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TABLE 1—ESTIMATED HOUR AND COST BURDEN OF THE DATA COLLECTION

Grant program

Responses
per
respondent

No. of
respondents

Total hour
burden

Wage rate

Total hour cost

LEND ..........................
DBP ............................
State Implementation
Program ..................
Research Program .....

39
6

6
6

234
36

.75
.75

175.5
27

$39.36
39.36

$6,907.68
1,062.72

9
9

6
6

54
54

.75
.75

40.5
40.5

38.22
39.36

1,547.91
1,594.08

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

63

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

378

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

283.5

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

11,112.39

The estimated response burden is
shown in Table 1.
E-mail comments to
[email protected] or mail the HRSA
Reports Clearance Officer, Room 10–33,
Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments
should be received within 60 days of
this notice.
Dated: October 22, 2009.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and
Coordination.
[FR Doc. E9–26394 Filed 11–2–09; 8:45 am]
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention

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.
Alternatively, to obtain a copy of the
data collection plans and instrument,
call 404–639–5960 and send comments
to Maryam I. Daneshvar, CDC Reports
Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road
NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30333;
comments may also be sent by e-mail to
[email protected].
Comments are invited on (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance

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Proposed Project

Background and Brief Description

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of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have a
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 information technology. Written
comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
School Dismissal Monitoring
System—New—National Center for
Preparedness, Detection, and Control of
Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).

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Average
hours per
response

Total
responses

During the spring 2009 H1N1
outbreak, the U.S. Department of
Education (ED) and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
received numerous daily requests about
the overall number of school dismissals
nationwide including the number of
students and teachers impacted by the
outbreak. Illness among school-aged
students (K–12) in many states and
cities resulted in at least 1351 school
dismissals due to rapidly increasing
absenteeism among students or staff that
impacted at least 824,966 students and
53,217 teachers.
Although a system was put in place
to track school closures in conjunction
with the Department of Education (ED),
no formal monitoring system was
established, making it difficult to
monitor reports of school dismissal and
to gauge the impact of the outbreak.
CDC has recently issued guidance for
school closure for the 2009–2010 school

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year. To address the need to monitor
reports of school closure, CDC and ED
have established a School Dismissal
Monitoring System to report on novel
influenza A (H1N1)-related school or
school district dismissals in the United
States. Although the School Dismissal
Monitoring System is currently
approved to collect data under OMB
Control Number 0920–0008, Emergency
Epidemic Investigations, CDC would
like to continue the data collection long
term. Thus, CDC is requesting a separate
OMB Control Number for this data
collection.
The purpose of the School Dismissal
Monitoring System is to generate
accurate, real-time, national summary
data daily on the number of school
dismissals and the number of students
and teachers impacted by the school
dismissals. CDC will use the summary
data to fully understand how schools
are responding to CDC community
mitigation guidance among schools,
students, household contacts and for
overall awareness of the impact of
influenza outbreaks on school systems
and communities.
Respondents are schools, school
districts, and local public health
agencies. Respondents will use a
common reporting form to submit data
to CDC. The reporting form includes the
following data elements: Name of school
district; zip code of school district; date
the school or school district was
dismissed; and the date school or school
district is projected to reopen. Optional
data elements include: name of person
submitting information; the
organization/agency; phone number of
the organization/agency; and e-mail
address. There is no cost to respondents
other than their time to complete the
data collection.

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ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Respondent

Number of
respondents

Responses
per respondent

Average
burden per
respondent
(in hours)

School, school district or public health department .........................................
Total ..........................................................................................................

100
........................

1
........................

5/60
........................

Dated: October 27, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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[30Day–10–09BD]

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of
information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance
Officer at (404) 639–5960 or send an email to [email protected]. Send written
comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington,
DC or by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.

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Proposed Project
Field Evaluation of Prototype Kneelassist Devices in Low-seam Mining—
New—National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
NIOSH, under Public Law 91–596,
Sections 20 and 22 (Section 20–22,
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970) has the responsibility to conduct
research relating to innovative methods,
techniques, and approaches dealing
with occupational safety and health
problems.
According to the Mining Safety and
Health Administration (MSHA) injury
database, 227 knee injuries were

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reported in underground coal mining in
2007. With data from the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), it can be estimated that
the financial burden of knee injuries
was nearly three million dollars in 2007.
Typically, mine workers utilize
kneepads to better distribute the
pressures at the knee. The effectiveness
of these kneepads was only recently
investigated in a study by NIOSH that
has not yet been published. The results
of this study demonstrated that
kneepads do decrease the maximum
stress applied to the knee albeit not
drastically. Additionally, the average
pressure across the knee remains similar
to the case where subjects wore no
kneepads at all. Thus, the injury data
and the results of this study suggest the
need for the improved design of kneelassist devices such as kneepads. NIOSH
is currently undertaking the task of
designing more effective kneel-assist
devices such as a kneepad and a padded
support worn at the ankle where mine
workers can comfortably rest their body
weight.
These devices must also be field
tested to verify they do not result in
body discomfort or inadvertent
accidents. It is also important to
determine how usable and durable these
devices are in the harsh mining
environment. In order to quantitatively
demonstrate that these prototype
devices are superior to their
predecessors, mine workers using these
prototypes must be interviewed. Their
feedback will identify any necessary
changes to the design of the devices
such that NIOSH can ensure the
prototypes will be well-accepted by the
mining community.
To collect this type of information, a
field study must be conducted where
kneel-assist devices currently used in
the mining industry (i.e. kneepads) are
compared to the new prototype designs.
The study suggested here would take
approximately 13 months.
Phase I of this study will evaluate the
prototype kneel-assist device by mine

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Total
burden
(in hours)
8
8

workers after being used for one month.
Iterative changes will be made to the
design based on the feedback obtained
during Phase I. Data will be collected
via interviews with individual mine
workers and through a focus group
where all mine workers come together
to express their opinions about the
devices. If the prototype kneel-assist
devices do not appear to be successful,
the data collected will be used to
adequately redesign them and the above
described process will begin again. If
the prototype kneel-assist devices
appear to be successful, Phase II of the
study will commence.
Once Phase II of the study is ready to
commence, cooperating mines will be
identified. Every month, the section
foreman at the cooperating mines will
be asked to supply some information
regarding the current mine
environment.
Initially, the mine workers will be
given a control kneel-assist device.
Currently, mine workers only utilize
kneepads as a kneel-assist device.
Therefore, only a control kneepad will
be provided. They will then be asked
some basic demographics information
such as their age and time in the mining
industry. Additional data will then be
collected at 1, 3, and 6 months after the
study commences. The mine workers
will be asked to provide their feedback
regarding factors such as body part
discomfort, usability, durability, and
ease of movement with respect to the
control kneepad. After evaluating the
control kneepad, mine workers will
then be given the prototype kneel-assist
device that was finalized in Phase I of
the study. The same questions that were
asked about the control kneepad will
again be asked at 1, 3, and 6 months
after usage begins of the prototype.
Thus, Phase II of the study will last 12
months.
There will be no cost to the
respondents/subjects other than their
time. The total burden hours are
estimated to be 182.

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