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into by the EPA and T.J.’s Enterprises,
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threatened release of hazardous
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of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a).
Dated: December 21, 2006.
John B. Askew,
Regional Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency, Region VII.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Interested persons may submit
comments on the proposed reissuance
of the general permit to EPA, Region 10
at the address below. Comments must
be received by March 2, 2007.
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
DATES:
Comments on the proposed
General Permit should be sent to
Director, Office of Water and
Watersheds; USEPA Region 10; 1200
Sixth Avenue, OWW–130; Seattle,
Washington 98101.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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General Permit are available upon
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General Permit may be found on the
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permits, then Alaska).
Requests for copies may be made to
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electronically mailed to:
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order.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) allow the proposed
information collection project:
‘‘Improving Quality of Care in Long
Term Care.’’ In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), AHRQ invites the public
to comment on this proposed
information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by February 15, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, 540
Gaither Road, Room #5036, Rockville,
MD 20850.
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from AHRQ’s Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ, Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
After review of the facts presented in
the notice printed above, I hereby certify
pursuant to the provision of 5 U.S.C.
605(b) that this reissuance of this
general permit will not have a
significant impact on a substantial
number of small entities. Moreover, the
permit reduces a significant
administrative burden on regulated
sources.
SUMMARY: On June 4, 2007, a general
permit regulating the activities of small
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Improving Quality of Care in Long Term
Care
The proposed project will design,
implement, and evaluate an
intervention program to prevent
injurious falls in assisted living
facilities. The project involves four
major activities: (1) Adapting a
multifaceted, evidence-based falls
prevention program to a protocol
tailored to the assisted living
environment; (2) implementing the pilot
protocol and collecting clinical and
process data pre- and post-intervention;
(3) evaluating the results of the
intervention; and (4) widely
disseminating the protocol (revised as
needed based on the evaluation),
training materials, and research
findings.
The project design is a multicomponent falls intervention program
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that will include medication review,
resident assessment, environmental
modification, and exercise. Its goal will
be to reduce risk factors for falls, as well
as fall and fracture rates, among
residents of assisted living facilities.
The project will adapt existing
evidence-based falls prevention
interventions to the assisted living
setting, and collect data to track the
progress and impact of the intervention
program. Data collection for the falls
intervention project will be approved by
the University of North Carolina—
Chapel Hill and Research Triangle
Institute (RTI) International Institutional
Review Boards. It will be conducted in
accordance with the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA) Privacy rule and with the
Protection of Human Research Subjects
regulations, 45 CFR part 46. In addition,
the identifiable data collected in this
study about provider organizations and
individuals will only be used for the
above-stated purposes and will be kept
confidential.
Methods of Collection
The evaluation will use several
methods to examine the efficacy of the
intervention, including record review,
in-person surveys, and in-depth
interviews. Data for this process
evaluation of the implementation of the
intervention will be collected at 6 and
12 months at the facility-level (e.g., fall
and fracture rates, intervention
adoption) and the resident-level (e.g.,
risk factors for falls, adherence to
intervention regimens).
The quantitative data will be collected
using a series of questionnaires to
collect information about the facility, its
staff, and the participating residents.
The information about residents’
cognitive, medical, and functional
status, and risk for falls will be collected
using resident medication records and
charts, performance based physical
assessments, and standard measures of
activities of daily living and cognition.
The in-depth interviews of residents
and staff will use both open-ended
questions and items with categorical
response options to facilitate analysis.
Items will include the degree to which
the facility has changed its practice; the
degree to which residents accept and
adhere to the intervention; facilitators
for and obstacles to implementation;
report of staff and resident satisfaction;
reactions and experiences related to the
use of volunteers; and lessons learned.
These data will be gathered through 60minute interviews with facility staff
including administrators and clinical
personnel, and 30 to 40 minute
interviews with residents. The research
staff will interview up to four staff at
each intervention site and up to four
residents at each site.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
The table below indicates the
estimated time and cost burden to the
respondents for obtaining all of the data
needed to meet the study’s objectives.
There will be no cost burden to the
respondent other than the cost burden
associated with their time to provide the
required data. There will be no
additional costs for capital equipment,
software, computer services, etc.
Time required to analyze the data and
prepare it for reporting and publication
is not included in these estimates.
TABLE 1.—ESTIMATED RESPONDENT BURDEN
Number of
responses per
respondent
(baseline, 6
months and 12
months)
Number of
respondents
Type of respondent
Direct Caregiver Staff ...........................
20
30
Facility Staff ..........................................
260
1
Facility Administrator ............................
4
3
Facility Residents .................................
200
3
Total ..............................................
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........................
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
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Estimated
time per
respondent
The total estimated one-time cost of
this intervention implementation and
related data collection to the federal
government is $199,600. This funding
will be used to support the cost of
implementing the intervention, salary
and fringe benefits for the research team
to conduct the survey interview and indepth interviews, costs for members of
the research team to travel to each site,
and the incentives paid to facilities for
participation in the intervention. The
project proposes to work with assisted
living facilities with which the research
team already has established
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Estimated total
burden
(hours)
0.10 hours (6
minutes).
.067 hours (4
minutes).
0.25 hours
(15 minutes).
0.583 hours
(35 minutes).
.....................
relationships and familiarity and will
attempt to minimize burden to the
assisted living facility staff by being
flexible to schedules and requirements
of care practices within the facilities.
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited
Paperwork Reduction Act legislation,
comments on AHRQ’s information
collection are requested with regard to
any of the following: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
AHRQ health care research and health
care information dissemination
functions, including whether the
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rate
60
$9.00
17.3
9.00
Estimated cost
burden to the
respondent
$540
155.70
3
25
75
350
0
0
430
..........................
770.70
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of AHRQ’s estimate of
burden (including hours and ocsts) of
the proposed collection(s) of
information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information upon the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
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comments will become a matter of
public record.
Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, 540
Gaither Road, Room #5036, Rockville,
MD 20850. Copies of the proposed
collection plans, data collection
instruments, and specific details on the
estimated burden can be obtained from
AHRQ’s Reports Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ, Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
Dated: January 4, 2007.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) allow the proposed
information collection project:
‘‘Evaluation of the Implementation and
Impact of Pay-for-Quality Programs.’’ In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–
13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), AHRQ
invites the public to comment on this
proposed information collection.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on October 24, 2006 and
allowed 60 days for public comment. No
public comments were received. The
purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by February 15, 2007.
Proposed Project
‘‘Evaluation of the Implementation and
Impact of Pay-for-Quality (P4Q)
Programs’’
The P4Q Evaluation is a multi-method
research project designed to evaluate the
implementation and impact of P4Q
programs on physicians across three
programs operating in health care safety
net settings. The P4Q programs
participating in the evaluation are
offering their healthcare providers
financial incentives to achieve
predefined quality targets. Data
collected as part of this evaluation will
have direct operational relevance to
payers and providers regarding the
value and challenges of P4Q programs
in safety net settings. The P4Q
evaluation is designed to assess whether
P4Q programs in such settings improve
quality on the measures that are the
focus of the programs and also whether
the programs lead to unintended
consequences. The P4Q evaluation will
also seek to identify design and
implementation practices that are likely
to increase as well as decrease the risks
of negative outcomes resulting from the
implementation of P4Q programs in
safety net settings.
Number of
respondents
Type of respondent
Number of
responses per
respondent
Physicians .......................................
216
1
Practice executives and other senior managers.
24
1
Total .........................................
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Estimated Costs to the Federal
Government
The total cost to the government for
this activity is estimated to be $193,941.
This funding will be used to support
survey administration costs, salary and
fringe benefits for the research team
relating to the design and
administration of the survey and
informant interviews, and costs for two
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Estimated time
per respondent
The evaluation will use several
methods to examine P4Q programs in
safety net settings, including a survey
and key informant interviews. Survey
data will be obtained from physicians
participating in P4Q programs using a
confidential mailed questionnaire. The
key informant interviews will consist of
35-minute semi-structured interviews
with physician organization executives,
practice leaders, physicians, and other
senior managers in each study setting
regarding program design,
implementation, and impact. The
research project investigators will
interview up to six informants at each
site.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
The table below indicates the total
time burden required to obtain all the
data required to meet the study’s
objectives. It does not include time
required to analyze the data and prepare
it for reporting and publication.
Estimated annual respondent cost
burden
54
14
$5,322.12 to cover costs of responding to survey.
$841.35 to cover costs of participating in in-person interviews.
...........................
68
$6,163.47.
In accordance with the above-cited
Paperwork Reduction Act legislation,
comments on AHRQ’s information
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0.25 hours (15
minutes).
0.58 hours (35
minutes).
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Data collection under the P4Q
evaluation will be approved by the
Boston University’s Medical Campus
Institutional Review Board. It will be
conducted in accordance with the
Health Insurance Protection and
Portability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule
and with the Protection of Human
Subjects regulations, 45 CFR part 46. In
addition, the identifiable data collected
in this study about provider
organizations and individuals will only
be used for the above-stated purposes
and will be protected in accordance
with the AHRQ confidentiality statute,
section 934(c) of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 299c–3(c)).
Estimated total
burden
(hours)
members of the research team to travel
to each site for the informant interviews.
The project will attempt to minimize
burden to physician survey respondents
by distributing surveys at medical staff
meetings.
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collection are requested with regard to
any of the following: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
AHRQ health care research and health
care information dissemination
functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of AHRQ’s estimate of
burden (including hours and costs) of
the proposed collection(s) of
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) allow the proposed information collection
project: ``Improving Quality of Care in Long Term Care.'' In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed
information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by February 15, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, 540 Gaither Road, Room 5036,
Rockville, MD 20850.
Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection
instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be
obtained from AHRQ's Reports Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ, Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Improving Quality of Care in Long Term Care
The proposed project will design, implement, and evaluate an
intervention program to prevent injurious falls in assisted living
facilities. The project involves four major activities: (1) Adapting a
multifaceted, evidence-based falls prevention program to a protocol
tailored to the assisted living environment; (2) implementing the pilot
protocol and collecting clinical and process data pre- and post-
intervention; (3) evaluating the results of the intervention; and (4)
widely disseminating the protocol (revised as needed based on the
evaluation), training materials, and research findings.
The project design is a multi-component falls intervention program
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that will include medication review, resident assessment, environmental
modification, and exercise. Its goal will be to reduce risk factors for
falls, as well as fall and fracture rates, among residents of assisted
living facilities. The project will adapt existing evidence-based falls
prevention interventions to the assisted living setting, and collect
data to track the progress and impact of the intervention program. Data
collection for the falls intervention project will be approved by the
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill and Research Triangle
Institute (RTI) International Institutional Review Boards. It will be
conducted in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy rule and with the Protection of
Human Research Subjects regulations, 45 CFR part 46. In addition, the
identifiable data collected in this study about provider organizations
and individuals will only be used for the above-stated purposes and
will be kept confidential.
Methods of Collection
The evaluation will use several methods to examine the efficacy of
the intervention, including record review, in-person surveys, and in-
depth interviews. Data for this process evaluation of the
implementation of the intervention will be collected at 6 and 12 months
at the facility-level (e.g., fall and fracture rates, intervention
adoption) and the resident-level (e.g., risk factors for falls,
adherence to intervention regimens).
The quantitative data will be collected using a series of
questionnaires to collect information about the facility, its staff,
and the participating residents. The information about residents'
cognitive, medical, and functional status, and risk for falls will be
collected using resident medication records and charts, performance
based physical assessments, and standard measures of activities of
daily living and cognition.
The in-depth interviews of residents and staff will use both open-
ended questions and items with categorical response options to
facilitate analysis. Items will include the degree to which the
facility has changed its practice; the degree to which residents accept
and adhere to the intervention; facilitators for and obstacles to
implementation; report of staff and resident satisfaction; reactions
and experiences related to the use of volunteers; and lessons learned.
These data will be gathered through 60-minute interviews with facility
staff including administrators and clinical personnel, and 30 to 40
minute interviews with residents. The research staff will interview up
to four staff at each intervention site and up to four residents at
each site.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
The table below indicates the estimated time and cost burden to the
respondents for obtaining all of the data needed to meet the study's
objectives. There will be no cost burden to the respondent other than
the cost burden associated with their time to provide the required
data. There will be no additional costs for capital equipment,
software, computer services, etc.
Time required to analyze the data and prepare it for reporting and
publication is not included in these estimates.
Table 1.--Estimated Respondent Burden
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Number of
responses per
Number of respondent Estimated time per Estimated total Average hourly Estimated cost
Type of respondent respondents (baseline, 6 respondent burden (hours) rate burden to the
months and 12 respondent
months)
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Direct Caregiver Staff................... 20 30 0.10 hours (6 minutes)...... 60 $9.00 $540
Facility Staff........................... 260 1 .067 hours (4 minutes)...... 17.3 9.00 155.70
Facility Administrator................... 4 3 0.25 hours (15 minutes)..... 3 25 75
Facility Residents....................... 200 3 0.583 hours (35 minutes).... 350 0 0
Total................................ .............. .............. ............................ 430 .............. 770.70
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Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal Government
The total estimated one-time cost of this intervention
implementation and related data collection to the federal government is
$199,600. This funding will be used to support the cost of implementing
the intervention, salary and fringe benefits for the research team to
conduct the survey interview and in-depth interviews, costs for members
of the research team to travel to each site, and the incentives paid to
facilities for participation in the intervention. The project proposes
to work with assisted living facilities with which the research team
already has established relationships and familiarity and will attempt
to minimize burden to the assisted living facility staff by being
flexible to schedules and requirements of care practices within the
facilities.
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited Paperwork Reduction Act
legislation, comments on AHRQ's information collection are requested
with regard to any of the following: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
AHRQ health care research and health care information dissemination
functions, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of AHRQ's estimate of burden (including hours
and ocsts) of the proposed collection(s) of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information upon the respondents, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and included in the Agency's subsequent request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
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comments will become a matter of public record.
Dated: January 4, 2007.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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