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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.
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and the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (Pub. L. 92–463) of October 6, 1972,
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Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA), PAR 15–353, Centers for
Agricultural Safety and Health.
Times and Dates:
8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m., EDT, May 9, 2016
(Closed)
8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m., EDT, May 10, 2016
(Closed)
8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m., EDT, May 11, 2016
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(Closed)
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Perimeter at Ravinia, 4355 Ashford
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30346–1521 Telephone: (770) 395–7700
Status: The meeting will be closed to
the public in accordance with
provisions set forth in Section
552b(c)(4) and (6), Title 5 U.S.C., and
the Determination of the Director,
Management Analysis and Services
Office, CDC, pursuant to Public Law 92–
463.
Matters for Discussion: The meeting
will include the initial review,
discussion, and evaluation of
applications received in response to
‘‘Centers for Agricultural Safety and
Health’’, PAR 15–353.
Contact Person for More Information:
Donald Blackman, Ph.D., Scientific
Review Officer, CDC/NIOSH, 2400
Century Center Parkway NE., 4th Floor,
Room 4204, Mailstop E–74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30345, Telephone: (404) 498–
6185, DYB7@CDC.GOV.
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and Services Office, has been delegated
the authority to sign Federal Register
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meetings and other committee
management activities, for both the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services
Office, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing efforts to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, 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. This notice invites
comment on the Environmental Public
Health Tracking Network, an
information system which collects data
from (1) other CDC programs such as the
National Center for Health Statistics, (2)
other federal agencies such as the
Environmental Protection Agency, (3)
publically accessible systems such as
the Census Bureau, and (4) funded and
unfunded state and local health
departments (SLHD).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before June 13, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0037 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. All relevant comments
received will be posted without change
to Regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. For
access to the docket to read background
documents or comments received, go to
Regulations.gov.
SUMMARY:
Please note: All public comment should be
submitted through the Federal eRulemaking
portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
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the information collection plan and
instruments, contact the Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570;
Email: omb@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires Federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
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.
Proposed Project
Environmental Public Health
Tracking Network (Tracking Network)—
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OMB Control Number—National Center
for Environmental Health (NCEH),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
In September, 2000, the Pew
Environmental Health Commission
issued a report entitled ‘‘America’s
Environmental Health Gap: Why the
Country Needs a Nationwide Health
Tracking Network.’’ In this report, the
Commission documented that the
existing environmental health systems
were inadequate and fragmented and
recommended a ‘‘Nationwide Health
Tracking Network for disease and
exposures.’’ In response to the report,
Congress appropriated funds in the
fiscal year 2002’s budget for the CDC to
establish the National Environmental
Public Health Tracking Network
(Tracking Network).
Continuously since 2008, and at the
national level, the program collects data
from (1) other CDC programs such as the
National Center for Health Statistics, (2)
other federal agencies such as the
Environmental Protection Agency, (3)
publically accessible systems such as
the Census Bureau, and (4) funded and
unfunded state and local health
departments (SLHD). These data are
integrated into and disseminated from
the Tracking Network and used for
analyses which can inform national
programs, interventions, or policies;
guide further development and
activities within the Tracking Program;
or advance the practice and science of
environmental public health tracking.
The Tracking Program also collects
information from funded SLHD to
monitor their progress related to their
funding and for program evaluation.
This information collection request is
focused on data and information
gathered by the Tracking Program from
SLHD.
Due to voluntary program efforts to
continuously improve compliance, the
CDC recently determined that the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) should
apply to the Tracking Network
collections. Thus, the CDC requests a
three-year PRA clearance to collect
these data.
One part of the collection involves
health, exposure, and hazard data from
SLHD. The Tracking Network provides
the United States with accurate and
timely standardized data from existing
health, exposure, and hazard
surveillance systems and supports
ongoing efforts within the public health
and environmental sectors. The goal of
the Tracking Network is to improve
health tracking, exposure and hazard
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monitoring, and response capacity.
When such data are available, the
Tracking Program obtains data from
national or public sources in order to
reduce the burden on SLHD. When data
are not available nationally or
publically, the Tracking Program relies
on funded SLHD to obtain and submit
these data to the Tracking Network. Data
from unfunded SLHD are accepted but
not requested or solicited.
Data submitted annually by SLHD to
the Tracking Program include: (1) Birth
defects prevalence,(2) childhood lead
blood levels, if a SLHD does not already
report such data to CDC, (3) community
drinking water monitoring, (4)
emergency department visits, (5)
hospitalizations, and (6) radon testing.
The Tracking Program receives
childhood lead blood levels data from
CDC’s Childhood Lead Poisoning
Prevention Program (under the Healthy
Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance
System [HHLPSS—OMB Control No.
0920–0931, expiration date 5/31/2018]).
A metadata record, a file describing the
original source and collection
procedures for the data being submitted,
is also submitted with each dataset (1
per dataset for a total of 6 metadata
records per year) using the Tracking
Program’s metadata creation tool.
Standardized extraction, formatting,
and submission processes are developed
in collaboration between CDC and
SLHD for each dataset. Additions or
modifications to these standardized
datasets will also be developed
collaboratively in order to improve the
accuracy, completeness, efficiency, or
utility of data submitted to CDC. Such
changes will occur at most once a year.
Examples of changes to data processes
may include: (1) Addition of new
variables or outcomes, (2) updates to
case definitions, (3) modifications to
temporal or spatial aggregation, and (4)
changes in formatting for submission.
As required, the Tracking Network will
submit future additions and
modifications as non-substantive change
requests or revision information
collection requests.
The other part of the collection
involves program monitoring
information from funded SLHD. In
addition to standard reporting required
by CDC’s Procurement and Grants
Office, the Tracking Program also
collects information from funded SLHD
for the purposes of program evaluation
and monitoring. This information
includes performance measures
collected quarterly, a communications
plan collected annually, an earned
values management report collected
quarterly, an evaluation plan collected
annually, and Web site analytics
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collected quarterly as documents
emailed to the Tracking Program.
There are no costs for the respondents
other than their time. The total
estimated time burden is 25,320 hours.
This estimate includes the time it takes
to extract the data from the original data
source(s), standardize and format the
data to match the corresponding
Tracking Network data form, and submit
the data to the Tracking Network. In
some cases, the data at the source are
centralized and easily extracted. In
other cases, like for radon data, the data
are not. In those cases, the number of
hours for extracting and standardizing
the data is much greater. Four
respondents have been added to the 26
SLHDs the program currently funds to
account for the data voluntarily received
from unfunded SLHDs and to allow for
potential program growth over the next
three years.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of respondent
State and local health department.
Number of
responses
per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Form name
Average
burden per
response
(in hrs.)
Total
burden
(in hrs.)
Birth defects prevalence .................................................
22
1
80
1,760
Childhood lead blood levels ...........................................
Community drinking water monitoring ............................
Emergency department visits .........................................
Hospitalizations ..............................................................
Radon testing .................................................................
Metadata records ...........................................................
Program Management Tool (new awardees) ................
Public Health Action Report (existing awardees) ..........
Communications plan .....................................................
Earned value management report .................................
Evaluation and performance measurement strategy report.
Website analytics ...........................................................
18
30
26
30
16
30
26
4
30
30
30
1
1
1
1
1
6
4
4
1
4
1
80
120
80
80
120
20
20
20
20
40
20
1,440
3,600
2,080
2,400
1,920
3,600
2,080
320
600
4,800
600
30
4
1
120
.........................................................................................
....................
....................
....................
25,320
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.
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Mine Safety and Health Research
Advisory Committee, National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
(MSHRAC, NIOSH)
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
announces the following meeting for the
aforementioned committee:
Time and Date: 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.,
EDT, May 10, 2016.
Place: Hilton Garden Inn Pittsburgh/
Southpointe, 1000 Corporate Drive,
Canonsburg, PA 15317, Telephone:
(724) 743–5000, Fax: (724) 743–5010.
Teleconference access is also available.
If you wish to attend by phone, please
contact Marie Chovanec by email at
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Status: Open to public, limited only
by the space available. The meeting
room accommodates approximately 45
people.
Purpose: This committee is charged
with providing advice to the Secretary,
Department of Health and Human
Services; the Director, CDC; and the
Director, NIOSH, on priorities in mine
safety and health research, including
grants and contracts for such research.
(30 U.S.C. 812(b)(2), Section 102(b)(2)).
Matters for Discussion: The meeting
will focus on mining safety and health
research projects and outcomes,
including dynamic ground failure, the
internet of things, ergo app, diesel
nanotechnology, updates on the rock
dust and refuge alternatives
partnerships, an update on the capacity
building program, an update on the
National Occupational Research
Agenda—Assessing BNI, and a
discussion on the mining program
research portfolio. The meeting will also
include updates from the National
Personal Protective Technology
Laboratory and the Respiratory Health
Division.
Agenda items are subject to change as
priorities dictate.
Contact Person for More Information:
Jeffrey H. Welsh, Designated Federal
Officer, MSHRAC, NIOSH, CDC, 626
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The Director, Management Analysis
and Services Office, has been delegated
the authority to sign Federal Register
Notices pertaining to announcements of
meetings and other committee
management activities, for both the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services
Office, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
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Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices: Notice of Charter Renewal
This gives notice under the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463) of October 6, 1972, that the
Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Department of Health
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-16ZX; Docket No. CDC-2016-0037]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, 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. This notice invites comment on the Environmental
Public Health Tracking Network, an information system which collects
data from (1) other CDC programs such as the National Center for Health
Statistics, (2) other federal agencies such as the Environmental
Protection Agency, (3) publically accessible systems such as the Census
Bureau, and (4) funded and unfunded state and local health departments
(SLHD).
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before June 13, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0037 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
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the information collection plan and instruments, contact the
Information Collection Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329;
phone: 404-639-7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
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.
Proposed Project
Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network)--
Existing Collection in Use without an OMB Control Number--National
Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
In September, 2000, the Pew Environmental Health Commission issued
a report entitled ``America's Environmental Health Gap: Why the Country
Needs a Nationwide Health Tracking Network.'' In this report, the
Commission documented that the existing environmental health systems
were inadequate and fragmented and recommended a ``Nationwide Health
Tracking Network for disease and exposures.'' In response to the
report, Congress appropriated funds in the fiscal year 2002's budget
for the CDC to establish the National Environmental Public Health
Tracking Network (Tracking Network).
Continuously since 2008, and at the national level, the program
collects data from (1) other CDC programs such as the National Center
for Health Statistics, (2) other federal agencies such as the
Environmental Protection Agency, (3) publically accessible systems such
as the Census Bureau, and (4) funded and unfunded state and local
health departments (SLHD). These data are integrated into and
disseminated from the Tracking Network and used for analyses which can
inform national programs, interventions, or policies; guide further
development and activities within the Tracking Program; or advance the
practice and science of environmental public health tracking. The
Tracking Program also collects information from funded SLHD to monitor
their progress related to their funding and for program evaluation.
This information collection request is focused on data and information
gathered by the Tracking Program from SLHD.
Due to voluntary program efforts to continuously improve
compliance, the CDC recently determined that the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) should apply to the Tracking Network collections. Thus, the
CDC requests a three-year PRA clearance to collect these data.
One part of the collection involves health, exposure, and hazard
data from SLHD. The Tracking Network provides the United States with
accurate and timely standardized data from existing health, exposure,
and hazard surveillance systems and supports ongoing efforts within the
public health and environmental sectors. The goal of the Tracking
Network is to improve health tracking, exposure and hazard monitoring,
and response capacity. When such data are available, the Tracking
Program obtains data from national or public sources in order to reduce
the burden on SLHD. When data are not available nationally or
publically, the Tracking Program relies on funded SLHD to obtain and
submit these data to the Tracking Network. Data from unfunded SLHD are
accepted but not requested or solicited.
Data submitted annually by SLHD to the Tracking Program include:
(1) Birth defects prevalence,(2) childhood lead blood levels, if a SLHD
does not already report such data to CDC, (3) community drinking water
monitoring, (4) emergency department visits, (5) hospitalizations, and
(6) radon testing. The Tracking Program receives childhood lead blood
levels data from CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
(under the Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance System
[HHLPSS--OMB Control No. 0920-0931, expiration date 5/31/2018]). A
metadata record, a file describing the original source and collection
procedures for the data being submitted, is also submitted with each
dataset (1 per dataset for a total of 6 metadata records per year)
using the Tracking Program's metadata creation tool.
Standardized extraction, formatting, and submission processes are
developed in collaboration between CDC and SLHD for each dataset.
Additions or modifications to these standardized datasets will also be
developed collaboratively in order to improve the accuracy,
completeness, efficiency, or utility of data submitted to CDC. Such
changes will occur at most once a year. Examples of changes to data
processes may include: (1) Addition of new variables or outcomes, (2)
updates to case definitions, (3) modifications to temporal or spatial
aggregation, and (4) changes in formatting for submission. As required,
the Tracking Network will submit future additions and modifications as
non-substantive change requests or revision information collection
requests.
The other part of the collection involves program monitoring
information from funded SLHD. In addition to standard reporting
required by CDC's Procurement and Grants Office, the Tracking Program
also collects information from funded SLHD for the purposes of program
evaluation and monitoring. This information includes performance
measures collected quarterly, a communications plan collected annually,
an earned values management report collected quarterly, an evaluation
plan collected annually, and Web site analytics
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collected quarterly as documents emailed to the Tracking Program.
There are no costs for the respondents other than their time. The
total estimated time burden is 25,320 hours. This estimate includes the
time it takes to extract the data from the original data source(s),
standardize and format the data to match the corresponding Tracking
Network data form, and submit the data to the Tracking Network. In some
cases, the data at the source are centralized and easily extracted. In
other cases, like for radon data, the data are not. In those cases, the
number of hours for extracting and standardizing the data is much
greater. Four respondents have been added to the 26 SLHDs the program
currently funds to account for the data voluntarily received from
unfunded SLHDs and to allow for potential program growth over the next
three years.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average
Number of responses burden per Total
Type of respondent Form name respondents per response burden (in
respondent (in hrs.) hrs.)
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State and local health department Birth defects prevalence. 22 1 80 1,760
Childhood lead blood 18 1 80 1,440
levels.
Community drinking water 30 1 120 3,600
monitoring.
Emergency department 26 1 80 2,080
visits.
Hospitalizations......... 30 1 80 2,400
Radon testing............ 16 1 120 1,920
Metadata records......... 30 6 20 3,600
Program Management Tool 26 4 20 2,080
(new awardees).
Public Health Action 4 4 20 320
Report (existing
awardees).
Communications plan...... 30 1 20 600
Earned value management 30 4 40 4,800
report.
Evaluation and 30 1 20 600
performance measurement
strategy report.
Website analytics........ 30 4 1 120
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Total........................ ......................... ........... ........... ........... 25,320
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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. 2016-08442 Filed 4-12-16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4163-18-P
