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Spring of 2006. The purpose of this
notice is to provide individuals and
organizations with the opportunity to
identify issues and areas of need for
consideration in the development of the
Call to Action. Comments must be in
writing and should not exceed 500
words. All comments will receive
careful consideration. However, persons
and organizations submitting comments
will not receive individual responses.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
on, or before, March 15, 2006.
Comments received after this date will
not be considered.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent by
mail or hand delivered to Ron
Schoenfeld, Ph.D., Office of the Surgeon
General, Department of Health and
Human Services, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Room 18–66, Rockville, MD 20852, or
sent by e-mail to
[email protected].
Ron
Schoenfeld, Ph.D., Office of the Surgeon
General, e-mail:
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dated: February 13, 2006.
Stephen W. Long,
Executive Officer, NIAAA, National Institutes
of Health.
[FR Doc. E6–2513 Filed 2–21–06; 8:45 am]

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and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Grant
applications for the Announcement of
Availability of Funds for Grants
regarding Adolescent Family Life (AFL)
Research are to be reviewed and
discussed at this meeting. This program
is sponsored by the Office of Population
Affairs. These discussions are likely to
reveal personal information concerning
individuals associated with the
applications. This information is
exempt from mandatory disclosure
under the above-cited status.
SEP Meeting on: Announcement of
Availability of Funds for Grants regarding
Adolescent Family Life (AFL) Research.
Date: March 9, 2006 (Open on March 9
from 8 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. and closed for the
remainder of the meeting).
Place: John M. Eisenberg Building, AHRQ
Conference Center, 540 Gaither Road,
Rockville, Maryland 20850.
Contact Person: Anyone wishing to obtain
a roster of members, agenda or minutes of the
non-confidential portions of this meeting
should contact Mrs. Bonnie Campbell,
Committee Management Officer, Office of
Extramural Research, Education and Priority
Populations, AHRQ, 540 Gaither Road, Room
2038, Rockville, Maryland 20850, Telephone
(301) 427–1554.
Agenda items for this meeting are subject
to change as priorities dictate.
Dated: February 10, 2006.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director
[FR Doc. 06–1580 Filed 2–21–06; 8:45 am]

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Agency Healthcare Research and
Quality

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES

Notice of Meeting

Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention

In accordance with section 10(d) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5
U.S.C., Appendix 2), announcement is
made of a Health Care Policy and
Research Special Emphasis Panel (SEP)
meeting.
A Special Emphasis Panel is a group
of experts in fields related to health care
research who are invited by the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ), and agree to be available, to
conduct on an as needed basis,
scientific reviews of applications for
AHRQ support. Individual members of
the Panel do not attend regularlyscheduled meetings and do not serve for
fixed terms or a long period of time.
Rather, they are asked to participate in
particular review meetings which
require their type of expertise.
Substantial segments of the upcoming
SEP meeting listed below will be closed
to the public in accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act,
section 10(d) of 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2

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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–5960 or send
comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an email to
[email protected].
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information

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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; 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. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
Evaluation of Efficacy of Household
Water Filtration/Treatment Devices in
Households with Private Wells (OMB
No. 0920–0670)—Extension—National
Center for Environmental Health
(NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Approximately 42.4 million people in
the United States are served by private
wells. Unlike community water systems,
private wells are not regulated by the
U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s
(EPA) Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
Under the SDWA, EPA sets maximum
contaminant levels (MCLs) for
contaminants in drinking water. A 1997
U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO)
report on drinking water concluded that
users of private wells may face higher
exposure levels to groundwater
contaminants than users of community
water systems. Increasingly, the public
is concerned about drinking water
quality, and the public’s use of water
treatment devices rose from 27% in
1995 to 41% in 2001 (Water Quality
Association, 2001 National Consumer
Water Quality Survey). Studies
evaluating the efficacy of water
treatment devices on removal of
pathogens and other contaminants have
assessed the efficacy of different
treatment technologies.
The purpose of the proposed study is
to evaluate how water treatment device
efficacy is affected by user behaviors
such as maintenance and selection of
appropriate technologies. Working with
public health authorities in Colorado,
Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, North
Carolina, and Wisconsin, NCEH will
recruit 600 households to participate in
a study to determine whether people
using water treatment devices are
protected from exposure to
contaminants found in their well water.
We plan to recruit households on
private well water that use water
filtration/treatment devices to treat tap

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water for drinking and cooking. Study
participants will be selected from
geographical areas of each state where
groundwater is known or suspected to
contain contaminants of public health
concern. We will administer a

questionnaire at each household to
obtain information on selection of water
treatment type, adherence to suggested
maintenance, and reasons for use of
treatment device. We will also obtain
samples of treated water and untreated

well water at each household to analyze
for contaminants of public health
concern. There is no cost to respondents
other than their time.

ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Participant Solicitation Telephone Questionnaire ............................................
Household Questionnaire ................................................................................

1200
600

1
1

5/60
20/60

100
200

Total ..........................................................................................................

........................

........................

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300

Dated: February 14, 2006.
Joan F. Karr,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E6–2451 Filed 2–21–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request; NCCAM Customer Service
Data Collection
Summary: In compliance with the
requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), at the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), will
publish periodic summaries of proposed
projects to be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval.
Proposed Collection: Title: NCCAM
Customer Service Data Collection. Type

of Information Collection Request:
Renewal. Need and Use of Information
Collection: NCCAM provides the public,
patients, families, health care providers,
complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM) practitioners, and
others with the latest scientifically
based information on CAM and
information about NCCAM’s programs
through a variety of channels, including
its toll-free telephone information
service and its quarterly newsletter. To
ensure that NCCAM is effectively
serving all audiences, NCCAM needs to
continue to measure customer
satisfaction with NCCAM telephone
interactions and the NCCAM newsletter
and to assess which audiences are being
reached through these channels. This
effort involves a telephone survey
consisting of 10 questions, which are
asked of 25 percent of all callers, for an
annual total of approximately 1,210
respondents; a print newsletter survey
consisting of 10 questions, which is sent
to all print newsletter subscribers, for an
annual total of approximately 339
respondents; and an online newsletter
survey consisting of 14 questions, which
all visitors to the newsletter page on the
NCCAM Web site have the option of
Estimated
number of
respondents

Type of respondents

Telephone survey:
Individuals or households .........................................................................
Newsletter survey (print):
Individuals or households .........................................................................
Newsletter survey (online):
Individuals or households .........................................................................
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Number of
responses per
respondent

Number of
respondents

Types of data collection

Annualized totals ...............................................................................

The annualized cost to respondents is
estimated at $1,770 for the telephone
survey, $507 for the print newsletter
survey, and $714 for the online

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Estimated
number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden hours
per response

Estimated total
annual burden
hours
requested

1,210

1

0.075

91

339

1

0.050

17

500

1

0.050

25

2,049

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133

newsletter survey. There are no Capital
Costs to report. There are no Operating
or Maintenance Costs to report.

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completing until an annual total of 500
responses are received. NCCAM uses
the data collected from the surveys to
characterize NCCAM users and help
program staff measure user satisfaction,
assess impact of their communication
efforts, tailor services to the public and
health care providers, measure service
use among special populations, and
assess the most effective media and
messages to reach these audiences.
Frequency of Response: Once for the
telephone survey, and three times for
the newsletter survey (once every year
to measure any changes in customer
satisfaction and/or audience profile).
Affected Public: Individuals and
households. Type of Respondents: For
the telephone survey, patients, spouses/
family/friends of patients, health care
providers, physicians, CAM
practitioners, or other individuals
contacting the NCCAM Clearinghouse;
for the print newsletter survey,
subscribers to the print NCCAM
newsletter; and for the online newsletter
survey, visitors to the newsletter page
on NCCAM’s Web site.
The annual reporting burden is as
follows.

Request for Comments: Written
comments and/or suggestions from the
public and affected agencies are invited
on the following points: (1) Whether the

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