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Meeting of the Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome Advisory Committee
Department of Health and
Human Services, Office of the Secretary,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Health.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
As stipulated by the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services is hereby giving notice that the
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory
Committee (CFSAC) will hold a
meeting. The meeting will be open to
the public.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Tuesday and Wednesday, May 10 and
11, 2011. The meeting will be held from
9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on May 10, 2011, and
9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on May 11, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Department of Health and
Human Services; Room 800, Hubert H.
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Wanda K. Jones, DrPH; Executive
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Advisory Committee, Department of
Health and Human Services; 200
Independence Avenue, SW., Hubert
Humphrey Building, Room 712E;
Washington, DC 20201. Please direct all
inquiries to cfsac@hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CFSAC
was established on September 5, 2002.
The Committee shall advise and make
recommendations to the Secretary,
through the Assistant Secretary for
Health, on a broad range of topics
including (1) the current state of
knowledge and research and the
relevant gaps in knowledge and research
about the epidemiology, etiologies,
biomarkers and risk factors relating to
CFS, and identifying potential
opportunities in these areas; (2) impact
and implications of current and
proposed diagnosis and treatment
methods for CFS; (3) development and
implementation of programs to inform
the public, health care professionals,
and the biomedical academic and
research communities about CFS
advances; and (4) partnering to improve
the quality of life of CFS patients.
The agenda for this meeting is being
developed. The agenda will be posted
on the CFSAC Web site, https://
www.hhs.gov/advcomcfs, when it is
finalized. The meeting will be broadcast
over the Internet as a real-time
streaming video. It also will be recorded
and archived for on demand viewing
through the CFSAC Web site.
Public attendance at the meeting is
limited to space available. Individuals
must provide a government-issued
photo ID for entry into the building
where the meeting is scheduled to be
held. Those attending the meeting will
need to sign-in prior to entering the
meeting room. Individuals who plan to
attend and need special assistance, such
as sign language interpretation or other
reasonable accommodations, should
notify the designated contact person at
cfsac@hhs.gov in advance.
Members of the public will have the
opportunity to provide oral testimony at
the May 10–11, 2011, meeting if preregistered. Individuals who wish to
address the Committee during the
public comment session must preregister by Monday, April 18, 2011, via
e-mail to cfsac@hhs.gov. Time slots for
public comment will be available on a
first-come, first-served basis and will be
limited to five minutes per speaker; no
exceptions will be made. Individuals
registering for public comment should
submit a copy of their oral testimony in
advance to cfsac@hhs.gov, prior to the
close of business on Monday, April 18,
2011.
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Monday, April 18, 2011, you may bring
a copy to the meeting and present it to
a CFSAC Support Team staff member.
Your testimony will be included in a
notebook available for viewing by the
public on a table at the back of the
meeting room.
Members of the public not providing
public comment at the meeting who
wish to have printed material
distributed to CFSAC members for
review should submit, at a minimum,
one copy of the material to the
Executive Secretary, at cfsac@hhs.gov,
prior to close of business on Monday,
April 18, 2011. Submissions are limited
to five typewritten pages. If you wish to
remain anonymous, please notify the
CFSAC support team upon submission
of your materials to cfsac@hhs.gov.
All testimony and printed material
submitted for the meeting are part of the
official meeting record and will be
uploaded to the CFSAC Web site and
made available for public inspection.
Testimony and materials submitted
should not include any sensitive
personal information, such as a person’s
social security number; date of birth;
driver’s license number, State
identification number or foreign country
equivalent; passport number; financial
account number; or credit or debit card
number. Sensitive health information,
such as medical records or other
individually identifiable health
information, or any non-public
corporate or trade association
information, such as trade secrets or
other proprietary information also
should be excluded from any materials
submitted.
Dated: March 18, 2011.
Wanda K. Jones,
Executive Secretary, Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome Advisory Committee.
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Nominations to the Advisory
Committee on Blood Safety and
Availability
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Health, Office of the
Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Office of Assistant
Secretary for Health (OASH) is seeking
nominations of qualified individuals to
be considered for appointment as
members of the Advisory Committee on
Blood Safety and Availability (ACBSA).
SUMMARY:
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ACBSA is a Federal advisory committee
within the Department of Health and
Human Services. Management support
for the activities of this Committee is the
responsibility of the OASH. The
qualified individuals will be nominated
to the Secretary of Health and Human
Services for consideration of
appointment as members of the ACBSA.
Members of the Committee, including
the Chair, are appointed by the
Secretary. Members are invited to serve
on the Committee for up to four-year
terms.
All nominations must be
received no later than 4 p.m. EDT on
April 22, 2011 at the address listed
below.
DATES:
All nominations should be
mailed or delivered to Mr. James Berger,
Associate Public Health Advisor for
Blood, Organ and Tissue Safety; Office
of Assistant Secretary for Health;
Department of Health and Human
Services; 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite
250; Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone:
(240) 453–8803.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
James Berger, Associate Public Health
Advisor for Blood, Organ and Tissue
Safety. Contact information for Mr.
Berger is provided above.
A copy of the Committee charter and
roster of the current membership can be
obtained by contacting Mr. Berger or by
accessing the ACBSA Web site at https://
www.hhs.gov/bloodsafety.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
ACBSA shall provide advice to the
Secretary through the Assistant
Secretary for Health. The Committee
shall advise on a range of policy issues
to include: (1) Definition of public
health parameters around safety and
availability of the blood supply and
blood products, (2) broad public health,
ethical and legal issues related to
transfusion and transplantation safety,
and (3) the implications for safety and
availability of various economic factors
affecting product cost and supply.
The Committee consists of 20 voting
members; 14 public members, including
the Chair, and six (6) individuals
designated to serve as official
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 six individuals who are
appointed as official representative
members are selected to serve the
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interests of the blood and blood
products industry or professional
organizations. The representative
members are selected from the following
groups: the AABB (formerly the
American Association of Blood Banks);
the plasma protein fraction community;
one of the two major distributors of
blood on a rotating basis, a trade
organization or manufacturer of blood,
plasma, infectious disease screening
assays or other tissue test kits or
equipment; and a major health care
organization that purchases blood and
blood products. Where more than one
company produces a specified product
or process, representatives from those
companies shall rotate on the same
schedule as public members.
All ACBSA members are authorized
to receive the prescribed per diem
allowance and reimbursement for travel
expenses that are incurred to attend
meetings and conduct committeerelated business, in accordance with
Standard Government Travel
Regulations. Individuals who are
appointed to serve as public members
are authorized also to receive a stipend
for attending Committee meetings and
to carry out other Committee-related
business. Individuals who are appointed
to serve as representative members for a
particular interest group or industry are
not authorized to receive a stipend for
the performance of these duties.
This announcement is to solicit
nominations of qualified candidates to
fill four currently vacant positions on
the ACBSA. Two candidates will fill
public member positions as special
government employees. In addition, two
candidates will be representative
members as identified in the charter.
Nominations
In accordance with the charter,
persons nominated for appointment as
members of the ACBSA should be
among authorities knowledgeable in
blood banking, transfusion medicine,
plasma therapies, transfusion and
transplantation safety, bioethics, and/or
related disciplines. Nominations should
be typewritten. The following
information should be included in the
package of material submitted for each
individual being nominated for
consideration of appointment: (a) The
name, return address, daytime
telephone number and affiliation(s) of
the individual being nominated, the
basis for the individual’s nomination,
the category for which the individual is
being nominated, and a statement
bearing an original signature of the
nominated individual that, if appointed,
he or she is willing to serve as a member
of the Committee; (b) the name, return
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address, and daytime telephone number
at which the nominator may be
contacted. Organizational nominators
must identify a principal contact person
in addition to the contact; and (c) a copy
of a current curriculum vitae or resume
for the nominated individual.
Individuals can nominate themselves
for consideration of appointment to the
Committee. All nominations must
include the required information.
Incomplete nominations will not be
processed for consideration. The letter
from the nominator and certification of
the nominated individual must bear
original signatures; reproduced copies
of these signatures are not acceptable.
The Department is legally required to
ensure that the membership of HHS
Federal advisory committees is fairly
balanced in terms of points of view
represented and the functions to be
performed by the advisory committee.
Every effort is made to ensure that the
views of women, all ethnic and racial
groups, and people with disabilities are
represented on HHS Federal Advisory
committees and, therefore, the
Department encourages nominations of
qualified candidates from these groups.
The Department also encourages
geographic diversity in the composition
of the committee. 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.
The Standards of Ethical Conduct for
Employees of the Executive Branch are
applicable to individuals who are
appointed as public members of Federal
advisory committees. Individuals
appointed to serve as public members of
Federal advisory committees are
classified as special government
employees (SGEs). SGEs are government
employees for purposes of the conflict
of interest laws. Therefore, individuals
appointed to serve as public members of
the ACBSA are subject to an ethics
review. The ethics review is conducted
to determine if the individual has any
interests and/or activities in the private
sector that may conflict with
performance of their official duties as a
member of the Committee. Individuals
appointed to serve as public members of
the committee will be required to
disclose information regarding financial
holdings, consultancies, and research
grants and/or contracts.
Dated: March 15, 2011.
James J. Berger,
Associate Public Health Advisor for Blood,
Organ and Tissue Safety.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Nominations to the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and
Availability
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of the
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) is seeking
nominations of qualified individuals to be considered for appointment
as members of the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability
(ACBSA).
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ACBSA is a Federal advisory committee within the Department of Health
and Human Services. Management support for the activities of this
Committee is the responsibility of the OASH. The qualified individuals
will be nominated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for
consideration of appointment as members of the ACBSA. Members of the
Committee, including the Chair, are appointed by the Secretary. Members
are invited to serve on the Committee for up to four-year terms.
DATES: All nominations must be received no later than 4 p.m. EDT on
April 22, 2011 at the address listed below.
ADDRESSES: All nominations should be mailed or delivered to Mr. James
Berger, Associate Public Health Advisor for Blood, Organ and Tissue
Safety; Office of Assistant Secretary for Health; Department of Health
and Human Services; 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 250; Rockville, MD
20852. Telephone: (240) 453-8803.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. James Berger, Associate Public
Health Advisor for Blood, Organ and Tissue Safety. Contact information
for Mr. Berger is provided above.
A copy of the Committee charter and roster of the current
membership can be obtained by contacting Mr. Berger or by accessing the
ACBSA Web site at https://www.hhs.gov/bloodsafety.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ACBSA shall provide advice to the
Secretary through the Assistant Secretary for Health. The Committee
shall advise on a range of policy issues to include: (1) Definition of
public health parameters around safety and availability of the blood
supply and blood products, (2) broad public health, ethical and legal
issues related to transfusion and transplantation safety, and (3) the
implications for safety and availability of various economic factors
affecting product cost and supply.
The Committee consists of 20 voting members; 14 public members,
including the Chair, and six (6) individuals designated to serve as
official 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 six
individuals who are appointed as official representative members are
selected to serve the interests of the blood and blood products
industry or professional organizations. The representative members are
selected from the following groups: the AABB (formerly the American
Association of Blood Banks); the plasma protein fraction community; one
of the two major distributors of blood on a rotating basis, a trade
organization or manufacturer of blood, plasma, infectious disease
screening assays or other tissue test kits or equipment; and a major
health care organization that purchases blood and blood products. Where
more than one company produces a specified product or process,
representatives from those companies shall rotate on the same schedule
as public members.
All ACBSA members are authorized to receive the prescribed per diem
allowance and reimbursement for travel expenses that are incurred to
attend meetings and conduct committee-related business, in accordance
with Standard Government Travel Regulations. Individuals who are
appointed to serve as public members are authorized also to receive a
stipend for attending Committee meetings and to carry out other
Committee-related business. Individuals who are appointed to serve as
representative members for a particular interest group or industry are
not authorized to receive a stipend for the performance of these
duties.
This announcement is to solicit nominations of qualified candidates
to fill four currently vacant positions on the ACBSA. Two candidates
will fill public member positions as special government employees. In
addition, two candidates will be representative members as identified
in the charter.
Nominations
In accordance with the charter, persons nominated for appointment
as members of the ACBSA should be among authorities knowledgeable in
blood banking, transfusion medicine, plasma therapies, transfusion and
transplantation safety, bioethics, and/or related disciplines.
Nominations should be typewritten. The following information should be
included in the package of material submitted for each individual being
nominated for consideration of appointment: (a) The name, return
address, daytime telephone number and affiliation(s) of the individual
being nominated, the basis for the individual's nomination, the
category for which the individual is being nominated, and a statement
bearing an original signature of the nominated individual that, if
appointed, he or she is willing to serve as a member of the Committee;
(b) the name, return address, and daytime telephone number at which the
nominator may be contacted. Organizational nominators must identify a
principal contact person in addition to the contact; and (c) a copy of
a current curriculum vitae or resume for the nominated individual.
Individuals can nominate themselves for consideration of
appointment to the Committee. All nominations must include the required
information. Incomplete nominations will not be processed for
consideration. The letter from the nominator and certification of the
nominated individual must bear original signatures; reproduced copies
of these signatures are not acceptable.
The Department is legally required to ensure that the membership of
HHS Federal advisory committees is fairly balanced in terms of points
of view represented and the functions to be performed by the advisory
committee. Every effort is made to ensure that the views of women, all
ethnic and racial groups, and people with disabilities are represented
on HHS Federal Advisory committees and, therefore, the Department
encourages nominations of qualified candidates from these groups. The
Department also encourages geographic diversity in the composition of
the committee. 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.
The Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive
Branch are applicable to individuals who are appointed as public
members of Federal advisory committees. Individuals appointed to serve
as public members of Federal advisory committees are classified as
special government employees (SGEs). SGEs are government employees for
purposes of the conflict of interest laws. Therefore, individuals
appointed to serve as public members of the ACBSA are subject to an
ethics review. The ethics review is conducted to determine if the
individual has any interests and/or activities in the private sector
that may conflict with performance of their official duties as a member
of the Committee. Individuals appointed to serve as public members of
the committee will be required to disclose information regarding
financial holdings, consultancies, and research grants and/or
contracts.
Dated: March 15, 2011.
James J. Berger,
Associate Public Health Advisor for Blood, Organ and Tissue Safety.
[FR Doc. 2011-6701 Filed 3-21-11; 8:45 am]
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