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of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP),
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William Clark,
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of Acquisition Policy, Office of Governmentwide Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project: ‘‘Phase II
of a Longitudinal Program Evaluation of
Health and Human Services (HHS)
Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)
National Action Plan (NAP).’’ In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
SUMMARY:
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Comments on this notice must be
received by June 23, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
Proposed Project
Phase II of a Longitudinal Program
Evaluation of Heath Human Services
(HHS) Healthcare Associated Infections
(HAI) National Action Plan (NAP)
This evaluation of HHS’ Healthcare
Associated Infections National Action
Plan will assess the efficacy, efficiency
and coordination of federal efforts to
mitigate and prevent Healthcare
Associated Infections (HAIs). As such,
the evaluation represents a critical
component of AHRQ’s mission to
promote health care quality
improvement.
HAIs are infections that patients
acquire while receiving treatment for
other conditions while in a healthcare
setting. They affect care in hospitalshereafter referred to as ‘‘acute care’’,
ambulatory care settings, and long-term
care facilities, and represent a
significant cause of illness and death in
the United States. Over one million
HAIs occur across health care settings
every year.
In 2008, amidst growing demands on
the healthcare system, rising healthcare
costs, and increasing concerns about
antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, HHS
established a senior-level Steering
Committee for the Prevention of HAIs.
Charged with improving coordination
and maximizing the efficiency of
prevention efforts across HHS, the
Steering Committee released the first
‘‘National Action Plan to Prevent Health
Care-Associated Infections’’ (HAI NAP)
in 2009. This plan outlined a systematic
and phased approach to reducing HAIs
and associated morbidity, mortality, and
costs. Phase One of HAI NAP, which
concluded in 2012, focused on HAI
prevention in acute care hospitals,
where data on prevention and the
capacity to measure improvement were
most complete.
Additionally, the plan set specific
targets for reducing rates of six high
priority HAIs or specific causative
organisms: Surgical site infection (SSI),
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central-line associated bloodstream
infection (CLABSI), ventilatorassociated pneumonia (VAP), catheterassociated urinary tract infection
(CAUTI), Clostridium difficile infection,
and methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus infection
(MRSA).
Phase II of the Action Plan, entitled
National Action Plan to Prevent
Healthcare-Associated Infections:
Roadmap to Elimination was released in
April 2012. Phase II expanded the
Action Plan to include prevention of
HAIs in ambulatory surgical centers
(ASCs) and end-stage renal disease
(ESRD) facilities, and increasing
influenza vaccination coverage of
healthcare personnel. Phase III of the
HAI NAP, released for public comment
in April 2013, further expanded the
Action Plan to include prevention of
HAIs in long-term care facilities.
Evaluation of HAI NAP. In 2009,
AHRQ funded an independent, outside
evaluation of HHS’ HAI prevention
efforts, as guided by the Action Plan.
The goals of this evaluation were to: (1)
Record the content and scope of the
Action Plan, its current design, its
progress, and impact on the future; (2)
establish baseline data and provide
additional information on the HAI
landscape prior to and following the
initiation of the Action Plan effort; and
(3) provide strategic insights from
ongoing processes for reducing HAIs
and outcomes of these processes.
The current evaluation will expand
upon this initial effort, encompassing
the additional health care settings
outlined in Phases II and III of the HAI
NAP.
The goals of this Phase II evaluation
are to:
1. Identify commonalities, gaps,
themes, and opportunities for
collaboration across six Federal quality
improvement and patient safety efforts
to eliminate HAIs; and
2. highlight actionable opportunities
across HHS to collaborate and
efficiently utilize resources in these
quality improvement and patient safety
efforts; and
3. assess the unique and aggregate
contributions of each quality
improvement and patient safety effort to
the mitigation and prevention of HAIs.
This study is being conducted by
AHRQ through its contractor, Insight
Policy Research, Inc. and its
subcontractors, IMPAQ International
and RAND Corporation, pursuant to
AHRQ’s statutory authority to conduct
and support research and evaluations on
healthcare and on systems for the
delivery of such care, including
activities with respect to the quality,
effectiveness, efficiency,
appropriateness and value of healthcare
services and with respect to quality
measurement and improvement. 42
U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of the HAI NAP
evaluation, the following data
collections will be implemented:
Semi-structured interviews. Key
informant interviews with stakeholders
of the HAI National Action Plan or the
Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives
that the Action Plan seeks to coordinate
and align. These stakeholders will have
knowledge of the QI initiatives as
implemented in acute care, ambulatory
care, long term care or ESRD facilities.
AHRQ plans to conduct 33 interviews
each year, over the course of two years.
The semi-structured interviews will
inform the process evaluation.
AHRQ will use the interview data to
assess the processes and methods used,
results achieved, and lessons learned
from patient quality and safety programs
that are directed at reducing the
incidence of HAIs. This information
will enable AHRQ to identify
redundancies in program efforts and
provide effective approaches for
coordinating and aligning Federal
efforts to prevent the incidence of HAIs.
Finally, collecting data from these
stakeholders will allow AHRQ to detect
gaps in the HAI science base and
opportunities for funding additional
projects focused on generating and
implementing knowledge on preventing
HAIs.
The information gathered through the
key informant interviews will be
presented to members of a Federal
Action Working Group (FAWG),
comprising representatives from the
various federal agencies and operating
divisions of HHS who are actively
involved in the HAI NAP. Presentations
to the FAWG will provide continual and
rapid-cycle feedback on evaluation
findings. This feedback will accomplish
several goals—namely, it will apprise
the FAWG members of the study’s
formative findings, provide a medium to
obtain feedback from the FAWG
regarding the unique and aggregate
impact of the national programs, and
engage the FAWG in a discussion about
gaps and future requirements.
Ultimately, the information gathered
through this data collection effort will
appear in annual reports, along with
results of secondary data analyses.
These reports will provide AHRQ and
HHS with comprehensive, evaluative
findings across and within individual
patient safety programs as well as
findings specific to the HAI NAP, and
the extent to which the goals outlined
in the plan have been achieved.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents’ time to participate in this
evaluation. The total burden hours are
estimated to be 66, which covers two
years of interviews. The exhibits below
indicate annualized burden hours in
one year.
In-Depth Interviews with
Stakeholders: AHRQ plans to conduct
33 semi-structured interviews each year
for two years, totaling 66 semistructured interviews during the course
of the evaluation. These interviews will
be conducted with key HAI NAP
stakeholders with expertise in one or
more of the four targeted healthcare
settings. These healthcare settings
include: Acute care hospital settings,
ambulatory surgical centers, ESRD
facilities, and long term care settings.
Respondents will be interviewed by
telephone. Participant recruitment
should take no longer than five minutes.
Scheduling will take place through
email and will include an attached letter
of support from AHRQ. Interviews will
last up to one hour.
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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
per year
Data collection activity
In-depth Interviews with HAI NAP Stakeholders with expertise pertaining to:
• Acute Care Hospital Settings ................................................................
• Ambulatory Surgical Centers ................................................................
• ESRD facilities ......................................................................................
• Long Term Care Settings .....................................................................
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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Number of
respondents
per year
Data collection activity
Total ...................................................................................................
Number of
responses per
respondent
33
Hours per
response
1
Total burden
hours
1
33
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Data collection activity
Total burden
hours
Average hourly wage rate
Total cost
burden
In-depth Interviews with external stakeholders:
• Acute Care Hospital Settings ................................................................
• Ambulatory Surgical Centers ................................................................
• ESRD facilities ......................................................................................
• Long Term Care Settings .....................................................................
9
8
8
8
9
8
8
8
$34.33*
34.33*
34.33*
34.33*
$309.00
275.00
275.00
275.00
Total ...................................................................................................
33
na
na
1,134.00
* Based upon May 2012 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates for Epidemiologists, retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/oes/
current/oes_nat.htm#19-0000 on February 20, 2014.
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.
Dated: April 9, 2014.
Richard Kronick,
Director.
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Quality
Notice of Meeting
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and Quality, HHS.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Notice.
In accordance with section
10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2),
announcement is made of an Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) Special Emphasis Panel (SEP)
meeting on ‘‘AHRQ RFA–HS14–007,
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
(PCOR) for Deliberative Approaches:
Patient and Consumer Input for
Implementing Evidence-Based Health
Care (R21)’’. Each SEP meeting will
commence in open session before
closing to the public for the duration of
the meeting.
DATES: May 15–16, 2014 (Open on May
15 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and
closed for the remainder of the meeting).
ADDRESSES: Gaithersburg Marriott
Washingtonian Center, 9751
Washingtonian Boulevard, Gaithersburg,
Maryland 20878.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anyone wishing to obtain a roster of
members, agenda or minutes of the nonconfidential portions of this meeting
should contact:
Mrs. Bonnie Campbell,
Committee Management Officer,
Office of Extramural Research,
Education and Priority Populations,
AHRQ,
540 Gaither Road, Room 2038,
Rockville, Maryland 20850,
Telephone: (301) 427–1554.
Agenda items for this meeting are
subject to change as priorities dictate.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Special
Emphasis Panel is a group of experts in
fields related to health care research
who are invited by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ), and agree to be available, to
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conduct on an as needed basis,
scientific reviews of applications for
AHRQ support. Individual members of
the Panel do not attend regularlyscheduled meetings and do not serve for
fixed terms or a long period of time.
Rather, they are asked to participate in
particular review meetings which
require their type of expertise.
Each SEP meeting will commence in
open session before closing to the public
for the duration of the meeting. The SEP
meeting referenced above will be closed
to the public in accordance with the
provisions set forth in 5 U.S.C. App. 2,
section 10(d), 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), and 5
U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Grant applications for
the ‘‘AHRQ RFA–HS14–007, PatientCentered Outcomes Research (PCOR) for
Deliberative Approaches: Patient and
Consumer Input for Implementing
Evidence-Based Health Care (R21)’’ are
to be reviewed and discussed at this
meeting. The grant applications and the
discussions could disclose confidential
trade secrets or commercial property
such as patentable material, and
personal information concerning
individuals associated with the grant
applications, the disclosure of which
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy.
Dated: April 9, 2014.
Richard Kronick,
AHRQ Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection
project: ``Phase II of a Longitudinal Program Evaluation of Health and
Human Services (HHS) Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) National
Action Plan (NAP).'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44
U.S.C. 3501-3521, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed
information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by June 23, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at
doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection
instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be
obtained from the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by email at
doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Phase II of a Longitudinal Program Evaluation of Heath Human Services
(HHS) Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) National Action Plan (NAP)
This evaluation of HHS' Healthcare Associated Infections National
Action Plan will assess the efficacy, efficiency and coordination of
federal efforts to mitigate and prevent Healthcare Associated
Infections (HAIs). As such, the evaluation represents a critical
component of AHRQ's mission to promote health care quality improvement.
HAIs are infections that patients acquire while receiving treatment
for other conditions while in a healthcare setting. They affect care in
hospitals-hereafter referred to as ``acute care'', ambulatory care
settings, and long-term care facilities, and represent a significant
cause of illness and death in the United States. Over one million HAIs
occur across health care settings every year.
In 2008, amidst growing demands on the healthcare system, rising
healthcare costs, and increasing concerns about antimicrobial-resistant
pathogens, HHS established a senior-level Steering Committee for the
Prevention of HAIs. Charged with improving coordination and maximizing
the efficiency of prevention efforts across HHS, the Steering Committee
released the first ``National Action Plan to Prevent Health Care-
Associated Infections'' (HAI NAP) in 2009. This plan outlined a
systematic and phased approach to reducing HAIs and associated
morbidity, mortality, and costs. Phase One of HAI NAP, which concluded
in 2012, focused on HAI prevention in acute care hospitals, where data
on prevention and the capacity to measure improvement were most
complete.
Additionally, the plan set specific targets for reducing rates of
six high priority HAIs or specific causative organisms: Surgical site
infection (SSI),
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central-line associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), ventilator-
associated pneumonia (VAP), catheter-associated urinary tract infection
(CAUTI), Clostridium difficile infection, and methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus infection (MRSA).
Phase II of the Action Plan, entitled National Action Plan to
Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections: Roadmap to Elimination was
released in April 2012. Phase II expanded the Action Plan to include
prevention of HAIs in ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) and end-stage
renal disease (ESRD) facilities, and increasing influenza vaccination
coverage of healthcare personnel. Phase III of the HAI NAP, released
for public comment in April 2013, further expanded the Action Plan to
include prevention of HAIs in long-term care facilities.
Evaluation of HAI NAP. In 2009, AHRQ funded an independent, outside
evaluation of HHS' HAI prevention efforts, as guided by the Action
Plan. The goals of this evaluation were to: (1) Record the content and
scope of the Action Plan, its current design, its progress, and impact
on the future; (2) establish baseline data and provide additional
information on the HAI landscape prior to and following the initiation
of the Action Plan effort; and (3) provide strategic insights from
ongoing processes for reducing HAIs and outcomes of these processes.
The current evaluation will expand upon this initial effort,
encompassing the additional health care settings outlined in Phases II
and III of the HAI NAP.
The goals of this Phase II evaluation are to:
1. Identify commonalities, gaps, themes, and opportunities for
collaboration across six Federal quality improvement and patient safety
efforts to eliminate HAIs; and
2. highlight actionable opportunities across HHS to collaborate and
efficiently utilize resources in these quality improvement and patient
safety efforts; and
3. assess the unique and aggregate contributions of each quality
improvement and patient safety effort to the mitigation and prevention
of HAIs.
This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor,
Insight Policy Research, Inc. and its subcontractors, IMPAQ
International and RAND Corporation, pursuant to AHRQ's statutory
authority to conduct and support research and evaluations on healthcare
and on systems for the delivery of such care, including activities with
respect to the quality, effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness and
value of healthcare services and with respect to quality measurement
and improvement. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of the HAI NAP evaluation, the following data
collections will be implemented:
Semi-structured interviews. Key informant interviews with
stakeholders of the HAI National Action Plan or the Quality Improvement
(QI) initiatives that the Action Plan seeks to coordinate and align.
These stakeholders will have knowledge of the QI initiatives as
implemented in acute care, ambulatory care, long term care or ESRD
facilities. AHRQ plans to conduct 33 interviews each year, over the
course of two years. The semi-structured interviews will inform the
process evaluation.
AHRQ will use the interview data to assess the processes and
methods used, results achieved, and lessons learned from patient
quality and safety programs that are directed at reducing the incidence
of HAIs. This information will enable AHRQ to identify redundancies in
program efforts and provide effective approaches for coordinating and
aligning Federal efforts to prevent the incidence of HAIs. Finally,
collecting data from these stakeholders will allow AHRQ to detect gaps
in the HAI science base and opportunities for funding additional
projects focused on generating and implementing knowledge on preventing
HAIs.
The information gathered through the key informant interviews will
be presented to members of a Federal Action Working Group (FAWG),
comprising representatives from the various federal agencies and
operating divisions of HHS who are actively involved in the HAI NAP.
Presentations to the FAWG will provide continual and rapid-cycle
feedback on evaluation findings. This feedback will accomplish several
goals--namely, it will apprise the FAWG members of the study's
formative findings, provide a medium to obtain feedback from the FAWG
regarding the unique and aggregate impact of the national programs, and
engage the FAWG in a discussion about gaps and future requirements.
Ultimately, the information gathered through this data collection
effort will appear in annual reports, along with results of secondary
data analyses. These reports will provide AHRQ and HHS with
comprehensive, evaluative findings across and within individual patient
safety programs as well as findings specific to the HAI NAP, and the
extent to which the goals outlined in the plan have been achieved.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondents' time to participate in this evaluation. The total burden
hours are estimated to be 66, which covers two years of interviews. The
exhibits below indicate annualized burden hours in one year.
In-Depth Interviews with Stakeholders: AHRQ plans to conduct 33
semi-structured interviews each year for two years, totaling 66 semi-
structured interviews during the course of the evaluation. These
interviews will be conducted with key HAI NAP stakeholders with
expertise in one or more of the four targeted healthcare settings.
These healthcare settings include: Acute care hospital settings,
ambulatory surgical centers, ESRD facilities, and long term care
settings. Respondents will be interviewed by telephone. Participant
recruitment should take no longer than five minutes. Scheduling will
take place through email and will include an attached letter of support
from AHRQ. Interviews will last up to one hour.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Number of
Data collection activity respondents responses per Hours per Total burden
per year respondent response hours
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In-depth Interviews with HAI NAP Stakeholders
with expertise pertaining to:
Acute Care Hospital Settings....... 9 1 1 9
Ambulatory Surgical Centers........ 8 1 1 8
ESRD facilities.................... 8 1 1 8
Long Term Care Settings............ 8 1 1 8
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Total................................... 33 1 1 33
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Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Number of Total burden Average hourly Total cost
Data collection activity respondents hours wage rate burden
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In-depth Interviews with external stakeholders:
Acute Care Hospital Settings....... 9 9 $34.33* $309.00
Ambulatory Surgical Centers........ 8 8 34.33* 275.00
ESRD facilities.................... 8 8 34.33* 275.00
Long Term Care Settings............ 8 8 34.33* 275.00
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Total................................... 33 na na 1,134.00
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* Based upon May 2012 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates for Epidemiologists, retrieved from
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#19-0000 on February 20, 2014.
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.
Dated: April 9, 2014.
Richard Kronick,
Director.
[FR Doc. 2014-09172 Filed 4-22-14; 8:45 am]
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