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annual operating statements. In sum, as
a result of the combined effects of the
changes to reduce the burden of both
financial and document requests, the
hour burden of the study should be a
fraction of what it would have been
pursuant to the requests of the first
Federal Register notice.
After taking account of the public
comments and the burden-reducing
changes that we have made in response,
the FTC believes that its previously
published estimate of the total burden
hours remains reasonable. The
Commission has retained a three-tier
estimate of burden hours depending
upon the number of drug products for
which a company is required to provide
a response: Companies with one to five
drug products, companies with six to 10
drug products, and companies with
more than 10 drug products. As before,
the Commission anticipates that the
majority of burden hours will result
from document production. However,
given that the Commission seeks only
high-level documents strongly relevant
to the AG study, the Commission has
revised its burden estimates to reflect a
greater amount of time spent on
identifying responsive documents, and
less time spent on retrieving and
copying. The Commission has also
increased its estimates of the maximum
hours for these tasks to reflect the
possibility that a few companies will
have a relatively large number of drugs
responsive to its requests.
Based on preliminary information, the
FTC anticipates that it will seek
information for 1 to 5 drug products
from approximately 130 companies, 6 to
10 drug products from 20 companies,
and for greater than 10 drug products
from 40 companies. Thus, the
cumulative hours burden to produce
documents and prepare the response
sought will be approximately 40,780
hours. [(138 hours × 130 companies) +
(230 × 20 companies) + (456 hours × 40
companies)] As previously discussed,
the Commission anticipates that in
general the number of drugs, and thus
the number of burden hours, will be
proportional to company size.86 The
following table shows the estimated
burden hours for different tasks for
companies with different numbers of
drugs covered by the study:
1–5 Drug
Products
(hours
Task
6–10 Drug
Products
(hours)
> 10 Drug
Products
(hours)
Organize document and information retrieval .............................................................................
Identify requested documents .....................................................................................................
Retrieve and copy requested documents ....................................................................................
Identify requested financial information .......................................................................................
Obtain financial information .........................................................................................................
Prepare response ........................................................................................................................
12
40
10
40
12
24
24
80
20
50
16
40
48
200
48
60
20
80
Total ......................................................................................................................................
138
230
456
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It is not possible to calculate with
precision the labor costs associated with
answering the planned questions and
producing the documents requested,
because responses will entail
participation by management and/or
support staff at various compensation
levels within many different companies.
Individuals within some or all of those
labor categories may be involved in the
information-collection process.
Nonetheless, the FTC has assumed that
mid-management personnel and outside
legal counsel will handle most of the
tasks involved in gathering and
producing the responsive information,
and has applied an average hourly wage
of $250/hour for their labor. Thus, the
labor costs per company should range
between $34,500 (138 hours × $250/
hour) and $114,000 (456 hours × $250/
hour).
file folders, computer CDs or DVDs,
photocopier toner, or paper in order to
comply with the Commission’s requests.
The FTC estimates that such costs will
be minimal.
By direction of the Commission,
Commissioner Harbour recused.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
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Estimated Annual Capital or Other
Non-labor Costs
The capital or other non-labor costs
associated with the information requests
will be minimal. Industry members
should already have in place the means
to store information of the volume
requested. In addition, respondents may
have to purchase office supplies such as
Notice is hereby given that I have
delegated to the Assistant Secretary for
Preparedness and Response the
authorities vested in the Secretary of
Health and Human Services under
section 319C–2, 319F, and 319I of the
Public Health Service Act, as amended,
as it pertains to the functions assigned
to the Assistant Secretary for
Preparedness and Response. These
delegations to the Assistant Secretary
for Preparedness and Response include
86 The Commission recognizes, however, that this
may not apply to independent AG companies, for
which a large fraction of the company’s drugs may
be covered. The FTC anticipates that there are few
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the authority vested in the Secretary of
Health and Human Services to continue
the administration of any grants and
contracts initially awarded by the
Health Resources and Services
Administration under sections 319C–1,
319C–2, 319F, and 319I of the Public
Health Service Act. This delegation
permits the Assistant Secretary for
Preparedness and Response to
administer grants and contracts under
the terms and conditions of the initial
awards.
This authority may be redelegated.
These delegations shall be exercised
under the Department’s policy on
regulations and the existing delegation
of authority to approve and issue
regulations. This delegation excludes
the authority to issue reports to
Congress and to take final action to
withhold funds from States.
This delegation supersedes all prior
delegations of authority to the Health
Resources and Services
Administration’s officials to the extent
that they are inconsistent with the
provisions of this delegation.
such companies, and that their responses are
especially important to this study.
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I have ratified any actions taken by
the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness
and Response, or any other Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness
and Response officials, which, in effect,
involved the exercise of this authority
prior to the effective date of this
delegation.
This delegation is effective
immediately.
Dated: April 16, 2007.
Michael O. Leavitt,
Secretary.
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The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of
information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance
Officer at 404–639–5960 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written
comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington,
DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written
comments should be received within 30
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
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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
§ 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
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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.
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
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[FR Doc No: 07-2193]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Delegation of Authority
Notice is hereby given that I have delegated to the Assistant
Secretary for Preparedness and Response the authorities vested in the
Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 319C-2, 319F, and
319I of the Public Health Service Act, as amended, as it pertains to
the functions assigned to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and
Response. These delegations to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness
and Response include the authority vested in the Secretary of Health
and Human Services to continue the administration of any grants and
contracts initially awarded by the Health Resources and Services
Administration under sections 319C-1, 319C-2, 319F, and 319I of the
Public Health Service Act. This delegation permits the Assistant
Secretary for Preparedness and Response to administer grants and
contracts under the terms and conditions of the initial awards.
This authority may be redelegated. These delegations shall be
exercised under the Department's policy on regulations and the existing
delegation of authority to approve and issue regulations. This
delegation excludes the authority to issue reports to Congress and to
take final action to withhold funds from States.
This delegation supersedes all prior delegations of authority to
the Health Resources and Services Administration's officials to the
extent that they are inconsistent with the provisions of this
delegation.
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I have ratified any actions taken by the Assistant Secretary for
Preparedness and Response, or any other Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Preparedness and Response officials, which, in effect,
involved the exercise of this authority prior to the effective date of
this delegation.
This delegation is effective immediately.
Dated: April 16, 2007.
Michael O. Leavitt,
Secretary.
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