[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12629-12630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-05428]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Renewal of Charter for the Advisory Committee on Organ
Transplantation
AGENCY: Healthcare Systems Bureau, Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services is hereby giving
notice that the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT) has
been rechartered. The effective date of the revised charter was
September 1, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Stroup, MBA, MPA, Executive
Secretary, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, Health
Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human
Services, Room 17W65 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Phone:
(301) 443-1127; fax: (301) 594-6095; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATON: 42 U.S.C. 217a; Section 222 of the Public
Health Service Act, as amended; 42 CFR 121.12. The Committee is
governed by the provisions of Public Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C.
appendix 2), which sets forth standards for the formation and use of
advisory committees.
ACOT advises and makes recommendations to the Secretary on all
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aspects of organ donation, procurement, allocation, and transplantation
and on such other matters as the Secretary determines.
One of its principal functions shall be to advise the Secretary on
federal efforts to maximize the number of deceased donor organs made
available for transplantation and to support the safety of living organ
donation.
On August 26, 2014, the Acting Director, Office of Management,
HRSA, approved the ACOT charter to be renewed. The filing date of the
renewed charter was September 1, 2014. There were no amendments to the
previous charter. Renewal of the ACOT charter gives authorization for
the Committee to continue to operate until September 1, 2016.
A copy of the ACOT charter is available on the Web site for the
organ transplantation program, at http://www.organdonor.gov/. A copy of
the charter also can be obtained by accessing the FACA database that is
maintained by the Committee Management Secretariat under the General
Services Administration. The Web site address for the FACA database is
http://www.facadatabase.gov/.
Dated: March 3, 2015.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2015-05428 Filed 3-9-15; 8:45 am]
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