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Prevention
Needs and Challenges in Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE) Use for
Underserved User Populations
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC),
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for information.
AGENCY:
NIOSH requests information
on the Needs and Challenges in
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Use for Underserved User Populations.
DATES: Submit a letter of information by
August 23, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties should
submit information to: NIOSH, Attn:
Sherri Diana, National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH
Docket Office, 1090 Tusculum Avenue,
MS C–34, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226–1998,
Email address: ppeconcerns@cdc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: N.
Katherine Yoon, Ph.D., National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Email Address: NYoon@
cdc.gov, Phone number: 412–386–6752
[non-toll-free number]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The NIOSH National
Personal Protective Technology
Laboratory (NPPTL) is expanding its
portfolio to include activities that
consider the needs of U.S. worker
populations who are underserved
related to personal protective equipment
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(PPE) use, availability, accessibility,
acceptability, or knowledge.
Underserved PPE user populations may
include, but are not limited to, workers
who are of an atypical size; who are
members of a gender, racial, ethnic, or
linguistic minority group; who conduct
non-traditional worker activities; or who
are members of sub-disciplines that are
not the primary focus of the current PPE
activities within their larger field. To
inform the possible design and
execution of these activities, NPPTL
seeks information from the public,
including individuals/organizations
who/that (1) advocate for these worker
populations, (2) actively conduct PPE
research, services, or policymaking for
these worker populations, (3) are
planning to conduct PPE research,
services, or policymaking for these
worker populations, (4) have direct
knowledge about research, service, or
policy gaps affecting these worker
populations, or (5) are current or former
PPE users that experienced PPE use,
availability, accessibility, acceptability,
or knowledge issues.
Information Needs: CDC is
particularly interested in receiving
information being sought in Request (1).
As such, responders are requested to
provide information responsive to
Request (1), and may address any or all
of the topics identified in Requests (2)
and (3):
Request (1) Describe respondent(s)
i. Individual or company/institution
name, location, and website (if any)
ii. Individual or company/institution
contact information (include the
respondent’s role in the organization,
address, phone number, and email
address)
iii. The primary motivation(s) for why
you (or your organization) are
responding to this Notice
iv. Any additional relevant
background information about yourself
or your organization as well as names of
any other organizations currently
working in applicable issues
Request (2) Describe your experiences
related to PPE use, availability,
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accessibility, acceptability, and
knowledge issues for underserved PPE
user populations within the U.S. (e.g.,
individuals of small or large size;
members of gender, racial, ethnic or
other minority group of a specific
occupation, non-traditional workers,
etc.)
i. What experiences have you had in
recent years related to PPE use,
availability, accessibility, acceptability,
and knowledge issues for underserved
PPE user populations? Also, specify and
describe the underserved PPE user
group(s) with which you have had
experience.
ii. What data/information/resources
did you find to be the most relevant/
valuable to the experiences described in
Request 2(i)?
iii. How long have you or your
organization been working in the areas
of work identified in Request 2(i)? Did
your or your organization’s involvement
change over time, and if so, how and
why?
iv. What achievements were a result
of your work in PPE use, availability,
accessibility, acceptability, and
knowledge for underserved PPE user
populations? (e.g., publications,
guidance, new/revised policies or
procedures, establishment of a key
committee)
v. What is your future work plan on
PPE use, availability, accessibility, and
knowledge for underserved PPE user
populations?
Request (3) Describe PPE gaps/barriers
that remain to be addressed for
underserved PPE user populations
within the U.S. related to PPE use,
availability, accessibility, acceptability,
and knowledge issues (if any)
i. What research gaps/barriers remain
to be addressed?
ii. What service gaps/barriers remain
to be addressed?
iii. What policy gaps/barriers remain
to be addressed?
Informational submissions in
response to this Notice are due no later
than August 23, 2021. Please limit
informational submission to three pages
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or less in 12-point font, single-spaced.
NIOSH will not respond to individual
informational submissions nor publish
publicly a compendium of responses.
An informational submission in
response to this Notice does not create
any commitment on or behalf of CDC or
HHS to develop or pursue any program
or ideas discussed herein or related to
PPE use for underserved user
populations more generally.
Disclaimer and Important Notes
This Federal Register Notice is for
planning purposes; it does not
constitute a formal announcement for
comprehensive applications. In
accordance with Federal Acquisition
Regulation 48 CFR 15.201(e), responses
to this Notice are not offers and cannot
be accepted by the Government to form
a binding award. NIOSH will not
provide reimbursement for costs
incurred in responding to this Notice.
John J. Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
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Reduction Act Review
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
has submitted the information
collection request titled ‘‘HIV
prevention among Latina transgender
women who have sex with men:
Evaluation of a locally developed
intervention’’ to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. CDC previously
published a ‘‘Proposed Data Collection
Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations’’ notice on February
25, 2021 to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies. CDC
received one comment related to the
previous notice. This notice serves to
allow an additional 30 days for public
and affected agency comments.
CDC will accept all comments for this
proposed information collection project.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
that:
(a) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
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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 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.
Comments and recommendations for the
proposed information collection should
be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Direct written
comments and/or suggestions regarding
the items contained in this notice to the
Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, 725 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by
fax to (202) 395–5806. Provide written
comments within 30 days of notice
publication.
Proposed Project
HIV prevention among Latina
transgender women who have sex with
men: Evaluation of a locally developed
intervention (OMB Control No. 0920–
1266, Exp. 6/30/2021)—Revision—
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral
Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention
(NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The National Center for HIV/AIDS,
Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention
(NCHHSTP) is requesting approval for a
two-year extension of a currently
approved ICR (OMB Control No. 0920–
1266), titled ‘‘HIV prevention among
Latina transgender women who have
sex with men: Evaluation of a locally
developed intervention.’’ The goal of
this study is to evaluate the efficacy of
ChiCAS (Chicas Creando Acceso a la
Salud [Chicas: Girls Creating Access to
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Health]), a locally developed and
culturally congruent two-session
Spanish-language small-group
combination intervention, designed to
promote consistent condom use, and
access to, and participation in, preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and
medically supervised hormone therapy
by HIV seronegative Hispanic/Latina
transgender women who have sex with
men.
The information collected through
this study will be used to evaluate
whether the ChiCAS intervention is an
effective HIV-prevention strategy by
assessing whether exposure to the
intervention results in improvements in
participants’ health and HIV prevention
behaviors. The study will compare pre(baseline) and post-intervention (sixmonth) levels of HIV risk among
participants who have received the
intervention and participants who have
not yet received the intervention
(delayed-intervention group).
This study will be carried out in
metropolitan areas in and around North
Carolina, including Ashville, NC;
Charlotte, NC; Research Triangle
(metropolitan area of Greensboro,
Winston-Salem and High Point NC);
Raleigh, NC; Wilmington, NC; and
Greenville, SC. The study population
will include 140 HIV-negative Spanishspeaking transgender women.
Participants will be adults, at least 18
years of age, self-identify as male-tofemale transgender or report having
been born male and identifying as
female, and report having sex with at
least one man in the past six months.
We anticipate participants will be
comprised mainly of racial/ethnic
minority participants under 35 years of
age, consistent with the epidemiology of
HIV infection among transgender
women.
Intervention participants will be
recruited to the study through a
combination of approaches, including
traditional print advertisement, referral,
in-person outreach, and through word of
mouth. A quantitative assessment will
be used to collect information for this
study, which will be delivered at the
time of study enrollment, and again at
a six-month follow up. The assessment
will be used to measure differences in
sexual risk knowledge, perceptions and
behaviors including condom use, PrEP
use, and use of medically supervised
hormone therapy. Intervention
mediators, including healthcare
provider trust and communication
skills, self-reported health status and
healthcare access, community
attachment and social support will also
be measured. All participants will
complete an assessment at baseline and
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Needs and Challenges in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Use
for Underserved User Populations
AGENCY: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: NIOSH requests information on the Needs and Challenges in
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Use for Underserved User
Populations.
DATES: Submit a letter of information by August 23, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties should submit information to: NIOSH,
Attn: Sherri Diana, National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, NIOSH Docket Office, 1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C-34, Cincinnati,
Ohio 45226-1998, Email address: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: N. Katherine Yoon, Ph.D., National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Email Address: [email protected], Phone number:
412-386-6752 [non-toll-free number]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The NIOSH National Personal Protective Technology
Laboratory (NPPTL) is expanding its portfolio to include activities
that consider the needs of U.S. worker populations who are underserved
related to personal protective equipment (PPE) use, availability,
accessibility, acceptability, or knowledge. Underserved PPE user
populations may include, but are not limited to, workers who are of an
atypical size; who are members of a gender, racial, ethnic, or
linguistic minority group; who conduct non-traditional worker
activities; or who are members of sub-disciplines that are not the
primary focus of the current PPE activities within their larger field.
To inform the possible design and execution of these activities, NPPTL
seeks information from the public, including individuals/organizations
who/that (1) advocate for these worker populations, (2) actively
conduct PPE research, services, or policymaking for these worker
populations, (3) are planning to conduct PPE research, services, or
policymaking for these worker populations, (4) have direct knowledge
about research, service, or policy gaps affecting these worker
populations, or (5) are current or former PPE users that experienced
PPE use, availability, accessibility, acceptability, or knowledge
issues.
Information Needs: CDC is particularly interested in receiving
information being sought in Request (1). As such, responders are
requested to provide information responsive to Request (1), and may
address any or all of the topics identified in Requests (2) and (3):
Request (1) Describe respondent(s)
i. Individual or company/institution name, location, and website
(if any)
ii. Individual or company/institution contact information (include
the respondent's role in the organization, address, phone number, and
email address)
iii. The primary motivation(s) for why you (or your organization)
are responding to this Notice
iv. Any additional relevant background information about yourself
or your organization as well as names of any other organizations
currently working in applicable issues
Request (2) Describe your experiences related to PPE use,
availability, accessibility, acceptability, and knowledge issues for
underserved PPE user populations within the U.S. (e.g., individuals of
small or large size; members of gender, racial, ethnic or other
minority group of a specific occupation, non-traditional workers, etc.)
i. What experiences have you had in recent years related to PPE
use, availability, accessibility, acceptability, and knowledge issues
for underserved PPE user populations? Also, specify and describe the
underserved PPE user group(s) with which you have had experience.
ii. What data/information/resources did you find to be the most
relevant/valuable to the experiences described in Request 2(i)?
iii. How long have you or your organization been working in the
areas of work identified in Request 2(i)? Did your or your
organization's involvement change over time, and if so, how and why?
iv. What achievements were a result of your work in PPE use,
availability, accessibility, acceptability, and knowledge for
underserved PPE user populations? (e.g., publications, guidance, new/
revised policies or procedures, establishment of a key committee)
v. What is your future work plan on PPE use, availability,
accessibility, and knowledge for underserved PPE user populations?
Request (3) Describe PPE gaps/barriers that remain to be addressed
for underserved PPE user populations within the U.S. related to PPE
use, availability, accessibility, acceptability, and knowledge issues
(if any)
i. What research gaps/barriers remain to be addressed?
ii. What service gaps/barriers remain to be addressed?
iii. What policy gaps/barriers remain to be addressed?
Informational submissions in response to this Notice are due no
later than August 23, 2021. Please limit informational submission to
three pages
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or less in 12-point font, single-spaced. NIOSH will not respond to
individual informational submissions nor publish publicly a compendium
of responses. An informational submission in response to this Notice
does not create any commitment on or behalf of CDC or HHS to develop or
pursue any program or ideas discussed herein or related to PPE use for
underserved user populations more generally.
Disclaimer and Important Notes
This Federal Register Notice is for planning purposes; it does not
constitute a formal announcement for comprehensive applications. In
accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 48 CFR 15.201(e),
responses to this Notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the
Government to form a binding award. NIOSH will not provide
reimbursement for costs incurred in responding to this Notice.
John J. Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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