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warehouse best practices resource page
on www.gsa.gov, GSA will assist federal
agencies with their warehouse
challenges.
GSA will continually supplement this
site with current warehouse
management efficiency studies, articles
and practical information on warehouse
space utilization.
DATES: Effective: March 24, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Aluanda Drain, Office of Governmentwide Policy (MAC), Office of Asset and
Transportation Management, General
Services Administration, at 202–501–
1624, or by email at aluanda.drain@
gsa.gov.
The
Government Accountability Office
(GAO), in its report GAO–15–41:
Strategic Focus Needed to Help Manage
Vast and Diverse Warehouse Portfolio
(November 12, 2014), found that the
Federal Real Property Profile database
contains inconsistent warehouse data
and agencies face a wide range of
challenges in acquiring, managing and
disposing of warehouse space. GSA
developed a corrective action plan
committing to research best practices in
warehouse and inventory management
and publish lessons learned through a
notice in the Federal Register.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Dated: March 17, 2016.
Troy Cribb,
Associate Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2016–06473 Filed 3–23–16; 8:45 am]

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.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–16–0639; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0033]

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
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

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Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on an extension of the
information collection request entitled
‘‘Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Program Act
(EEOICPA) Special Exposure Cohort
Petitions’’. Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation
authorizes the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) to designate
such classes of employees for addition
to the Cohort when NIOSH lacks
sufficient information to estimate with
sufficient accuracy the radiation doses
of the employees Program Act.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before May 23, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0033 by any of the following methods:
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.

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

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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
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
EEOICPA Special Exposure Cohort
Petitions (OMB Control No. 0920–0639
exp. 7/31/2016)—Extension—National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
On October 30, 2000, the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000
(EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. 7384–7385 [1994,
supp. 2001] was enacted. The Act
established a compensation program to
provide a lump sum payment of
$150,000 and medical benefits as
compensation to covered employees
suffering from designated illnesses
incurred as a result of their exposure to
radiation, beryllium, or silica while in
the performance of duty for the
Department of Energy and certain of its
vendors, contractors and subcontractors.
This legislation also provided for
payment of compensation for certain
survivors of these covered employees.

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This program has been mandated to be
in effect until Congress ends the
funding.
Among other duties, the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS)
was directed to establish and implement
procedures for considering petitions by
classes of nuclear weapons workers to
be added to the ‘‘Special Exposure
Cohort’’ (the ‘‘Cohort’’). In brief,
EEOICPA authorizes HHS to designate
such classes of employees for addition
to the Cohort when NIOSH lacks
sufficient information to estimate with
sufficient accuracy the radiation doses
of the employees, and if HHS also finds
that the health of members of the class
may have been endangered by the
radiation dose the class potentially
incurred. HHS must also obtain the
advice of the Advisory Board on
Radiation and Worker Health (the
‘‘Board’’) in establishing such findings.
On May 28, 2004, HHS issued a rule
that established procedures for adding
such classes to the Cohort (42 CFR part
83). The rule was amended on July 10,
2007.
The HHS rule authorizes a variety of
respondents to submit petitions.
Petitioners are required to provide the
information specified in the rule to
qualify their petitions for a complete
evaluation by HHS and the Board. HHS
has developed two forms to assist the
petitioners in providing this required
information efficiently and completely.
Form A is a one-page form to be used

being proposed to be considered for
addition to the Cohort; (c) determine
whether there is justification to require
HHS to evaluate whether or not to
designate the proposed class as an
addition to the Cohort (such an
evaluation involves potentially
extensive data collection, analysis, and
related deliberations by NIOSH, the
Board, and HHS); and, (d) target an
evaluation by HHS to examine relevant
potential limitations of radiation
monitoring and/or dosimetry-relevant
records and to examine the potential for
related radiation exposures that might
have endangered the health of members
of the class.
Finally, under the rule, petitioners
may contest the proposed decision of
the Secretary to add or deny adding
classes of employees to the cohort by
submitting evidence that the proposed
decision relies on a record of either
factual or procedural errors in the
implementation of these procedures.
NIOSH estimates that the time to
prepare and submit such a challenge is
45 minutes. Because of the uniqueness
of this submission, NIOSH is not
providing a form. The submission will
typically be in the form of a letter to the
Secretary.
There are no costs to respondents
unless a respondent/petitioner chooses
to purchase the services of an expert in
dose reconstruction, an option provided
for under the rule.

by EEOICPA claimants for whom
NIOSH has attempted to conduct dose
reconstructions and has determined that
available information is not sufficient to
complete the dose reconstruction. Form
B, accompanied by separate
instructions, is intended for all other
petitioners. Forms A and B can be
submitted electronically as well as in
hard copy.
Respondent/petitioners should be
aware that HHS is not requiring
respondents to use the forms.
Respondents can choose to submit
petitions as letters or in other formats,
but petitions must meet the
informational requirements stated in the
rule. NIOSH expects, however, that all
petitioners for whom Form A would be
appropriate will actually use the form,
since NIOSH will provide it to them
upon determining that their dose
reconstruction cannot be completed and
encourage them to submit the petition.
NIOSH expects the large majority of
petitioners for whom Form B would be
appropriate will also use the form, since
it provides a simple, organized format
for addressing the informational
requirements of a petition.
NIOSH will use the information
obtained through the petition for the
following purposes: (a) Identify the
petitioner(s), obtain their contact
information, and establish that the
petitioner(s) is qualified and intends to
petition HHS; (b) establish an initial
definition of the class of employees

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Petitioners .........................................

Form A 42 CFR 83.9 .......................
Form B 42 CFR 83.9 .......................
42 CFR 83.9 .....................................

2
5
1

1
1
1

3/60
5
6

1
25
6

42 CFR 83.18 ...................................

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1

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Authorization Form 42 CFR 83.7 .....

3

1

3/60

1

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Petitioners using a submission format other than Form B (as permitted by rule).
Petitioners Appealing final HHS decision (no specific form is required).
Claimant authorizing a party to submit petition on his/her behalf.
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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