Submission for OMB review; 30-day comment request: NLM PEOPLE LOCATOR® System, 38064 [2013-15173]

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• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
• National Institutes of Health

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 122 (Tuesday, June 25, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 38064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-15173]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Submission for OMB review; 30-day comment request: NLM PEOPLE 
LOCATOR[supreg] System

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, 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 April 15, 2013, page 22271 and allowed 60-days for public 
comment. A single comment submission was received which is currently 
under review for further consideration. The purpose of this notice is 
to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The National Library 
of Medicine (NLM), 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.
    Direct Comments to OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions 
regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding 
the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be 
directed to the: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory 
Affairs, OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-6974, 
Attention: NIH Desk Officer.
    Comment Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection 
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30-days 
of the date of this publication.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To obtain a copy of the data 
collection plans and instruments or request more information on the 
proposed project contact: David Sharlip, NLM Project Clearance Liaison, 
Office of Administrative and Management Analysis Services, OAMAS, NLM, 
NIH, Building 38A, Room B2N12, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, 
or call non-toll-free number (301) 496-5441, or Email your request, 
including your address to: sharlipd@mail.nih.gov. Formal requests for 
additional plans and instruments must be requested in writing.
    Proposed Collection: NLM People Locator System 0925-0612, 
Expiration Date: 06/30/2013, Type of submission: Revision, National 
Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    Need and Use of Information Collection: This collection of data is 
intended to assist in the reunification of family members and friends 
who are separated during a disaster. Experience in operational drills 
and during real-world disasters such as the January 2010 earthquakes in 
Haiti demonstrates that family members and loved ones are often 
separated during disasters and have significant difficulty determining 
each other's safety, condition, and location. Reunification can not 
only improve their emotional well-being during the recovery period, but 
also improve the chances that injured victims will be cared for once 
they are released from urgent medical care. Family and friends are also 
a valuable source of medical information that may be important to the 
care of injured victims (e.g., by providing family or personal medical 
history, information about allergies). The National Library of Medicine 
(NLM) aims to assist Federal, State and Local agencies in disaster 
relief efforts and to serve its mission of supporting national efforts 
to the response to disasters via the PEOPLE LOCATOR[supreg] system and 
related mobile app (ReUniteTM) developed as part of the 
intramural Lost Person Finder (LPF) R&D project. The information 
collection would support efforts to reunite family and friends who are 
separated during a disaster. Information about missing (``lost'') 
people would be collected from family members or loved ones who are 
searching for them. Information about recovered (``found'') people 
could be provided by medical personnel, volunteers and other relief 
workers assisting in the disaster recovery effort. Information 
collected about missing and recovered persons would vary including any 
one of the following and possibly all: a photograph, name (if available 
for a found person), age group (child, adult) and/or range, gender, 
status (alive and well, injured, deceased, unknown), and location. The 
information collection would be voluntary. It would be activated only 
during times of declared emergencies, training and demonstration 
support activities, and would operate in declared emergencies until 
relief efforts have ceased in response to a particular disaster. This 
data collection is authorized pursuant to sections 301, 307, 465 and 
478A of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 241, 242l, 286 and 
286d]. NLM has in its mission the development and coordination of 
communication technology to improve the delivery of health services.
    OMB approval is requested for 3 years. There are no costs to 
respondents other than their time. The total estimated annualized 
burden hours are 7,500.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of     Average time
               Types of respondent                   Number of     responses per   per response    Total annual
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)     burden hours
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Emergency Care First-Responders, Physicians,                 500             100            3/60           2,500
 Other Health Care Providers....................
Family members seeking a missing person.........          50,000               2            3/60           5,000
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    Dated: June 19, 2013.
David Sharlip,
Project Clearance Liaison, NLM, NIH.
[FR Doc. 2013-15173 Filed 6-24-13; 8:45 am]
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