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information the requester chooses to
provide, the requested public financial
disclosure reports will be either emailed
or mailed to the requester. This change
will not affect the estimated time of
response to complete the form.
OGE also intends to update the
maximum civil monetary penalty for
improperly obtaining or using a public
financial disclosure report on both the
automated and nonautomated versions
of the form, in accordance with 5 CFR
2634.703.
OGE published a first round notice of
its intent to request paperwork
clearance for a modified OGE Form 201.
See 81 FR 70112 (October 11, 2016).
OGE received no responses to that
notice.
Request for Comments: Agency and
public comment is again invited
specifically on the need for and
practical utility of this information
collection, the accuracy of OGE’s
burden estimate, the enhancement of
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected, and the
minimization of burden (including the
use of information technology).
Comments received in response to this
notice will be summarized for, and may
be included with, the OGE request for
extension of OMB paperwork approval.
The comments will also become a
matter of public record.
Approved: December 22, 2016.
Walter M. Shaub, Jr.,
Director, Office of Government Ethics.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request for a Modified OGE
Form 450 Executive Branch
Confidential Financial Disclosure
Report
AGENCY:
Office of Government Ethics
(OGE).
Notice of request for agency and
public comments.
ACTION:
After publication of this
second round notice, OGE intends to
submit a modified OGE Form 450
Executive Branch Confidential Financial
Disclosure Report to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval of a three-year
extension under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments by the public
and the agencies on this proposed
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extension are invited and must be
received by January 30, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this paperwork notice to the Office
of Management and Budget, Attn: Desk
Officer for OGE, via fax at 202–395–
6974 or email at OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov. (Include reference to
‘‘OGE Form 450 paperwork comment’’
in the subject line of the message.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brandon Steele at the U.S. Office of
Government Ethics; telephone: 202–
482–9209; TTY: 800–877–8339; FAX:
202–482–9237; Email: basteele@oge.gov.
An electronic copy of the OGE Form 450
is available in the Forms Library section
of OGE’s Web site at https://
www.oge.gov. A paper copy may also be
obtained, without charge, by contacting
Mr. Steele.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Executive Branch Confidential
Financial Disclosure Report.
Agency Form Number: OGE Form
450.
OMB Control Number: 3209–0006.
Type of Information Collection:
Extension with modifications of a
currently approved collection.
Type of Review Request: Regular.
Respondents: Private citizens who are
potential (incoming) regular Federal
employees whose positions are
designated for confidential disclosure
filing, and special Government
employees whose agencies require that
they file new entrant disclosure reports
prior to assuming Government
responsibilities.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 24,640.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
24,640 hours.
Abstract: The OGE Form 450 collects
information from covered department
and agency employees as required
under OGE’s executive branchwide
regulatory provisions in subpart I of 5
CFR part 2634. The basis for the OGE
reporting regulation is section 201(d) of
Executive Order 12674 of April 12, 1989
(as modified by Executive Order 12731
of October 17, 1990, 3 CFR, 1990 Comp.,
pp. 306–311, at p. 308) and section
107(a) of the Ethics in Government Act,
5 U.S.C. app. sec. 107(a). OGE proposes
several modifications to the form. OGE
proposes to clarify the instructions in
two places to assist filers in completing
the form. OGE also proposes to revise
the Privacy Act Statement in accordance
with the OGE/GOVT–2 Executive
Branch Confidential Financial
Disclosure Reports Privacy Act system
of records.
OGE published a first round notice of
its intent to request paperwork
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clearance for a modified OGE Form 450
Executive Branch Confidential Financial
Disclosure Report. See 81 FR 70113
(October 11, 2016). OGE received no
responses to that notice.
Request for Comments: Agency and
public comment is again invited
specifically on the need for and
practical utility of this information
collection, the accuracy of OGE’s
burden estimate, the enhancement of
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected, and the
minimization of burden (including the
use of information technology).
Comments received in response to this
notice will be summarized for, and may
be included with, the OGE request for
extension of OMB paperwork approval.
The comments will also become a
matter of public record.
Approved: December 22, 2016.
Walter M. Shaub, Jr.,
Director, Office of Government Ethics.
[FR Doc. 2016–31452 Filed 12–28–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry
[30Day–17–16BEH]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR) has submitted
the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for
the proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your
comments should address any of the
following: (a) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) Minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
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the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and (e) Assess information
collection costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Direct
written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the items contained in this
notice to the Attention: CDC Desk
Officer, Office of Management and
Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax
to (202) 395–5806. Written comments
should be received within 30 days of
this notice.
Proposed Project
ATSDR Communication Activities
Survey (ACAS)—New—Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR).
Background and Brief Description
The Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR) serves the
public through responsive public health
actions to promote healthy and safe
environments and to prevent harmful
exposures. The agency aims to work
effectively with communities in
proximity to hazardous waste sites by
listening to and understanding their
health concerns and seeking their
guidance on where, when, and how to
take public health actions.
Community members are key
participants in the agency’s public
health assessment process and should
be actively involved in decisions that
impact their community. Thus, agency’s
goals for this new information collection
request (ICR) titled the ‘‘ATSDR
Communication Activities Survey
(ACAS)’’ are to ascertain the
effectiveness of, and to assess the
differences and the consistency of, the
delivery of ATSDR activities and
respondent perceptions across sites and
over time. ATSDR will use the ACAS to:
(1) Determine how effectively it’s site
teams engage community members; (2)
discover how well ATSDR provides
effective, clear, and consistent
communication and information on how
to promote healthy and safe
environments; (3) understand whether
the agency’s activities are helping the
communities address environmental
issues; and (4) improve ATSDR’s
activities to make a greater impact
within the communities served.
Recruitment will occur at
communities where ATSDR and state or
local agencies have implemented site
activities to address environmental
issues. For each engaged community,
the ACAS will be used to assess a set
of effectiveness indicators for ATSDR
site-specific activities about the
respondents’ involvement, knowledge,
satisfaction, observations, and opinions
about ATSDR’s community engagement
and educational outreach efforts to
inform communities. The indicators
will measure ATSDR effectiveness in
the following respondent areas: (1)
Their involvement with the site
activities; (2) how they received, and
prefer to receive, ATSDR information;
(3) their knowledge and understanding
of ATSDR site activities and how to
reduce hazardous exposures; (4) their
observations and opinions of ATSDR’s
role in community preparedness; (5)
their self-evaluation on their risk of
exposure to possible environmental
hazards; (6) their demographic profile;
(7) their environmental concerns; and
(8) any additional feedback.
ATSDR is seeking a three-year
Paperwork Reduction Act clearance for
this new ICR. ATSDR anticipates that
approximately six to seven sites will be
engaged for feedback per year (or about
20 sites over the next three years). Each
year, ATSDR will recruit approximately
167 individuals per year, aged 18 and
older, to participate in the ACAS where
ATSDR is holding public community
meetings. Therefore, respondents will
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
Form name
Community Members ......................................
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include approximately 24 to 28
community members and agency
stakeholders per meeting (6 to 7
meetings per year). The community
members may include, but are not
limited to, the general public,
community leaders, faith-based leaders,
and business leaders. The agency
stakeholders may include, but are not
limited to, state and local environmental
health department employees, such as
environmental health assessors,
toxicologists, and departmental officials.
The mix of respondents will be
approximately 75 percent community
members (n=125 per year) and 25
percent agency stakeholders (n=42 per
year).
Trained ATSDR contractors will have
a table set up at the entrance of the
community meeting where community
meeting attendees will pick up a fact
sheet which explains what ATSDR does,
and the purpose of ATSDR’s site
activities and the survey.
At the end of ATSDR public
community meetings, there will be an
announcement to ask interested
attendees to take the survey. All
interested attendees will sign in and
provide their contact information, their
preferred mode for taking the survey (inperson, online or over the phone), and
whether they are a community member
or an agency stakeholder.
The ACAS will preferably be selfadministered right after the public
community meetings. If this is not a
convenient time for the respondent, the
ACAS may be completed online or by
phone. We estimate that approximately
80 percent of respondents will choose
the self-administered ACAS, 15 percent
will choose the online ACAS, and 5
percent will choose the telephone
ACAS.
There are no costs to the respondents
other than their time. The total annual
time burden requested is 94 hours per
year.
Sign In Sheet .................................................
Hardcopy ACAS .............................................
Online ACAS ..................................................
Telephone ACAS ...........................................
Sign In Sheet .................................................
Hardcopy ACAS .............................................
Online ACAS ..................................................
Telephone ACAS ...........................................
Agency Stakeholders ......................................
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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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–17–17HO; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0118]
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 a proposed information
collection entitled ‘‘Test Predictability
of Falls Screening Tools.’’ CDC will use
the information collected to evaluate
current screening tools and potentially
design a new screening tool for health
care practitioners to identify
community-dwelling adults 65 and
older at risk for falls.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before February 27, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0118 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.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.
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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
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
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data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Proposed Project
Test Predictability of Falls Screening
Tools—New—National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
NCIPC seeks to request a two-year
OMB approval for the ‘‘Test
Predictability of Falls Screening Tools’’
information collection project. Falls are
the leading cause of fatal and nonfatal
injuries among older adults in the U.S.
and represent a significant burden to the
healthcare system. Research
demonstrates that clinical interventions
can reduce fall risk, and the American
and British Geriatrics Societies (AGS/
BGS) have developed a clinical practice
guideline to manage fall risk among
their older adult patients. Based on
these guidelines, the CDC developed a
falls prevention initiative called
STEADI (Stopping Elderly Accidents,
Deaths, and Injuries). STEADI includes
a suite of materials (available at
www.cdc.gov/STEADI) that help health
care practitioners implement these
clinical guidelines.
The first step in clinical falls
prevention is for health care
practitioners to administer a fall risk
screening. The screening identifies
whether adults 65 and older are at
‘‘increased risk’’ for a fall. The initial
screening step is critical because it
identifies who will receive the
assessments and follow-up care, which
has the potential to place a large burden
on health care practitioners and the
healthcare system. While medical
organizations such as the American
Geriatrics Society recommend that
adults 65 and older be screened
annually for fall risk, and although there
are a number of tools used to screen
older adults for fall risk, there is
currently no standard for fall risk
screening across care settings.
The CDC proposes to conduct a new
data collection in order to develop a set
of brief screening questions that are
clinically-useful for quickly sorting
patients into risk levels for falls. The
goals of this study are to: (1) Test the
ability of existing falls screening tools to
predict falls in the subsequent year; (2)
design an effective and parsimonious
screening tool for health care
practitioners to identify communitydwelling adults 65 and older at risk for
falls; and (3) assess how responses to
questions change over time and how
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[30Day-17-16BEH]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has
submitted the following information collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for the proposed
information collection is published to obtain comments from the public
and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected
agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are
encouraged. Your comments should address any of the following: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used; (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; (d) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who are to respond, including
through
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the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses; and
(e) Assess information collection costs.
To request additional information on the proposed project or to
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Direct written comments
and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice to the
Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget,
Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments
should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
ATSDR Communication Activities Survey (ACAS)--New--Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
Background and Brief Description
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) serves
the public through responsive public health actions to promote healthy
and safe environments and to prevent harmful exposures. The agency aims
to work effectively with communities in proximity to hazardous waste
sites by listening to and understanding their health concerns and
seeking their guidance on where, when, and how to take public health
actions.
Community members are key participants in the agency's public
health assessment process and should be actively involved in decisions
that impact their community. Thus, agency's goals for this new
information collection request (ICR) titled the ``ATSDR Communication
Activities Survey (ACAS)'' are to ascertain the effectiveness of, and
to assess the differences and the consistency of, the delivery of ATSDR
activities and respondent perceptions across sites and over time. ATSDR
will use the ACAS to: (1) Determine how effectively it's site teams
engage community members; (2) discover how well ATSDR provides
effective, clear, and consistent communication and information on how
to promote healthy and safe environments; (3) understand whether the
agency's activities are helping the communities address environmental
issues; and (4) improve ATSDR's activities to make a greater impact
within the communities served.
Recruitment will occur at communities where ATSDR and state or
local agencies have implemented site activities to address
environmental issues. For each engaged community, the ACAS will be used
to assess a set of effectiveness indicators for ATSDR site-specific
activities about the respondents' involvement, knowledge, satisfaction,
observations, and opinions about ATSDR's community engagement and
educational outreach efforts to inform communities. The indicators will
measure ATSDR effectiveness in the following respondent areas: (1)
Their involvement with the site activities; (2) how they received, and
prefer to receive, ATSDR information; (3) their knowledge and
understanding of ATSDR site activities and how to reduce hazardous
exposures; (4) their observations and opinions of ATSDR's role in
community preparedness; (5) their self-evaluation on their risk of
exposure to possible environmental hazards; (6) their demographic
profile; (7) their environmental concerns; and (8) any additional
feedback.
ATSDR is seeking a three-year Paperwork Reduction Act clearance for
this new ICR. ATSDR anticipates that approximately six to seven sites
will be engaged for feedback per year (or about 20 sites over the next
three years). Each year, ATSDR will recruit approximately 167
individuals per year, aged 18 and older, to participate in the ACAS
where ATSDR is holding public community meetings. Therefore,
respondents will include approximately 24 to 28 community members and
agency stakeholders per meeting (6 to 7 meetings per year). The
community members may include, but are not limited to, the general
public, community leaders, faith-based leaders, and business leaders.
The agency stakeholders may include, but are not limited to, state and
local environmental health department employees, such as environmental
health assessors, toxicologists, and departmental officials. The mix of
respondents will be approximately 75 percent community members (n=125
per year) and 25 percent agency stakeholders (n=42 per year).
Trained ATSDR contractors will have a table set up at the entrance
of the community meeting where community meeting attendees will pick up
a fact sheet which explains what ATSDR does, and the purpose of ATSDR's
site activities and the survey.
At the end of ATSDR public community meetings, there will be an
announcement to ask interested attendees to take the survey. All
interested attendees will sign in and provide their contact
information, their preferred mode for taking the survey (in-person,
online or over the phone), and whether they are a community member or
an agency stakeholder.
The ACAS will preferably be self-administered right after the
public community meetings. If this is not a convenient time for the
respondent, the ACAS may be completed online or by phone. We estimate
that approximately 80 percent of respondents will choose the self-
administered ACAS, 15 percent will choose the online ACAS, and 5
percent will choose the telephone ACAS.
There are no costs to the respondents other than their time. The
total annual time burden requested is 94 hours per year.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Avg. burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hrs.)
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Community Members..................... Sign In Sheet........... 125 1 3/60
Hardcopy ACAS........... 100 1 30/60
Online ACAS............. 19 1 30/60
Telephone ACAS.......... 6 1 30/60
Agency Stakeholders................... Sign In Sheet........... 42 1 3/60
Hardcopy ACAS........... 34 1 30/60
Online ACAS............. 6 1 30/60
Telephone ACAS.......... 2 1 30/60
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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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