Expedited OMB Review: Proposed Information Collection Activity; National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC) Evaluation Package (OMB #0970-0519), 59830-59831 [2019-24200]

Download as PDF 59830 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 6, 2019 / Notices [FR Doc. 2019–24235 Filed 11–5–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4120–01–C DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Expedited OMB Review: Proposed Information Collection Activity; National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC) Evaluation Package (OMB #0970–0519) Office on Trafficking in Persons; Administration for Children and Families; Department of Health and Human Services. AGENCY: ACTION: Request for public comment. The Office on Trafficking of Persons (OTIP), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is requesting expedited review of an information collection request from OMB for an increase in the number of respondents to the previously approved information collection, National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC) Evaluation Package (OMB #0970–0519, expiration 10/31/2021). This will increase the estimated burden hours from 689 hours to 9,495 hours. In addition, the previously approved SOAR Online participant feedback form has been restructured into a long and a short form to reduce burden for information collected on SOAR Online training participants outside of the NHTTAC learning management system. SUMMARY: There are no changes requested to the items on any forms. DATES: ACF is requesting that OMB approve this request under procedures for emergency processing by December 20, 2019. ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed collection of information can be obtained by emailing infocollection@ acf.hhs.gov. All requests should identify the title of the information collection. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Email: OIRA_ SUBMISSION@OMB.EOP.GOV, Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and Families. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Description: ACF is requesting that OMB grant a 180 day approval for this request under procedures for expedited processing by December 20, 2019. A request for review under normal procedures will be submitted within 180 days of the approval for this request. These changes are requested due to the passage of the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115–398) which expands the SOAR to Health and Wellness Training Program. To meet the provisions of the SOAR to Health and Wellness Act of 2018, OTIP’s NHTTAC must expand the administration of SOAR nationwide. The NHTTAC delivers training and technical assistance (T/TA) to inform and deliver a public health response to trafficking. In applying a public health approach, NHTTAC holistically builds the capacity of communities to identify and respond to the complex needs of all Original estimate— number of respondents Instrument HTLA Fellowship Pre-Program Feedback ........................... HTLA Fellowship Post-Program Feedback ......................... OTIP Grantee Feedback Form ............................................ Short-Term T/TA Feedback Form ....................................... Specialized T/TA Feedback Form ....................................... Focus Group Demographic Survey ..................................... Focus Group Guide ............................................................. Follow-up Feedback Form ................................................... Interview Guide .................................................................... Pilot Feedback Form ............................................................ SOAR Blended Learning Participant ................................... SOAR Online Participant Feedback Long Form ................. SOAR Online Participant Feedback Short Form ................. SOAR Organizational Feedback Form ................................ Comments: The Department specifically requests comments on (a) whether the proposed collection of VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:43 Nov 05, 2019 Jkt 250001 Updated estimate— number of respondents 24 24 50 30 50 25 25 300 25 25 30 1,500 20 Frm 00067 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Number of responses per respondent 36 36 100 50 100 50 50 500 65 50 130 5,300 1,000,000 40 information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the PO 00000 individuals who have been trafficked and address the root causes that put individuals, families, and communities at risk of trafficking. This will ultimately help improve the availability and delivery of coordinated and traumainformed services before, during, and after an individual’s trafficking exploitation, regardless of their age, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, or type of exploitation. NHTTAC hosts a variety of services, programs, and facilitated sessions to improve service provision to individuals who have been trafficked or who are at risk of trafficking, including The Human Trafficking Leadership Academy (HTLA); the Survivor Fellowship Program; the NHTTAC Call Center; both short-term and specialized T/TA requests (requests that take less than 3 hours or 3 or more hours to fulfill, respectively); OTIP-funded grantees; and information through NHTTAC’s website, resources, and materials about trafficking. Respondents: Individuals and organizations such as NHTTAC consultants, training and technical assistance participants, Human Trafficking Leadership Academy program participants, Survivor fellows, OTIP grantees, visitors to the NHTTAC website, NHTTAC-supported conference and meeting attendees, members of the National Advisory Council, and scholarship applicants. Annual Burden Estimates: The following instruments have an increased number of respondents. The number of respondents for all other previously approved instruments remains the same. The increase in respondents increases the overall burden under OMB #0970– 0519 from 689 hours to 9,495 hours. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Average burden hours per response 0.25 0.25 0.167 0.167 0.25 0.033 0.75 0.133 0.75 0.15 0.15 0.1 0.0083 0.133 Updated annual burden hours 9 9 17 8 25 2 38 67 49 8 20 530 8,300 5 information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection E:\FR\FM\06NON1.SGM 06NON1 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 6, 2019 / Notices of information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (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. Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted within 60 days of this publication. Authority: 22 U.S. Code 7104 and 22 U.S. Code 7105(c)(4). Mary B. Jones, ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. [FR Doc. 2019–24200 Filed 11–5–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4184–47–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Threshold of Regulation for Substances Used in Food-Contact Articles—21 CFR 170.39 Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. FDA–2019–N–2778] Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Threshold of Regulation for Substances Used in Food-Contact Articles AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: 395–7285, or emailed to oira_ submission@omb.eop.gov. All comments should be identified with the OMB control number 0910–0298. Also include the FDA docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Domini Bean, Office of Operations, Food and Drug Administration, Three White Flint North, 10A–12M, 11601 Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD 20852, 301–796–5733, PRAStaff@ fda.hhs.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA has submitted the following proposed collection of information to OMB for review and clearance. Notice. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. DATES: Fax written comments on the collection of information by December 6, 2019. ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on the information collection are received, OMB recommends that written comments be faxed to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: FDA Desk Officer, Fax: 202– SUMMARY: OMB Control Number 0910–0298— Extension Under section 409(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) (21 U.S.C. 348(a)), the use of a food additive is deemed unsafe unless one of the following is applicable: (1) It conforms to an exemption for investigational use under section 409(j) of the FD&C Act; (2) it conforms to the terms of a regulation prescribing its use; or (3) in the case of a food additive that meets the definition of a food-contact substance in section 409(h)(6) of the FD&C Act, there is either a regulation authorizing its use in accordance with section 409(a)(3)(A) or an effective notification in accordance with section 409(a)(3)(B). The regulations in § 170.39 (21 CFR 170.39) established a process that provides the manufacturer with an opportunity to demonstrate that the likelihood or extent of migration to food of a substance used in a food-contact article is so trivial that the use need not be the subject of a food additive listing regulation or an effective notification. 59831 The Agency has established two thresholds for the regulation of substances used in food-contact articles. The first exempts those substances used in food-contact articles where the resulting dietary concentration would be at or below 0.5 part per billion. The second exempts regulated direct food additives for use in food-contact articles where the resulting dietary exposure is 1 percent or less of the acceptable daily intake for these substances. To determine whether the intended use of a substance in a food-contact article meets the threshold criteria, certain information specified in § 170.39(c) must be submitted to FDA. This information includes the following components: (1) The chemical composition of the substance for which the request is made; (2) detailed information on the conditions of use of the substance; (3) a clear statement of the basis for the request for exemption from regulation as a food additive; (4) data that will enable FDA to estimate the daily dietary concentration resulting from the proposed use of the substance; (5) results of a literature search for toxicological data on the substance and its impurities; and (6) information on the environmental impact that would result from the proposed use. We use this information to determine whether the food-contact substance meets the threshold criteria. Description of Respondents: Respondents to this information collection are individual manufacturers and suppliers of substances used in food-contact articles (i.e., food packaging and food processing equipment) or of the articles themselves. In the Federal Register of June 21, 2019 (84 FR 29209), we published a 60day notice requesting public comment on the proposed collection of information. No comments were received. We estimate the burden of this collection of information as follows: TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN 1 21 CFR 170.39 Number of respondents Number of responses per respondent Total annual responses Average burden per response Total hours Threshold of regulation for substances used in food-contact articles ....................................................................... 7 1 7 48 336 1 There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information. Based on a review of the information collection since our last request for OMB approval, we have made no adjustments. We estimate that approximately seven requests per year VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:43 Nov 05, 2019 Jkt 250001 will be submitted under the threshold of regulation exemption process of § 170.39, for a total of 336 hours. In the Federal Register of June 21, 2019, we estimated four requests per year. In PO 00000 Frm 00068 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 reconsideration of the two to three requests that were received but did not become effective, we retain our previous estimate of seven requests per year, with E:\FR\FM\06NON1.SGM 06NON1

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[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 215 (Wednesday, November 6, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59830-59831]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-24200]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Expedited OMB Review: Proposed Information Collection Activity; 
National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center 
(NHTTAC) Evaluation Package (OMB #0970-0519)

AGENCY: Office on Trafficking in Persons; Administration for Children 
and Families; Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: The Office on Trafficking of Persons (OTIP), Administration 
for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services (HHS), is requesting expedited review of an information 
collection request from OMB for an increase in the number of 
respondents to the previously approved information collection, National 
Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC) 
Evaluation Package (OMB #0970-0519, expiration 10/31/2021). This will 
increase the estimated burden hours from 689 hours to 9,495 hours. In 
addition, the previously approved SOAR Online participant feedback form 
has been restructured into a long and a short form to reduce burden for 
information collected on SOAR Online training participants outside of 
the NHTTAC learning management system. There are no changes requested 
to the items on any forms.

DATES: ACF is requesting that OMB approve this request under procedures 
for emergency processing by December 20, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed collection of information can be 
obtained by emailing [email protected]. All requests should 
identify the title of the information collection. Written comments and 
recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent 
directly to the following: Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork 
Reduction Project, Email: [email protected], Attn: Desk 
Officer for the Administration for Children and Families.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

    Description: ACF is requesting that OMB grant a 180 day approval 
for this request under procedures for expedited processing by December 
20, 2019. A request for review under normal procedures will be 
submitted within 180 days of the approval for this request. These 
changes are requested due to the passage of the Stop, Observe, Ask, and 
Respond to Health and Wellness Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-398) which 
expands the SOAR to Health and Wellness Training Program. To meet the 
provisions of the SOAR to Health and Wellness Act of 2018, OTIP's 
NHTTAC must expand the administration of SOAR nationwide.
    The NHTTAC delivers training and technical assistance (T/TA) to 
inform and deliver a public health response to trafficking. In applying 
a public health approach, NHTTAC holistically builds the capacity of 
communities to identify and respond to the complex needs of all 
individuals who have been trafficked and address the root causes that 
put individuals, families, and communities at risk of trafficking. This 
will ultimately help improve the availability and delivery of 
coordinated and trauma-informed services before, during, and after an 
individual's trafficking exploitation, regardless of their age, gender, 
nationality, sexual orientation, or type of exploitation.
    NHTTAC hosts a variety of services, programs, and facilitated 
sessions to improve service provision to individuals who have been 
trafficked or who are at risk of trafficking, including The Human 
Trafficking Leadership Academy (HTLA); the Survivor Fellowship Program; 
the NHTTAC Call Center; both short-term and specialized T/TA requests 
(requests that take less than 3 hours or 3 or more hours to fulfill, 
respectively); OTIP-funded grantees; and information through NHTTAC's 
website, resources, and materials about trafficking.
    Respondents: Individuals and organizations such as NHTTAC 
consultants, training and technical assistance participants, Human 
Trafficking Leadership Academy program participants, Survivor fellows, 
OTIP grantees, visitors to the NHTTAC website, NHTTAC-supported 
conference and meeting attendees, members of the National Advisory 
Council, and scholarship applicants.
    Annual Burden Estimates: The following instruments have an 
increased number of respondents. The number of respondents for all 
other previously approved instruments remains the same. The increase in 
respondents increases the overall burden under OMB #0970-0519 from 689 
hours to 9,495 hours.

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                                     Original         Updated
                                    estimate--      estimate--       Number of        Average         Updated
           Instrument                number of       number of     responses per   burden hours    annual burden
                                    respondents     respondents     respondent     per response        hours
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HTLA Fellowship Pre-Program                   24              36               1            0.25               9
 Feedback.......................
HTLA Fellowship Post-Program                  24              36               1            0.25               9
 Feedback.......................
OTIP Grantee Feedback Form......              50             100               1           0.167              17
Short-Term T/TA Feedback Form...              30              50               1           0.167               8
Specialized T/TA Feedback Form..              50             100               1            0.25              25
Focus Group Demographic Survey..              25              50               1           0.033               2
Focus Group Guide...............              25              50               1            0.75              38
Follow-up Feedback Form.........             300             500               1           0.133              67
Interview Guide.................              25              65               1            0.75              49
Pilot Feedback Form.............              25              50               1            0.15               8
SOAR Blended Learning                         30             130               1            0.15              20
 Participant....................
SOAR Online Participant Feedback           1,500           5,300               1             0.1             530
 Long Form......................
SOAR Online Participant Feedback                       1,000,000               1          0.0083           8,300
 Short Form.....................
SOAR Organizational Feedback                  20              40               1           0.133               5
 Form...........................
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    Comments: The Department specifically requests comments 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

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of information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (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. Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions 
submitted within 60 days of this publication.

    Authority: 22 U.S. Code 7104 and 22 U.S. Code 7105(c)(4).

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-24200 Filed 11-5-19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-47-P


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