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should be supplied to the DFO in the 

following formats: one hard copy with 

original signature, and one electronic 

copy via e-mail to 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov (acceptable 

file format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, 

WordPerfect, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, 

or Rich Text files in IBM–PC/Windows 

98/2000/XP format). 

Meeting Access: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. 

Stallworth at (202) 343–9867 or 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Dr. Stallworth, preferably at 

least 10 days prior to the meeting to give 

EPA as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

Dated: August 11, 2006. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Associate Director for Science, EPA Science 

Advisory Board Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. E6–13744 Filed 8–18–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

[OMB Control No. 3090–0278] 

National Contact Center; Information 

Collection; National Contact Center 

Customer Evaluation Survey 

AGENCY: Citizen Services and 

Communications, Federal Consumer 

Information Center, GSA. 

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 has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a request to review and approve 

an extension of a currently approved 

information collection requirement 

regarding the National Contact Center 

Customer Evaluation Survey. This OMB 

clearance expires on September 30, 

2006. 

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: 

September 20, 2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tonya Beres, Federal Information 

Specialist, Office of Citizen Services and 

Communications, at telephone (202) 

501–1803 or via e-mail to 

tonya.beres@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 Ms. Hillary Jaffe, GSA Desk 

Officer, OMB, Room 10236, NEOB, 

Washington, DC 20503, and a copy to 

the Regulatory Secretariat (VIR), General 

Services Administration, Room 4035, 

1800 F Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20405. Please cite OMB Control No. 

3090–0278, National Contact Center 

Customer Evaluation Survey, in all 

correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose 

This information collection will be 

used to assess the public’s satisfaction 

with the National Contact Center 

service, to assist in increasing the 

efficiency in responding to the public’s 

need for Federal information, and to 

assess the effectiveness of marketing 

efforts. 

B. Annual Reporting Burden 

Respondents: 2,200. 

Responses Per Respondent: 1. 

Hours Per Response: .05 (3 minutes) 

for phone survey 

.06 (4 minutes) for e-mail survey. 

Total Burden Hours: 119 

OBTAINING COPIES OF 

PROPOSALS: Requesters may obtain a 

copy of the information collection 

documents from the General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

(VIR), 1800 F Street, NW., Room 4035, 

Washington, DC 20405, telephone (202) 

208–7312. Please cite OMB Control No. 

3090–0278, National Contact Center 

Customer Evaluation Survey, in all 

correspondence. 

Dated: July 7, 2006. 

Daryle M. Seckar, 

Director, Office of Enterprise Infrastructure 

Operations. 

[FR Doc. E6–13750 Filed 8–18–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–CX–S 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of Public Health Emergency 

Preparedness (OPHEP); Office of 

Public Health Emergency Medical 

Countermeasures (OPHEMC) 

AGENCY: Office of Public Health 

Emergency Preparedness (OPHEP)/ 

Office of Public Health Emergency 

Medical Countermeasures (OPHEMC), 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services is pleased to announce 

the BioShield Stakeholders Workshop. 

The BioShield Stakeholders Workshop 

is being convened to provide individual 

stakeholders with an opportunity to 

gain insight into the current BioShield 

interagency governance process and to 

provide input into the draft HHS Public 

Health Emergency Medical 

Countermeasures (PHEMC) Strategy for 

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and 

Nuclear (CBRN) Threats. 

DATES: The Workshop will be held on 

September 25–26, 2006. Pre-registration 

is available via the Web site shown 

below. On-site registration will also be 

possible, space permitting. On-site 

registration, if offered, will begin at 8 

a.m. on September 25. The meeting will 

begin at 8:30 a.m. and will end at 

approximately 6 p.m. on both days. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Crystal Gateway Marriott, 1700 

Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 

22202. The Crystal Gateway Marriott is 

located directly above the Crystal City 

Metro Station on the yellow and blue 

Metro lines. 

Register: Please visit http:// 

www.hhs.gov/ophep/ophemc/ to register 

online. The deadline for online 

registration is Monday, September 18, 

2006. On-site registration will also be 

available at the meeting, space 

permitting. Seating is limited, so register 

today! 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Health and Human 

Services is pleased to announce the 

upcoming HHS BioShield Stakeholders 

Workshop. The goals of the HHS 

BioShield Stakeholders Workshop are: 

1. To provide its attendees with 

insight into the current BioShield 

interagency governance process; and 

2. To provide individual stakeholders 

with an opportunity to help guide the 

future implementation of Project 

BioShield by providing input into the 

draft HHS Public Health Emergency 

Medical Countermeasures (PHEMC) 

Strategy for Chemical, Biological, 

Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) 

Threats. 

The draft PHEMC Strategy for CBRN 

Threats is being developed under the 

leadership of the Office of Public Health 

Emergency Medical Countermeasures 

(OPHEMC) within the Office of Public 

Health Emergency Preparedness 

(OPHEP), U.S. Department of Health 

and Human Services, and will be 

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to this workshop. This Strategy will 

define the principles guiding HHS 

medical countermeasure research, 

development and acquisition. 

The BioShield Stakeholders 

Workshop will be an open meeting for 

representatives from the pharmaceutical 

and biotechnology industries, 

professional societies, State and local 

public health organizations, the 

academic research and development 

community, public interest groups, 

stakeholder Federal agencies, and 

Congress. 

The BioShield Stakeholders 

Workshop is being convened, and the 

PHEMC Strategy for CBRN Threats is 

being developed and published, to 

fulfill the promise that Health and 

Human Services Secretary Michael O. 

Leavitt made on March 16, 2006, in his 

testimony before the Senate Committee 

on Health, Education, Labor, and 

Pensions. During his testimony, 

Secretary Leavitt pledged to: 

work closely with other departments and 

agencies to streamline and make more 

effective the current BioShield interagency 

governance process. We will make this 

process more transparent and work to 

educate the public and industry about our 

priorities and opportunities. As part of this, 

HHS will convene an outreach meeting with 

these external stakeholders later this year. 

OPHEP leads Federal efforts to 

prepare the nation to prevent and 

mitigate the health effects of disasters, 

natural or manmade. As part of this 

important mission, OPHEMC, within 

OPHEP, plays a leadership role in the 

advanced development and acquisition 

of medical countermeasures, including 

implementation of the Project BioShield 

Act of 2004. 

The purpose of Project BioShield is to 

accelerate the research, development, 

acquisition, and availability of effective 

medical countermeasures for chemical, 

biological, radiological, and nuclear 

(CBRN) threats. The Special Reserve 

Fund (SRF), a discretionary reserve of 

$5.6 billion for the advanced 

development and purchase of priority 

medical countermeasures over 10 years, 

was authorized under Project BioShield 

to support this mission. 

For more information regarding the 

BioShield Stakeholders Workshop, and 

to register for the Workshop, please visit 

http://www.hhs.gov/ophep/ophemc/. 

Dated: August 15, 2006. 

Carol Linden, 

Deputy Director, OPHEMC. 

[FR Doc. 06–7033 Filed 8–18–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–31–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection: 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) to allow the proposed 

information collection project 

‘‘Continuance of the Medical 

Expenditure Panel Survey—Household 

and Medical Provider Component 

through 2009.’’ In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), AHRQ invites the public 

to comment on this proposed collection. 

This proposed information collection 

was previously published in the Federal 

Register on June 2, 2006 and allowed 60 

days for public comment. No public 

comments were received. The purpose 

of this notice is to allow an additional 

30 days for public comment. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by September 20, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 

AHRQ, Reports Clearance Officer, 540 

Gaither Road, Suite 5036, Rockville, MD 

20850. Copies of the proposed 

collection plans, data collection 

instruments and specific details of the 

estimated burden can be obtained from 

the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer, 

(301) 427–1477. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ, Reports 

Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

‘‘Continuance of the Medical 

Expenditure Panel Survey—Household 

and Medical Provider Component 

through 2009.’’

AHRQ has conducted an annual panel 

survey of U.S. households and their 

associated medical providers since 1996 

through the Medical Expenditures Panel 

Survey (MEPS)–Household (MEPS–HC) 

and Medical Provider Component 

(MEPS–MPC). This clearance requests 

continuance of this annual survey 

through 2009. The MEPS is jointly 

sponsored by the AHRQ and the 

National Center for Health Statistics 

(NCHS). The MEPS is conducted using 

a sample of households that responded 

to a prior year’s National Health 

Interview Survey (NHIS) which is 

sponsored by the NCHS. The NHIS 

surveys approximately 40,000 

households (110,000 persons) each year. 

The NHIS is used as a sampling frame 

for the MEPS and other surveys to 

increase efficiency of data collection 

efforts within the Department of Health 

and Human Services. 

Data to be collected from each 

household is completed through the 

MEPS–HC and includes detailed 

information on demographics, health 

conditions, health status, use of health 

care services, charges and payments for 

medical care, medications, and 

employment and health insurance. Data 

to be collected from medical providers 

including hospitals, physicians, and 

pharmacies is completed through the 

MEPS–MPC which supplements and 

verifies information provided by the 

households. With the written 

permission of household members of 

the MEPS–HC, the MEPS–MPC collects 

actual dates of services, diagnosis and 

service codes, as well as charges and 

payments for services. Subject to AHRQ 

NCHS confidentiality statutes, data will 

be made available through Agency 

publications, journals, public use files 

and Web-based statistical tools. The 

data are intended for multiple purposes 

including: 

• Generating national estimates of 

individual and family health care use 

and expenditures, private and public 

health insurance coverage, and the 

availability, cost and scope of private 

health benefits among Americans. 

• Examining the quality of care for 

Americans, especially those with 

chronic conditions. 

• Examining access to and costs of 

health care for common diseases and 

conditions, health care quality, 

prescribed medications and other health 

issues. 

Statisticians and researchers will use 

these data to make important 

generalizations about the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the 

United States and to conduct research in 

which the family is the unit of analysis. 

Data Confidentiality 

The confidentiality of MEPS data is 

protected under the NCHS and AHRQ 

confidentiality statutes, found in 

sections 934(c) and 308(d) of the Public 

Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 299c–3(c) 

and 42 U.S.C. 242m). 


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