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specimen locator information, collection 

date, place of collection). 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

5 U.S.C. 301, Departmental 

Regulations; 10 U.S.C. 136, Under 

Secretary of Defense for Personnel and 

Readiness; 10 U.S.C. 3013, Secretary of 

the Army, 10 U.S.C. 8013, Secretary of 

the Air Force, 10 U.S.C. 5013, Secretary 

of the Navy; DoD Instruction 1100.13, 

Surveys of DoD Personnel; DoD 

Directive 6490.2, Comprehensive Health 

Surveillance; DoD Directive 6490.3, 

Deployment Health; DoD Instruction 

6485.01, Human immunodeficiency 

Virus; DoD Directive 1404.10, Civilian 

Expeditionary Workforce; and E.O. 9397 

(SSN), as amended. 

PURPOSE(S): 

The Defense Medical Surveillance 

System (DMSS) supports a systematic 

collection, analysis, interpretation, and 

reporting of standardized, population 

based data for the purposes of 

characterizing and countering medical 

threats to a population’s health, wellbeing and performance. The Armed 

Forces Health Surveillance Center, 

which operates the DMSS, routinely 

publishes summaries of notifiable 

diseases, trends of illnesses of special 

surveillance interest and field reports 

describing outbreaks and case 

occurrences in the Medical Surveillance 

Monthly Report, the principal vehicle 

for disseminating medical surveillance 

information of broad interest. Through 

DMSS, the Armed Forces Health 

Surveillance Center provides the sole 

link between the DoD Serum Repository 

and other databases. This repository 

contains over 46 million frozen serum 

specimens and is the largest of its kind 

in the world. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

In addition to those disclosures 

generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. 

552a(b) of the Privacy Act of 1974, these 

records contained therein may 

specifically be disclosed outside the 

DoD as a routine use pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as follows: 

The DoD ‘‘Blanket Routine Uses’’ set 

forth at the beginning of the Army’s 

compilation of systems of records 

notices also apply to this system, except 

that these routine uses do not apply to 

the Serum Repository. 

Note: This system of records contains 

individually identifiable health information. 

The DoD Health Information Privacy 

Regulation (DoD 6025.18–R) issued pursuant 

to the Health Insurance Portability and 

Accountability Act of 1996, applies to most 

such health information. DoD 6025.18–R may 

place additional procedural requirements on 

the uses and disclosures of such information 

beyond those found in the Privacy Act of 

1974 or mentioned in this system of records 

notice. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

Paper records in file folders and 

electronic storage media. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Information is retrieved by 

individual’s name, Social Security 

Number (SSN), registry number and 

specimen number. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

Records are maintained within 

secured buildings in areas accessible 

only to persons having official need, 

and who therefore are properly trained 

and screened. Automated segments are 

protected by controlled system 

passwords governing access to data. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Records are destroyed when no longer 

needed for reference and for conducting 

business. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Director of the Armed Forces Health 

Surveillance Center, The Army Surgeon 

General, Headquarters, Department of 

the Army, 5109 Leesburg Pike, Falls 

Church, VA 22041–3258. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

Individuals seeking to determine 

whether information about themselves 

is contained in this system should 

address written inquiries to the Director, 

Armed Forces Health Surveillance 

Center, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver 

Spring, MD 20910–7500. 

For verification purposes, individual 

should provide their full name, Social 

Security Number (SSN), any details 

which may assist in locating record, and 

their signature. 

In addition, the requester must 

provide a notarized statement or an 

unsworn declaration made in 

accordance with 28 U.S.C. 1746, in the 

following format: 

If executed outside the United States: 

‘I declare (or certify, verify, or state) 

under penalty of perjury under the laws 

of the United States of America that the 

foregoing is true and correct. Executed 

on (date). (Signature)’. 

If executed within the United States, 

its territories, possessions, or 

commonwealths: ‘I declare (or certify, 

verify, or state) under penalty of perjury 

that the foregoing is true and correct. 

Executed on (date). (Signature)’. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals seeking access to 

information about themselves contained 

in this system should address written 

inquiries to the Director of the Armed 

Forces Health Surveillance Center, 503 

Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 

20910–7500. 

For verification purposes, individual 

should provide their full name, Social 

Security Number, any details which 

may assist in locating record, and their 

signature. 

In addition, the requester must 

provide a notarized statement or an 

unsworn declaration made in 

accordance with 28 U.S.C. 1746, in the 

following format: 

If executed outside the United States: 

‘I declare (or certify, verify, or state) 

under penalty of perjury under the laws 

of the United States of America that the 

foregoing is true and correct. Executed 

on (date). (Signature)’. 

If executed within the United States, 

its territories, possessions, or 

commonwealths: ‘I declare (or certify, 

verify, or state) under penalty of perjury 

that the foregoing is true and correct. 

Executed on (date). (Signature)’. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The Army’s rules for accessing 

records, and for contesting contents and 

appealing initial agency determinations 

are contained in Army Regulation 340– 

21; 32 CFR part 505; or may be obtained 

from the system manager. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

From the individual, personnel and 

medical records, and mortality and 

casualty reports. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Director, Information 

Collection Clearance Division, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management, invites 

comments on the proposed information 

collection requests as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

19, 2009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 


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that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management, publishes that notice 

containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g., new, revision, extension, existing 

or reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary 

of the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

burden. OMB invites public comment. 

The Department of Education is 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following issues: (1) Is 

this collection necessary to the proper 

functions of the Department; (2) will 

this information be processed and used 

in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate 

of burden accurate; (4) how might the 

Department enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (5) how might the 

Department minimize the burden of this 

collection on the respondents, including 

through the use of information 

technology. 

Dated: August 13, 2009. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

Director, Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

National Institute for Literacy 

Type of Review: New. 

Title: Understanding Effective K–3 

Reading Programs Based on Scientific 

Reading Research. 

Frequency: One time. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit; State, Local, or Tribal Gov’t, 

SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 87. 

Burden Hours: 1,037. 

Abstract: The National Institute for 

Literacy (NIFL) is authorized under the 

No Child Left Behind Act, Public Law 

107–110, part B, subpart 1, section 1207 

to ‘‘* * * identify and disseminate 

information about schools, local 

educational agencies, and State 

educational agencies that have 

effectively developed and implemented 

classroom reading programs that meet 

the requirements of this subpart 

(Reading First)* * *’’. To carry out this 

authorized activity, the NIFL is first 

conducting a set of case studies, 

identifying Schools with Effective 

Reading Programs, to be implemented 

by a research team from Education 

Development Center, Inc. (EDC). The 

NIFL then will publish findings from 

the case studies as a report and print 

and distribute it widely among 

educators and administrators working 

with children in kindergarten through 

third grades as well as reading 

researchers. The NIFL needs to collect 

the information proposed in this 

package to be able to describe in 

reasonable detail the school- and 

classroom-based reading strategies 

employed by schools with highperforming students. The NIFL 

understands its statutory charge to mean 

providing information that explains 

what the schools did and how they did 

it rather than general information from 

sources such as school Web sites. While 

the findings from case studies should 

not be construed as guidance to schools 

seeking to improve their K–3 students’ 

reading outcomes, the information from 

this study may bring to light detail that 

contributes to deeper understanding of 

effective reading instruction and 

informs future research on K–3 reading 

instruction. The respondents will be 

drawn from two schools in each of three 

districts that have been identified as 

having positive student outcomes in 

reading according to a comprehensive 

approach established as part of the 

study. The estimated number of 

respondents will be: 6 Principals, 6 

Reading Specialists/Literacy Specialists, 

3 English Language Arts District 

Coordinators, 72 Teachers (estimated). 

Only an estimate of the number of 

teacher respondents is possible until we 

have agreements from the participating 

schools. The estimate is based on three 

teachers per grade level, K–3, at each 

school. 

Requests for copies of the proposed 

information collection request may be 

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, 

by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending 

Collections’’ link and by clicking on 

link number 4001. When you access the 

information collection, click on 

‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view. 

Written requests for information should 

be addressed to U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed 

to 202–401–0920. Please specify the 

complete title of the information 

collection when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Portsmouth 

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Portsmouth. The 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. No. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) requires 

that public notice of this meeting be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 

6 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Ohio State University, 

Endeavor Center, 1862 Shyville Road, 

Piketon, Ohio 45661. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Kozlowski, Deputy Designated 

Federal Officer, Department of Energy 

Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office, Post 

Office Box 700, Piketon, Ohio 45661, 

(740) 897–2759, 

David.Kozlowski@lex.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to make recommendations 

to DOE in the areas of environmental 

restoration, waste management and 

related activities. 

Tentative Agenda 

• Call to Order, Introductions, Review 

of Agenda. 

• Approval of August Meeting 

Minutes. 

• Public Comments. 

• Deputy Designated Federal Officer’s 

Comments. 

• Federal Coordinator’s Comments. 

• Liaisons’ Comments. 

• Presentations. 

• Administrative Issues: 

Æ Committee Updates. 

Æ Motions. 


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