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discussion groups of no more than ten
individuals. Each facilitator will
complete a brief facilitator information
form designed to provide descriptive
information about the group session.
Each participant in the discussion
groups will complete a pre and post
program questionnaire. A total of 360
participants 18 years or older, African
American who either have diabetes or
friends and/or family members of
someone with diabetes will participate
in the discussion groups; (2) These 360
participants will also complete a onemonth follow up survey to assess
whether or not desired behavior change
occurred. The survey will be
administered via mail, telephone and
web and will take approximately 20–30
minutes to complete; (3) A selected
sample of participants with diabetes
(n=18) will participate in 1-hour
telephone interviews to discuss their
experiences with the intervention,
Type of respondent
including any challenges they faced; (4)
Twenty trained and lay facilitators will
participate in 1-hour in-depth
interviews to discuss the usefulness of
the guide; (5) A feedback form for users
of the New Beginnings discussion guide
will be part of the future distribution of
the guide. This form is designed to
provide on-going input from new users
of the guide. The only cost to
respondents is their time to participate
in the survey.
Study Design
The study will consist of the
following three groups of facilitators
and participants:
Group 1: Twelve facilitators will
convene groups of participants and
complete the facilitator feedback forms.
The same 120 participants will view the
movie and complete the pre-, post-, and
follow-up questionnaires.
Group 2: Twelve facilitators will
convene groups of participants and
Number of respondents
Form name
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
1:
1:
1:
1:
1:
2:
2:
2:
2:
2:
Facilitator ..........................
Participant .........................
Participant .........................
Participant .........................
Participant .........................
Facilitator ..........................
Participant .........................
Participant .........................
Participant .........................
Participant .........................
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
2:
3:
3:
3:
3:
3:
Participant .........................
Facilitator ..........................
Participant .........................
Participant .........................
Participant .........................
Participant .........................
complete the facilitator feedback forms.
The same 120 participants will view the
movie, participate in one discussion
session, and complete the pre-, post-,
and follow-up questionnaires.
Group 3: Twelve facilitators will
convene groups of participants and
complete the facilitator feedback forms
for each discussion session convened.
The same 120 participants will view the
movie, participate in 2–4 discussion
sessions, and complete the pre-, post-,
and follow-up questionnaires.
Additionally:
18 participants (drawn from the total
pool of 360) will participate in in-depth
interviews.
Twenty trained and lay facilitators
will participate in in-depth interviews.
50 facilitators will complete the
feedback form that accompanies the
discussion guide.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
Number responses per
respondent
Average burden
per response
(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
12
120
120
120
120
12
120
120
120
120
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
5/60
30/60
20/60
20/60
20/60
10/60
30/60
20/60
20/60
60/60
1
60
40
40
40
2
60
40
40
120
120
12
120
120
120
120
1
4
1
1
4
1
20/60
10/60
30/60
20/60
60/60
20/60
40
8
60
40
480
40
Group 3: Participant .........................
Facilitator ..........................................
Participant ........................................
Facilitator ..........................................
Facilitator Information Form ............
View the movie ................................
Pre-program questionnaire ..............
Post-program questionnaire ............
Follow-up questionnaire ..................
Facilitator Information Form ............
View the movie ................................
Pre-program questionnaire ..............
Post-program questionnaire ............
Participate in one facilitated discussion.
Follow-up questionnaire ..................
Facilitator Information Form ............
View the movie ................................
Pre-program questionnaire ..............
Post-program questionnaire ............
Participate in four facilitated discussions.
Follow-up questionnaire ..................
In-depth interview ............................
In-depth interview ............................
Feedback Forms .............................
120
20
18
50
1
1
1
1
20/60
60/60
60/60
10/60
40
20
18
8.5
Total ..........................................
..........................................................
396
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Disease Control and Prevention.
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[60-Day 07–0639]
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
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
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–5960 and
send comments to Joan Karr, CDC
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an e-mail to
omb@cdc.gov.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
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of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection 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
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
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Proposed Project
Special Exposure Cohort Petitions—
Extension—National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
On October 30, 2000, the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000
(EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. 7384–7385 [1994,
supp. 2001] was enacted. It established
a compensation program to provide a
lump sum payment of $150,000 and
medical benefits as compensation to
covered employees suffering from
designated illnesses incurred as a result
of their exposure to radiation,
beryllium, or silica while in the
performance of duty for the Department
of Energy and certain of its vendors,
contractors and subcontractors. This
legislation also provided for payment of
compensation for certain survivors of
these covered employees. The only
change to the collection is an increase
in burden hours because more
petitioners are requesting to have their
work site named as a special exposure
cohort. This program has been
mandated to be in effect until Congress
ends the funding.
EEOICPA instructed the President to
designate one or more Federal Agencies
to carry out the compensation program.
Accordingly, the President issued
Executive Order 13179 (‘‘Providing
Compensation to America’s Nuclear
Weapons Workers’’) on December 7,
2000 (65 FR 77487), assigning primary
responsibility for administration of the
compensation program to the
Department of Labor (DOL). The
executive order directed the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) to
perform several technical and
policymaking roles in support of the
DOL program.
Among other duties, the executive
order directed HHS to establish and
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implement procedures for considering
petitions by classes of nuclear weapons
workers to be added to the ‘‘Special
Exposure Cohort’’ (the ‘‘Cohort’’),
various groups of workers whose claims
for cancer under EEOICPA can be
adjudicated without demonstrating that
their cancer was ‘‘at least as likely as
not’’ caused by radiation doses they
incurred in the performance of duty. In
brief, EEOICPA authorizes HHS to
designate such classes of employees for
addition to the Cohort when NIOSH
lacks sufficient information to estimate
with sufficient accuracy the radiation
doses of the employees, if HHS also
finds that the health of members of the
class may have been endangered by the
radiation dose the class potentially
incurred. HHS must also obtain the
advice of the Advisory Board on
Radiation and Worker Health (the
‘‘Board’’) in establishing such findings.
On March 7, 2003, HHS proposed
procedures for adding such classes to
the Cohort in a notice of proposed
rulemaking at 42 CFR Part 83.
The HHS procedures authorize a
variety of individuals and entities to
submit petitions, as specified under
§ 83.7. Petitioners are required to
provide the information specified in
§ 83.9 to qualify their petitions for a
complete evaluation by HHS and the
Board. HHS has developed two petition
forms to assist the petitioners in
providing this required information
efficiently and completely. Petition
Form A is a one-page form to be used
by EEOICPA claimants for whom
NIOSH will have attempted to conduct
dose reconstructions and will have
determined that available information is
not sufficient to complete the dose
reconstruction. The form addresses the
informational requirements specified
under § 83.9(a) and (b). Petition Form B,
accompanied by separate instructions, is
intended for all other petitioners. The
form addresses the informational
requirements specified under § 83.9(a)
and (c). Forms A and B can be
submitted electronically as well as in
hard copy. Petitioners should be aware
that HHS is not requiring petitioners to
use the forms. Petitioners can choose to
submit petitions as letters or in other
formats, but petitions must meet the
informational requirements referenced
above. NIOSH expects, however, that all
petitioners for whom Form A would be
appropriate will actually use the form,
since NIOSH will provide it to them
upon determining that their dose
reconstruction cannot be completed and
encourage them to submit the petition.
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NIOSH expects the large majority of
petitioners for whom Form B would be
appropriate will also use the form, since
it provides a simple, organized format
for addressing the informational
requirements of a petition.
NIOSH will use the information
obtained through the petition for the
following purposes: (a) Identify the
petitioner(s), obtain their contact
information, and establish that the
petitioner(s) is qualified and intends to
petition HHS; (b) establish an initial
definition of the class of employees
being proposed to be considered for
addition to the Cohort; (c) determine
whether there is justification to require
HHS to evaluate whether or not to
designate the proposed class as an
addition to the Cohort (such an
evaluation involves potentially
extensive data collection, analysis, and
related deliberations by NIOSH, the
Board, and HHS); and, (d) target an
evaluation by HHS to examine relevant
potential limitations of radiation
monitoring and/or dosimetry-relevant
records and to examine the potential for
related radiation exposures that might
have endangered the health of members
of the class.
Finally, under § 83.18, petitioners
may contest the proposed decision of
the Secretary to add or deny adding
classes of employees to the cohort by
submitting evidence that the proposed
decision relies on a record of either
factual or procedural errors in the
implementation of these procedures.
NIOSH estimates that the time to
prepare and submit such a challenge is
45 minutes. Because of the uniqueness
of this submission, NIOSH is not
providing a form. The submission
should be in a letter format.
There are no costs to petitioners
unless a petitioner chooses to purchase
the services of a expert in dose
reconstruction, an option provided for
under 42 CFR 83.9(c)(2)(iii). The
petitioner would assume the financial
burden of purchasing such services at
their option. In such cases, HHS
estimates a report by such an expert
may cost between $640 and $6,400,
depending on the scope of the petition
and access to relevant information. This
is based on an estimate of costs of $80
per hour for contractual services by a
health physicist, who NIOSH estimates
would be employed within a range of
eight to eighty hours to conduct and
prepare a report on the required
assessment.
Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Form name &
number (CFR
reference)
Number of
respondents
Respondents
83.9 ...................
83.9 ...................
83.9 ...................
83.18 .................
Total ..........
Petitioners
Petitioners
Petitioners
Petitioners
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per respondent
(in hours)
using Form A ................................................
using Form B ................................................
not using Form B ..........................................
Appealing proposed decisions .....................
30
40
5
5
1
1
1
1
3/60
5
5.5
45/60
.........................................................................................
80
........................
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Dated: February 28, 2007.
Joan F. Karr,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E7–3985 Filed 3–6–07; 8:45 am]
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Prevention
[60-Day 07–07AN]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
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
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–5960 and
send comments to Joan Karr, CDC
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an e-mail to
omb@cdc.gov.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
Total burden
(in hours)
1.5
200
27.5
3.75
233
at a national corporation. The purpose
of the proposed evaluation is to
document in detail the workplace IPV
prevention activities delivered by the
company, to determine the impact of
these activities on short-term and longterm outcomes, and to determine the
cost-effectiveness of the program. All
managers at the corporation will be
screened to assess training experiences.
Then, more in-depth surveys will be
done among managers who have not
had the corporation’s IPV training. We
will survey those 500 managers at
baseline, and 6 and 12 months later.
Manager surveys will focus on
knowledge/awareness of IPV and
company resources for IPV and number
of referrals for IPV assistance. We will
also survey employees of those
managers using an anonymous webbased survey at baseline and 12 months
later to assess their self-evaluated
productivity, absenteeism, and
perceptions of manager behavior. We
will compare the responses of managers
(and their employees) who received the
IPV training in the study period (i.e.,
sometime between the baseline and 12
month surveys) with untrained
managers. The study will provide CDC
and employers information about the
potential effectiveness and costeffectiveness of workplace IPV
intervention strategies.
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection 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
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
Program Effectiveness Evaluation of
Workplace Intervention for Intimate
Partner Violence (IPV)—New—National
Center for Injury Prevention and
Control, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects
a substantial number of Americans, and
there has recently been increasing
recognition of the impact it has on the
workplace. In addition to direct impacts
(batterers often stalk or even attack IPV
victims at their place of work), IPV has
indirect impacts on the workplace
environment through lost productivity
due to medical leave, absenteeism, and
fear and distraction on the part of
victims and coworkers. The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
has employed contractor support to
evaluate an ongoing workplace IPV
prevention program being implemented
There are no costs to respondents
except their time to participate in the
interview.
ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average burden per response
(in hours)
Number of respondents
Number of responses per
respondent
Employee .........................................................................................................
Manager ...........................................................................................................
1500
500
2
3
30/60
30/60
1500
75
Total ..........................................................................................................
2000
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60-Day 07-0639]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
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 Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call 404-639-5960
and send comments to Joan Karr, CDC Acting Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail to
omb@cdc.gov.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance
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of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection 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 on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Written
comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Special Exposure Cohort Petitions--Extension--National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
On October 30, 2000, the Energy Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. 7384-7385 [1994,
supp. 2001] was enacted. It established a compensation program to
provide a lump sum payment of $150,000 and medical benefits as
compensation to covered employees suffering from designated illnesses
incurred as a result of their exposure to radiation, beryllium, or
silica while in the performance of duty for the Department of Energy
and certain of its vendors, contractors and subcontractors. This
legislation also provided for payment of compensation for certain
survivors of these covered employees. The only change to the collection
is an increase in burden hours because more petitioners are requesting
to have their work site named as a special exposure cohort. This
program has been mandated to be in effect until Congress ends the
funding.
EEOICPA instructed the President to designate one or more Federal
Agencies to carry out the compensation program. Accordingly, the
President issued Executive Order 13179 (``Providing Compensation to
America's Nuclear Weapons Workers'') on December 7, 2000 (65 FR 77487),
assigning primary responsibility for administration of the compensation
program to the Department of Labor (DOL). The executive order directed
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to perform several
technical and policymaking roles in support of the DOL program.
Among other duties, the executive order directed HHS to establish
and implement procedures for considering petitions by classes of
nuclear weapons workers to be added to the ``Special Exposure Cohort''
(the ``Cohort''), various groups of workers whose claims for cancer
under EEOICPA can be adjudicated without demonstrating that their
cancer was ``at least as likely as not'' caused by radiation doses they
incurred in the performance of duty. In brief, EEOICPA authorizes HHS
to designate such classes of employees for addition to the Cohort when
NIOSH lacks sufficient information to estimate with sufficient accuracy
the radiation doses of the employees, if HHS also finds that the health
of members of the class may have been endangered by the radiation dose
the class potentially incurred. HHS must also obtain the advice of the
Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (the ``Board'') in
establishing such findings. On March 7, 2003, HHS proposed procedures
for adding such classes to the Cohort in a notice of proposed
rulemaking at 42 CFR Part 83.
The HHS procedures authorize a variety of individuals and entities
to submit petitions, as specified under Sec. 83.7. Petitioners are
required to provide the information specified in Sec. 83.9 to qualify
their petitions for a complete evaluation by HHS and the Board. HHS has
developed two petition forms to assist the petitioners in providing
this required information efficiently and completely. Petition Form A
is a one-page form to be used by EEOICPA claimants for whom NIOSH will
have attempted to conduct dose reconstructions and will have determined
that available information is not sufficient to complete the dose
reconstruction. The form addresses the informational requirements
specified under Sec. 83.9(a) and (b). Petition Form B, accompanied by
separate instructions, is intended for all other petitioners. The form
addresses the informational requirements specified under Sec. 83.9(a)
and (c). Forms A and B can be submitted electronically as well as in
hard copy. Petitioners should be aware that HHS is not requiring
petitioners to use the forms. Petitioners can choose to submit
petitions as letters or in other formats, but petitions must meet the
informational requirements referenced above. NIOSH expects, however,
that all petitioners for whom Form A would be appropriate will actually
use the form, since NIOSH will provide it to them upon determining that
their dose reconstruction cannot be completed and encourage them to
submit the petition. NIOSH expects the large majority of petitioners
for whom Form B would be appropriate will also use the form, since it
provides a simple, organized format for addressing the informational
requirements of a petition.
NIOSH will use the information obtained through the petition for
the following purposes: (a) Identify the petitioner(s), obtain their
contact information, and establish that the petitioner(s) is qualified
and intends to petition HHS; (b) establish an initial definition of the
class of employees being proposed to be considered for addition to the
Cohort; (c) determine whether there is justification to require HHS to
evaluate whether or not to designate the proposed class as an addition
to the Cohort (such an evaluation involves potentially extensive data
collection, analysis, and related deliberations by NIOSH, the Board,
and HHS); and, (d) target an evaluation by HHS to examine relevant
potential limitations of radiation monitoring and/or dosimetry-relevant
records and to examine the potential for related radiation exposures
that might have endangered the health of members of the class.
Finally, under Sec. 83.18, petitioners may contest the proposed
decision of the Secretary to add or deny adding classes of employees to
the cohort by submitting evidence that the proposed decision relies on
a record of either factual or procedural errors in the implementation
of these procedures. NIOSH estimates that the time to prepare and
submit such a challenge is 45 minutes. Because of the uniqueness of
this submission, NIOSH is not providing a form. The submission should
be in a letter format.
There are no costs to petitioners unless a petitioner chooses to
purchase the services of a expert in dose reconstruction, an option
provided for under 42 CFR 83.9(c)(2)(iii). The petitioner would assume
the financial burden of purchasing such services at their option. In
such cases, HHS estimates a report by such an expert may cost between
$640 and $6,400, depending on the scope of the petition and access to
relevant information. This is based on an estimate of costs of $80 per
hour for contractual services by a health physicist, who NIOSH
estimates would be employed within a range of eight to eighty hours to
conduct and prepare a report on the required assessment.
Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Form name & number (CFR Number of Number of burden per Total burden
reference) Respondents respondents responses per respondent (in (in hours)
respondent hours)
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83.9...................... Petitioners using 30 1 3/60 1.5
Form A.
83.9...................... Petitioners using 40 1 5 200
Form B.
83.9...................... Petitioners not 5 1 5.5 27.5
using Form B.
83.18..................... Petitioners 5 1 45/60 3.75
Appealing proposed
decisions.
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Total................. .................... 80 .............. .............. 233
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Dated: February 28, 2007.
Joan F. Karr,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E7-3985 Filed 3-6-07; 8:45 am]
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