65434 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 218 / Friday, November 12, 2004 / Notices 

ACTION: Notice of request for comments 

regarding a renewal to an existing OMB 

clearance.

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35), the General Services 

Administration will be submitting to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a request to review and approve 

a renewal of a currently approved 

information collection requirement 

regarding information specific to a 

contract or contracting action (not 

required by regulation).

Public comments are particularly 

invited on: Whether this collection of 

information is necessary and whether it 

will have practical utility; whether our 

estimate of the public burden of this 

collection of information is accurate, 

and based on valid assumptions and 

methodology; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected.

DATES: Submit comments on or before: 

January 11, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Linda Nelson, Procurement Analyst, 

Contract Policy Division, at telephone 

(202) 501–1900 or via email at 

linda.nelson@gsa.gov.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding 

this burden estimate or any other aspect 

of this collection of information, 

including suggestions for reducing this 

burden to the Regulatory Secretariat (V), 

General Services Administration, Room 

4035, 1800 F Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20405. Please cite OMB Control No. 

3090–0163, Information Specific to a 

Contract or Contracting Action (not 

required by regulation), in all 

correspondence.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

The General Services Administration 

(GSA) has various mission 

responsibilities related to the 

acquisition and provision of supplies, 

transportation, ADP, 

telecommunications, real property 

management, and disposal of real and 

personal property. These mission 

responsibilities generate requirements 

that are realized through the solicitation 

and award of public contracts. 

Individual solicitations and resulting 

contracts may imposeunique 

information collection/reporting 

requirements on contractors, not 

required by regulation, but necessary to 

evaluate particular program 

accomplishments and measure success 

in meeting special program objectives.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

Respondents: 126,870

Responses Per Respondent: 1.36

Total Responses: 172,500

Hours Per Response: .399

Total Burden Hours: 68,900

Obtaining Copies of Proposals:

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the General Services Administration, 

Regulatory Secretariat (V), 1800 F Street, 

NW., Room 4035, Washington, DC 

20405, telephone (202) 208–7312. Please 

cite OMB Control No. 3090–0163, 

Information Specific to a Contract or 

Contracting Action (not required by 

regulation), in all correspondence.

Dated: November 4, 2004. 

Laura Auletta, 

Director, Contract Policy Division

[FR Doc. 04–25178 Filed 11–10–04; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

[Document Identifier: OS–0994–] 

Notice of Proposed Requirement To 

Establish Government-Wide Standard 

Data Elements for Use by All Federal 

Grant Making Agencies

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Grants.gov Program Management Office, 

HHS. 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of the Secretary (OS), Department 

of Health and Human Services, is 

publishing the following summary of 

proposed collections for public 

comment. Interested persons are invited 

to send comments regarding this burden 

estimate or any other aspect of this 

collection of information, including any 

of the following subjects: (1) The 

necessity and utility of the proposed 

information collection for the proper 

performance of the agency’s functions; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated 

burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (4) the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology to 

minimize the information collection 

burden. Emergency Clearance for the 

data set was published in the Federal 

Register on September 3, 2004 [Vol. 69, 

No. 171]. Public comments from the 

Emergency Clearance were incorporated 

into the proposed information 

collection. 

#1 Type of Information Collection 

Request: Regular, Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title of Information Collection: SF–

424 Research & Related (R&R). 

Form/OMB No.: OS–0994–. 

Use: The SF–424 (R&R) will become 

the government-wide data set for 

research grant applications. Federal 

agencies and grant applicants will use 

the standard data set and definitions for 

paper and electronic research grants 

applications. The standard data set will 

become the common Federal data set for 

research grant applications, replacing 

numerous agency data sets and reducing 

the administrative burden place on the 

research grants community. The data set 

provides information to assist Federal 

program staff and grants officials in 

assessing the adequacy of applicant’s 

proposals to accomplish project 

objectives and determine whether the 

business aspects of grants applications 

reflect program needs and grants 

policies. Federal agencies will not be 

required to collect all of the information 

included in the proposed data set. The 

agency will identify the data that must 

be provided by applicants through 

instructions that will accompany the 

application forms. 

Frequency: Recording, Reporting, and 

on Occasion. 

Affected Public: Federal, State, local, 

or tribal governments, business or other 

for profit, not for profit institutions. 

Annual Number of Respondents:

459,425. 

Total Annual Responses: 459,425. 

Average Burden per Response: 40 

hours. 

Total Annual Hours: 19,037,350. 

To obtain copies of the supporting 

statement and any related forms for the 

proposed paperwork collections 

referenced above, access the HHS Web 

site address at http://www.hhs.gov/

oirm/infocollect/pending/ or e-mail your 

request, including your address, phone 

number, OMB number, and OS 

document identifier, to 

naomi.cook@hhs.gov, or call the Reports 

Clearance Office on (202) 690–6162. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collections must be mailed 

directly to the OS Paperwork Clearance 

Officer designated at the following 

address: Department of Health and 

Human Services, Office of the Secretary, 

Assistant Secretary for Budget, 

Technology, and Finance, Office of 

Information and Resource Management, 

Attention: Naomi Cook (0994–), Fax 

number (202) 690–8715, Room 531–H, 

200 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20201.

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Dated: November 2, 2004. 

Robert E. Polson, 

Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction 

Act Reports Clearance Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–05–030DX] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–498–1210 or send 

comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC 

Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 

1600 Clifton Road, MS–E11, Atlanta, GA 

30333 or send an e-mail to 

omb@cdc.gov.

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; and (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 

technology. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) 

Measurement—New—The National 

Center for Injury Prevention and Control 

(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is 

considered by many to be a serious 

problem that cuts across cultures, 

socioeconomic status and gender. CDC 

considers IPV to be a ‘‘substantial public 

health problem for Americans that has 

serious consequences and costs for 

individuals, families, communities and 

society.’’ The past twenty years have 

witnessed an extraordinary growth in 

research on the prevalence, incidence, 

causes and effects of IPV. Various 

disciplines have contributed to the 

development of research on the subject 

including psychology, epidemiology, 

criminology and public health. 

Still, there is a lack of reliable 

information on the extent and 

prevalence of IPV. Estimates vary 

widely regarding the magnitude of the 

problem. This variance is due in large 

part to the different contexts, 

instruments, and methods that are used 

to measure IPV. Thus, the CDC is 

engaged in work to improve the quality 

of data, and hence knowledge about 

violence against women. Part of this 

process includes identifying the 

strengths and limitations of different 

scales used to measure IPV and 

determine the appropriateness of each 

of these scales for use with individuals 

of different racial/ethnic backgrounds. 

The purpose of this project is to 

administer and test the statistical 

properties of four scales, via telephone 

interviews, that measure both 

victimization from and perpetration of 

IPV. The scales will be administered to 

a random sample of women ages 18–50 

from five racial/ethnic backgrounds: 

African-American, American Indian, 

Asian, White and Hispanic. 

The four scales are the (1) Sexual 

Experiences Survey (SES), (2) Conflict 

Tactics Scale 2 (CTS2), (3) Index of 

Spouse Abuse (ISA), and (4) Women’s 

Experience with Battering (WEB) scale. 

The survey instrument will contain each 

of these scales and introductory and 

transitional text developed specifically 

for this study. 

The overall benefit of this project is to 

increase knowledge about the reliability 

and validity of these scales, which have 

been used in previous studies. 

Ultimately, this knowledge will assist 

CDC in establishing an on-going data 

collection system for monitoring IPV. 

CDC intends to contract with an agency 

to conduct the survey. The only cost to 

the respondents is the time involved to 

complete the survey.

Survey IPV measurement Type of respondent Number of

respondents 

Number of

responses per 

respondent 

Avg. burden 

per response 

(in hrs.) 

Total burden 

hours 

African-American .......................................... Female .................................. 500 1 30/60 250 

Asian ............................................................. Female .................................. 500 1 30/60 250 

White ............................................................. Female .................................. 500 1 30/60 250 

Hispanic ........................................................ Female .................................. 500 1 30/60 250 

Total ....................................................... ............................................... 2,500 ........................ ........................ 1,250 

Dated: November 5, 2004. 

Alvin Hall, 

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 

Advisory Committee for Injury 

Prevention and Control; Notice of 

Recharter 

This gives notice under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463) of October 6, 1972, that the 

Advisory Committee for Injury 

Prevention and Control, National Center 

for Injury Prevention and Control, of the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, has been renewed for a 2-year 

period extending through October 28, 

2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Louise Galaska, Executive Secretary, 

ACIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Hwy, M/S 

K02, Atlanta, Georgia 30333. Telephone 

(770) 488–4694, fax (770) 488–4422. 

The Director, Management Analysis 

and Services Office, has been delegated 

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