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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
National Advisory Committee on Rural
Health and Human Services; Notice of
Meeting
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92–463), announcement is
made of the following National
Advisory body scheduled to meet
during the month of September 2014.
The National Advisory Committee on
Rural Health and Human Services will
convene its seventy sixth meeting in the
time and place specified below:
Name: National Advisory Committee
on Rural Health and Human Services.
Dates and Time: September 24, 2014,
8:45 a.m.–5:00 p.m. September 25, 2014,
8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. September 26, 2014,
8:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Place: Avera eHelm, 4500 N Lewis
Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, (605) 322–
4669.
Status: The meeting will be open to
the public.
Purpose: The National Advisory
Committee on Rural Health and Human
Services provides counsel and
recommendations to the Secretary with
respect to the delivery, research,
development, and administration of
health and human services in rural
areas.
Agenda: Wednesday morning, at 8:45
a.m., the meeting will be called to order
by the Chairperson of the Committee:
The Honorable Ronnie Musgrove. The
Committee will assess how telehealth
coverage opportunities in rural areas are
affected by the Affordable Care Act. The
Committee will also examine the issue
of rural domestic violence. The day will
conclude with a period of public
comment at approximately 4:45 p.m.
Thursday morning at approximately
8:30 a.m., the Committee will break into
Subcommittees and depart for site visits
to health care and human services
providers in South Dakota and
Minnesota. Subcommittees will visit the
Pipestone County Medical Center and
the Good Samaritan Society in
Pipestone, Minnesota, and the Horizon
Health Clinic in Howard, South Dakota.
The day will conclude at the Avera
eHelm with a period of public comment
at approximately 5:15 p.m.
Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., the
Committee will meet to summarize key
findings and develop a work plan for
the next quarter and the following
meeting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steve Hirsch, MSLS, Executive
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Secretary, National Advisory Committee
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Health Resources and Services
Administration, Parklawn Building,
17W29–C, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
Maryland 20857, telephone (301) 443–
0835, or fax (301) 443–2803.
Persons interested in attending any
portion of the meeting should contact
Catherine Fontenot at the Office of Rural
Health Policy (ORHP) via telephone at
(301) 945–0897or by email at cfontenot@
hrsa.gov. The Committee meeting
agenda will be posted on the
Committee’s Web site at https://www.
hrsa.gov/advisorycommittees/rural/.
Dated: August 1, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and
Information Coordination.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Submission for OMB Review; 30-Day
Comment Request
The Social Security Administration
(SSA)—National Institutes of Health
(NIH) Collaboration to Improve the
Disability Determination Process:
Calibration II, Predictive Validity
Testing & Validation of Item Response
Theory-Computer Adaptive Testing
Tools (IRT–CAT) (CC)
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 22, 2014,
page 22507 and allowed 60-days for
public comment. No public comments
were received. The purpose of this
notice is to allow an additional 30 days
for public comment. The Clinical
Center, 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
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of Management and Budget, Office of
Regulatory Affairs, OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202–395–6974,
Attention: NIH Desk Officer.
DATES: 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: Daniel Hobbs, Management
Analyst, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Section, Rehabilitation Medicine
Department, Clinical Center, NIH, 6100
Executive Blvd. Suite 3C01, Bethesda,
MD 20892, or call non-toll-free number
(301) 496–3817 or Email your request,
including your address to:
daniel.hobbs@nih.gov. Formal requests
for additional plans and instruments
must be requested in writing.
Proposed Collection: The SSA–NIH
Collaboration to Improve the Disability
development of tests such as the
Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
and the Graduate Management
Admission Test (GMAT).
Development of these instruments is
an iterative process, involving
sequential phases of study in the areas
of item bank development, calibration,
validation, reliability testing and
replenishment of the item banks. CAT
instruments for the Applied Cognition
and Activities of Daily Living domains
will undergo calibration; predictive
validity will be examined; concurrent
validity will be tested against legacy
functional assessment instruments;
reliability and sensitivity will be
examined; and, the item banks will
undergo replenishment to refine the
scope of the questions.
OMB approval is requested for 3
years. There are no costs to respondents
other than their time. The total
estimated annualized burden hours are
12,835.
Determination Process: Calibration II,
Predictive Validity Testing & Validation
of IRT–CAT Tools, 0925– New, Clinical
Center (CC), National Institutes of
Health (NIH).
Need and Use of Information
Collection: The Social Security
Administration (SSA) entered into an
interagency agreement (IAA) with the
National Institutes of Health (NIH),
Clinical Center (CC), Rehabilitation
Medicine Department (RMD), to explore
innovative methods of functional
assessment to improve SSA’s disability
determination process. As part of its
study, NIH recommended item response
theory (IRT) coupled with computer
adaptive testing (CAT) as a promising
approach to efficiently and consistently
capture claimant functional information
to assist SSA adjudicators. IRT is a
framework for the design, analysis, and
scoring of tests, questionnaires, and
similar instruments measuring abilities,
aptitudes, and other variables. It is often
the preferred method for the
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of
respondents
Number of
respondents
Frequency of
response
Average
time per
response (in
hours)
Annual hour
burden
Calibration Phase
Survey 1—Screener Call (Not Interested) .......................................................
Survey 1—Screener Call (Participate/Eligible) ................................................
Survey 1—Consent Form ................................................................................
SSA Claimant Survey 1 ...................................................................................
Survey 2—Screener Call (Not Interested) .......................................................
Survey 2—Screener Call (Participate Eligible) ................................................
Survey 2—Consent Form ................................................................................
SSA Claimant Survey 2 ...................................................................................
Normative Population Survey 1 .......................................................................
Normative Population Survey 2 .......................................................................
Dated: July 31, 2014.
David Henderson,
Deputy Director, Clinical Center, NIH.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
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[OMB Control Number 1615–0049]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Verification of
Naturalization, Form N–25; Extension,
Without Change, of a Currently
Approved Collection
ACTION:
60-Day Notice.
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The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) invites
the general public and other Federal
agencies to comment upon this
proposed extension of a currently
approved collection of information. In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the
information collection notice is
published in the Federal Register to
obtain comments regarding the nature of
the information collection, the
categories of respondents, the estimated
burden (i.e. the time, effort, and
resources used by the respondents to
respond), the estimated cost to the
respondent, and the actual information
collection instruments.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted for 60 days until
October 7, 2014.
SUMMARY:
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12,200
7,800
3,500
3,500
500
3,000
3,000
3,000
2,000
2,000
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1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3/60
15/60
15/60
45/60
3/60
15/60
15/60
45/60
45/60
45/60
610
1,950
875
2,625
25
750
750
2,250
1,500
1,500
All submissions received
must include the OMB Control Number
1615–0049 in the subject box, the
agency name and Docket ID USCIS–
2005–0036. To avoid duplicate
submissions, please use only one of the
following methods to submit comments:
(1) Online. Submit comments via the
Federal eRulemaking Portal Web site at
www.regulations.gov under e-Docket ID
number USCIS–2005–0036;
(2) Email. Submit comments to
USCISFRComment@uscis.dhs.gov;
(3) Mail. Submit written comments to
DHS, USCIS, Office of Policy and
Strategy, Chief, Regulatory Coordination
Division, 20 Massachusetts Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20529–2140.
ADDRESSES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Submission for OMB Review; 30-Day Comment Request
The Social Security Administration (SSA)--National Institutes of Health
(NIH) Collaboration to Improve the Disability Determination Process:
Calibration II, Predictive Validity Testing & Validation of Item
Response Theory-Computer Adaptive Testing Tools (IRT-CAT) (CC)
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 22, 2014, page 22507 and allowed 60-days for public
comment. No public comments were received. The purpose of this notice
is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The Clinical
Center, 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
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of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory Affairs, OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-6974, Attention: NIH Desk
Officer.
DATES: 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: Daniel Hobbs, Management Analyst,
Epidemiology & Biostatistics Section, Rehabilitation Medicine
Department, Clinical Center, NIH, 6100 Executive Blvd. Suite 3C01,
Bethesda, MD 20892, or call non-toll-free number (301) 496-3817 or
Email your request, including your address to: daniel.hobbs@nih.gov.
Formal requests for additional plans and instruments must be requested
in writing.
Proposed Collection: The SSA-NIH Collaboration to Improve the
Disability Determination Process: Calibration II, Predictive Validity
Testing & Validation of IRT-CAT Tools, 0925- New, Clinical Center (CC),
National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Need and Use of Information Collection: The Social Security
Administration (SSA) entered into an interagency agreement (IAA) with
the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Center (CC),
Rehabilitation Medicine Department (RMD), to explore innovative methods
of functional assessment to improve SSA's disability determination
process. As part of its study, NIH recommended item response theory
(IRT) coupled with computer adaptive testing (CAT) as a promising
approach to efficiently and consistently capture claimant functional
information to assist SSA adjudicators. IRT is a framework for the
design, analysis, and scoring of tests, questionnaires, and similar
instruments measuring abilities, aptitudes, and other variables. It is
often the preferred method for the development of tests such as the
Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and the Graduate Management Admission
Test (GMAT).
Development of these instruments is an iterative process, involving
sequential phases of study in the areas of item bank development,
calibration, validation, reliability testing and replenishment of the
item banks. CAT instruments for the Applied Cognition and Activities of
Daily Living domains will undergo calibration; predictive validity will
be examined; concurrent validity will be tested against legacy
functional assessment instruments; reliability and sensitivity will be
examined; and, the item banks will undergo replenishment to refine the
scope of the questions.
OMB approval is requested for 3 years. There are no costs to
respondents other than their time. The total estimated annualized
burden hours are 12,835.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average time
Type of respondents Number of Frequency of per response Annual hour
respondents response (in hours) burden
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Calibration Phase
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Survey 1--Screener Call (Not Interested)........ 12,200 1 3/60 610
Survey 1--Screener Call (Participate/Eligible).. 7,800 1 15/60 1,950
Survey 1--Consent Form.......................... 3,500 1 15/60 875
SSA Claimant Survey 1........................... 3,500 1 45/60 2,625
Survey 2--Screener Call (Not Interested)........ 500 1 3/60 25
Survey 2--Screener Call (Participate Eligible).. 3,000 1 15/60 750
Survey 2--Consent Form.......................... 3,000 1 15/60 750
SSA Claimant Survey 2........................... 3,000 1 45/60 2,250
Normative Population Survey 1................... 2,000 1 45/60 1,500
Normative Population Survey 2................... 2,000 1 45/60 1,500
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Dated: July 31, 2014.
David Henderson,
Deputy Director, Clinical Center, NIH.
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