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LeRoy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Center for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of
information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
requests, call (404) 639–7570 or send an
email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written
comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington,
DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395–5806.
Written comments should be received
within 30 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).
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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
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
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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,
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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. They will provide their PDM
output at the end of each participating
miners’ shift each day during the
intervention for a total of 42 days. In
addition, they will provide output for
each participant for the three days prior
to the intervention to establish a
baseline measure. Therefore, NIOSH
researchers will receive a total of 45
dust output readings for each
participant. There is already a software
program in place that electronically
records these exposure levels and
exports them to a spreadsheet that each
mine site can open on a computer that
has the appropriate software. It is
estimated it will take no more than 5
minutes for the mine operator to remove
any identifying information from the
excel file and just send NIOSH the PDM
number and dust output associated with
that PDM in a new excel file.
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
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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 798.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses
per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Type of respondents
Form name
Mine Safety Operators ....................................
Script for Phone and/or Email Mine Recruitment Script.
Recruitment Script for Individual Miners ........
5
1
5/60
209
1
3/60
Week 1 PDM Pre-Survey ...............................
109
1
15/60
Week 2 Participant Worksheet ......................
Week 3–5 Participant Worksheets .................
Week 6 PDM Post-Survey .............................
Facilitator Weekly Meeting Manual ................
Interview Guide for Miners’ Utilization of
PDM Feedback.
Daily respirable coal mine dust exposure
data.
.........................................................................
109
327
109
109
29
1
3
1
6
1
15/60
15/60
15/60
30/60
1
5
45
5/60
4
45
5/60
Week 1 PDM Pre-Survey ...............................
Week 6 PDM Post-Survey .............................
Interview Guide for Miners’ Utilization of
PDM Feedback.
100
100
20
1
1
1
15/60
15/60
1
Individual Miners from Experimental and
Control Groups.
Experimental Groups (from five different
mines).
Mine Safety Operators for Experimental
Groups (from five different mines).
Mine Safety Operators for Control Groups
(from four different mines).
Control Groups (from four different mines) ....
LeRoy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
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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Services
[Document Identifiers: CMS–1561, CMS–
417, CMS–10433, and CMS–R–262]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing
an opportunity for the public to
comment on CMS’ intention to collect
information from the public. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the
PRA), federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information (including each proposed
extension or reinstatement of an existing
collection of information) and to allow
60 days for public comment on the
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proposed action. Interested persons are
invited to send comments regarding our
burden estimates 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.
DATES: Comments must be received by
December 31, 2013.
ADDRESSES: When commenting, please
reference the document identifier or
OMB control number (OCN). To be
assured consideration, comments and
recommendations must be submitted in
any one of the following ways:
1. Electronically. You may send your
comments electronically to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for ‘‘Comment or
Submission’’ or ‘‘More Search Options’’
to find the information collection
document(s) that are accepting
comments.
2. By regular mail. You may mail
written comments to the following
address: CMS, Office of Strategic
Operations and Regulatory Affairs;
Division of Regulations Development;
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Control Number l; Room C4–26–05
7500 Security Boulevard; Baltimore,
Maryland 21244–1850.
To obtain copies of a supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed collection(s) summarized in
this notice, you may make your request
using one of following:
1. Access CMS’ Web site address at
https://www.cms.hhs.gov/
PaperworkReductionActof1995.
2. Email your request, including your
address, phone number, OMB number,
and CMS document identifier, to
Paperwork@cms.hhs.gov.
3. Call the Reports Clearance Office at
(410) 786–1326.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Reports Clearance Office at (410) 786–
1326
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Contents
This notice sets out a summary of the
use and burden associated with the
following information collections. More
detailed information can be found in
each collection’s supporting statement
and associated materials (see
ADDRESSES).
CMS–1561 Provider Agreement—CMS
Form 1561 and 1561A and
Supporting Regulations
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Certification and Supporting
Regulations
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-14-13UW]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments
to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC
20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received
within 30 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 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. They will provide their PDM output at the end of
each participating miners' shift each day during the intervention for a
total of 42 days. In addition, they will provide output for each
participant for the three days prior to the intervention to establish a
baseline measure. Therefore, NIOSH researchers will receive a total of
45 dust output readings for each participant. There is already a
software program in place that electronically records these exposure
levels and exports them to a spreadsheet that each mine site can open
on a computer that has the appropriate software. It is estimated it
will take no more than 5 minutes for the mine operator to remove any
identifying information from the excel file and just send NIOSH the PDM
number and dust output associated with that PDM in a new excel file.
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
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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 798.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in
respondent hours)
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Mine Safety Operators................. Script for Phone and/or 5 1 5/60
Email Mine Recruitment
Script.
Individual Miners from Experimental Recruitment Script for 209 1 3/60
and Control Groups. Individual Miners.
Experimental Groups (from five Week 1 PDM Pre-Survey... 109 1 15/60
different mines).
Week 2 Participant 109 1 15/60
Worksheet.
Week 3-5 Participant 327 3 15/60
Worksheets.
Week 6 PDM Post-Survey.. 109 1 15/60
Facilitator Weekly 109 6 30/60
Meeting Manual.
Interview Guide for 29 1 1
Miners' Utilization of
PDM Feedback.
Mine Safety Operators for Experimental Daily respirable coal 5 45 5/60
Groups (from five different mines). mine dust exposure data.
Mine Safety Operators for Control ........................ 4 45 5/60
Groups (from four different mines).
Control Groups (from four different Week 1 PDM Pre-Survey... 100 1 15/60
mines).
Week 6 PDM Post-Survey.. 100 1 15/60
Interview Guide for 20 1 1
Miners' Utilization of
PDM Feedback.
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LeRoy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, 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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