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authority to sign Federal Register notices 

pertaining to announcements of meetings and 

other committee management activities, for 

both the Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Dated: March 4, 2011. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Director, Management Analysis and Services 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Opportunity to Partner; Testing of 

Patient Compartment Seating and 

Restraints to Proposed Test Standard 

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 669. 

AGENCY: NIOSH, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of informational meeting 

and opportunity to partner. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), CDC, HHS, in collaboration 

with the National Truck Equipment 

Association, Ambulance Manufacturers 

Division (NTEA–AMD) has developed a 

series of proposed ambulance 

component test standards. One such 

standard, AMD STANDARD 026—Seat, 

Seat Mount and Occupant Restraint 

Dynamic Test—Proposed (draft), seeks 

to improve occupant and seat retention 

during crash conditions. As a part of the 

standard development process, NIOSH 

will be conducting a series of tests to 

evaluate existing, redesigned, and/or 

new seating to validate the test methods 

proposed. It is anticipated testing will 

be conducted in up to three phases over 

approximately 15 months. NIOSH will 

contract with an independent test 

facility and provide funding for all 

testing, instrumentation, data collection, 

and data analysis. Prospective industry 

partners will provide the following test 

assets: Seating, seat retention devices, 

and occupant restraints. This project has 

three key goals: (1) To validate test and 

data collection methodologies proposed 

in AMD 026 (draft) to support standard 

development; (2) to support and 

facilitate the transition of the industry 

from the current seating design 

parameters to those proposed in SAE 

J2917 Surface Vehicle Recommended 

Practice, Occupant Restraint and 

Equipment Mounting Integrity—Frontal 

Impact System-Level Ambulance Patient 

Compartment, published May 2010, and 

SAE J2956 Surface Vehicle 

Recommended Practice, Occupant 

Restraint and Equipment Mounting 

Integrity—Side Impact System-Level 

Ambulance Patient Compartment 

(draft); and, (3) to develop the design 

and production ‘‘cost-of-change’’ to meet 

the proposed design parameters. 

DATES AND TIMES: March 23, 2011, 1 

p.m.–5 p.m., Eastern Standard Time 

(EST) March 24, 2011, 8 a.m.–12 noon, 

EST, by appointment. NIOSH is 

available to meet with individual 

companies for those interested in 

further discussion. We anticipate 

offering the prospective partners the 

opportunity to meet for 30 minutes, to 

ask specific questions pertinent to their 

situation. 

ADDRESSES: Homewood Suites 

Indianapolis-Downtown, 211 South 

Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 

46225, Telephone (317) 636–7992. 

(Coincident with the 2011 Fire 

Department Instructors Conference 

(FDIC).) 

Letters of Interest: Interested 

manufacturers should submit a letter of 

interest with information about their 

capabilities and level of proposed 

participation to Jim Green at 

JGreen@cdc.gov. Letters of interest must 

be received by April 25, 2011. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIOSH 

proposes a series of up to 116 tests to 

better understand the capabilities and 

limitations of currently available seating 

and restraints, investigate redesign or 

new design options, and validate the 

proposed test standard. As a byproduct 

of this effort, it is expected that NIOSH 

and its partners will be able to 

demonstrate that seating and restraints 

provided by partners meet the design 

parameters specified in AMD 026 (draft) 

and test requirements outlined in SAE 

J2917 and SAE 2956 (draft), 

respectively. 

Prospective partners will be existing 

seating and/or restraint manufacturers 

nationally or internationally. A 

prospective partner need not be selling 

to the United States market at the time 

of this announcement. 

Prospective partners will be required 

to provide test assets (seating, seat 

retention devices, and/or occupant 

restraints) free of charge in exchange for 

their participation in this collaborative 

standards development and validation 

effort. In return, NIOSH will cover all 

costs associated with testing. This 

includes the cost of the sled buck design 

and manufacture, rental of appropriate 

test manikins, instrumentation related 

to the litter, manikin, and sled buck, test 

execution, test data analysis, and cost 

data analysis. 

Given the nature of the proposed 

change, coupled with the cost for each 

unit, NIOSH anticipates the need to 

partner with more than one 

manufacturer. Therefore no one 

manufacturer should expect to be asked 

to contribute all needed test assets. 

In phase 1, test assets are expected to 

come from those in the existing product 

line per mutual agreement with NIOSH. 

In phases 2 and 3, test assets are 

expected to be introduced as either 

redesigns of existing products or new 

products entirely based on the results of 

phase 1 testing. The cost of product 

redesign and manufacture for phase 2 

and 3 testing would be borne by the 

manufacturer partner(s). 

Each partner will be invited to 

participate at the site of testing (a third 

party independent test facility) during 

the testing of its product. However, at 

no time will representatives from two 

different manufacturers be present at the 

same time or on the same date. As a 

participant, each partner will be 

provided with a copy of all digital video 

and instrumented data for use in future 

product development. NIOSH will 

retain a copy of all data but will code, 

to the extent possible, to prevent release 

of vendor specific product data. Partners 

will retain ownership of each test asset 

and will be asked to retrieve test assets 

once each test has been completed. All 

shipping and/or disposal costs of test 

assets to and from the independent test 

facility will be borne by the 

manufacturer partner(s). 

Recognizing any change in standard 

or test requirement may have a 

coincident cost; NIOSH will also be 

seeking to quantify the cost of change— 

that is, the cost of redesigning and 

manufacturing to meet the proposed 

new test standards. In this instance, 

NIOSH has a separate effort in place 

with an independent Certified Public 

Accountant (CPA). Any participant or 

partner in this effort would be required 

to work with the CPA in parallel with 

the test program outlined above. 

Specifically, the partner would be 

required to provide the underlying cost 

data for each product evaluated in the 

test program. This would include the 

costs for a current or comparable pretest or pre-standard seat, seat retention 

device, and occupant restraint and its 

companion post standard or post 

redesign equivalent. Prospective 

partners should be aware it may be 

possible to consider a few products 

within their existing product line (e.g.; 

entry level, mid level, and high end 

products). These costs may include: Per 

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unit cost of materials, per unit cost of 

labor, per unit cost of design, test and 

certification, etc. Data from each 

manufacturer will be held confidential 

by the CPA and coded to remove 

corporate identifiers. The goal is to 

assess the cost of change to the industry 

rather than to an individual product 

within a given manufacturers’ broad 

product line. 

Candidate companies will be 

evaluated based on their capability and 

willingness to work cooperatively to 

achieve the stated goals. Candidates 

selected will be required to enter into a 

Letter of Agreement spelling out the 

level of participation expected of each 

partner and the handling of data 

generated from the partnership. This 

announcement does not obligate NIOSH 

to enter into an agreement with any 

respondents. NIOSH reserves the right 

to establish a partnership based on the 

engineering analysis and capabilities 

found by way of this announcement or 

other searches, if determined to be in 

the best interest of the government. 

NIOSH recognizes this opportunity 

will raise many questions for 

prospective partners. In order to give all 

involved the greatest opportunity to 

understand the process and project 

expectations, the NTEA–AMD, our 

collaborative partner and host standards 

setting body, has agreed to provide a 

meeting room for us to hold an 

informational meeting to present a 

broad overview of the effort and answer 

any resulting questions. 

In order to provide us with the best 

opportunity to meet the needs of all 

prospective partners at each of these 

meetings; we request that all interested 

parties contact Jim Green, NIOSH 

Project Officer, by e-mail at 

JGreen@cdc.gov; or telephone (304) 

285–5857, by Thursday, March 17, 

2011. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Jim Green, NIOSH Project Officer, email: JGreen@cdc.gov; telephone (304) 

285–5857. 

The Director, Management Analysis 

and Services Office, has been delegated 

the authority to sign Federal Register 

notices pertaining to announcements of 

meetings and other committee 

management activities, for both the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Dated: March 7, 2011. 

Tanja Popovic, 

Deputy Associate Director for Science, 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Disease, Disability, and Injury 

Prevention and Control Special 

Emphasis Panel; Teleconference 

Disease, Disability, and Injury 

Prevention and Control Special 

Emphasis Panel (SEP): Pilot for Statespecific Cross-Sectional Surveillance of 

Persons with Rare Disorders and 

Longitudinal Assessment of Outcomes, 

Funding Opportunity Announcement 

(FOA) DD11–004, and Pilot 

Longitudinal Data Collection to Inform 

Public Health—Fragile X Syndrome, 

FOA DD11–007, initial review. 

In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC) 

announces the aforementioned meeting: 

Time and Date: 11 a.m.–5 p.m., April 

21, 2011 (Closed). 

Place: Teleconference. 

Status: The meeting will be closed to 

the public in accordance with 

provisions set forth in Section 

552b(c)(4) and (6), Title 5 U.S.C., and 

the Determination of the Director, 

Management Analysis and Services 

Office, CDC, pursuant to Public Law 92– 

463. 

Matters to Be Discussed: The meeting 

will include the initial review, 

discussion, and evaluation of ‘‘Pilot for 

State-specific Cross-Sectional 

Surveillance of Persons with Rare 

Disorders and Longitudinal Assessment 

of Outcomes, FOA DD11–004, and Pilot 

Longitudinal Data Collection to Inform 

Public Health—Fragile X Syndrome, 

FOA DD11–007.’’ 

Contact Person for More Information: 

Donald Blackman, PhD, Scientific 

Review Officer, Extramural Research 

Program Office, National Center for 

Chronic Disease Prevention and Health 

Promotion, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, 

NE., Mailstop K–92, Atlanta, Georgia 

30341, Telephone: (770) 488–3023, Email: DBY7@cdc.gov. 

The Director, Management Analysis 

and Services Office, has been delegated 

the authority to sign Federal Register 

notices pertaining to announcements of 

meetings and other committee 

management activities, for both the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Dated: March 7, 2011. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Director, Management Analysis and Services 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Disease, Disability, and Injury 

Prevention and Control Special 

Emphasis Panel (SEP): Family History 

and Diamond Blackfan Anemia, DD11– 

010, Initial Review 

Correction: This notice was published 

in the Federal Register on January 21, 

2011, Volume 76, Number 14, Page 

3909. The date for the aforementioned 

meeting has been changed to the 

following: 

DATES: April 27, 2011 (Closed). 

Contact Person for More Information: 

Michael Dalmat, Dr.P.H., Scientific 

Review Officer, CDC, National Center 

for Chronic Disease Prevention and 

Health Promotion, Office of the Director, 

Extramural Research Program Office, 

4770 Buford Highway, NE., Mailstop K– 

92, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, Telephone: 

(770) 488–6423, E-mail: 

MED1@CDC.GOV. 

The Director, Management Analysis 

and Services Office, has been delegated 

the authority to sign Federal Register 

notices pertaining to announcements of 

meetings and other committee 

management activities, for both the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Dated: March 7, 2011. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Director, Management Analysis and Services 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Opportunity to Partner; Testing of 

Patient Litters and Patient Restraints 

to Proposed Test Standard 

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 669. 

AGENCY: NIOSH, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), 

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