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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 189 / Thursday, September 29, 2011 / Notices

AHRQ administers the provisions of the
Patient Safety Act and Patient Safety
Rule (PDF file, 450 KB. PDF Help)
relating to the listing and operation of
PSOs. Section 3.108(d) of the Patient
Safety Rule requires AHRQ to provide
public notice when it removes an
organization from the list of federally
approved PSOs. AHRQ has accepted a
notification from The Patient Safety
Group, PSO number P0016, to
voluntarily relinquish its status as a
PSO. Accordingly, The Patient Safety
Group was delisted effective at 12
Midnight ET (2400) on September 7,
2011.
More information on PSOs can be
obtained through AHRQ’s PSO Web site
at http://www.pso.AHRQ.gov/
index.html.

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 must be
received within 60 days of this notice.

Dated: September 19, 2011.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.

Background and Brief Description
On October 30, 2000, the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000 (42
U.S.C. 7384–7385) was enacted. This
Act established a federal compensation
program for employees of the
Department of Energy (DOE) and certain
of its contractors, subcontractors and
vendors, who have suffered cancers and
other designated illnesses as a result of
exposures sustained in the production
and testing of nuclear weapons.
Executive Order 13179, issued on
December 7, 2000, delegated authorities
assigned to ‘‘the President’’ under the
Act to the Departments of Labor, Health
and Human Services, Energy and
Justice. The Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS) was delegated
the responsibility of establishing
methods for estimating radiation doses
received by eligible claimants with
cancer applying for compensation.
NIOSH is applying the following
methods to estimate the radiation doses
of individuals applying for
compensation.
In performance of its dose
reconstruction responsibilities, under
the Act, NIOSH is providing voluntary
interview opportunities to claimants (or
their survivors) individually and
providing them with the opportunity to
assist NIOSH in documenting the work
history of the employee by
characterizing the actual work tasks
performed. In addition, NIOSH and the

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Prevention
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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 and
send comments to Daniel Holcomb, CDC
Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton
Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or
send an e-mail to [email protected].
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including

claimant may identify incidents that
may have resulted in undocumented
radiation exposures, characterizing
radiological protection and monitoring
practices, and identify co-workers and
other witnesses as may be necessary to
confirm undocumented information. In
this process, NIOSH uses a computer
assisted telephone interview (CATI)
system, which allows interviews to be
conducted more efficiently and quickly
as opposed to a paper-based interview
instrument. Both interviews are
voluntary and failure to participate in
either or both interviews will not have
a negative effect on the claim, although
voluntary participation may assist the
claimant by adding important
information that may not be otherwise
available.
NIOSH uses the data collected in this
process to complete an individual dose
reconstruction that accounts, as fully as
possible, for the radiation dose incurred
by the employee in the line of duty for
DOE nuclear weapons production
programs. After dose reconstruction,
NIOSH also performs a brief, voluntary
final interview with the claimant to
explain the results and to allow the
claimant to confirm or question the
records NIOSH has compiled. This will
also be the final opportunity for the
claimant to supplement the dose
reconstruction record.
At the conclusion of the dose
reconstruction process, the claimant
submits a form to confirm that the
claimant has no further information to
provide to NIOSH about the claim at
this time. The form notifies the claimant
that signing the form allows NIOSH to
forward a dose reconstruction report to
DOL and to the claimant, and closes the
record on data used for the dose
reconstruction. Signing this form does
not indicate that the claimant agrees
with the outcome of the dose
reconstruction. The dose reconstruction
results will be supplied to the claimant
and to the DOL, the agency that will
utilize them as one part of its
determination of whether the claimant
is eligible for compensation under the
Act.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time.

Proposed Project
EEOICPA Dose Reconstruction
Interviews and Forms—Extension—
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
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Type of respondent
Initial interview .................................................................................................
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Type of respondent
Total ..........................................................................................................

Dated: September 22, 2011.
Daniel Holcomb,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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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.
Proposed Project
Measuring Preferences for Quality of
Life for Child Maltreatment—New—
National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control (NCIPC), Division of
Violence Prevention (DVP), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Background and Brief Description
Child maltreatment (CM) is a major
public health problem in the United
States, causing substantial morbidity
and mortality (DHHS, 2010), and the
prevalence for any of the three major
types of CM (physical abuse, sexual
abuse, and neglect) is estimated at
approximately 28% (Hussey et al.,
2006). Additionally, the annual
incidence of any type of CM among

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children and adolescents 0–17 has been
estimated at nearly 14%, while physical
and sexual abuse are estimated at 3.7%
and 0.6%, respectively (Finkelhor et al.,
2005). CM has been shown to have
lifelong adverse physical and mental
health consequences for victims (Felitti
et al., 1998), including behavioral
problems (Felitti et al. 1998; Repetti et
al. 2002), mental health conditions such
as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
(Browne and Finkelhor, 1986; Holmes
and Sammel, 2005; Moeller and
Bachman, 1993), increased trouble with
interpersonal relationships (Fang and
Corso, 2007), increased risk of chronic
diseases (Browne and Finkelhor, 1986),
and lasting impacts or disability from
physical injury (Dominguez et al. 2001).
The consequences of CM have both a
direct impact, through reduced health,
as well as an indirect impact, through
reduced health-related quality of life
(HRQoL, or simply QoL), the state of
‘‘utility’’ or satisfaction that a person
experiences as a result of their health
(Drummond et al. 1997).
The CDC requests approval of a
survey-based study to measure the
Health-Related Quality-of-Life (HRQoL)
impacts resulting from child
maltreatment (CM) using a quantitative,
preference-based approach. The U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services, among many others, has
identified child maltreatment as a
serious U.S. public health problem with
substantial long-term physical and
psychological consequences. Despite
considerable research on the
consequences of CM in adults, few
studies have utilized standard HRQoL
techniques and none have quantified
childhood HRQoL impacts. This gap in
the literature means the full burden of
CM on HRQoL has not been measured,
inhibiting the evaluation and
comparison of CM intervention
programs. This study will improve
public health knowledge and economic
evaluation of the HRQoL impacts of CM,
including effects specific to juvenile and
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development and fielding a preferencebased survey instrument.
CDC has developed an exploratory
survey instrument to quantify the
HRQoL impacts of child maltreatment
following standardized HRQoL
methods. The survey was developed
based on findings from a literature
review of CM outcomes, focus groups
with adult CM victims, and expert
review of outcomes by clinician
consultants who work with children
and/or adults who were victims of CM
or who are researchers in the field of
CM. The survey is designed to quantify
two types of data. The main objective is
the HRQoL decrement attributable to
CM, measured as the difference in
HRQoL scores by CM victimization
history. A secondary objective is a
statistical evaluation of these
decrements, based on respondent
preferences over a series of comparisons
that will be shown to survey
respondents.
The online survey will be fielded to
a nationally-representative sample of
750 adults ages 18–29 and 1100 adults
ages 18 and up, for a total of 1850 U.S.
adults. The survey will include HRQoL
questions to capture the two types of
data above, as well as select items on
sociodemographics. Past exposure to
CM will be measured using the Child
Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), the
briefest and most nonintrusive set of
scientifically validated questions to
identify 5 types of past child abuse and
neglect.
Final results will provide an estimate
of the HRQoL burden of child
maltreatment in the United States.
Analysis and results of the survey data
may provide suggestive information on
the impacts of CM to the scientific and
public health communities to help
determine whether future studies using
similar methods should be conducted
after this exploratory study. There is no
cost to respondents other than their
time. The total estimated annual burden
hours are 771.

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