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Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden for patients,
$10,652, and for the health care
organization, $885, for a total
annualized cost burden of $11,537.
Respondents will not incur any other
costs beyond those associated with their
time to participate.
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form Name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly
wage rate
Total cost
burden
Safety event intake form and follow up ...........................................................
Health care provider follow up .........................................................................
840
84
490
28
* $21.74
** 31.61
$10,652
885
Total ..........................................................................................................
924
518
NA
11,537
* Based upon the mean of the average wages, National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States, May 2011, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000.
** Based upon the mean of the average wages, National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States, May 2011: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists (General Medical and Surgical Hospitals). U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://
www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes299011.htm.
Estimated Annual Cost to the
Government
AHRQ is supporting the conduct of
this project as part of a contract with the
RAND Corporation and the ECRI
Institute. The estimated cost for this
work is $899,827.
EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST
Cost component
Total cost
Intake Form Development .......................................................................................................................................
System Development ...............................................................................................................................................
Project Management ................................................................................................................................................
Overhead .................................................................................................................................................................
Total ..................................................................................................................................................................
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 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 health care
research and health care 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.
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Dated: May 30, 2013.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60-Day–13–13UW]
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 404–639–7570 or send
comments to Ron Otten, at CDC 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov.
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$364,375
413,860
35,325
86,267
899,827
Annualized
cost
$242,917
275,907
23,550
57,511
599,885
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
Enhanced Utilization of Personal Dust
Monitor Feedback—New—National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
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
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with occupational safety and health
problems.
This research relates to occupational
safety and health problems in the coal
mining industry. Coal Workers’
Pneumoconiosis (CWP) or ‘‘Black Lung
Disease,’’ caused by miners’ exposure to
respirable coal mine dust, is the leading
cause of death due to occupational
illness among U.S. coal miners.
Although the prevalence of CWP was
steadily decreasing, more recent data
from NIOSH’s chest x-ray surveillance
data suggests that the prevalence of this
disease is on the rise once again.
A Personal Dust Monitor (PDM) has
become commercially available that
provides miners with near real-time
feedback on their exposure to respirable
dust. If miners and mine managers
know how to properly use the
information provided by PDMs, they
may be able to make adjustments to the
work place and work procedures to try
to reduce exposure to respirable dust. It
is, therefore, important to study how,
and under what circumstances,
feedback from PDMs can be used to
reduce respirable dust exposure and
ultimately the incidence of Black Lung
disease.
The objectives of the project are (1) to
test an intervention designed to help
miners use PDM feedback more
effectively to reduce their exposure to
respirable dust and (2) to document
specific examples of ways that miners
can use PDM feedback to alter their
behaviors to decrease their exposure to
respirable dust while working
underground.
NIOSH proposes an intervention to
lower miners’ respirable dust exposure
levels by involving them in the
interpretation of PDM feedback and the
discussion of ways to change their
behaviors to decrease exposure to
respirable dust. Upon completion of a
pilot test, four underground coal mines
will be involved in this research study.
Miners who wear PDMs will be assigned
to two groups, an experimental group
and a control group. An effort will be
made to recruit two mines that are
currently using PDMs and two mines
that have not used PDMs in the past.
Large mines will be contacted for
participation to make sure that there
will be enough individuals wearing
PDMs to create both an experimental
group and a control group and to allow
participants in the experimental group
to form sub-groups during the weekly
meetings based on their job
classification. The PDM feedback
discussions will be held weekly during
the course of the six-week intervention
period. Each session is expected to last
for 45 minutes (15 minutes to fill out the
worksheet and 30 minutes for the
discussion). To control for unintended
‘‘discussion’’ between the control and
experimental groups, selection of mine
sites will favor mines where separate
portals are used or where sister mines
within the same company are located
near one another.
For miners in the experimental group,
data will be collected multiple times
during the six-week intervention period.
For miners in the control group, data
will only be collected at the beginning
and end of the intervention period. The
assessment tools include: Surveys,
worksheets, and structured interviews.
The experimental groups will receive
the intervention which will include (1)
an introduction to the project, (2) a pretest concerning miners’ attitude,
knowledge, and behaviors toward PDM
use, (3) a six-week intervention where
PDM feedback is discussed in weekly
meetings and worksheets are collected
from mine personnel about their
behaviors the previous week, and (4) a
post-test concerning miners’ attitude,
knowledge, and behaviors toward PDM
use and interviews of participants to
identify changes in behaviors that were
implemented to reduce respirable dust
exposure. The control group will wear
their PDM units when they are working
underground but will not participate in
weekly meetings. They will only
complete the pre- and post-test and be
interviewed upon completion of the
intervention period.
The operators at each mine will
provide daily respirable coal mine dust
exposures levels (as measured by their
PDMs) for all of the participating
miners. There is already a software
program in place that electronically
records these exposure levels and
exports them to a spreadsheet at each
mine site.
It is estimated that across the 1 pilot
mine and 4 intervention mines, up to
209 respondents will be surveyed; up to
109 will complete weekly worksheets;
up to 49 respondents will be
interviewed; and we will receive PDM
output from up to 209 respondents. An
exact number of respondents are
unavailable at this time because the
mine sites have not been selected.
After all of the information has been
gathered, a variety of statistical and
qualitative analyses will be conducted
on the data to obtain conclusions with
respect to miners’ utilization of PDM
feedback. The results from these
analyses will be presented in a report
describing what methods encourage
miners to make behavior changes in
response to their PDM output and what
behavior changes work best at reducing
miners’ exposure to respirable dust. If
the intervention is successful in
reducing respirable coal mine dust
exposure, details of the intervention
will be more widely disseminated to
coal mine operators so they can
implement similar discussion groups at
their mines.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time. The total estimated
annualized burden hours are 622.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN
Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Form name
Coal Miners in Experimental Groups
(from five different mines).
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Type of respondents
Pre-test Survey ................................
Week 2 Worksheet ...........................
Week 3 Worksheet ...........................
Week 4 Worksheet ...........................
Week 5 Worksheet ...........................
Post-test Survey ...............................
PDM feedback Discussions (weekly)
Interview ...........................................
Daily respirable coal mine dust exposure data.
109
109
109
109
109
109
109
29
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
1
45
15/60
15/60
15/60
15/60
15/60
15/60
30/60
1
5/60
27
27
27
27
27
27
327
29
19
Daily respirable coal mine dust exposure data.
4
45
5/60
15
Mine Safety Operators for Experimental Groups (from five different
mines).
Mine Safety Operators for Control
Groups (from four different mines).
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN—Continued
Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Type of respondents
Form name
Coal Miners in Control Groups (from
four different mines).
Pre-test Survey ................................
100
1
15/60
25
Post-test Survey ...............................
Interview ...........................................
100
20
1
1
15/60
1
25
20
...........................................................
........................
........................
........................
622
Total ...........................................
Ron A. Otten,
Director, Office of Scientific Integrity Office
of the Associate Director for Science, Office
of the Director, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
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Families
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Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request
Title: Annual Collection of Three
Performance Measures for the Low
Income Home Energy Assistance
Program (LIHEAP) and Transition of
Collection Instrument for Annual Report
on Households Assisted and LIHEAP
Grantee Survey.
OMB No: New Collection
Description: In response to the 2010
Government Accountability Office
(GAO) report, Low Income Home Energy
Assistance Program—Greater Fraud
Prevention Controls are Needed (GAO–
10–621), and in consideration of the
recommendations issued by the LIHEAP
Performance Measures Implementation
Work Group, the Office of Community
Services (OCS) is planning to require
the collection and reporting of three
new performance measures by its State
LIHEAP grantees and the District of
Columbia, beginning in FY 2014. These
performance measures are:
1. The average reduction in energy
burden for households receiving
LIHEAP fuel assistance;
2. The percent of unduplicated
households where LIHEAP prevented a
potential home energy crisis; and
3. The percent of unduplicated
households where LIHEAP benefits
restored home energy.
Each of the above performance
measures will require the reporting of
data elements through a web-based data
collection and reporting system. All
State LIHEAP grantees and the District
of Columbia will be required to report
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the information below through this new
web-based system. This reporting will
be optional for Tribes/Tribal
Organizations and Territories. OCS will
provide training and technical
assistance to LIHEAP grantees on how
to collect and report these new data.
The following lists the specific data
grantees will report to OCS in support
of each performance measure:
The Average Reduction in Energy
Burden for Households Receiving
LIHEAP Fuel Assistance
• The average annual or annualized
gross income for LIHEAP households
receiving energy assistance. Gross
income includes whatever LIHEAP
grantees determine as countable income.
• The average annual total LIHEAP
fuel assistance benefit (includes all bill
payment assistance).
• The number of LIHEAP households
using each of the six energy sources as
their primary heating/cooling source.
These include Natural Gas, Electricity,
Fuel Oil, Propane, Wood and Coal.
• The average annual primary home
energy expenditures of LIHEAP
households for each of the four
following energy sources: Natural Gas,
Electricity, Fuel Oil, and Propane.
• For each heating fuel type, the
number of LIHEAP recipient households
who report using a secondary source of
heat.
• Annual Heating Fuel Consumption:
The grantee would need to collect
information from each client’s heating
fuel vendor on the client’s annual
heating fuel consumption.
• Annual Electricity Consumption:
For each household that has a
nonelectric main heating fuel and uses
cooling equipment, the grantee would
need to collect information from the
client’s electricity vendor on the client’s
annual electricity usage.
The Percent of Unduplicated
Households Where LIHEAP Prevented a
Potential Home Energy Crisis
• The number of households who had
a notice from a bulk fuel vendor
regarding an unpaid or past due balance
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(e.g., vendor will not make next
delivery) and LIHEAP benefits were
used to purchase fuel.
• The number of households who
inform LIHEAP staff that they are nearly
out of deliverable fuel (firewood,
propane, kerosene, etc.) and LIHEAP
benefits were used to purchase fuel. The
exact definition of ‘‘nearly out of fuel’’
is left to the discretion of each grantee.
• The number of households who had
a Past Due or Disconnect Notice from
their utility and LIHEAP benefits were
used to pay utility bill.
• The number of households where
LIHEAP benefits resulted in repair or
replacement of operable heating or
cooling equipment.
The Percent of Unduplicated
Households Where LIHEAP Benefits
Restored Home Energy
• The number of households that are
out of fuel and LIHEAP services result
in bulk fuel delivery or purchase.
• The number of households that
have no utility service and LIHEAP
benefits result in reconnection of
services.
• The number of households where
LIHEAP benefits resulted in repair or
replacement of inoperable heating or
cooling equipment.
State grantees will report the data
elements on a new form (see attached)
that will be available in a system
currently in use by the Administration
for Children and Families (ACF), the
On-Line Data Collection (OLDC) system.
Grantees already have the capacity to
submit other ACF forms via OLDC. OCS
intends to make all required reports
available for submission via OLDC,
including the reporting of six currently
approved data collections:
1. LIHEAP Carryover and Reallotment
Report—OMB Control No. 0970–
0106;
2. LIHEAP Household Report (short and
long formats)—OMB Control No.
0970–0060
3. LIHEAP Grantee Survey—OMB
Control No. 0970–0076;
4. LIHEAP Leveraging Report—OMB
Control No. 0970–0121;
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60-Day-13-13UW]
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 404-639-7570 or
send comments to Ron Otten, at CDC 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 be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Enhanced Utilization of Personal Dust Monitor Feedback--New--
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
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
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with occupational safety and health problems.
This research relates to occupational safety and health problems in
the coal mining industry. Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis (CWP) or ``Black
Lung Disease,'' caused by miners' exposure to respirable coal mine
dust, is the leading cause of death due to occupational illness among
U.S. coal miners. Although the prevalence of CWP was steadily
decreasing, more recent data from NIOSH's chest x-ray surveillance data
suggests that the prevalence of this disease is on the rise once again.
A Personal Dust Monitor (PDM) has become commercially available
that provides miners with near real-time feedback on their exposure to
respirable dust. If miners and mine managers know how to properly use
the information provided by PDMs, they may be able to make adjustments
to the work place and work procedures to try to reduce exposure to
respirable dust. It is, therefore, important to study how, and under
what circumstances, feedback from PDMs can be used to reduce respirable
dust exposure and ultimately the incidence of Black Lung disease.
The objectives of the project are (1) to test an intervention
designed to help miners use PDM feedback more effectively to reduce
their exposure to respirable dust and (2) to document specific examples
of ways that miners can use PDM feedback to alter their behaviors to
decrease their exposure to respirable dust while working underground.
NIOSH proposes an intervention to lower miners' respirable dust
exposure levels by involving them in the interpretation of PDM feedback
and the discussion of ways to change their behaviors to decrease
exposure to respirable dust. Upon completion of a pilot test, four
underground coal mines will be involved in this research study. Miners
who wear PDMs will be assigned to two groups, an experimental group and
a control group. An effort will be made to recruit two mines that are
currently using PDMs and two mines that have not used PDMs in the past.
Large mines will be contacted for participation to make sure that there
will be enough individuals wearing PDMs to create both an experimental
group and a control group and to allow participants in the experimental
group to form sub-groups during the weekly meetings based on their job
classification. The PDM feedback discussions will be held weekly during
the course of the six-week intervention period. Each session is
expected to last for 45 minutes (15 minutes to fill out the worksheet
and 30 minutes for the discussion). To control for unintended
``discussion'' between the control and experimental groups, selection
of mine sites will favor mines where separate portals are used or where
sister mines within the same company are located near one another.
For miners in the experimental group, data will be collected
multiple times during the six-week intervention period. For miners in
the control group, data will only be collected at the beginning and end
of the intervention period. The assessment tools include: Surveys,
worksheets, and structured interviews.
The experimental groups will receive the intervention which will
include (1) an introduction to the project, (2) a pre-test concerning
miners' attitude, knowledge, and behaviors toward PDM use, (3) a six-
week intervention where PDM feedback is discussed in weekly meetings
and worksheets are collected from mine personnel about their behaviors
the previous week, and (4) a post-test concerning miners' attitude,
knowledge, and behaviors toward PDM use and interviews of participants
to identify changes in behaviors that were implemented to reduce
respirable dust exposure. The control group will wear their PDM units
when they are working underground but will not participate in weekly
meetings. They will only complete the pre- and post-test and be
interviewed upon completion of the intervention period.
The operators at each mine will provide daily respirable coal mine
dust exposures levels (as measured by their PDMs) for all of the
participating miners. There is already a software program in place that
electronically records these exposure levels and exports them to a
spreadsheet at each mine site.
It is estimated that across the 1 pilot mine and 4 intervention
mines, up to 209 respondents will be surveyed; up to 109 will complete
weekly worksheets; up to 49 respondents will be interviewed; and we
will receive PDM output from up to 209 respondents. An exact number of
respondents are unavailable at this time because the mine sites have
not been selected.
After all of the information has been gathered, a variety of
statistical and qualitative analyses will be conducted on the data to
obtain conclusions with respect to miners' utilization of PDM feedback.
The results from these analyses will be presented in a report
describing what methods encourage miners to make behavior changes in
response to their PDM output and what behavior changes work best at
reducing miners' exposure to respirable dust. If the intervention is
successful in reducing respirable coal mine dust exposure, details of
the intervention will be more widely disseminated to coal mine
operators so they can implement similar discussion groups at their
mines.
There is no cost to respondents other than their time. The total
estimated annualized burden hours are 622.
Estimated Annualized Burden
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in hours
respondent hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Coal Miners in Experimental Pre-test Survey. 109 1 15/60 27
Groups (from five different Week 2 Worksheet 109 1 15/60 27
mines).
Week 3 Worksheet 109 1 15/60 27
Week 4 Worksheet 109 1 15/60 27
Week 5 Worksheet 109 1 15/60 27
Post-test Survey 109 1 15/60 27
PDM feedback 109 6 30/60 327
Discussions
(weekly).
Interview....... 29 1 1 29
Mine Safety Operators for Daily respirable 5 45 5/60 19
Experimental Groups (from coal mine dust
five different mines). exposure data.
Mine Safety Operators for Daily respirable 4 45 5/60 15
Control Groups (from four coal mine dust
different mines). exposure data.
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Coal Miners in Control Groups Pre-test Survey. 100 1 15/60 25
(from four different mines).
Post-test Survey 100 1 15/60 25
Interview....... 20 1 1 20
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 622
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Ron A. Otten,
Director, Office of Scientific Integrity Office of the Associate
Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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