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fathers, their partners, and children. The 

MFS–IP evaluation will assess the 

effects of these activities by comparing 

relationship quality and stability, 

positive family interactions, family 

financial well-being, recidivism, and 

community connectedness between 

intervention and control groups. 

Information from the evaluation will 

assist Federal, state, and community 

policymakers and patrons in deciding 

whether to replicate or redesign 

identified marriage and family 

strengthening program models. 

Primary data for the evaluation will 

come from three waves of in-person data 

collection collected from incarcerated 

and released fathers and their partners. 

Data will be collected through a baseline 

survey and follow-up surveys at 

approximately 9 and 18 months postbaseline in five sites. A fourth wave of 

data collection at approximately 34 

months, will be collected in two of the 

five sites. Data collection for the entire 

evaluation is expected to last 6 years, 

from the time the first participant is 

enrolled until the last 34-month followup survey is administered. This three 

year renewal request covers data 

collection to complete the 9 month and 

18 month follow-up surveys and for all 

of the 34 month follow-up surveys. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE

Forms Type of respondent Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden 

(in hours) per 

response 

Annual burden 

MFS–IP Follow-up Survey—Fathers (9 & 18 month).Individuals .................................... 321 1 1.5 481.5 

MFS–IP Follow-up Survey—Partners (9 & 18 month).individuals ..................................... 489 1 1.5 733.5 

MFS–IP Follow-up Survey—Fathers (34 month).Individuals .................................... 463 1 1.5 694.5 

MFS–IP Follow-up Survey—Partners (34 month).Individuals .................................... 463 1 1.5 694.5 

Totals ..................................... ....................................................... .......................... .......................... .......................... 2604 

Mary Forbes, 

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 

[60-Day–11–11JY] 

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 404–639–5960 and 

send comments to Daniel Holcomb, CDC 

Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton 

Road, MS–D74, 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 

Barriers to Occupational Injury 

Reporting by Workers: A NEISS–Work 

Telephone Interview Survey—New— 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Each year about 5,400 workers die 

from a work-related injury and 4 million 

private industry workers report a 

nonfatal injury or illness. There are 3.4 

million workers treated in U.S. hospital 

emergency departments annually for 

nonfatal occupational injuries and 

illnesses [1]. Although studies indicate 

that we have reduced the number of 

nonfatal injuries in recent decades, 

there is evidence that nonfatal 

occupational injury surveillance 

significantly underreports workplace 

injuries. This presumed undercount 

potentially decreases health and safety 

funding because of a false sense of 

improvement in the occupational injury 

rates. It also increases the misdirection 

of scarce safety and health resources 

because hazardous workplaces are not 

appropriately identified or assessed and 

intervention efforts cannot be properly 

targeted or evaluated. It is this basic 

need for reliable and comprehensive 

occupational injury surveillance that led 

to the 1987 National Academy of 

Science report Counting Injuries and 

Illnesses in the Workplace—Proposals 

for a Better System [6] and the 2008 

Congressional Report Hidden Tragedy: 

Underreporting of Workplace Injuries 

and Illnesses [1]. 

The proposed pilot research addresses 

two facets of nonfatal occupational 

injury reporting noted in these reports— 

understanding barriers and incentives to 

reporting occupational injuries and 

using this knowledge to assess and 

improve our surveillance activities. The 

objectives of this project are to (1) 

characterize and quantify the relative 

importance of incentives and 

disincentives to self-identifying workrelatedness at the time of medical 

treatment and to employers; (2) 

characterize individual and 

employment characteristics that are 

associated with non-reporting of 

workplace injuries and incentives and 

disincentives to reporting; (3) test the 

reliability of hospital abstractors to 

properly distinguish between workrelated and non-work-related injuries; 

and (4) evaluate the feasibility, need, 

and requirements for a future larger 

study. Results will be disseminated in 

multiple forms to reach a variety of 


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occupational health and safety 

stakeholders. 

This project will use the occupational 

and the all injuries supplements to the 

National Electronic Injury Surveillance 

System (NEISS–Work and NEISS–AIP, 

respectively) to identify telephone 

interview survey participants. NEISS– 

Work and NEISS–AIP, collected by the 

Consumer Product Safety Commission 

(CPSC), capture people who were 

treated in the emergency department 

(ED) for a work-related illness or injury 

(NEISS–Work) or any injury, regardless 

of work-relatedness (NEISS–AIP). 

Interview respondents will come from 

two subgroups—individuals treated for 

a work-related injury and individuals 

who were treated for a non-work-related 

injury but who were employed during 

the time period that the injury occurred. 

Data collection for the telephone 

interview survey will be done via a 

questionnaire. This questionnaire 

contains questions about the 

respondent’s injury that sent them to the 

ED, the characteristics of the job they 

were working when they were injured, 

their experiences reporting their injury 

to the ED and their employer (if 

applicable), and their beliefs about the 

process and subsequent consequences of 

reporting an injury. The questionnaire 

was designed to take 30 minutes to 

complete. It contains a brief 

introduction that includes the elements 

of informed consent and asks for verbal 

consent to be given. The study has 

received a waiver of written informed 

consent by the NIOSH Human Subjects 

Review Board. The questionnaire 

includes a brief series of questions to 

screen out individuals who were not 

employed at the time the injury 

occurred or was made worse; who are 

younger than age 20 or older than age 

64; who do not speak English; who were 

employed on a farm or ranch or were 

self-employed, an independent 

contractor, or a day laborer at the time 

of injury; who did not experience an 

acute injury; or who missed more than 

three days from work because of the 

injury. The informed consent procedure 

and screening questions take around 

five minutes to complete. 

Approximately 600 interviews will be 

completed. There are no costs to 

respondents other than their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondent Number of 

respondents 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

U.S. workers with work-related injury .............................................................................. 600 30/60 300 

U.S. workers with non-work-related injury ....................................................................... 600 30/60 300 

Total .......................................................................................................................... ............................ ............................ 600 

Dated: August 15, 2011. 

Daniel Holcomb, 

Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention. 

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HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–11–11EF] 

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) 639–5960 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, Washington, 

DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395–5806. 

Written comments should be received 

within 30 days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

Dynamic Decision Making in Mine 

Emergency Situations—Existing 

Collection in use without an OMB 

control number—National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Mining is a context filled with tragic 

outcomes, as thousands of miners die in 

mining accidents each year throughout 

the world. In the process of examining 

workers’ responses in emergency 

situations in mines, researchers at the 

NIOSH-Pittsburgh Research Laboratory 

(PRL) have found that one of the key 

human behavior processes that need to 

be better understood to better handle 

emergency situations is Decision 

Making (Vaught, Brnich, & Mallett, 

2004). Decision Making, the process by 

which alternatives are constructed and 

a choice is made, continues to be one of 

the critically understudied aspects of 

mine emergencies. For example, The 

Mine Safety Technology and Training 

(MSTT) Commission suggests that 

escape/rescue decision-making is one of 

the most critical skill/knowledge gaps 

identified in mining (MSTTC, 2006). 

Their report strongly supports the need 

for additional training in decisionmaking during emergency situations to 

improve the ability of miners to escape 

(or be rescued). 

The research proposed here will help 

address this gap by integrating the 

theoretical knowledge of human 

decision making in dynamic situations 

with the practical aspects of training 

miners. The research will result in the 

improved science of decision making 

and practical guidelines and tools that 

demonstrate how to best train decision 

making in the unique conditions of 

accidents when under workload, 

uncertainty, and time constraints. 

A simple Decision Making Game 

(DMGame) was used in a laboratory 

study to investigate choice strategies 

based on the dynamic development of 

cues. Through a contract with the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (Contract #200–2009– 

31403), the Dynamic Decision Making 

Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon 

University will investigate several 

independent variables relevant to 

Instance-Based Learning Theory, 

including: the diversity of instances, the 

number of instances (base rates) needed 

to improve accuracy in the triage 

process, and the effects of time 

constraints and workload on the 

effectiveness of triage. The 

manipulation of these independent 

variables will reveal training scenarios 

and conditions that are more effective 

during learning and at transfer. 

Knowledge acquired during training 

will be tested in transfer conditions. The 

transfer conditions will vary depending 

on the participants used in the 


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