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In compliance with section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Grants.gov
(EGOV), Department of Health and
Human Services, announces plans to
submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). The ICR is for a 3 year renewal
of a previously-approved information
collection assigned OMB control
number 4040–0006–SF–424 D
Assurances for Construction Programs,
which expired on June 30, 2014. The
ICR also requests categorizing the form
as a common form, meaning HHS will
only request approval for its own use of
the form rather than aggregating the
burden estimate across all Federal
Agencies as was done for previous
actions on this OMB control number.
Prior to submitting that ICR to OMB,
EGOV seeks comments from the public
regarding the burden estimate, below, or
any other aspect of the ICR.

SUMMARY:

Comments on the ICR must be
received on or before January 5, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
[email protected] or (202) 690–7569.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
[email protected] or (202) 690–7569.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
document identifier HHS–EGOV–
21478–60D for reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
SF–424 D Assurances for Construction
Programs.
Abstract: SF–424 D Assurances for
Construction Programs is used as
certification of assurances by the grant
applicant when requesting funds for
construction grant programs. Need and
Proposed Use of the Information: The
SF–424 D Assurances for Construction
Programs form is used as certification of
assurances by the grant applicant when
requesting funds for non-construction
grant programs. The Federal awarding
DATES:

agencies use information submitted on
this form for award determination of the
Federal assistance awards programs.
Likely Respondents: Federal grant
applicants.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions, to
develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information, to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information, and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.

TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Form name

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

Grants.gov specifically requests
comments on (1) the necessity and
utility of the proposed information
collection for the proper performance of
the agency’s functions, (2) the accuracy
of the estimated burden, (3) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected, and
(4) the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Darius Taylor,
Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Determination Concerning a Petition to
Add a Class of Employees to the
Special Exposure Cohort
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).

AGENCY:

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ACTION:

1

5,694

5,694

1

1

5,694

HHS gives notice of a
determination concerning a petition to
add a class of employees from the
Simonds Saw and Steel Company in
Lockport, New York, to the Special
Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000
(EEOICPA).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division
of Compensation Analysis and Support,
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), 1090
Tusculum Avenue, MS C–47,
Cincinnati, OH 45226–1938, Telephone
1–877–222–7570. Information requests
can also be submitted by email to
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: [42 U.S.C.7384q].

On October 9, 2014, the Secretary of
HHS determined that the following class
of employees does not meet the
statutory criteria for addition to the SEC
as authorized under EEOICPA:
All Atomic Weapons Employer
employees who worked at Simonds Saw

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Total burden
hours

1

Notice.

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Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

5,694

SUMMARY:

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Number of
responses per
respondent

and Steel Co. in Lockport, New York,
from January 1, 1958, through December
31, 2006.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–15–15DA]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce public
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To
request more information on the below

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proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send
comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. Comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information 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; (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; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.

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Proposed Project
‘‘Improving the Impact of Laboratory
Practice Guidelines: A New Paradigm
for Metrics’’—American Society for
Microbiology—NEW—Center for
Surveillance, Epidemiology and
Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention is funding three 5-year
projects collectively entitled ‘‘Improving
the Impact of Laboratory Practice
Guidelines: A New Paradigm for
Metrics’’. An ‘‘LPG’’ is defined as
written recommendations for voluntary,
standardized approaches for medical
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processes for test selection, sample
procurement and processing, analytical
methods, and results reporting for
effective diagnosis and management of
disease and health conditions. LPGs
may be disseminated to, and used by,
laboratorians and clinicians to assist
with test selection and test result
interpretation. The overall purpose of
these cooperative agreements is to
increase the effectiveness of LPGs by
defining measures and collecting
information to inform better LPG
creation, revision, dissemination,
promotion, uptake and impact on
clinical testing and public health. The
project will explore how these processes
and their impediments and facilitators
differ among various intended users of
LPGs. Through this demonstration
project, CDC seeks to understand how to
customize LPG creation and promotion
to better serve these intended users of
LPGs. An important goal is to help
organizations that sponsor the
development of LPGs create a
sustainable approach for continuous
quality improvement to evaluate and
improve an LPG’s impact through better
collection of information.
The CDC selected three organizations
that currently create and disseminate
LPGs to support activities under a
cooperative agreement funding
mechanism to improve the impact of
their LPGs. The American Society for
Microbiology (ASM), the Clinical and
Laboratory Standards Institute, and the
College of American Pathologists, will
each use their LPGs as models to better
understand how to improve uptake and
impact of these and future LPGs. Only
the ASM submission will be described
in this notice.
The ASM project will address four
LPGs that are important to clinical
testing and have a high public health
impact: Reducing blood culture
contamination (BCC), rapid diagnosis of
blood stream infections (BSI), proper
collection and transport of urine (UT),
and microbiological practices to
improve the diagnosis and management
of patients with Clostridium difficile (C.
difficile) infection (CDI). The BCC LPG
was published and it includes
recommendations for the use of: (1)
Venipuncture over catheters as the
preferred technique for sample
collection in a clinical setting, and (2)
phlebotomy teams over nonphlebotomist staff for collecting blood
for culture. The BSI report examines the
effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests to
promote more accurate and timely
administration of targeted antibiotic
therapy for patients with bloodstream
infections. This report will be published
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developed based on additional
information collected. Practices related
to the collection, storage and
preservation of urine for microbiological
culture that improve the diagnosis and
management of patients with urinary
tract infections were analyzed and
approved recommendations will be
published. Microbiological practices
related to improving diagnosis and
management of patients with C. difficile
infection will be collected and analyzed,
and recommendations will also be
developed and published.
The intended respondents of ASM’s
surveys will include microbiology
supervisors, laboratory directors, and
laboratory managers. For this request for
OMB approval of a new information
collection, we will be requesting
approval to collect baseline and postdissemination information for the BCC
LPG. Because the BSI, UT and CDI
reports are not yet published, ASM will
conduct a baseline survey to determine
current practices prior to dissemination
of the LPGs.
On behalf of the ASM and the CDC,
the Laboratory Response Network
(LRN), which was founded by the CDC,
will recruit laboratories that perform the
kinds of testing affected by these LPGs
to take the surveys. Messages regarding
ASM surveys will be worded as an
invitation, not as a coercive request.
Some states may opt not to recruit LRN
laboratory participation, but because the
issues are important to clinical and
public health, we expect good
participation by most states. This
mechanism will assure the best
response rate of all the options we
considered.
The CDC LRN Coordinator will email
a letter to the Laboratory Director of the
LRN Reference Laboratories, (i.e., 50
State Public Health Laboratories, the
New York City Public Health Laboratory
and the Los Angeles County Public
Health Laboratory). These 52 LRN
Reference Laboratory Directors will be
asked to then email the sentinel
laboratories, which include hospital and
independent laboratories, in their states,
and provide a hyperlink to access the
survey tool on-line via a landing page
provided by ASM through their Clinical
Microbiology portal. Survey Monkey
will be used as the data collection
instrument and responses will be
collected and maintained by ASM. We
anticipate that a maximum of 4,200
sentinel laboratories will be contacted
and asked to complete the survey online. ASM anticipates achieving an 80%
response rate with their information
collections, or 3,360 out of ∼4,200
aggregate responses for each of the 5
different surveys.

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For burden calculations, we assume
one respondent per laboratory and we
also assume respondents will include
microbiology supervisors, laboratory
directors, and laboratory managers,
approximately in a 50%:25%:25%
distribution, respectively. According to
ASM, the burden hours per respondent

who will be invited to participate in the
BCC baseline and post-dissemination
surveys and the BSI, UT and CDI
baseline surveys will be 20 minutes.
This time frame was specified based on
ASM’s previous experiences conducting
laboratory surveys. Each survey will be
pilot tested with 9 or fewer respondents

before dissemination to assure that
completing the surveys does not extend
past 20 minutes.
CDC is requesting a three-year OMB
approval to collect this information.
There are no costs to respondents other
than their time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Form name

Microbiology Supervisors .....................................

BCC ..............................
BSI ................................
UT .................................
CDI ................................
BCC ..............................
BSI ................................
UT .................................
CDI ................................
BCC ..............................
BSI ................................
UT .................................
CDI ................................

Laboratory Directors .............................................

Laboratory Managers ...........................................

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

Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce public
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To
request more information on the below
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send
comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or

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Total burden
(in hours)

2,100
2,100
2,100
2,100
1,050
1,050
1,050
1,050
1,050
1,050
1,050
1,050

2
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
1
1

20/60
20/60
20/60
20/60
20/60
20/60
20/60
20/60
20/60
20/60
20/60
20/60

1,400
700
700
700
700
350
350
350
700
350
350
350

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7,000

included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. Comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information 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; (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; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the

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Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Number of
responses per
respondent

Number of
respondents

Type of respondent

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information. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning
Surveillance System (HHLPSS) (OMB
No. 0920–0931, expires 04/30/2015)—
Extension—National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The overarching goal of the Healthy
Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance
System (HHLPSS) is to support healthy
homes surveillance activities at the state
and national levels. CDC is requesting a
three-year extension of Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval for up to 40 state and local
Healthy Homes Childhood Lead
Poisoning Prevention Programs (CLPPP)
and the state-based Adult Blood Lead
Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES)
programs. The programs will report
information (e.g., presence of lead paint,
age of housing, occupation of adults and
type of housing) to the CDC. They will
use the system as designed.
Over the last three years, 7 states have
adopted the HHLPPS and 13 are in betatesting. In October 2014, CDC began
funding 40 state and local blood lead
surveillance programs. Many of these
programs and their subcontractors at the
local level will come on line with
HHLPSS in the next year.

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