[Federal Register: March 26, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 59)]
[Notices]               
[Page 15833-15834]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

 
Notice of Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act (5 U.S.C., Appendix 2), announcement is made of a Health Care 
Policy and

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Research Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) meeting.
    A Special Emphasis Panel is a group of experts in fields related to 
health care research who are invited by the Agency for Healthcare 
Research and Quality (AHRQ), and agree to be available, to conduct on 
an as needed basis, scientific reviews of applications for AHRQ 
support. Individual members of the Panel do not attend regularly-
scheduled meetings and do not serve for fixed terms or a long period of 
time. Rather, they are asked to participate in particular review 
meetings which require their type of expertise.
    Substantial segments of the upcoming SEP meeting listed below will 
be closed to the public in accordance with the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act, section 10(d) of 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2 and 5 U.S.C. 
552(b)(c)(6). Grant applications for Building the Evidence to Promote 
Bioterrorism and other Public Health Emergency Preparedness in Health 
Care Systems (UOI) Awards are to be reviewed and discussed at this 
meeting. These discussion are likely to reveal personal information 
concerning individuals associated with the applications. This 
information is exempt from mandatory disclosure under the above-cited 
statutes.

    SEP Meeting on: Building the Evidence to Promote Bioterrorism 
and other Public Health Emergency Preparedness in Health Care 
Systems (UOI) Awards.
    Dates: May 6-7, 2004 (Open on May 6 from 8 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. and 
closed for the remainder of the meeting.
    Place: Holiday Inn Select Bethesda, Versailles II Room, 8120 
Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.
    Contact Person: Anyone wishing to obtain a roster of members, 
agenda or minutes of the nonconfidential portions of this meeting 
should contact Mrs. Bonnie Campbell, Committee Management Officer, 
Office of Extramural Research, Education and Priority Populations, 
AHRQ, 540 Gaither Road, Room 2038, Rockville, Maryland 20850, 
Telephone (301) 427-1554.
    Agenda items for this meeting are subject to change as 
priorities dictate.


    Dated: March 19, 2004.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
[FR Doc. 04-6755 Filed 3-25-04; 8:45 am]

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