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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 142 / Monday, July 28, 2025 / Notices

Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Public Health Ethics and
Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–25–0639; Docket No. CDC–2025–
0223]

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 effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a continuing information collection, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on a proposed information
collection project titled Energy
Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000
(EEOICPA) Special Exposure Cohort
Petitions. This information collection
project permits respondents to submit
petitions to HHS requesting the addition
of classes of employees to the Special
Exposure Cohort under EEOICPA.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before September 26,
2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2025–
0223 by either of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE, MS H21–8, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
www.regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
through the Federal eRulemaking portal
(www.regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to
the address listed above.

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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 Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, MS
H21–8, 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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
4. Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses; and
5. Assess information collection costs.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Proposed Project
Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Program Act of
2000 (EEOICPA) Special Exposure
Cohort Petitions (OMB Control No.
0920–0639, Exp. 1/31/2026)—
Extension—National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).

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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 because 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.
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
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

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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 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 most 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
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 average time
to prepare and submit such a challenge
is five hours. 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.
CDC requests OMB approval for an
estimated 43 annual burden hours.
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.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

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

2

1

5

10

Authorization Form, 42 CFR 83.7 ...

3

1

3/60

1

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

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

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

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

43

Form name

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

Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Public Health Ethics and
Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
[Document Identifier: CMS–R–138, CMS–
10882 and CMS–10716]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
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Number of
respondents

Type of respondents

Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing
an opportunity for the public to
comment on CMS’ intention to collect

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information from the public. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed
extension or reinstatement of an existing
collection of information, and to allow
a second opportunity for public
comment on the notice. Interested
persons are invited to send comments
regarding the burden estimate or any
other aspect of this collection of
information, including the necessity and
utility of the proposed information
collection for the proper performance of
the agency’s functions, the accuracy of
the estimated burden, ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
Comments on the collection(s) of
information must be received by the
OMB desk officer by August 27, 2025.

DATES:

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per response
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Total
burden
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Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
To obtain copies of a supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed collection(s) summarized in
this notice, please access the CMS PRA
website by copying and pasting the
following web address into your web
browser: https://www.cms.gov/
Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/
PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRAListing.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William Parham at (410) 786–4669.
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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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