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that the Advisory Committee on
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DATES: The meeting will be held on
January 8, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Information Technology’s Role in
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ACMH, prior to close of business
January 3, 2006.
Dated: November 22, 2005.
Garth N. Graham,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority
Health, Executive Secretary, ACMH.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
The National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) Public
Meeting
The National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
announces the following public
meetings and request for information:
Name: NIOSH Availability of
Opportunity to Provide Input for the
National Occupational Research Agenda
(NORA) with a special emphasis on the
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Construction Sector, and the
Transportation, Warehousing, and
Utilities Sector and regional and multisector input.
Time and Date for Meeting One:
Transportation, Warehousing and
Utilities (TWU) Sector.
9 a.m.–5 p.m. EST, December 5, 2005:
9 a.m.–12 p.m., Multi-Sector Public
Comments.
1 p.m.–5 p.m., TWU Specific Public
Comments.
Place for Meeting One: Holiday Inn,
10000 Baltimore Avenue, College Park,
MD 20740.
Time and Date for Meeting Two:
Construction Sector.
9 a.m.–5 p.m. CST, Monday December
19, 2005:
9 a.m.–12 p.m. Multi-sector Public
Comments.
1 p.m.–5 p.m. Construction Specific
Public Comments.
Place for Meeting Two: University of
Illinois at Chicago, School of Public
Health and Psychiatric Institute, 1603
W. Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois
60612.
Status: Meetings are open to the
public, limited only by the space
available.
Background: A large part of our lives
is shaped by the work we do. NORA is
a framework to guide occupational
safety and health research for the
nation. It is an ongoing endeavor to
focus research to reduce work-related
injury and illness. As the program
approaches a ten year milestone, NIOSH
is hosting public meetings to seek input
from individuals and organizations on
important research issues and agendas.
Information about the public meetings
and registration can be found on the
NORA Web page at: https://
www.cdc.gov/niosh/nora/townhall.
Given that NORA represents a broadbased partnership involving
government, business, the worker
community, academia, and others,
public input is essential for planning
future directions for the initiative,
which will be based on eight different
industry sector groups. Each meeting
will be structured to provide an
opportunity for regional and multisector input during the morning,
followed where appropriate by an
afternoon session to focus on individual
sector issues.
All participants are requested to
register for the free meeting at the
NORA Web page or onsite the day of the
meeting. Participants wishing to speak
are encouraged to register early. The
public meetings are open to everyone,
including all workers, professional
societies, organized labor, employers,
researchers, health professionals,
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government officials and elected
officials. Broad participation is desired.
Purpose: The public meetings will
address both regional and sectorspecific priorities for research. During
the morning session, stakeholders will
be invited to speak for 3–5 minutes on
an important occupational safety and
health issue, including those that occur
in multiple sectors. Where noted in the
agenda, the afternoon session will focus
on sector-specific problems facing the
nation. Again, participants will be asked
to make 3–5 minute presentations
describing what they perceive to be the
top concerns within their sector or subsector. Participants are encouraged to
attend both the regional and sectorspecific sessions, or they may elect to
participate in only one session.
Types of occupational safety and
health issues might include diseases,
injuries, exposures, populations at risk,
and needs of occupational safety and
health systems. For example, falls from
heights might be a top injury issue for
the residential construction industry.
Low back pain and related back
disorders might be a top disease concern
for the urban transit industry. If
possible, please include as much
information as might be useful for
understanding the safety or health
research priority you identify. Such
information could include
characterization of the frequency and
severity with which the injury, illness,
or hazardous exposure is occurring and
of the factors you believe might be
causing the health or safety issue. Input
is also requested on the types of
research that you believe might make a
difference and the partners (e.g., specific
industry associations, labor
organizations, research organizations,
governmental agencies) who should be
involved in forming research efforts and
in solving the problem.
All presentations will be entered into
the NORA Docket, which is maintained
by NIOSH. All comments in the NORA
Docket will be used to help shape
sector-specific and related cross-sector
research agendas for the nation.
These events are the first of several
public meetings. Additional meetings
will include April 18–20, 2006, in
Washington, DC, for Agriculture,
Forestry, and Fishing; Healthcare and
Social Assistance; Wholesale and Retail
Trade; Manufacturing; Mining; Services;
Regional Issues; and a summary session.
Future Federal Register Notices will
provide more information on these
meetings.
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Due to administrative issues that had
to be resolved, the Federal Register
notice is being published on short
notice.
Sid
Soderholm, Ph.D., NORA Coordinator,
(202) 401–0721.
ADDRESSES: Comments may also be emailed to niocindocket@cdc.gov, or sent
via postal mail to: Docket NIOSH–047,
Robert A. Taft Laboratories (C–34), 4676
Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH
45226.
Stakeholders are also invited to
submit comments electronically at the
NORA Web page: https://www.cdc.gov/
niosh/nora. Comments submitted to the
Web page by others can also be viewed
there.
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.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dated: November 30, 2005.
Diane Allen,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and
Services Office, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
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Administration for Children and
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Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects:
Title: Head Start Family and Child
Experiences Survey (FACES)
OMB No.: 0970–0151.
Description: The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) of the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) is requesting comments
on plans to collect data on a new cohort
for the Head Start Family and Child
Experiences Survey (FACES). This
study is being conducted to collect
information on Head Start performance
measures under contract with
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (with
Juarez and Associates and Educational
Testing Service as their subcontractors)
(contract #HHSP23320052905YC).
FACES will involve four waves of
data collection. The first wave will
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occur in fall 2006. Data will be collected
on a sample of approximately 2,800
children and families from about 350
classrooms across 60 Head Start
programs. Data collection will include
assessments of Head Start children,
interviews with their parents, and
ratings by their Head Start teachers.
Furthermore, site visitors will interview
Head Start teachers and make
observations of the types and quality of
classroom activities.
The second wave in spring 2007 will
be very similar to the fall 2006 data
collection, except that we will not
repeat interviews with the Head Start
staff interviewed in the fall and will add
an interview of the family services
coordinator. The children in the second
wave will be at the end of their first year
of Head Start.
The third wave will occur in spring
2008 and will involve follow-ups with
children who at this time are either
completing a second year in Head Start
or completing Kindergarten. For those
children who are still attending Head
Start, data collection will follow the
same procedures as in spring 2007. For
those children attending Kindergarten,
data collection will include assessments
of the children, an ‘‘update’’ survey of
the information collection from the
parent interview, and ratings of the
children’s academic progress and school
adjustment by Kindergarten teachers.
The fourth wave of data collection
will occur in spring 2009. Children who
attended Kindergarten the previous year
will not be included in this wave. The
procedures for this effort will be the
same as for Kindergartens in spring
2008.
This schedule of data collection is
necessitated by the mandates of the
Government Performance and Results
Act (GPRA) of 1993 (Pub. L. 103–62),
which requires that the Head Start
Bureau move expeditiously toward
development and testing of Head Start
Performance Measures, and by the 1994
reauthorization of Head Start (Head
Start Act, as amended, May 18, 1994,
Section 649 (d)), which requires
periodic assessments of Head Start’s
quality and effectiveness.
Respondents: Federal Government,
individuals or households, and not-forprofit institutions.
Annual Burden Estimates
Estimated Response Burden for
Respondents to the Head Start Family
and Child Experiences Survey (FACES
2006)—Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring
2008, Spring 2009.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Public Meeting
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the
following public meetings and request for information:
Name: NIOSH Availability of Opportunity to Provide Input for the
National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) with a special emphasis on
the Construction Sector, and the Transportation, Warehousing, and
Utilities Sector and regional and multi-sector input.
Time and Date for Meeting One: Transportation, Warehousing and
Utilities (TWU) Sector.
9 a.m.-5 p.m. EST, December 5, 2005:
9 a.m.-12 p.m., Multi-Sector Public Comments.
1 p.m.-5 p.m., TWU Specific Public Comments.
Place for Meeting One: Holiday Inn, 10000 Baltimore Avenue, College
Park, MD 20740.
Time and Date for Meeting Two: Construction Sector.
9 a.m.-5 p.m. CST, Monday December 19, 2005:
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Multi-sector Public Comments.
1 p.m.-5 p.m. Construction Specific Public Comments.
Place for Meeting Two: University of Illinois at Chicago, School of
Public Health and Psychiatric Institute, 1603 W. Taylor Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60612.
Status: Meetings are open to the public, limited only by the space
available.
Background: A large part of our lives is shaped by the work we do.
NORA is a framework to guide occupational safety and health research
for the nation. It is an ongoing endeavor to focus research to reduce
work-related injury and illness. As the program approaches a ten year
milestone, NIOSH is hosting public meetings to seek input from
individuals and organizations on important research issues and agendas.
Information about the public meetings and registration can be found on
the NORA Web page at: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nora/townhall.
Given that NORA represents a broad-based partnership involving
government, business, the worker community, academia, and others,
public input is essential for planning future directions for the
initiative, which will be based on eight different industry sector
groups. Each meeting will be structured to provide an opportunity for
regional and multi-sector input during the morning, followed where
appropriate by an afternoon session to focus on individual sector
issues.
All participants are requested to register for the free meeting at
the NORA Web page or onsite the day of the meeting. Participants
wishing to speak are encouraged to register early. The public meetings
are open to everyone, including all workers, professional societies,
organized labor, employers, researchers, health professionals,
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government officials and elected officials. Broad participation is
desired.
Purpose: The public meetings will address both regional and sector-
specific priorities for research. During the morning session,
stakeholders will be invited to speak for 3-5 minutes on an important
occupational safety and health issue, including those that occur in
multiple sectors. Where noted in the agenda, the afternoon session will
focus on sector-specific problems facing the nation. Again,
participants will be asked to make 3-5 minute presentations describing
what they perceive to be the top concerns within their sector or sub-
sector. Participants are encouraged to attend both the regional and
sector-specific sessions, or they may elect to participate in only one
session.
Types of occupational safety and health issues might include
diseases, injuries, exposures, populations at risk, and needs of
occupational safety and health systems. For example, falls from heights
might be a top injury issue for the residential construction industry.
Low back pain and related back disorders might be a top disease concern
for the urban transit industry. If possible, please include as much
information as might be useful for understanding the safety or health
research priority you identify. Such information could include
characterization of the frequency and severity with which the injury,
illness, or hazardous exposure is occurring and of the factors you
believe might be causing the health or safety issue. Input is also
requested on the types of research that you believe might make a
difference and the partners (e.g., specific industry associations,
labor organizations, research organizations, governmental agencies) who
should be involved in forming research efforts and in solving the
problem.
All presentations will be entered into the NORA Docket, which is
maintained by NIOSH. All comments in the NORA Docket will be used to
help shape sector-specific and related cross-sector research agendas
for the nation.
These events are the first of several public meetings. Additional
meetings will include April 18-20, 2006, in Washington, DC, for
Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing; Healthcare and Social Assistance;
Wholesale and Retail Trade; Manufacturing; Mining; Services; Regional
Issues; and a summary session. Future Federal Register Notices will
provide more information on these meetings.
Due to administrative issues that had to be resolved, the Federal
Register notice is being published on short notice.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Sid Soderholm, Ph.D., NORA Coordinator,
(202) 401-0721.
ADDRESSES: Comments may also be e-mailed to niocindocket@cdc.gov, or
sent via postal mail to: Docket NIOSH-047, Robert A. Taft Laboratories
(C-34), 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226.
Stakeholders are also invited to submit comments electronically at
the NORA Web page: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nora. Comments submitted to
the Web page by others can also be viewed there.
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: November 30, 2005.
Diane Allen,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05-23664 Filed 12-5-05; 8:45 am]
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