Department of Health and Human Services January 3, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve the information collection listed below. This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on August 5, 2004, p. 47450 and allowed 60 days for public comment. No public comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes of Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Proposed Collection: Title: California Health Interview Survey 2005. Type of Information Collection Request: New. Need and Use of Information Collection. The NCI has sponsored two Cancer Control Modules to the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), and will be sponsoring a third to be admitted in 2005. The CHIS is a telephone survey designed to provide population-based, standardized health- related data to assess California's progress in meeting Healthy People 2010 objectives for the nation and the state. The CHIS sample is designed to provide statistically reliable estimates statewide, for California counties, and for California's ethnically and racially diverse population. Initiated by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the California Department of Health Services, and the California Public Health Institute, the survey is funded by a number of public and private sources. It was first administered in 2001 to 55,428 adults and subsequently in 2003 to 42,043 adults. These adults are a representative sample of California's non-institutionalized population living in households. CHIS 2005, the third bi-annual survey, is planned for administration to 55,000 adult Californians. The cancer control module, which is similar to that administered in CHIS 2001 and CHIS 2003, will allow NCI to examine trends in breast cancer screening and diagnosis, as well as to study other cancer-related topics, such as diet, physical activity and obesity. Because California is the most populous and the most racially and ethnically diverse state in the nation, the CHIS 2005 sample will yield adequate numbers of respondents in key ethnic and racial groups, including African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and American Indian/ Alaska Natives. The Latino group will include large numbers of Mexican- origin, Central Americans, South Americans, and other Latino subgroups; the Asian group will include large numbers of respondents in the Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean subgroups. NCI will compare the CHIS and National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data in order to conduct comparative analyses and better estimate cancer risk factors and screening among racial/ethnic minority populations. The CHIS sample size also permits NCI to create estimates for ethnic subdomains of the population, for which NHIS has insufficient numbers for analysis. Frequency of Response: One-time. Affected Public: Individuals. Type of Respondents: Adults (persons 18 years of age and older). The annual reporting burden is as follows:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the opening of a docket to receive information and comments on the August 31 and September 1, 2004, public workshop entitled ``Development of Plasma Standards'' (the workshop). We are opening the docket to gather additional information from interested parties on the subjects of plasma collection, freezing, and storage, and for interested parties to provide comments on the presentations and discussions that took place during the workshop.

The Department of Health and Human Services is amending its acquisition regulation (HHSAR) for the purpose of making administrative and editorial changes to reflect organizational title changes resulting from Office of the Secretary (OS) and Operating Division (OpDiv) reorganizations; updating and removing outdated references; providing procedural guidance for reporting violations of the Procurement Integrity Act; assigning unique document numbers for contracts and task orders, in accordance with an Office of Management and Budget Memorandum dated August 6, 2003; adding a new training requirement for HHS project officers; adding the terms ``veteran-owned'' and ``service- disabled veteran-owned'' to describe small business categories consistent with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); permitting a total of basic and option periods of up to ten years for all service contracts not subject to the Service Contract Act or other statutory requirements; adding the Choice of Law (Overseas) clause in solicitations and contracts when contract performance will be outside the United States, its possessions, and Puerto Rico, except as otherwise provided in a government-to-government agreement; removing the reference to the Department's General Administration Manual with respect to major system acquisitions; deleting unconstitutional and unenforceable portions of the Confidentiality of Information clause resulting from the outcome of Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Sullivan, and providing current references with respect to assurances and regulations governing the protection of human subjects. HHS is issuing a direct final rule for this action because HHS expects there will be no significant adverse comments on the rule.