National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort, 37458 [E8-14821]
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OMB provide paperwork clearance for
the information collection noted herein.
The FTC invites comments on: (1)
whether the proposed collections of
information are necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information has practical utility; (2) the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collections of
information; (3) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collections of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
All comments should be filed as
prescribed in the ADDRESSES section
above, and must be received on or
before September 2, 2008.
1. Description of the collection of
information and proposed use
The Fair Credit Reporting Act
(‘‘FCRA’’) provides identity theft
victims with certain rights, such as the
ability to place fraud alerts on their
credit files, designed to assist them in
avoiding or mitigating the harms they
suffer as a result of the crime.
The Commission intends to use
consumer survey research to advance its
understanding of the experiences of
identity theft victims who interact with
consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) and
who seek to avail themselves of their
FCRA remedies. The consumer research
will include focus group interviews of
30 consumers, to be followed by a
pretesting phase consisting of phone
interviews of another 30 consumers, and
then mail surveys sent to individual
consumers. The Commission seeks
information from consumers who have
been victims of identity theft and who
have contacted one or more of the three
nationwide CRAs for assistance. The
information from consumers will be
collected on a voluntary basis and will
be maintained anonymously. The FTC
staff will identify consumers to be
contacted for each phase of the research
from a random selection of consumers
who have communicated with the FTC’s
Identity Theft Data Clearinghouse
database between January 1, 2008 and
May 30, 2008. Staff is seeking
approximately 1,000 returned surveys
because that input would enable it to
project the results from the sample to
the population from which the sample
was drawn with a maximum error rate
of 3%. Assuming a response rate of
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about 25% - 30%, this would require
staff to mail the survey to approximately
3,000 - 4,000 individuals.
Questions to identity theft victims in
the research will address several topics,
including but not limited to: victim
experiences when they contacted one or
more CRAs and whether they received
the required notice of rights from CRAs;
their access to free credit reports; and
their ability to place fraud alerts on their
files, dispute inaccurate information,
and block information due to identity
theft. The results of the focus groups
and mail surveys will assist the FTC in
assessing the experiences of identity
theft victims when they interact with
CRAs. This assessment will help to
inform and guide the FTC’s future
efforts to enforce provisions of the
FCRA and to educate consumers and the
consumer reporting industry of their
rights and obligations under the FCRA.
2. Estimated hours burden
The FTC staff intends to include a
total of 30 consumers divided between
three separate focus groups, consisting
of 10 per group, and estimates that each
consumer will take approximately one
hour to participate in the focus groups.
Thus, the estimated annual burden
imposed by the focus groups will be
approximately 30 hours. The staff
estimates that respondents to the mail
survey will require, on average,
approximately 8 minutes to answer the
survey (based on anticipated variations
among consumers when they interacted
with CRAs). The staff will pretest the
survey through phone interviews of
approximately 30 respondents to ensure
that all questions are easily understood.
The pretest will take approximately 4
hours as a whole (30 respondents x 8
minutes each). For the full survey, the
staff intends to mail 3,000-4,000 surveys
and anticipates receiving a response rate
as high as 30% of the consumer
recipients (i.e., 900 - 1,200 responses).
Assuming 1,200 consumers respond to
the survey, the staff further estimates
the final survey will require
approximately 160 hours to complete
(1,200 respondents x 8 minutes each).
Thus, cumulative burden hours for the
clearance would total 194 hours.
3. Estimated cost burden
The cost per respondent should be
negligible. Participation is voluntary
and will not require start-up, capital, or
labor expenditures by respondents.
William Blumenthal
General Counsel
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health; Designation of a
Class of Employees for Addition to the
Special Exposure Cohort
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: The Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) gives notice of a
decision to designate a class of
employees at the Kellex/Pierpont
facility in Jersey City, New Jersey, as an
addition to the Special Exposure Cohort
(SEC) under the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation
Program Act of 2000. On May 30, 2008,
the Secretary of HHS designated the
following class of employees as an
addition to the SEC:
All Atomic Weapons Employer (AWE)
employees who worked at the Kellex/
Pierpont facility in Jersey City, New Jersey,
from January 1, 1943, through December 31,
1953, for a number of work days aggregating
at least 250 work days occurring either solely
under this employment or in combination
with work days within the parameters
established for one or more other classes of
employees in the Special Exposure Cohort.
This designation will become
effective on June 29, 2008, unless
Congress provides otherwise prior to the
effective date. After this effective date,
HHS will publish a notice in the
Federal Register reporting the addition
of this class to the SEC or the result of
any provision by Congress regarding the
decision by HHS to add the class to the
SEC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Larry Elliott, Director, Office of
Compensation Analysis and Support,
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676
Columbia Parkway, MS C–46,
Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513–
533–6800 (this is not a toll-free
number). Information requests can also
be submitted by e-mail to
OCAS@CDC.GOV.
Dated: June 16, 2008.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health;
Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special
Exposure Cohort
AGENCY: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH),
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice
of a decision to designate a class of employees at the Kellex/Pierpont
facility in Jersey City, New Jersey, as an addition to the Special
Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000. On May 30, 2008, the Secretary of HHS
designated the following class of employees as an addition to the SEC:
All Atomic Weapons Employer (AWE) employees who worked at the
Kellex/Pierpont facility in Jersey City, New Jersey, from January 1,
1943, through December 31, 1953, for a number of work days
aggregating at least 250 work days occurring either solely under
this employment or in combination with work days within the
parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in
the Special Exposure Cohort.
This designation will become effective on June 29, 2008, unless
Congress provides otherwise prior to the effective date. After this
effective date, HHS will publish a notice in the Federal Register
reporting the addition of this class to the SEC or the result of any
provision by Congress regarding the decision by HHS to add the class to
the SEC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Elliott, Director, Office of
Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-46, Cincinnati,
OH 45226, Telephone 513-533-6800 (this is not a toll-free number).
Information requests can also be submitted by e-mail to OCAS@CDC.GOV.
Dated: June 16, 2008.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. E8-14821 Filed 6-30-08; 8:45 am]
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