Non-Substantive Change Request

Change Request for

“Characterization of Exposure Potential during Activities Conducted on

Synthetic Turf with Crumb Rubber Infill”

OMB Control Number 0923-0058, expiration date: 08/31/2018

Justification: The IRB-approved protocol (Attachment 6 – page 42) and the Supporting Statement A do not specify that the method of approaching potential participants for eligibility screening must be telephone vs. in-person. ATSDR and EPA have decided that recruiting participants in-person versus over the phone will achieve greater efficiency in data collection. Therefore, the agencies propose to remove the “caller”-specific language from the eligibility screening questionnaire. In order to reduce redundancy and increase efficiency, they would like to remove questions 5-8 on the eligibility screening questionnaire.  These questions are redundant to those on the exposure characterization questionnaire (Attachment 4b).

Except for the change from telephone screening to in-person screening, there are no changes to the data collection methods nor to the currently approved burden hours. In addition to requesting this non-substantial change from OMB, ATSDR is seeking IRB-approval for the modification of its screening script as described above.

Attachments

Attachment 4b: Field User Eligibility Screening Script_revised 8.24.17_track changes

Attachment 4b: Field User Eligibility Screening Script_revised 8.24.17_clean

Attachment 6. Synthetic Turf Research Protocol_Final