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respondent
Hospital
Hospital
Hospital
Hospital
Hospital

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
per
respondent
(hours)

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

Baseline ............................................
Annual ..............................................
Quarterly ...........................................
Emergency .......................................
Crisis ................................................

7
5
12
7
7

1
1
4
4
7

8
3
3
15/60
10/60

56
15
144
7
8

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

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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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day-16–16KB; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0010]

Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:

The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing efforts to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, 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. This notice invites
comment on a proposed information
collection project entitled ‘‘Measuring
Perceived Self-Escape Competencies
among Underground Mineworkers’’.
The purpose of this two-year
information collection is to gather
survey data from up to 800 underground
coal miners to measure their perceived
competence in the critical knowledge,
skills, and abilities that could be
required for successful escape from an
underground mine emergency.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before March 21, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0010 by any of the following methods:
SUMMARY:

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Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. All relevant comments
received will be posted without change
to Regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. For
access to the docket to read background
documents or comments received, go to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be
submitted through the Federal eRulemaking
portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations

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To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact the Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570;
Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires Federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
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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.
Proposed Project
Measuring Perceived Self-Escape
Competencies among Underground
Mineworkers—New—National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The mission of the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) is to promote safety & health at
work for all people through research
and prevention. The Federal Mine
Safety & Health Act of 1997, Public Law
91–173 as amended by Public Law 95–
164, enables NIOSH to carry out
research that is relevant to health and
safety of workers in the underground
coal industry. After a thorough review
of United States’ underground coal mine
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response, the National Academy of
Sciences (NRC, 2013) has emphasized
the need to improve underground
mineworkers’ ability to successfully
escape a mine emergency. Specifically,
several mine disasters of 2006 raised a
number of issues about mine emergency
preparedness and response particularly
as they relate to self-escape
competencies. The resulting federal
regulations under the MINER Act of
2006, now require all underground coal
miners receive Self Contained Self
Rescuer (SCSR) and escape way training
quarterly throughout the year and new
emergency communications and
tracking systems have been mandated
and installed in underground coal
mines.
NIOSH proposes this exploratory twoyear study to better characterize the
current state of miner self-escape
competence and to answer the following
questions:
• What gaps exist between what
miners are required to do for self-escape
and their perceptions of their actual
capabilities?
• How might miner demographics
and mine-specific characteristics (e.g.,
size, mining method, and geographic
location) relate to perceived competence
in self-escape knowledge, skills,
abilities, and other characteristics?
Based on the results of this and other
concurrent exploratory work,
interventions to increase mine escape
competencies will be improved and/or
developed and assessed which could
lead to more standardized self-escape

training and assessment throughout the
industry.
The information collected will have
practical utility in efforts to enhance the
ability of miners to successfully escape
from underground coal mines in the
event of an emergency by identifying
gaps in perceived competence in
specific knowledge and skills in moving
through the mine, avoiding dangers, and
using protective equipment. This
information collections will contribute
to our understanding of actual miner
capabilities from the perspective of the
mineworkers themselves.
Data collection will occur above
ground at a variety of coal mines (and
other above ground facilities) to gather
information from a diverse sample of
mines to better reflect the variability
(e.g., size, mining method, geographic
location) that exists among mines and
could impact self-escape procedures
and resource availability. Variability in
mineworker and mining site
characteristics is key to generating a
cross-sectional snapshot of current
mineworkers’ perceived self-escape
competence and may reveal any
potential relationships among these
characteristics and perceived
competence in a variety of self-escape
KSAOs. This data collection will occur
once for each mine site over the next 2
years (after OMB approval) and is
designed to gather information not
previously available. The results
produced are expected to lead to
recommendations for emphasis in new
and/or existing KSAO training and
preparation as well as to inform future

self-escape training and research
development.
Descriptive and inferential statistics
on data obtained from the survey will be
used to quantify miner self-escape
competence and to identify any
statistically significant relationships
among aggregated miner characteristics
and perceived competence. Finally, the
data will serve as a gross baseline
measure of miner self-escape
competence to be directly compared to
future data collection utilizing the
identical data collection instrument.
NIOSH researchers will visit up to 20
underground coal mine sites to obtain
informed consent from volunteer
participants and administer a short
paper and pencil survey. The survey
will include demographic questions and
25 questions related to participants’
perceived confidence in their own
ability to escape their mine in the event
of an emergency.
Participants will be mining personnel
drawn from multiple operating
underground coal mines to represent the
variety within the industry. The timing
of the data collection schedule will be
flexible and modified as needed to
minimize disruption to mine operations.
No more than 800 miner volunteers will
participate in the study over two years.
Minimal time (< 5 minutes each) will be
spent in recruitment and obtaining
informed consent. The survey is
expected to take no longer than 10
minutes to complete
The total estimated annualized
burden hours are 101.

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Number of
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Number of responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
hours

Type of respondent

Form name

Mine Operator ...................................
Mine Worker ......................................
Mine Worker ......................................

Mine Recruitment Script ...................
Individual Miner Recruitment Script
Survey ..............................................

10
400
400

1
1
1

5/60
5/60
10/60

1
33
67

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

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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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