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describe and characterize the EH
workforce to assess their needs,
challenges, and opportunities.
This is a one-time information
collection designed to thoroughly
describe the health department EH
workforce on: (1) The current supply of
EH professionals; (2) EH workforce
demographics and professional roles; (3)
gaps in current EH education and
competencies and training needs; and
(4) critical skills and resources needed
to meet the evolving and emerging EH
issues and challenges. This information
will benefit the government and other
entities by providing essential data to
inform and support workforce

development activities and initiatives
and understand areas of practice and
where gaps may exist in capacity to
address current EH issues and future
challenges.
The survey will be offered to the
estimated 20,000 EH professionals
working within health departments.
They will be enumerated and recruited
by identifying a point of contact in each
state, local, tribal, and territorial health
department from whom a roster of EH
professionals will be requested. A list of
respondents and their business email
addresses will be generated and used for
recruitment and survey administration.
Any contact information collected will

be related to the respondents’ role in the
organization. Participation will be
voluntary. We expect approximately 80
percent of the estimated 20,000 EH
professionals (16,000 respondents) to
respond to the survey.
Data will be collected one time from
a census of members of the public
health department EH workforce using a
web-based survey instrument. The
UNCOVER EH Survey will take
approximately 30 minutes to complete
per respondent. There will be no cost to
respondents other than their time. The
requested time burden is 8,269 hours.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Form name

Health Department EH Administrative Staff ...
Health Department EH Professionals .............

Health Department Roster .............................
UNCOVER EH Survey ...................................

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
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0002]

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
Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on a proposed information
collection titled ‘‘Assessment of the
Market for Electronic Technology for

SUMMARY:

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Underground Coal Mining Safety and
Health Applications.’’ From this
information collection project, NIOSH
seeks to provide insight into what the
most important barriers are from the
perspective of the organizations that
must purchase, use, approve, and
manufacture these safety technologies.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before March 20, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0002 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.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.

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

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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
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
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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
Assessment of the Market for
Electronic Technology for Underground
Coal Mining Safety and Health
Applications—New—National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Underground coal mining in the U.S.
is a relatively small industry (about
46,000 employees) that operates in a
unique and hazardous work
environment. The common presence of
explosive gasses and other hazards
creates special safety requirements for
equipment, including safety and health
protection technologies, used in

collection of this data. A CDC contractor
will collect the required data.
NIOSH will identify 200 stakeholder
organizations for structured interviews.
Stakeholder organizations include those
parties involved in the development,
supply, use, and regulation of safety and
health protection technologies relevant
to underground coal mining. Because
there is no nationally representative
database of these stakeholder
organizations, NIOSH will use web
searches of supplier and mining
company Web sites, online mining
publications, trade association member
directories, federal and state regulator
Web sites, and university mining
research and development programs to
compile a list of 200 organizations.
Representatives of NIOSH Office of
Mining Safety and Health Research will
also augment the search with their
input.
Of the 200 stakeholder organizations,
we expect to elicit participation from
100 and conduct 150 interviews (up to
2 interviews per organization).
A pre-call to each organization is
expected to require 15 minutes to
complete and the structured interview is
expected to require 60 minutes to
complete; including the time it may take
respondents to look-up and retrieve
needed information.
In addition, the workshop will be
held in-person and last for nine hours.
An average of six hours of travel is
estimated for participants in the
workshop. The estimated annualized
burden hours for the respondents’ time
to participate in this information
collection is 650 hours.

underground coal mines. This request is
for a 2-year approval period.
The MINER Act of 2006 assigned the
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) the
responsibility to enhance development
of new mine safety and health
protection technology and technological
applications and to expedite the
commercial availability and
implementation of such technology. As
part of this study, NIOSH seeks to
identify the barriers to commercial
availability and implementation of such
technology in U.S. mines.
Experience to date has shown that
there are many issues that the U.S.
mining industry faces that create
barriers to the availability and
implementation of safety technologies,
and we believe there are other more
subtle reasons that we do not fully
understand as a Government research
agency. The data are intended to
provide insight into what the most
important barriers are from the
perspective of the organizations that
must purchase, use, approve, and
manufacture these safety technologies.
NIOSH has an understanding of some
of these barriers, however NIOSH is not
an end user of these products. Thus the
goal of the study is to provide a
complete perspective of the barriers
from the point of view of the mine
operators and technology innovators, in
order to improve the efficacy of the
contract and grant awards that NIOSH
administers under the authority of the
MINER Act.
The Federal Mine Safety & Health Act
of 1977, Section 501 authorizes the

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Number of
respondents

Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden
per response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Type of respondents

Form name

Receptionists ...................................................
General and Operational Managers ...............
Industrial Production Managers ......................
Architecture and Engineering Occupations ....
General and Operations Managers ................
Industrial Production Managers ......................
Architecture and Engineering Occupations ....

Pre-Call ..............................
Structured Interview ...........
.............................................
.............................................
Workshop ...........................
.............................................
.............................................

200
75
38
37
15
8
7

1
1
1
1
1
1
1

15/60
60/60
60/60
60/60
15
15
15

50
75
38
37
225
120
105

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

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

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

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

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

650

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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