Department of Health and Human Services August 10, 2009 – 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 (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 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 June 3, 2009 (74 FR 26702) and allowed 60-days for public comment. One public comment was received on June 5 requesting a copy of the data collection plans. The plans were sent to the responder on June 10. 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.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of grant funds for the support of Office of Critical Path Programs (OCPP). The goal of OCPP is to develop an administrative and scientific infrastructure to support the creation and execution of a series of projects under the FDA's Critical Path Initiative.