Revised Vessel Sanitation Operations Manual; Public Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Revised Vessel Sanitation Operations Manual; Public Meeting

The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following

meeting.

Name: Discussion of the second draft of the revised Vessel

Sanitation Operations Manual--Public meeting between CDC and the

cruise ship industry, private sanitation consultants, and other

interested parties.

Time and Date: 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., October 5, 1999; 9 a.m.-4:30

p.m., October 6, 1999; 9 a.m.-12 noon, October 7, 1999.

Place: Auditorium, Port Everglades Administration Building, 1850

Eller Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316.

Status: Open to the public, limited by the space available. The

meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people.

Purpose: CDC announced its intention to revise the Vessel

Sanitation Operations Manual in the Federal Register of July 9, 1998

(Volume 63, Number 131). Input and comments from the public were

requested of and received from the cruise ship industry, private

sanitation consultants, and other interested parties, and were

discussed in detail at a public meeting held in Fort Lauderdale on

April 14-16, 1999. On the basis of comments received, VSP staff have

written a second draft of the revised manual and will discuss the

revisions at this public meeting.

Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items will include a thorough

discussion of each section of the second draft of the revised

operations manual. A copy of the second draft will be available for

review by August 6, 1999. To obtain a copy, contact the VSP in

Atlanta at the address or phone number below, or go to the VSP Home

Page on the Internet at http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/programs/vsp.

For a period of 15 days following the meeting, through October

22, 1999, the official record of the meeting will remain open so

that additional materials or comments may be submitted to be made

part of the record of the meeting. VSP staff will then finalize the

revised operations manual and publish the final in the Federal

Register.

Advanced registration for this important meeting is encouraged.

If you plan to attend, please provide your name, title, company

name, mailing address, telephone number, facsimile number, and E-

mail address to Dorothy Johnson, Management Assistant, facsimile

770/488-4127 or E-mail: [email protected].

Contact Person for More Information: David Forney, Acting Chief,

VSP, telephone 770/488-7333 or E-mail: [email protected]; or Daniel

Harper, Senior Environmental Health Officer, VSP, telephone 770/488-

3524, E-mail: [email protected]; or write to us at Vessel Sanitation

Program, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S F-16, Atlanta, Georgia

30341-3724.

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 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Dated: June 30, 1999.

Carolyn J. Russell,

Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention.

[FR Doc. 99-17274 Filed 7-7-99; 8:45 am]

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