Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations, 65967-65969 [2014-26354]

Download as PDF 65967 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 215 / Thursday, November 6, 2014 / Notices In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Grants.gov (EGOV), Department of Health and Human Services, announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The ICR is for a 3 year renewal of a previously-approved information collection assigned OMB control number 4040–0006–SF–424 D Assurances for Construction Programs, which expired on June 30, 2014. The ICR also requests categorizing the form as a common form, meaning HHS will only request approval for its own use of the form rather than aggregating the burden estimate across all Federal Agencies as was done for previous actions on this OMB control number. Prior to submitting that ICR to OMB, EGOV seeks comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the ICR. SUMMARY: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before January 5, 2015. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to ed.calimag@hhs.gov or (202) 690–7569. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ed.Calimag@hhs.gov or (202) 690–7569. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting information, please include the document identifier HHS–EGOV– 21478–60D for reference. Information Collection Request Title: SF–424 D Assurances for Construction Programs. Abstract: SF–424 D Assurances for Construction Programs is used as certification of assurances by the grant applicant when requesting funds for construction grant programs. Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The SF–424 D Assurances for Construction Programs form is used as certification of assurances by the grant applicant when requesting funds for non-construction grant programs. The Federal awarding DATES: agencies use information submitted on this form for award determination of the Federal assistance awards programs. Likely Respondents: Federal grant applicants. Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the information requested. This includes the time needed to review instructions, to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information, to train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and review the collection of information, and to transmit or otherwise disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for this ICR are summarized in the table below. TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Number of respondents Form name Number of responses per respondent Average burden per response (in hours) Total burden hours 5,694 Total .......................................................................................................... Grants.gov specifically requests comments on (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. Darius Taylor, Information Collection Clearance Officer. [FR Doc. 2014–26376 Filed 11–5–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4150–37–P mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Determination Concerning a Petition to Add a Class of Employees to the Special Exposure Cohort National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). AGENCY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:46 Nov 05, 2014 Jkt 235001 ACTION: 1 1 5,694 5,694 1 1 5,694 Notice. HHS gives notice of a determination concerning a petition to add a class of employees from the Simonds Saw and Steel Company in Lockport, New York, to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C–47, Cincinnati, OH 45226–1938, Telephone 1–877–222–7570. Information requests can also be submitted by email to DCAS@CDC.GOV. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: Authority: [42 U.S.C.7384q]. On October 9, 2014, the Secretary of HHS determined that the following class of employees does not meet the statutory criteria for addition to the SEC as authorized under EEOICPA: All Atomic Weapons Employer employees who worked at Simonds Saw PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 and Steel Co. in Lockport, New York, from January 1, 1958, through December 31, 2006. John Howard, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. [FR Doc. 2014–26425 Filed 11–5–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163–19–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [60Day–15–15DA] Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the below E:\FR\FM\06NON1.SGM 06NON1 65968 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 215 / Thursday, November 6, 2014 / Notices proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval. 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; (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; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Proposed Project ‘‘Improving the Impact of Laboratory Practice Guidelines: A New Paradigm for Metrics’’—American Society for Microbiology—NEW—Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Background and Brief Description The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is funding three 5-year projects collectively entitled ‘‘Improving the Impact of Laboratory Practice Guidelines: A New Paradigm for Metrics’’. An ‘‘LPG’’ is defined as written recommendations for voluntary, standardized approaches for medical laboratory testing that takes into account VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:46 Nov 05, 2014 Jkt 235001 processes for test selection, sample procurement and processing, analytical methods, and results reporting for effective diagnosis and management of disease and health conditions. LPGs may be disseminated to, and used by, laboratorians and clinicians to assist with test selection and test result interpretation. The overall purpose of these cooperative agreements is to increase the effectiveness of LPGs by defining measures and collecting information to inform better LPG creation, revision, dissemination, promotion, uptake and impact on clinical testing and public health. The project will explore how these processes and their impediments and facilitators differ among various intended users of LPGs. Through this demonstration project, CDC seeks to understand how to customize LPG creation and promotion to better serve these intended users of LPGs. An important goal is to help organizations that sponsor the development of LPGs create a sustainable approach for continuous quality improvement to evaluate and improve an LPG’s impact through better collection of information. The CDC selected three organizations that currently create and disseminate LPGs to support activities under a cooperative agreement funding mechanism to improve the impact of their LPGs. The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, and the College of American Pathologists, will each use their LPGs as models to better understand how to improve uptake and impact of these and future LPGs. Only the ASM submission will be described in this notice. The ASM project will address four LPGs that are important to clinical testing and have a high public health impact: Reducing blood culture contamination (BCC), rapid diagnosis of blood stream infections (BSI), proper collection and transport of urine (UT), and microbiological practices to improve the diagnosis and management of patients with Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI). The BCC LPG was published and it includes recommendations for the use of: (1) Venipuncture over catheters as the preferred technique for sample collection in a clinical setting, and (2) phlebotomy teams over nonphlebotomist staff for collecting blood for culture. The BSI report examines the effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests to promote more accurate and timely administration of targeted antibiotic therapy for patients with bloodstream infections. This report will be published and recommendations will be PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 developed based on additional information collected. Practices related to the collection, storage and preservation of urine for microbiological culture that improve the diagnosis and management of patients with urinary tract infections were analyzed and approved recommendations will be published. Microbiological practices related to improving diagnosis and management of patients with C. difficile infection will be collected and analyzed, and recommendations will also be developed and published. The intended respondents of ASM’s surveys will include microbiology supervisors, laboratory directors, and laboratory managers. For this request for OMB approval of a new information collection, we will be requesting approval to collect baseline and postdissemination information for the BCC LPG. Because the BSI, UT and CDI reports are not yet published, ASM will conduct a baseline survey to determine current practices prior to dissemination of the LPGs. On behalf of the ASM and the CDC, the Laboratory Response Network (LRN), which was founded by the CDC, will recruit laboratories that perform the kinds of testing affected by these LPGs to take the surveys. Messages regarding ASM surveys will be worded as an invitation, not as a coercive request. Some states may opt not to recruit LRN laboratory participation, but because the issues are important to clinical and public health, we expect good participation by most states. This mechanism will assure the best response rate of all the options we considered. The CDC LRN Coordinator will email a letter to the Laboratory Director of the LRN Reference Laboratories, (i.e., 50 State Public Health Laboratories, the New York City Public Health Laboratory and the Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory). These 52 LRN Reference Laboratory Directors will be asked to then email the sentinel laboratories, which include hospital and independent laboratories, in their states, and provide a hyperlink to access the survey tool on-line via a landing page provided by ASM through their Clinical Microbiology portal. Survey Monkey will be used as the data collection instrument and responses will be collected and maintained by ASM. We anticipate that a maximum of 4,200 sentinel laboratories will be contacted and asked to complete the survey online. ASM anticipates achieving an 80% response rate with their information collections, or 3,360 out of ∼4,200 aggregate responses for each of the 5 different surveys. E:\FR\FM\06NON1.SGM 06NON1 65969 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 215 / Thursday, November 6, 2014 / Notices For burden calculations, we assume one respondent per laboratory and we also assume respondents will include microbiology supervisors, laboratory directors, and laboratory managers, approximately in a 50%:25%:25% distribution, respectively. According to ASM, the burden hours per respondent who will be invited to participate in the BCC baseline and post-dissemination surveys and the BSI, UT and CDI baseline surveys will be 20 minutes. This time frame was specified based on ASM’s previous experiences conducting laboratory surveys. Each survey will be pilot tested with 9 or fewer respondents before dissemination to assure that completing the surveys does not extend past 20 minutes. CDC is requesting a three-year OMB approval to collect this information. There are no costs to respondents other than their time. ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Form name Microbiology Supervisors ..................................... BCC .............................. BSI ................................ UT ................................. CDI ................................ BCC .............................. BSI ................................ UT ................................. CDI ................................ BCC .............................. BSI ................................ UT ................................. CDI ................................ Laboratory Directors ............................................. Laboratory Managers ........................................... [FR Doc. 2014–26354 Filed 11–5–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163–18–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [60Day–15–0931] mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:46 Nov 05, 2014 Jkt 235001 2,100 2,100 2,100 2,100 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,050 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 20/60 20/60 20/60 20/60 20/60 20/60 20/60 20/60 20/60 20/60 20/60 20/60 1,400 700 700 700 700 350 350 350 700 350 350 350 ........................ ........................ 7,000 included in the request for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval. 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; (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; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the PO 00000 Total burden (in hours) ........................ Total ............................................................... Leroy A. 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. Average burden per response (in hours) Number of responses per respondent Number of respondents Type of respondent Frm 00048 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 information. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice. Proposed Project Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance System (HHLPSS) (OMB No. 0920–0931, expires 04/30/2015)— Extension—National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Background and Brief Description The overarching goal of the Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance System (HHLPSS) is to support healthy homes surveillance activities at the state and national levels. CDC is requesting a three-year extension of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for up to 40 state and local Healthy Homes Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs (CLPPP) and the state-based Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES) programs. The programs will report information (e.g., presence of lead paint, age of housing, occupation of adults and type of housing) to the CDC. They will use the system as designed. Over the last three years, 7 states have adopted the HHLPPS and 13 are in betatesting. In October 2014, CDC began funding 40 state and local blood lead surveillance programs. Many of these programs and their subcontractors at the local level will come on line with HHLPSS in the next year. E:\FR\FM\06NON1.SGM 06NON1

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-15-15DA]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment 
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the 
below

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proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 
and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to Leroy A. 
Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an 
email to omb@cdc.gov.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) approval. 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; (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; and (e) 
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, 
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden 
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information 
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60 
days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    ``Improving the Impact of Laboratory Practice Guidelines: A New 
Paradigm for Metrics''--American Society for Microbiology--NEW--Center 
for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is funding three 5-
year projects collectively entitled ``Improving the Impact of 
Laboratory Practice Guidelines: A New Paradigm for Metrics''. An 
``LPG'' is defined as written recommendations for voluntary, 
standardized approaches for medical laboratory testing that takes into 
account processes for test selection, sample procurement and 
processing, analytical methods, and results reporting for effective 
diagnosis and management of disease and health conditions. LPGs may be 
disseminated to, and used by, laboratorians and clinicians to assist 
with test selection and test result interpretation. The overall purpose 
of these cooperative agreements is to increase the effectiveness of 
LPGs by defining measures and collecting information to inform better 
LPG creation, revision, dissemination, promotion, uptake and impact on 
clinical testing and public health. The project will explore how these 
processes and their impediments and facilitators differ among various 
intended users of LPGs. Through this demonstration project, CDC seeks 
to understand how to customize LPG creation and promotion to better 
serve these intended users of LPGs. An important goal is to help 
organizations that sponsor the development of LPGs create a sustainable 
approach for continuous quality improvement to evaluate and improve an 
LPG's impact through better collection of information.
    The CDC selected three organizations that currently create and 
disseminate LPGs to support activities under a cooperative agreement 
funding mechanism to improve the impact of their LPGs. The American 
Society for Microbiology (ASM), the Clinical and Laboratory Standards 
Institute, and the College of American Pathologists, will each use 
their LPGs as models to better understand how to improve uptake and 
impact of these and future LPGs. Only the ASM submission will be 
described in this notice.
    The ASM project will address four LPGs that are important to 
clinical testing and have a high public health impact: Reducing blood 
culture contamination (BCC), rapid diagnosis of blood stream infections 
(BSI), proper collection and transport of urine (UT), and 
microbiological practices to improve the diagnosis and management of 
patients with Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI). The 
BCC LPG was published and it includes recommendations for the use of: 
(1) Venipuncture over catheters as the preferred technique for sample 
collection in a clinical setting, and (2) phlebotomy teams over non-
phlebotomist staff for collecting blood for culture. The BSI report 
examines the effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests to promote more 
accurate and timely administration of targeted antibiotic therapy for 
patients with bloodstream infections. This report will be published and 
recommendations will be developed based on additional information 
collected. Practices related to the collection, storage and 
preservation of urine for microbiological culture that improve the 
diagnosis and management of patients with urinary tract infections were 
analyzed and approved recommendations will be published. 
Microbiological practices related to improving diagnosis and management 
of patients with C. difficile infection will be collected and analyzed, 
and recommendations will also be developed and published.
    The intended respondents of ASM's surveys will include microbiology 
supervisors, laboratory directors, and laboratory managers. For this 
request for OMB approval of a new information collection, we will be 
requesting approval to collect baseline and post-dissemination 
information for the BCC LPG. Because the BSI, UT and CDI reports are 
not yet published, ASM will conduct a baseline survey to determine 
current practices prior to dissemination of the LPGs.
    On behalf of the ASM and the CDC, the Laboratory Response Network 
(LRN), which was founded by the CDC, will recruit laboratories that 
perform the kinds of testing affected by these LPGs to take the 
surveys. Messages regarding ASM surveys will be worded as an 
invitation, not as a coercive request. Some states may opt not to 
recruit LRN laboratory participation, but because the issues are 
important to clinical and public health, we expect good participation 
by most states. This mechanism will assure the best response rate of 
all the options we considered.
    The CDC LRN Coordinator will email a letter to the Laboratory 
Director of the LRN Reference Laboratories, (i.e., 50 State Public 
Health Laboratories, the New York City Public Health Laboratory and the 
Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory). These 52 LRN Reference 
Laboratory Directors will be asked to then email the sentinel 
laboratories, which include hospital and independent laboratories, in 
their states, and provide a hyperlink to access the survey tool on-line 
via a landing page provided by ASM through their Clinical Microbiology 
portal. Survey Monkey will be used as the data collection instrument 
and responses will be collected and maintained by ASM. We anticipate 
that a maximum of 4,200 sentinel laboratories will be contacted and 
asked to complete the survey on-line. ASM anticipates achieving an 80% 
response rate with their information collections, or 3,360 out of 
~4,200 aggregate responses for each of the 5 different surveys.

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    For burden calculations, we assume one respondent per laboratory 
and we also assume respondents will include microbiology supervisors, 
laboratory directors, and laboratory managers, approximately in a 
50%:25%:25% distribution, respectively. According to ASM, the burden 
hours per respondent who will be invited to participate in the BCC 
baseline and post-dissemination surveys and the BSI, UT and CDI 
baseline surveys will be 20 minutes. This time frame was specified 
based on ASM's previous experiences conducting laboratory surveys. Each 
survey will be pilot tested with 9 or fewer respondents before 
dissemination to assure that completing the surveys does not extend 
past 20 minutes.
    CDC is requesting a three-year OMB approval to collect this 
information. There are no costs to respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondent            Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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Microbiology Supervisors......  BCC.............           2,100               2           20/60           1,400
                                BSI.............           2,100               1           20/60             700
                                UT..............           2,100               1           20/60             700
                                CDI.............           2,100               1           20/60             700
Laboratory Directors..........  BCC.............           1,050               2           20/60             700
                                BSI.............           1,050               1           20/60             350
                                UT..............           1,050               1           20/60             350
                                CDI.............           1,050               1           20/60             350
Laboratory Managers...........  BCC.............           1,050               2           20/60             700
                                BSI.............           1,050               1           20/60             350
                                UT..............           1,050               1           20/60             350
                                CDI.............           1,050               1           20/60             350
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.....................                    ..............  ..............  ..............           7,000
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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, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-26354 Filed 11-5-14; 8:45 am]
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