Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations, 35041-35042 [2010-14873]
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EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED TOTAL AND ANNUALIZED COST—Continued
Cost component
Total cost
Annual cost
Overhead .....................................................................................................................................................
85,629
57,086
Total ......................................................................................................................................................
449,976
299,984
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited
Paperwork Reduction Act legislation,
comments on AHRQ’s information
collection are requested with regard to
any of the following: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
AHRQ healthcare research and
healthcare information dissemination
functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of AHRQ’s estimate of
burden (including hours and costs) of
the proposed collection(s) 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 upon the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: June 8, 2010.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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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
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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 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
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
Audience Analysis for
Biomonitoring—New—National Center
for Environmental Health/Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(NCEH/ATSDR), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
People’s exposure to environmental
chemicals can be a risk to their health.
Scientists at the CDC use biomonitoring,
which is the measurement of
environmental chemicals in human
tissues and fluids, to assess such
exposure. Biomonitoring findings,
however, do not typically provide
information on health risks and toxicity
data often lag behind new
biomonitoring data. The health effects
on humans are, therefore, often
uncertain or unknown, particularly, for
many new or ‘‘emerging’’ chemicals.
Nevertheless, communicating
biomonitoring findings for those
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charged with this task is necessary,
especially due to the growing media
coverage and public concern about
chemicals found in the human body.
The demand for answers and decreasing
patience with uncertainty characterizes
the interpretation of such results. This
poses enormous challenges to those
tasked to communicate such findings to
both scientific and non-scientific
audiences without a biomonitoring
background.
The CDC is, therefore, interested in
developing a framework for
communicating health risk messages,
particularly about emerging
environmental chemicals, to the
attentive public audience such as
selected women who are pregnant or
have very young children. The three
environmental chemicals, Bisphenol A
(BPA), phthalates, and mercury have
been selected for this study. They are of
particular interest to these selected
women as the risks of exposure are
higher for very young children because
of their hand-to-mouth behaviors and
direct oral (mouth) contact with
materials containing these chemicals.
Furthermore, young children eat and
drink more per pound of body weight
than adults.
Focus groups will be conducted in
different parts of the country with
selected women. During phase one,
eight exploratory focus groups will be
conducted to develop messaging
strategies and the results will be used in
the development of preliminary
messages about the emerging chemicals.
The second phase will include six
message testing focus groups to
determine which messages are most
attractive and compelling in terms of
communicating health risk information
about emerging chemicals.
Participants will be recruited via
standard focus group recruitment
methods. Most will come from an
existing database (or list) of potential
participants maintained by the focus
group facility. There is no cost to
respondents.
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Respondents
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
Recruitment screener ......................................................................................
Exploratory Focus Groups ...............................................................................
Message Testing Focus Groups ......................................................................
252
72
54
1
1
1
5/60
2
2
21
144
108
Total ..........................................................................................................
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........................
........................
273
Dated: June 3, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development; Revision to
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request; The National Children’s
Study (NCS), Vanguard (Pilot) Study
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of
Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD), the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request for review and
approval of the information collection
listed below. This proposed information
collection was previously published in
the Federal Register on March 22, 2010,
pages 14165–14168, and allowed 60
days for public comment. One comment
was received. The comment questioned
the value and utility of the proposed
data collection, stating that this type of
research is not needed. The purpose of
this notice is to allow an additional 30
days for public comment. The National
Institutes of Health may not conduct or
sponsor, and the respondent is not
required to respond to, an information
collection that has been extended,
revised, or implemented on or after
October 1, 1995, unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
Proposed Collection: Title: Pilot Study
for the National Children’s Study, Type
of Information Collection Request:
Revision, Affected entities: Households
and individuals. Types of respondents:
People potentially affected by this
action are pregnant women, women age
18–49 years of age, their husbands or
partners, and their children who live in
selected areas within National
Children’s Study sites. Health care
professionals, community leaders, and
child care personnel are also potentially
affected. Frequency of Response: On
occasion. See burden table for estimated
number of annual responses for each
respondent. Need and use of
information collection: The purpose of
the proposed methodological study is to
evaluate the feasibility, acceptability,
and cost of three separate recruitment
strategies for enrollment of women into
a prospective, national longitudinal
study of child health and development.
This Recruitment Substudy is a
component of the Vanguard Phase of the
National Children’s Study (NCS). In
combination, the studies in the
Vanguard Phase will be used to inform
the design of the Main Study of the
National Children’s Study.
This data collection will evaluate the
feasibility, acceptability and cost of
three separate recruitment strategies for
enrollment of women into the NCS. Up
to 30 additional sites will be added to
the NCS Vanguard Cohort, as reflected
in the burden table, in order to ensure
an adequate cohort size. These
additional sites will be chosen from
among those already identified for the
Main Study of the NCS. Across these
additional sites, three alternate
recruitment strategies will be assessed:
• An enhanced household
enumeration strategy that builds on the
lessons learned in the existing Vanguard
Study by enhancing enumeration
techniques and employing a more
streamlined recruitment process;
• A provider based recruitment
strategy that relies on health care
providers for assistance in participant
identification and recruitment; and
• A two-tiered recruitment strategy
that relies on larger secondary sampling
units to increase the number of
geographically-eligible women in a
given area, and allows for both higherintensity and lower-intensity forms of
data collection.
The feasibility (technical
performance), acceptability (respondent
tolerance and impact on study
infrastructure), and cost (operations,
time, and effort) of each of these three
strategies will be evaluated using predetermined measures. The findings will
be assessed and used to inform the
strategies, or combinations of strategies,
that might be used in the Main Study of
the NCS. Further details pertaining to
the NCS background and planning can
be found at: https://
www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov.
Burden statement: The public burden
for this study will vary depending on
the eligibility and pregnancy status of
potential participants at the time of
household screening and the method of
recruitment. The table below provides
an annualized average burden per
person for each stage of the Recruitment
Substudy.
TABLE A.2—ESTIMATED HOUR BURDEN AND COST FOR RECRUITMENT SUBSTUDY RESPONDENTS—STAGE 1
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[FR Doc No: 2010-14873]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60-Day-10-10EG]
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 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 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
Audience Analysis for Biomonitoring--New--National Center for
Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(NCEH/ATSDR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
People's exposure to environmental chemicals can be a risk to their
health. Scientists at the CDC use biomonitoring, which is the
measurement of environmental chemicals in human tissues and fluids, to
assess such exposure. Biomonitoring findings, however, do not typically
provide information on health risks and toxicity data often lag behind
new biomonitoring data. The health effects on humans are, therefore,
often uncertain or unknown, particularly, for many new or ``emerging''
chemicals. Nevertheless, communicating biomonitoring findings for those
charged with this task is necessary, especially due to the growing
media coverage and public concern about chemicals found in the human
body. The demand for answers and decreasing patience with uncertainty
characterizes the interpretation of such results. This poses enormous
challenges to those tasked to communicate such findings to both
scientific and non-scientific audiences without a biomonitoring
background.
The CDC is, therefore, interested in developing a framework for
communicating health risk messages, particularly about emerging
environmental chemicals, to the attentive public audience such as
selected women who are pregnant or have very young children. The three
environmental chemicals, Bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates, and mercury
have been selected for this study. They are of particular interest to
these selected women as the risks of exposure are higher for very young
children because of their hand-to-mouth behaviors and direct oral
(mouth) contact with materials containing these chemicals. Furthermore,
young children eat and drink more per pound of body weight than adults.
Focus groups will be conducted in different parts of the country
with selected women. During phase one, eight exploratory focus groups
will be conducted to develop messaging strategies and the results will
be used in the development of preliminary messages about the emerging
chemicals. The second phase will include six message testing focus
groups to determine which messages are most attractive and compelling
in terms of communicating health risk information about emerging
chemicals.
Participants will be recruited via standard focus group recruitment
methods. Most will come from an existing database (or list) of
potential participants maintained by the focus group facility. There is
no cost to respondents.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Respondents respondents responses per response (in (in hours)
respondent hours)
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Recruitment screener............................ 252 1 5/60 21
Exploratory Focus Groups........................ 72 1 2 144
Message Testing Focus Groups.................... 54 1 2 108
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 273
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Dated: June 3, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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