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understood. The FTC expects that the
pre-test would take approximately 25
minutes on average per person,
approximately 42 hours total (100
respondents x 25 minutes each). Once
the pretest is completed, the FTC plans
to seek information from up to 7,000
respondents for approximately 25
minutes each. Thus, answering the
FTC’s information requests will require
up to 2,917 hours total (7,000
respondents x 25 minutes each).
Accordingly, cumulative total burden
hours for the survey will be
approximately 3,000 hours.
The cost per respondent should be
negligible. Participation is voluntary
and will not require start-up, capital, or
labor expenditures by respondents.
By direction of the Commission.
IV. FTC’s Proposed Study of Consumer
Perception
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for the proper performance of the
functions of the FTC, including whether
the information will have practical
utility; (2) the accuracy of the FTC’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection 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
collecting 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 December
15, 2008.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
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The FTC proposes to collect
information from up to 7,000 consumers
in order to gather data on consumer
perception of environmental marketing
claims. All information will be collected
on a voluntary basis. The FTC plans to
contract with a consumer research firm
to identify consumers and conduct the
study via the Internet. Among other
things, the research firm will be
expected to study a stratified sample of
the adult United States population
broadly representative of consumer
group characteristics (e.g., geographic
location, housing characteristics,
gender, age, education, and race/
ethnicity), relative to the most recent
Census Bureau Current Population
Survey.
The FTC expects that selected
respondents will be asked questions
about a number of express or implied
environmental marketing claim
concepts, such as ‘‘renewable’’ and
‘‘sustainable.’’ Each concept may be
featured in a separate module of
questions. Such questions may explore
perceptions about the unqualified
general concept and variations on the
concept. The results will assist the FTC
in its review of the Green Guides by
helping to ensure that the Green Guides
are consistent with consumer
perception of environmental marketing
claims.
The FTC is considering pre-testing the
consumer questionnaires on
approximately 100 respondents to
ensure that all questions are easily
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
[Document Identifier: OS–0990–New; 30-day
notice]
Agency Information Collection
Request. 30-Day Public Comment
Request
Office of the Secretary, HHS.
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Office of the Secretary (OS), Department
of Health and Human Services, is
publishing the following summary of a
proposed collection for public
comment. Interested persons are invited
to send comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the agency’s functions;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
To obtain copies of the supporting
statement and any related forms for the
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proposed paperwork collections
referenced above, e-mail your request,
including your address, phone number,
OMB number, and OS document
identifier, to
Sherette.funncoleman@hhs.gov, or call
the Reports Clearance Office on (202)
690–5683. Send written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collections within 30 days
of this notice directly to the OS OMB
Desk Officer; faxed to OMB at 202–395–
6974.
Proposed Project: Evaluating
Institutions Research Misconduct
Education Efforts—OMB No. 0990–
NEW–Office of Research Integrity.
Abstract: The Office of Research
Integrity (ORI) is conducting this study
of Research Misconduct Education in
medical schools because these
institutions are responsible for
dissemination of information and
guidelines to their faculty, staff, and
students concerning the U.S. Public
Health Service (PHS) Policies on
Research Misconduct (42 CFR Part 93).
The ORI review of institutional research
misconduct policies, investigation
reports, requests for technical assistance
in handling allegations, and analyses of
filings of the Annual Report on Possible
Research Misconduct (PHS 6349) have
raised questions about the level of
knowledge of medical school faculty
conducting research and responding to
allegations, and the faculty’s perception
of their institution’s commitment to
dealing with research misconduct. This
study is designed to evaluate the
knowledge of medical school faculty
members about their institution’s
policies and procedures and identify
best practices and approaches used by
medical institutions to produce the most
positive perceptions of commitment and
the best understanding of research
misconduct. Also, the study will
identify the areas of responsibility and
specify the activities that institutions
perform in the process of educating
their employees to the meaning of
scientific misconduct at their
institutions.
This will involve a one-time data
collection effort. These researchers have
been identified from a list of medical
school principal investigators (PIs) that
we obtained from the National Institutes
of Health (NIH). All received NIH
research projects awards in 2005 or
2006.
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Forms
Average
burden hours
per response
Total burden
hours
Recruit Letters .................................................................................................
Web Survey .....................................................................................................
10,754
10,754
1
1
15/60
20/60
2,689
3,585
Total ..........................................................................................................
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6,274
Seleda Perryman,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction
Act Reports Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ), Office for Civil Rights
(OCR)
Implementing the Patient Safety and
Quality Improvement Act of 2005
Including How to Become a Patient
Safety Organization: Interim Guidance
Availability
October 14, 2008.
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), Office for Civil
Rights (OCR), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: AHRQ and OCR are
announcing the availability of the
guidance entitled ‘‘Implementing the
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Act of 2005 Including How to Become
a Patient Safety Organization.’’ The
Interim Guidance document explains
how the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) will begin
implementing the Patient Safety and
Quality Improvement Act of 2005
(Patient Safety Act), how an entity can
become a Patient Safety Organization
(PSO), and how information may be
protected as Patient Safety Work
Product (PSWP) in the interim period
prior to the promulgation of a final
regulation. To access the Interim
Guidance, visit AHRQ’s PSO Web site at
https://www.pso.ahrq.gov.
DATES: The Interim Guidance is effective
immediately with the publication of this
notice. The Interim Guidance will
remain effective until the effective date
of the final regulation, which is
expected to be promulgated before the
end of 2008.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Interim Guidance document is
intended to inform private, public and
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nonprofit health care communities, the
legal community and others of HHS’s
policies and procedures for
implementing the Patient Safety Act,
prior to the promulgation of a final
regulation. This Interim Guidance
interprets the Patient Safety Act. The
Patient Safety Act (Pub. L. 109–41)
amended the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 299 et seq.) by renumbering
existing sections and inserting new
sections 921 through 926 (42 U.S.C.
299b–21 through 299b–26). The Patient
Safety Act authorizes the listing by the
Secretary of statutorily defined PSOs.
PSOs are to carry out statutorily defined
patient safety activities on behalf of
providers in order to assist them to
improve patient safety. To encourage
providers to submit information to PSOs
and PSOs to conduct analyses regarding
patient safety, the statute establishes
privilege and confidentiality protections
to protect certain information, including
information collected by providers for
sharing with PSOs for analysis, analyses
performed by the providers and/or the
PSOs, and information shared between
the PSOs and the health care providers
they serve. This information is defined
in the statute as PSWP.
II. Significance of the Interim Guidance
The Interim Guidance establishes the
process by which the Secretary will list
PSOs. Once PSOs are listed by the
Secretary, providers can: (1) Voluntarily
submit information to PSOs, and (2)
seek PSOs’ analysis of patient safety
events. These activities should lead to
improvements in patient safety. The
protections established by the Patient
Safety Act will permit and encourage
numerous providers to submit pertinent
data to PSOs so that the PSOs will be
able to aggregate and analyze the data
from multiple providers, thus enabling
the identification of patterns that could
suggest underlying or systemic causes of
patient risks and hazards that then can
be addressed to improve patient safety
and quality.
III. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
The listing of PSOs under the Interim
Guidance involves collecting of
information that is subject to review by
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the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520).
These collections of information have
been approved under OMB control
number 0935–0143.
Dated: October 7, 2008.
Ann C. Agnew,
Executive Secretary to the Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA–2008–N–0448]
International Drug Scheduling;
Convention of Psychotropic
Substances; Single Convention on
Narcotic Drugs; Gammahydroxybutyric acid; Ketamine;
Dextromethorphan; Nbenzylpiperazine; 1-(3trifluoromethylphenyl) piperazine; 1-(3chlorophenyl) piperazine; 1-(4Methoxyphenyl) piperazine; 1-(3,4methylenedioxybenzyl) piperazine;
Gamma-butyrolactone; 1,4-Butanediol;
Reopening of Comment Period
AGENCY:
Food and Drug Administration,
HHS.
ACTION:
Notice; reopening of comment
period.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) is reopening until
October 20, 2008, the comment period
for the notice on ‘‘International Drug
Scheduling; Convention on
Psychotropic Substances; Single
Convention on Narcotic Drugs,’’
published in the Federal Register of
September 5, 2008 (73 FR 51823),
requesting comments on abuse
potential, actual abuse, medical
usefulness, trafficking, and impact of
scheduling changes on availability for
medical use of 10 drug substances. FDA
is taking this action in response to a
request for a reopening of the comment
period to allow interested persons
additional time to review the notice and
submit comments.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
[Document Identifier: OS-0990-New; 30-day notice]
Agency Information Collection Request. 30-Day Public Comment
Request
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS),
Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the following
summary of a proposed collection for public comment. Interested persons
are invited to send comments regarding this burden estimate or any
other aspect of this collection of information, including any of the
following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper performance of the agency's
functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology to minimize the information collection
burden.
To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, e-mail your
request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, and OS
document identifier, to Sherette.funncoleman@hhs.gov, or call the
Reports Clearance Office on (202) 690-5683. Send written comments and
recommendations for the proposed information collections within 30 days
of this notice directly to the OS OMB Desk Officer; faxed to OMB at
202-395-6974.
Proposed Project: Evaluating Institutions Research Misconduct
Education Efforts--OMB No. 0990-NEW-Office of Research Integrity.
Abstract: The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) is conducting this
study of Research Misconduct Education in medical schools because these
institutions are responsible for dissemination of information and
guidelines to their faculty, staff, and students concerning the U.S.
Public Health Service (PHS) Policies on Research Misconduct (42 CFR
Part 93). The ORI review of institutional research misconduct policies,
investigation reports, requests for technical assistance in handling
allegations, and analyses of filings of the Annual Report on Possible
Research Misconduct (PHS 6349) have raised questions about the level of
knowledge of medical school faculty conducting research and responding
to allegations, and the faculty's perception of their institution's
commitment to dealing with research misconduct. This study is designed
to evaluate the knowledge of medical school faculty members about their
institution's policies and procedures and identify best practices and
approaches used by medical institutions to produce the most positive
perceptions of commitment and the best understanding of research
misconduct. Also, the study will identify the areas of responsibility
and specify the activities that institutions perform in the process of
educating their employees to the meaning of scientific misconduct at
their institutions.
This will involve a one-time data collection effort. These
researchers have been identified from a list of medical school
principal investigators (PIs) that we obtained from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH). All received NIH research projects awards
in 2005 or 2006.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average
Forms Number of responses per burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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Recruit Letters................................. 10,754 1 15/60 2,689
Web Survey...................................... 10,754 1 20/60 3,585
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 6,274
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Seleda Perryman,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance
Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-24297 Filed 10-10-08; 8:45 am]
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