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agreement will receive approximately

$100,000 per year. Continuation awards

within the project period will be made

on the basis of satisfactory progress and

the availability of funds.

Where To Obtain Additional

Information

If you are interested in obtaining

additional information regarding this

cooperative agreement, contact Ms.

Cynthia Amis, Office of Minority

Health, 5515 Security Lane, Suite 1000,

Rockville, Maryland 20852 or telephone

(301) 594–0769.

OMB Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Number for this cooperative

agreement is 93.004.

Dated: April 11, 2000.

Nathan Stinson, Jr.,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority

Health.

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Proposed Project

Evaluation of NIOSH Fire Fighter

Alert (Structural Collapse)—New—The

National Institute of Occupational

Safety and Health (NIOSH). An Alert

documents the scientific research about

an occupational health and safety

hazard and provides recommendations

for assessing, avoiding, or reducing the

hazard. The Alert is probably the

National Institute for Occupational

Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) best tool

for addressing risks of great immediate

danger involving hazards to life and

health. Even though the Alert can be

termed an important tool, prior to 1999

no rigorous test of Alert efficacy had

ever been conducted. During the past

year, NIOSH began the first rigorous test

of one NIOSH Alert on the dangers of

structural collapse among fire fighters.

This testing was done with a sample of

fire fighters, and on the basis of this

sample, a national distribution strategy

for the Alert will follow.

This Alert contains recommendations

with important safety and health

implications for more than one million

fire fighters in over 36,000 fire fighter

units. Morbidity and mortality rates are

relatively high for this occupation,

which increases the need for effective

communication strategies when

reporting safety and health

recommendations.

The formative research phase done

this year by NIOSH’s Health

Communication Research Branch and

Division for Safety Research will

produce data with strong levels of

internal and external validity. However,

the formative phase is only aimed at

designing effective messages and not

aimed at understanding the impact of

those messages in the final distribution

of the Alert. NIOSH believes that it is

reasonable to: (1) Conduct an evaluation

of the national distribution of the Alert

to determine its final impact and (2)

identify the characteristics of those fire

fighter units that may not have met

optimal levels of communication effect

(receiver awareness, comprehension,

acceptance, and use).

The specific goals of this investigation

are to: (1) Assess the communication

effect of NIOSH recommendations

contained within the Alert on structural

collapse and (2) identify the

characteristics (behavioral, normative,

and control beliefs, and demographics)

of receivers who fail to meet minimum

levels of communication effect.

A standardized questionnaire

developed and approved for the

formative research phase will be used to

assess communication effect. Items will

identify the extent of receiver

awareness, comprehension, acceptance,

and use of the Alert. The Theory of

Planned Behavior will be used to help

identify the factors that mediate this

communication effect, and relevant

questions will be added to the existing

questionnaire.

The data collected in this study will

be used to assess the communication

effect of the national distribution of the

Alert by comparing the means between

the respondents in the formative

evaluation and the respondents in the

national distribution. This data also will

be used to identify the characteristics of

those fire fighter units that may not have

met optimal levels of communication

effects. Total annual burden hours are

250.

Respondents Number of

respondents

Number of

responses/

respondent

Average

burden

response

(in hours)

Fire Fighters ............................................................................................................................................. 1,000 1 .25

Dated: April 20, 2000.

Charles W. Gollmar,

Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning

and Evaluation, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention.

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Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of

information collection requests under

review by the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

Chapter 35). To request a copy of these

requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance

Officer at (404) 639–7090. Send written

comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human

Resources and Housing Branch, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235;

Washington, DC 20503. Written

comments should be received within 30

days of this notice.