee for
overlapping three year terms. Public
members of the Committee receive a
stipend for attending Committee
meetings, as well as for conducting
other business in the interest of the
Committee.
Pursuant to advance written
agreement, members who are appointed
as representatives of a particular interest
group or industry serve without
compensation. All members are
authorized to receive prescribed per
diem allowances and reimbursement for
expenses incurred when performing
travel to conduct Committee-related
business matters.
Nominations should be typewritten.
The following information should be
included in the package of material
submitted for each individual being
nominated for consideration: (1) A letter
of nomination that clearly states the
name and affiliation of the nominee, the
basis for the nomination (i.e., specific
attributes which qualify the nominee for
service in this capacity), and a statement
that the nominee is willing to serve as
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a member of the Committee; (2) the
nominator’s name, address, and daytime
telephone number, and the home and/
or work address, telephone number and
e-mail address of the person being
nominated; and (3) a current copy of the
nominee’s curriculum vitae. The names
of Federal employees should not be
nominated for consideration of
appointment for this Committee.
The Department makes every effort to
ensure that membership of DHHS
Federal advisory committees is fairly
balanced in terms of points of view
represented and the committee’s
function. Every effort is made to ensure
that a broad representation of
geographic areas, females, ethnic and
minority groups, and the disabled are
given consideration for membership on
DHHS Federal advisory committees.
Appointment to this Committee shall be
made without discrimination on the
basis of age, race, ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, disability, and
cultural, religious, or socioeconomic
status.
Nominations must state that the
nominee is willing to serve as a member
of ACBSA and appears to have no
conflict of interest that would preclude
membership. An ethics review is
conducted for each selected candidate.
Therefore, individuals selected for
nomination will be required to provide
detailed information concerning such
matters as financial holdings,
consultancies, and research grants or
contracts to permit evaluation of
possible sources of conflict of interest.
Dated: April 25, 2005.
Jerry A. Holmberg,
Executive Secretary, Advisory Committee on
Blood Safety and Availability.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Notice of Meeting: Secretary’s
Advisory Committee on Genetics,
Health, and Society
Pursuant to Pub. L. 92–463, notice is
hereby given of the seventh meeting of
the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on
Genetics, Health, and Society
(SACGHS), U.S. Public Health Service.
The meeting will be held from 8:30 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m. on June 15, 2005, and 8:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on June 16, 2005, at
the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel, 5701
Marinelli Road, North Bethesda,
Maryland. The meeting will be open to
the public with attendance limited to
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space available. The meeting will be
Webcast.
The topics of the first day are
expected to be genetic discrimination,
direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic
tests, and coverage and reimbursement
of genetic tests and services. The
Committee aims to finalize a report on
coverage and reimbursement of genetic
tests and services after considering
public comments. The topics for the
second day are expected to include large
population studies of gene-environment
interactions and pharmacogenomics.
Time will be provided each day for
public comments.
Under authority of 42 U.S.C. 217a,
section 222 of the Public Health Service
Act, as amended, the Department of
Health and Human Services established
SACGHS to service as a public forum for
deliberations on the broad range of
human health and societal issues raised
by the development and use of genetic
technologies and, as warranted, to
provided advice on these issues. The
draft meeting agenda and other
information about SACGHS, including
information about access to the
Webcast, will be available at the
following Web site: https://
www4.od.nih.gov/oba/sacghs.htm.
The Committee would welcome
hearing from anyone wishing to provide
public comment on any issue related to
genetics, health and society. Individuals
who would like to provide public
comment or who plan to attend the
meeting and need special assistance,
such as sign language interpretation or
other reasonable accommodations,
should notify the SACGHS Executive
Secretary, Ms. Sarah Carr, by telephone
at 301–496–9838 or e-mail at
sc112c@nih.gov. The SACGHS office is
located at 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite
750, Bethesda, MD 20892.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
requirements of the Privacy Act, the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) is publishing a notice of
the revision of an existing system of
records, 09–90–0200, Child Care
Subsidy Program. The revised system
will collect family income data from
employees in the National Institutes of
Health, as well as the Health Resources
and Services Administration, the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), the
Program Support Center (PSC), the
Office of the Secretary (OS), the
Administration on Aging (AoA), the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/
ATSDR) and the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) who are already covered by
this system, for the purpose of
determining their eligibility for child
care subsidies, and the amounts of the
subsidies. It also will collect
information from the employees’ child
care provider(s) for verification
purposes, e.g., that the provider is
licensed. Collection of data will be by
subsidy application forms submitted by
employees. HHS is also revising the
name of the General Accounting Office
(GAO) in Routine Use number 5 because
the name of that office has changed to
the Government Accountability Office.
This revision does not add new
routine uses for this system. This
amendment will be effective without
further notice on the day of its
publication unless comments are
received which would result in a
contrary determination.
DATES:
Dated: April 25, 2005.
LaVerne Stringfield,
Director, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 05–8781 Filed 5–2–05; 8:45 am]
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Child Care Subsidy Program
Administrator, Office of Human
Resources, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Administration and
Management, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, Room 300–E, 200
Independence Ave., SW., Washington,
DC 20201. The telephone number is
202–690–6191.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Privacy Act of 1974: Revision to
Existing System of Records
Child Care Subsidy Program,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Administration and Management
(ASAM), Office of the Secretary, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of revision to an existing
system of records.
AGENCY:
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The
current Notice of System of Records
covered only employees of OS, AoA,
HRSA, SAMHSA, FDA, CDC/ATSDR
and the PSC. Since that time, NIH has
established a child care subsidy
program for its employees. This
amendment expands coverage of the
Child Care Subsidy Program Records to
include employees in NIH who are
eligible for this program. The notice is
published below in its entirety, as
amended. HHS is also revising the name
of the General Accounting Office in
Routine Use number 5 because the name
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of that office has changed to the
Government Accountability Office.
Dated: April 25, 2005.
Robert Hosenfeld,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human
Resources.
09–90–0200
SYSTEM NAME:
Child Care Subsidy Program Records
(HHS).
SYSTEM CLASSIFICATION:
None.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
Records are located throughout HHS
in offices of agency child care program
administrators and in offices of contract
employees engaged to administer the
subsidy programs. Since there are
several sites around the country, contact
the appropriate System Manager listed
in Appendix A for more details about
specific locations.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE
SYSTEM:
The individuals in the system are
employees of the Administration on
Aging (AoA), Office of the Secretary
(OS), Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA), Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), Program Support
Center (PSC), Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA), the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/
ATSDR) and the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) in the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), who
voluntarily apply for child care
subsidies.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
Application forms for a child care
subsidy contain personal information,
including employee’s name, Social
Security Number, grade, home phone
number, home address, total income,
number of dependent children, and
number of children on whose behalf the
employee is applying for a subsidy,
information on any tuition assistance
received from State/County/local child
care subsidy, and information on child
care providers used, including their
name, address, provider license number,
and State where license issues, tuition
cost, provider tax identification number,
and copies of Internal Revenue Form
1040 for verification purposes.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
Sec. 630 of Pub. L. 107–67 (November
12, 2001 and Executive Order 9397
(November 22, 1943).
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Notice of Meeting: Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics,
Health, and Society
Pursuant to Pub. L. 92-463, notice is hereby given of the seventh
meeting of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and
Society (SACGHS), U.S. Public Health Service. The meeting will be held
from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on June 15, 2005, and 8:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. on June 16, 2005, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel, 5701
Marinelli Road, North Bethesda, Maryland. The meeting will be open to
the public with attendance limited to
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space available. The meeting will be Webcast.
The topics of the first day are expected to be genetic
discrimination, direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic tests, and
coverage and reimbursement of genetic tests and services. The Committee
aims to finalize a report on coverage and reimbursement of genetic
tests and services after considering public comments. The topics for
the second day are expected to include large population studies of
gene-environment interactions and pharmacogenomics. Time will be
provided each day for public comments.
Under authority of 42 U.S.C. 217a, section 222 of the Public Health
Service Act, as amended, the Department of Health and Human Services
established SACGHS to service as a public forum for deliberations on
the broad range of human health and societal issues raised by the
development and use of genetic technologies and, as warranted, to
provided advice on these issues. The draft meeting agenda and other
information about SACGHS, including information about access to the
Webcast, will be available at the following Web site: https://
www4.od.nih.gov/oba/sacghs.htm.
The Committee would welcome hearing from anyone wishing to provide
public comment on any issue related to genetics, health and society.
Individuals who would like to provide public comment or who plan to
attend the meeting and need special assistance, such as sign language
interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, should notify the
SACGHS Executive Secretary, Ms. Sarah Carr, by telephone at 301-496-
9838 or e-mail at sc112c@nih.gov. The SACGHS office is located at 6705
Rockledge Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Dated: April 25, 2005.
LaVerne Stringfield,
Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 05-8781 Filed 5-2-05; 8:45 am]
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