Change Request Justification

DATE: December 6, 2018

TO: Dr. Julie Wise

Office of Management and Budget

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

FROM: Dr. Kristianna Pettibone

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

SUBJECT: Request for Change to the NIEHS DERT Extramural Data Collection (OMB Control #: 0925-0757, Expiration Date: 11/30/2021)

CC: Jane Lambert, Mikia Currie

NIH is requesting a non-substantive change to the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training (DERT) Extramural Grantee Data Collection (OMB Control #: 0925-0757, Expiration Date: 11/30/2021).

First, we would like to request permission to add a series of new questions to the DERT Grantee Data Collection Survey related to training outputs and impacts. The survey includes a section on Training and Certification Outputs, however we recently realized that we did not include any questions about training outputs and impacts in this section and we would like to correct this oversight. The new questions are highlighted in the attached version of the DERT Grantee Data Collection Survey (OMB Control #: 0925-0757, Expiration Date: 11/30/2021, Attachment A) and are copied below.

Second, we would like to request permission to use a simplified data collection form (Attachment B), for Superfund Research Centers. This form was previously approved for use with the Environmental Health Science Core Centers Program and the NIEHS Children’s Environmental Health Centers program in 2017. The form asks a defined set of sub-questions from our approved form.

The burden estimate table below includes a new row for the number of Superfund Research Center grantees who would use the shortened form. We do not intend on asking any respondents to ever respond to all the survey questions. Therefore, we have not added any additional time to the response burden for answering the new training questions because the table already reflects the time needed to answer these questions. The burden increase is only due to the additional respondent group.

A.12 – 1 Estimates of Annual Hour Burden

Type of Respondent	Number of Respondents	Frequency of Response	Average Time per Response	Annual Hour Burden
NICHD Grantee	200	1	30/60	100
NIDCD Grantee	200	1	30/60	100
NIMH Grantee	200	1	30/60	100
NINDS Grantee	200	1	30/60	100
NCI Grantee	400	1	30/60	200
NIEHS Grantee (long form)	200	1	30/60	100
NIEHS Grantee (short form)	240	1	10/60	40
Total	1,640	1,640		740 hours

New Training Questions

Number of students/trainees trained:

Number of students who had an undergraduate major in a science field:

Number of students who went to graduate school in a science field:

Number of students/trainees who obtained a science degree:

Undergraduate ( )

Graduate ( )

Number of students/trainees who ultimately worked in the science field:

Description of fields in which these students ended up working:

Number of graduate trainees who went on to work in academia:

Describe any training materials produced, such as online tutorials, training modules, short courses, or datasets that were developed for training purposes.

Attachments:

1. NIEHS DERT Extramural Data Collection Survey (OMB Control #: 0925-0757, Expiration Date: 11/30/2021)

2. New simplified data collection form

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