This ICR is approved consistent with memos of 10-5-07 and 10-16-07. Accordingly, NIH shall exercise caution in how NIH reports the results of this study.
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The Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute (NCI), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is authorized under the Public Health Service Act, Section 411, [42 USC 285a] to collect information to generate hypotheses concerning environmental and host determinants of cancer. This petition is for approval of a new data collection entitled, Study to Improve Thyroid Doses from Fallout Exposure in Kazakhstan. With this submission, the NIH Office of Communications and Public Liaison, seeks to obtain OMB?s approval to collect information from approximately 32 men and 96 women who were adult residents of four villages near the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (SNTS) in Kazakhstan to improve dose estimation for an ongoing study of thyroid disease risk in individuals exposed as children to internal and external radiation fallout exposures from weapons testing at the SNTS. The men will be asked about construction materials used in houses and schools (shielding), types of dairy animals from which milk was obtained, and pasturing and feeding practices. The women will asked about types and amounts of milk and milk products consumed by children and themselves, and the amount of time children spent outdoors. These data will allow investigators to evaluate and change, as appropriate, the current assumptions and input values for parameters in the dose estimation model, and thereby improve estimated internal and external radiation doses and better characterize dose uncertainties.
US Code:
42 USC 411
Name of Law: Public Health Service Act
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form 1 Study to Improve Thyroid Doses from Fallout Exposure in Kazakhstan
SSMA_IRBapprovalScan.doc
Study to Improve Thyroid Doses from Fallout Exposure in Kazakhstan