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Dated: December 14, 2004.
Sally Atwater,
Executive Director, President’s Committee for
People with Intellectual Disabilities.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request; Training Tomorrow’s
Scientists: Linking Minorities and
Mentors Through the Web
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research (OBSSR), the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) will publish
periodic summaries of proposed
projects to be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval.
Proposed Collection: Title: Training
Tomorrow’s Scientists: Linking
Minorities and Mentors Through the
Web. Type of Information Collection
Request: REVISION, OMB control
number 0925–0475, Expiration Date
3/31/3005. Need and Use of Information
Collection: This Web site allows
federally-funded researchers supported
by any of the 27 Institutes and Centers
of the NIH to submit an electronic form
describing his or her research areas, as
well as interests in mentoring minority
students or junior faculty. The
researcher’s description is posted on the
Web site for searching by interested
minority applicants. Minority students
or junior faculty search the Web site to
identify researchers with whom they
would like to work. The research
projects in the database are located all
over the country and involve cutting
edge research activities by scientists
funded through the Institutes and
Centers of the NIH. These research
projects range from studies of children
to research on older adults, from
laboratory research to field research,
from social research to a combination of
biological and behavioral research.
Applicants conduct an electronic search
using categories such as research areas
of interest, desired geographic location
of the researcher, and their level of
education. The primary objective of the
program is to ensure that, in the coming
decades, a concentration of minority
researchers will be available to address
behavioral and social factors important
in improving the public health and
eliminating racial disparities. Increasing
the number of minority scientists in the
U.S. will expand our currently limited
knowledge about the epidemiology and
treatment of diseases in minority
population. Frequency of Response: On
occasion. Affected Public: Individuals or
households. Type of Respondents:
Students, Post-doctorals, Junior Faculty,
and Principal Investigators. The annual
reporting burden is as follows:
Estimated Number of Respondents: 400;
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1; Average Burden Hours
per Response: 10 minutes; and
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours
Requested: 148. There is no annualized
cost to respondents. There are no
Capital Costs, Operating Costs and/or
Maintenance Costs to report.
ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS FOR RESPONDENTS
Estimated No.
of respondents
Type of respondents
NIH-Funded Behavioral Researchers .........
High School Students ..................................
College Students .........................................
Graduate Students ......................................
Postdoctoral Fellows ...................................
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Average time
per response
Activity
Peruse Site ..........................
Complete Form ....................
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ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS FOR RESPONDENTS—Continued
Estimated No.
of respondents
Type of respondents
Frequency of
response
Average time
per response
Activity
Estimated annual burden
hours
Junior Faculty ..............................................
20
65
10
1
1
1
Complete Form ....................
Peruse site ...........................
Complete Form ....................
.5
.25
.5
10
16
5
Total per year .......................................
400
........................
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148
Requests for Comments: Written
comments and/or suggestions from the
public and affected agencies are invited
on one or more of the following points:
(1) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the function of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility:
(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
For Further Information Contact: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, contact Ms. Dana
Sampson, Program Analyst, OBSSR, OD,
NIH, Building 1, Room 256, 1 Center
Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, or call nontoll-free number (301) 402–1146 or email your request, including your
address to: SampsonD@od.nih.gov.
Comments Due Date: Comments
regarding this information collection are
best assured of having their full effect if
received within 60 days of the date of
this publication.
Dated: December 27, 2004.
Fred C. Walker,
Acting Executive Officer, Office of the
Director, National Institutes of Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Submission for OMB Review;
Emergency Processing; Rapid Access
to Interventional Development
SUMMARY: Under provisions of section
1320.13 of Regulations Implementing
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the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is
requesting approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval of the information collection
involved in the Rapid Access to
Intervention Development (RAID)
mechanism. Under this program NIH
makes NIH resources available to
requesting extramural investigators with
the goal of speeding the progress of
therapeutic, preventive and/or imaging
agents to clinical testing.
Since the number of requests from
extramural investigators greatly exceeds
the available resources of the NIH, the
NIH needs to collect scientific
background information from the
extramural investigators to determine
which requests are most meritorious.
The instructions on the NIH Web sites
identified below explain the procedures
for applying.
The initial RAID program was
developed in 1998 with authorization
by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC)
and the National Cancer Advisory Board
(NCAB). Subsequently, the RAID type
programs were expanded within NCI
and adopted also by other NIH
components [National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
and National Institute of Diabetes and
Digestive and Kidney Diseases
(NIDDK)]. However, the requirement for
clearance of the information collection
burden associated with the programs
was not recognized. Officials in NCI
believed that the support of the research
facilitated by the RAID-type programs
was already covered under existing
OMB authorized information collections
(OMB No. 0925–0001/Exp. 9/2007 and
OMB NO. 0925–0002/Exp. 6/2005),
which provide for regular exchanges of
information between NIH program
officials and the investigators, who are
supported by NIH discretionary
investigator-initiated research grants, to
assure that NIH remains responsive to
new directions in the research, progress
in conducting the research and
additional budgetary and scientific
resources needed to successfully
complete the research. As a
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consequence, the requirement for
specific approval of the information
collected in the furtherance of the
Federal assistance activity was not
formally recognized.
At this time, NIH is requesting by
emergency clearance procedures that
the OMB approve the collection of
information under the various existing
RAID-type programs and to approve the
proposed expansion of the program to
accommodate new initiatives under the
NIH Director’s Roadmap (https://
nihroadmap.nih.gov/), which will
employ the RAID model to facilitate
advances in research by rapid
availability of needed resources. Six
Raid-like programs are currently in
existence; another is shortly to be
announced. NCI RAID (https://
dtp.nci.nih.gov/docs/raid/
raid_index.html); NCI R*A*N*D
(https://dtp.nci.nih.gov/docs/rand/
rand_index.html); NCI–NIAID InterInstitute Program for the Development
of AIDS-Related Therapeutics (https://
dtp.nci.nih.gov/docs/dart/dart/html);
NCI RAPID (https://www3.cancer.gov/
prevention/rapid/); NCI DECIDE (https://
dtp.nci.nih.gov/docs/ddg/
ddg_descript.html); NIDDKT1D–RAID
(https://www.niddk.nih.gov/fund/
diabetesspecailfunds/t1d-raid/
raid.htm); NIH Roadmap RAID program
(https://nihroadmap.nih.gov/).
The NIH has determined that the
continuing collection of information is
essential to the mission of the agency
and the agency cannot reasonably
comply with the normal clearance
procedures because public harm is
reasonably likely to result and the use
of the normal clearance process is
reasonably likely to disrupt the
collection of information.
NIH is requesting OMB approval by
January 24, 2005, in order to be able to
receive applications from scientific
investigators that have been in
preparation and development for many
months in the expectation of support
under the announced due dates of the
RAID programs. Delay or deferral will
create disruption of on going
investigations and delay scientific
advances.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Training Tomorrow's
Scientists: Linking Minorities and Mentors Through the Web
SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment
on proposed data collection projects, the Office of Behavioral and
Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects to be
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval.
Proposed Collection: Title: Training Tomorrow's Scientists: Linking
Minorities and Mentors Through the Web. Type of Information Collection
Request: REVISION, OMB control number 0925-0475, Expiration Date 3/31/
3005. Need and Use of Information Collection: This Web site allows
federally-funded researchers supported by any of the 27 Institutes and
Centers of the NIH to submit an electronic form describing his or her
research areas, as well as interests in mentoring minority students or
junior faculty. The researcher's description is posted on the Web site
for searching by interested minority applicants. Minority students or
junior faculty search the Web site to identify researchers with whom
they would like to work. The research projects in the database are
located all over the country and involve cutting edge research
activities by scientists funded through the Institutes and Centers of
the NIH. These research projects range from studies of children to
research on older adults, from laboratory research to field research,
from social research to a combination of biological and behavioral
research. Applicants conduct an electronic search using categories such
as research areas of interest, desired geographic location of the
researcher, and their level of education. The primary objective of the
program is to ensure that, in the coming decades, a concentration of
minority researchers will be available to address behavioral and social
factors important in improving the public health and eliminating racial
disparities. Increasing the number of minority scientists in the U.S.
will expand our currently limited knowledge about the epidemiology and
treatment of diseases in minority population. Frequency of Response: On
occasion. Affected Public: Individuals or households. Type of
Respondents: Students, Post-doctorals, Junior Faculty, and Principal
Investigators. The annual reporting burden is as follows: Estimated
Number of Respondents: 400; Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1; Average Burden Hours per Response: 10 minutes; and
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours Requested: 148. There is no
annualized cost to respondents. There are no Capital Costs, Operating
Costs and/or Maintenance Costs to report.
Annual Burden Hours for Respondents
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Estimated
Type of respondents Estimated No. Frequency of Activity Average time annual burden
of respondents response per response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NIH-Funded Behavioral 50 1 Peruse Site..... .168 8
Researchers.
20 1 Complete Form... .5 10
High School Students......... 50 1 Peruse Site..... .25 12
5 1 Complete Form... .74 4
College Students............. 70 1 Peruse site..... .25 17
15 1 Complete Form... .668 10
Graduate Students............ 100 1 Peruse site..... .25 25
25 1 Complete Form... .5845 15
Postdoctoral Fellows......... 65 1 Peruse site..... .25 16
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20 1 Complete Form... .5 10
Junior Faculty............... 65 1 Peruse site..... .25 16
10 1 Complete Form... .5 5
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Total per year........... 400 .............. ................ .............. 148
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Requests for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the
following points: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the function of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility: (2) the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of information on those who are to
respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
For Further Information Contact: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
instruments, contact Ms. Dana Sampson, Program Analyst, OBSSR, OD, NIH,
Building 1, Room 256, 1 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, or call non-
toll-free number (301) 402-1146 or e-mail your request, including your
address to: SampsonD@od.nih.gov.
Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 60 days
of the date of this publication.
Dated: December 27, 2004.
Fred C. Walker,
Acting Executive Officer, Office of the Director, National Institutes
of Health.
[FR Doc. 05-465 Filed 1-10-05; 8:45 am]
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