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directly, see Travelers Group, Inc., and

Citicorp, 84 Fed. Res. Bull. 985 (1998).

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, May 16, 2000.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Associate Secretary of the Board.

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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Children’s Online Privacy Protection

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission

(FTC).

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to

participate and obtain co-sponsorship in

agency public awareness campaign.

SUMMARY: The FTC seeks to identify

organizations interested in participating

in the FTC’s public awareness campaign

concerning the Children’s Online

Privacy Protection Act and the FTC Rule

that implements the Act. Participation

by such organizations will involve the

development and dissemination of

informational materials co-sponsored by

the FTC. Interested parties should

submit a written statement explaining

their interest and qualifications.

DATES: The FTC has not established a

deadline, but it encourages interested

organizations to submit the requested

statement as early as possible.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Randy Satterfield, (202) 326–3407,

Office of Consumer and Business

Education, Bureau of Consumer

Protection, FTC, 600 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580, or

rsatterfield@ftc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Effective

April 21, 2000, the Children’s Online

Privacy Protection Rule, 16 CFR Part

312, issued by the FTC to implement the

Children’s Online Privacy Protection

Act (COPPA), 15 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.,

prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or

practices in connection with the

collection, use, or disclosure of

personally identifiable information from

and about children on the Internet. The

Commission voted to issue its final Rule

on October 20, 1999, and the Rule was

published at 64 FR 59888 (November 3,

1999).

To promote greater public awareness

of the Rule and the COPPA, the FTC has

initiated a Children’s Online Privacy

Protection Act Communications

Campaign (‘‘COPPA Communications

Campaign’’). The Campaign is designed

to provide parents, guardians,

youngsters, teachers, and other members

of the public with information about

privacy on the Internet and the law’s

protections. The Campaign will help

parents understand the legal obligations

of Web site operators under the COPPA

as well as options that parents have for

protecting their children’s personal

information. You can visit the

Campaign’s Web site at the following

Internet address: www.ftc.gov/

kidzprivacy.

The Commission believes that

encouraging the active involvement of a

wide variety of corporations,

associations, organizations, and other

entities in this effort will lead to a broad

and effective educational campaign.

Thus, as part of its Campaign, the FTC

is seeking to foster the efforts of other

public and private for-profit and nonprofit organizations in the development

and dissemination of informational

materials about COPPA and the FTC’s

Rule, by allowing such organizations to

list the FTC as a co-sponsor in

connection with their materials, subject

to FTC staff review and approval of such

materials. (Interested organizations

should note at the outset that this cosponsorship program will not be funded

or supported by agency grant, contract,

or otherwise, so each organization is

expected to bear its own costs of

participation.)

The Commission requests that

organizations interested in pursuing

such co-sponsorship opportunities

submit a written statement to the FTC

contact listed above, describing the

background and nature of the

organization’s interest or role in

children’s privacy and/or the Internet,

and the organization’s experience and

expertise in developing and

disseminating public information

materials addressing those issues. The

statement must also describe the

organization’s ability to reach the target

audiences discussed above, including

the organization’s financial, managerial,

and operational capacity and resources

for the printing, production, and

distribution of brochures or booklets,

public service spots, videos, Web-based

promotions, posters, flyers, advertising,

etc. The statement must also include

any other information that may be

relevant, such as pertinent individual or

organizational affiliations and the

potential, if any, for apparent or actual

conflicts of interest. In addition, the

statement must expressly acknowledge

the organization’s understanding and

agreement that FTC co-sponsorship, if

any, of the organization’s activities

would not be funded or supported by

agency grant, contract, or otherwise,

would not create any financial or

property right in any natural or artificial

person, and would be subject to FTC

review and approval of the public

information materials or activities to be

co-sponsored. Finally, an authorized

representative of the organization must

sign the statement. The FTC will

consider the organization’s statement

and other information made available to

or obtained by the agency in

determining whether it should cosponsor or continue to co-sponsor a

particular organization’s public

information efforts.

By direction of the Commission.

Donald S. Clark,

Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[30DAY–31–00]

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork

Reduction Act Review

The Centers for Disease Control and

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.

Proposed Projects

1. Evaluation of Viral Hepatitis

Educational Materials—New—National

Center for Infectious Disease (NCID).

The purpose of the proposed study is to

assess the usefulness of hepatitis

educational materials developed and

distributed by the Hepatitis Branch,

CDC. Annually, 125,000—200,000

Americans are infected with hepatitis A

virus (HAV) and results in

approximately 100 deaths. The

estimated cost associated with HAV

infections is estimated at $200 million

a year in medical care and lost work

days. An estimated 1 million to 1.25

million Americans are chronically

infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV)

and 4,000 to 5,000 die each year due to

resultant cirrhosis and liver cancer. The

estimated cost associated with HBV

infections is estimated at $700 million

a year in medical care and lost work

days. It is estimated that 3.9 million

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Americans have been infected with

hepatitis C virus (HCV), 2.7 million of

which are chronically infected. Not

including the cost of liver

transplantation, the estimated cost

associated with HCV infections is $600

million a year in medical care and lost

work days.

The annual burden hours are

estimated to be 2403.

Form name Number of

respondents

Number of responses/respondentAvg. burden

per responses

(in hours)

Phone ........................................................................................................................................... 20 1 10/60

Written .......................................................................................................................................... 14400 1 10/60

Dated: May 16, 2000.

Nancy Cheal,

Acting Associate Director for Policy,

Planning, and Evaluation, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC).

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[Program Announcement 00080]

Optimizing Strategies To Provide

Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)

Partner Services; Notice of Availability

of Funds

A. Purpose

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) announces the

availability of fiscal year (FY) 2000

funds for a cooperative agreement

research program for Optimizing

Strategies to Provide STD Partner

Services. CDC is committed to achieving

the health promotion and disease

prevention objective of ‘‘Healthy People

2010’’, a national activity to reduce

morbidity and mortality and improve

the quality of life. This announcement

is related to the focus area(s) of Sexually

Transmitted Diseases. For the

conference copy of ‘‘Healthy People

2010’’, visit the Internet site: http://

www.health.gov/healthypeople. The

goal of this cooperative agreement

research program is to develop and

evaluate the delivery of cost-effective,

innovative, and confidential approaches

to providing effective partner services

within a time frame that interrupts the

chain of STD transmission. Partner

services (PS) are a critical component of

STD control and prevention in public

health practice.

Initially, this process was named

‘‘contact tracing,’’ but was renamed

‘‘partner notification’’ in the past two

decades. Three primary strategies for

partner notification are described in the

literature, although other variations are

also employed. The most common

strategies are patient referral (patients

are encouraged to notify sexual

partners); provider referral, (health care

staff, traditionally in the health

department, notify partners); or contract

referral (a time limit is agreed upon for

patient referral, after which provider

referral is initiated). In this program

announcement, ‘‘partner services’’ is

used to describe the constellation of

services that should be provided to the

sexual partners of individuals in whom

a sexually transmitted disease has been

detected and treated.

The purpose of PS is to break the

chain of infection and re-infection that

can occur when a STD is treated in only

a part of a sexual dyad or network. STDs

are often asymptomatic, many infected

individuals are unaware of their

infection, thus symptom-driven patient

presentation for diagnosis and treatment

fails to reach many people with STDs.

PS may shorten the duration of infection

in many additional individuals by

identifying, treating, and counseling the

sex partners of patients with STDs.

Furthermore, PS offers a unique

opportunity to assist at-risk, infected

and uninfected people to adopt safer

behaviors that will enable them to

remain STD-free and is a key

component of public health practice.

The objectives of partner services

include identifying, locating, notifying,

testing, treating, and providing

counseling to reduce STD risk for the

sex partners of an individual diagnosed

with chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis,

trichomoniasis, herpes, or human

immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Despite the importance of partner

services in public health practice,

relatively little scientific information is

available on the impact on disease

transmission or cost effectiveness of

various approaches, particularly for

STDs that are treated in the private

sector. Another limitation of the current

science base is that existing data on

partner services has been generated

from federal, state, and local public

health programs that have a legal

responsibility to provide PS. This

information does not reflect partner

services in other clinical settings where

the majority of STD diagnosis and

treatment take place. At least half of

STD care is sought from private

providers. Therefore, further research

across the full spectrum of STD

treatment providers with respect to PS

is clearly needed. Current data from a

national survey of providers suggests

that the most common method of

notification in the private sector is

patient referral, although the rate of new

infections uncovered in the private

sector from this method is not known.

Fewer than 5 percent of providers

reported engaging in provider referral

and less than 50 percent consistently

reported patients’ names to health

departments after a diagnosis of

chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, or HIV

infection. Case reporting from providers

and from laboratories enables the local

health department to provide partner

services. However, providers may also

diagnose and treat presumptively

without performing a laboratory test,

and relatively little is known about case

reporting or partner services following

presumptive treatment.

Provider-perceived barriers to offering

partner services include concerns about

negative effects on relationships with

patients and their partners, lack of

training and time for these activities,

and lack of reimbursement.

Nevertheless, providers agreed that PS

could promote appropriate behavior and

attitude change, and reduce (re)infection

rates. In summary, this survey

confirmed that the effectiveness of PS in

the private sector is unknown and

reporting of names to agencies that

conduct PS is limited.

Current methods of PS require

substantial time and effort from public

health staff, although data estimating

the magnitude of the reduction in STD

incidence or prevalence within

communities that is attributable to PS

are currently lacking. Recent advances

in STD detection and treatment,

information system hardware and

software, and behavioral interventions

offer an unprecedented opportunity to:

(1) Design and evaluate innovative

strategies that increase the effectiveness

of partner elicitation;