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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.
Alternatively, to obtain a copy of the
data collection plans and instrument,
call 404–639–5960 and send comments
to Maryam I. Daneshvar, CDC Reports
Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road
NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30333;
comments may also be sent by 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
whether the information shall have a
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
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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 information technology. Written
comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Laboratory Response Network
(LRN)—New—National Center for
Preparedness, Detection, and Control of
Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Laboratory Response Network
(LRN) was established by the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) in
accordance with Presidential Decision
Directive 39, which outlined national
anti-terrorism policies and assigned
specific missions to Federal
departments and agencies. The LRN’s
mission is to maintain an integrated
national and international network of
laboratories that can respond to
suspected acts of biological, chemical,
or radiological terrorism and other
public health emergencies.
When Federal, State and local public
health laboratories voluntarily join the
LRN, they assume specific
responsibilities and are required to
provide information to the LRN Program
Office at CDC. Each laboratory must
submit and maintain complete
information regarding the testing
capabilities of the laboratory.
Biannually, laboratories are required to
review, verify and update their testing
capability information. Complete testing
capability information is required in
order for the LRN Program Office to
determine the ability of the Network to
respond to a biological or chemical
terrorism event. The sensitivity of all
information associated with the LRN
requires the LRN Program Office to
obtain personal information about all
individuals accessing the LRN Web site.
In addition, the LRN Program Office
must be able to contact all laboratory
personnel during an event so each
laboratory staff member that obtains
access to the restricted LRN Web site
must provide his or her contact
information to the LRN Program Office.
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As a requirement of membership, LRN
Laboratories must report all biological
and chemical testing results to the LRN
Program at CDC using a CDC developed
software tool called the LRN Results
Messenger. This information is essential
for surveillance of anomalies, to support
response to an event that may involve
multiple agencies and to manage limited
resources. LRN Laboratories must also
participate in and report results for
Proficiency Testing Challenges or
Validation Studies. LRN Laboratories
participate in multiple Proficiency
Testing Challenges, Exercises and/or
Validation Studies every year consisting
of five to 500 simulated samples
provided by the LRN Program Office. It
is necessary to conduct such challenges
in order to verify the testing capability
of the LRN Laboratories. The rarity of
biological or chemical agents perceived
to be of bioterrorism concern prevents
some LRN Laboratories from
maintaining proficiency as a result of
day-to-day testing. Simulated samples
are therefore distributed to ensure
proficiency across the LRN. The results
obtained from testing these simulated
samples must also be entered into
Results Messenger for evaluation by the
LRN Program Office.
During a surge event resulting from a
bioterrorism or chemical terrorism
attack, LRN Laboratories are also
required to submit all testing results
using LRN Results Messenger. The LRN
Program Office requires these results in
order to track the progression of a
bioterrorism event and respond in the
most efficient and effective way possible
and for data sharing with other Federal
partners involved in the response. The
number of samples tested during a
response to a possible event could range
from 10,000 to more than 500,000
samples depending on the length and
breadth of the event. Since there is
potentially a large range in the number
of samples for a surge event, CDC
estimates the annualized burden for this
event will be 3,000,000 hours or 625
responses per respondent.
Semiannually the LRN Program Office
may conduct a Special Data Call to
obtain additional information from LRN
Member Laboratories in regards to
biological or chemical terrorism
preparedness. Special Data Calls are
conducted using the LRN Web site.
There is no cost to the respondents
other than their time.
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ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
number of
responses
per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Forms
Average
burden
per response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Biannual Requalification ..................................................................................
General Surveillance Testing Results .............................................................
Proficiency Testing/Validation Testing Results ................................................
Surge Event Testing Results ...........................................................................
Special Data Call .............................................................................................
200
200
200
200
200
1
25
5
625
2
2
24
56
24
30/60
400
120,000
56,000
3,000,000
200
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
........................
........................
3,176,600
Dated: March 11, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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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 Maryam I. Daneshvar,
CDC Acting Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an email 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
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
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Proposed Project
Field Evaluation of Prototype Kneelassist Devices in Low-seam Mining—
New—National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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be received within 60 days of this
notice.
NIOSH, under Public Law 91–596,
Sections 20 and 22 (Section 20–22,
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970) has the responsibility to conduct
research relating to innovative methods,
techniques, and approaches dealing
with occupational safety and health
problems.
According to the Mining Safety and
Health Administration (MSHA) injury
database, 227 knee injuries were
reported in underground coal mining in
2007. With data from the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), it can be estimated that
the financial burden of knee injuries
was nearly three million dollars in 2007.
Typically, mine workers utilize
kneepads to better distribute the
pressures at the knee. The effectiveness
of these kneepads was only recently
investigated in a study by NIOSH that
has not yet been published. The results
of this study demonstrated that
kneepads do decrease the maximum
stress applied to the knee albeit not
drastically. Additionally, the average
pressure across the knee remains similar
to the case where subjects wore no
kneepads at all. Thus, the injury data
and the results of this study suggest the
need for the improved design of kneelassist devices such as kneepads. NIOSH
is currently undertaking the task of
designing more effective kneel-assist
devices such as a kneepad and a padded
support worn at the ankle where mine
workers can comfortably rest their body
weight.
These devices must also be field
tested to verify they do not result in
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body discomfort or inadvertent
accidents. It is also important to
determine how usable and durable these
devices are in the harsh mining
environment. In order to quantitatively
demonstrate that these prototype
devices are superior to their
predecessors, mine workers using these
prototypes must be interviewed. Their
feedback will identify any necessary
changes to the design of the devices
such that NIOSH can ensure the
prototypes will be well-accepted by the
mining community.
To collect this type of information, a
field study must be conducted where
kneel-assist devices currently used in
the mining industry (i.e. kneepads) are
compared to the new prototype designs.
The study suggested here would take
approximately 13 months.
A pilot mine will be identified to test
the prototype kneel-assist devices prior
to commencing a full study. The data
collected at this pilot mine will ensure
that the prototype kneel-assist devices
are likely to be successful. Data will be
collected via interviews with individual
mine workers and through a focus group
where all mine workers come together
to express their opinions about the
devices. If the prototype kneel-assist
devices do not appear to be successful,
the data collected will be used to
adequately redesign them and the above
described process will begin again. If
the prototype kneel-assist devices
appear to be successful, the full study
will commence.
Once the full study is ready to
commence, cooperating mines will be
identified. Every month, the section
foreman at the cooperating mines will
be asked to supply some information
regarding the current mine
environment.
Initially, the mine workers will be
given a control kneel-assist device.
Currently, mine workers only utilize
kneepads as a kneel-assist device.
Therefore, only a control kneepad will
be provided. They will then be asked
some basic demographics information
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-09-09AY]
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.
Alternatively, to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
instrument, call 404-639-5960 and send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar,
CDC Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30333; comments may also be sent by 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 whether the information shall have a 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 information technology. Written comments
should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Laboratory Response Network (LRN)--New--National Center for
Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Laboratory Response Network (LRN) was established by the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) in accordance with Presidential Decision
Directive 39, which outlined national anti-terrorism policies and
assigned specific missions to Federal departments and agencies. The
LRN's mission is to maintain an integrated national and international
network of laboratories that can respond to suspected acts of
biological, chemical, or radiological terrorism and other public health
emergencies.
When Federal, State and local public health laboratories
voluntarily join the LRN, they assume specific responsibilities and are
required to provide information to the LRN Program Office at CDC. Each
laboratory must submit and maintain complete information regarding the
testing capabilities of the laboratory. Biannually, laboratories are
required to review, verify and update their testing capability
information. Complete testing capability information is required in
order for the LRN Program Office to determine the ability of the
Network to respond to a biological or chemical terrorism event. The
sensitivity of all information associated with the LRN requires the LRN
Program Office to obtain personal information about all individuals
accessing the LRN Web site. In addition, the LRN Program Office must be
able to contact all laboratory personnel during an event so each
laboratory staff member that obtains access to the restricted LRN Web
site must provide his or her contact information to the LRN Program
Office.
As a requirement of membership, LRN Laboratories must report all
biological and chemical testing results to the LRN Program at CDC using
a CDC developed software tool called the LRN Results Messenger. This
information is essential for surveillance of anomalies, to support
response to an event that may involve multiple agencies and to manage
limited resources. LRN Laboratories must also participate in and report
results for Proficiency Testing Challenges or Validation Studies. LRN
Laboratories participate in multiple Proficiency Testing Challenges,
Exercises and/or Validation Studies every year consisting of five to
500 simulated samples provided by the LRN Program Office. It is
necessary to conduct such challenges in order to verify the testing
capability of the LRN Laboratories. The rarity of biological or
chemical agents perceived to be of bioterrorism concern prevents some
LRN Laboratories from maintaining proficiency as a result of day-to-day
testing. Simulated samples are therefore distributed to ensure
proficiency across the LRN. The results obtained from testing these
simulated samples must also be entered into Results Messenger for
evaluation by the LRN Program Office.
During a surge event resulting from a bioterrorism or chemical
terrorism attack, LRN Laboratories are also required to submit all
testing results using LRN Results Messenger. The LRN Program Office
requires these results in order to track the progression of a
bioterrorism event and respond in the most efficient and effective way
possible and for data sharing with other Federal partners involved in
the response. The number of samples tested during a response to a
possible event could range from 10,000 to more than 500,000 samples
depending on the length and breadth of the event. Since there is
potentially a large range in the number of samples for a surge event,
CDC estimates the annualized burden for this event will be 3,000,000
hours or 625 responses per respondent.
Semiannually the LRN Program Office may conduct a Special Data Call
to obtain additional information from LRN Member Laboratories in
regards to biological or chemical terrorism preparedness. Special Data
Calls are conducted using the LRN Web site.
There is no cost to the respondents other than their time.
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Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Average Average
Number of number of burden per Total burden
Forms respondents responses per response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Biannual Requalification........................ 200 1 2 400
General Surveillance Testing Results............ 200 25 24 120,000
Proficiency Testing/Validation Testing Results.. 200 5 56 56,000
Surge Event Testing Results..................... 200 625 24 3,000,000
Special Data Call............................... 200 2 30/60 200
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 3,176,600
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Dated: March 11, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E9-6213 Filed 3-20-09; 8:45 am]
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