1340 Public hearing and public meeting of the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Advisory Committee

Public Hearing and Public Meeting of the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Advisory Committee

[32 Pa.B. 3736]

   The Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Advisory Committee (Committee) of the Department of Health will hold a public hearing and a public meeting on August 9, 2002, in Room E-100, Labor and Industry Building, Forster and Seventh Streets, Harrisburg, PA.

   The public hearing will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Comments must be submitted in writing by 2:30 p.m. on August 7, 2002, to the Department of Health, Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention, Division of Tobacco Prevention and Control, Room 1006 Health and Welfare Building, Seventh and Forster Streets, Harrisburg, PA 17120, fax [phone]. Written comments must be limited to three typewritten pages. Persons wishing to present written statements orally at the public hearing must contact Kevin Alvarnaz at [phone] by 2:30 p.m. on August 7, 2002, to make a reservation for testifying at the hearing. Oral testimony will be limited to 5 minutes. Persons will be scheduled on a first come, first served basis, as time permits.

   The public meeting of the Committee will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the tobacco use prevention and cessation priorities for State Fiscal Year 2002-03.

   This meeting is open to the public. No reservations are required to attend the public meeting.

   For additional information, contact Judy Ochs, Director, Division of Tobacco Prevention and Control or Kevin Alvarnaz, Assistant Program Administrator, Division of Tobacco Prevention and Control, 1006 Health and Welfare Building, Seventh and Forster Streets, Harrisburg, PA 17120, [phone].

   Persons with a disability who wish to attend the meeting and require an auxiliary aid, service or other accommodation to do so should contact Judy Ochs or Kevin Alvarnaz at [phone], V/TT [phone] for speech and/or hearing impaired persons or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Services at [phone] (TT).

   The hearing and meeting are subject to cancellation without notice.

ROBERT S. ZIMMERMAN, Jr.   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 02-1340. Filed for public inspection August 2, 2002, 9:00 a.m.]