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GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice–MG–2015–01; Docket No. 2015– 

0002; Sequence No. 2] 

Office of Federal High-Performance 

Green Buildings; Green Building 

Advisory Committee; Notification of 

Upcoming Public Advisory Committee 

Meeting and Conference Calls 

AGENCY: Office of Government-wide 

Policy, General Services Administration 

(GSA). 

ACTION: Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice of this meeting and 

these conference calls is being provided 

according to the requirements of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 

U.S.C. App. 10(a)(2). This notice 

provides the agenda and schedule for 

the April 23, 2015 meeting of the Green 

Building Advisory Committee (the 

Committee) and schedule for a series of 

conference calls, supplemented by Web 

meetings, for two task groups of the 

Committee. The meeting is open to the 

public and the site is accessible to 

individuals with disabilities. The 

conference calls are open for the public 

to listen in. Interested individuals must 

register to attend as instructed below 

under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

DATES: Meeting date: The meeting will 

be held on Thursday, April 23, 2015, 

starting at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard 

Time, and ending no later than 4:00 

p.m. 

Task group conference call dates: The 

conference calls will be held according 

to the following schedule: 

The Portfolio Prioritization task group 

will hold conference calls every 

Monday from March 9, 2015 to April 20, 

2015 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 

eastern daylight time. 

The Energy Use Index task group will 

hold conference calls every Monday 

from March 9, 2015 to April 20, 2015 

from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. eastern 

daylight time. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Ken Sandler, Designated Federal 

Officer, Office of Federal HighPerformance Green Buildings, Office of 

Government-wide Policy, General 

Services Administration, 1800 F Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20405, telephone 

202–219–1121 (note: this is not a tollfree number). Additional information 

about the Committee, including meeting 

materials and updates on the task 

groups and their schedules, will be 

available on-line at http://www.gsa.gov/ 

gbac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Procedures for Attendance and Public 

Comment: Contact Mr. Ken Sandler at 

ken.sandler@gsa.gov to register to attend 

the meeting and/or listen in to any or all 

of these conference calls. To attend the 

meeting and/or conference calls, submit 

your full name, organization, email 

address, and phone number. Requests to 

attend the April 23, 2015 meeting must 

be received by 5:00 p.m. eastern 

daylight time on Thursday, April 16, 

2015. Requests to listen in to the calls 

must be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time, Thursday, March 5, 2015. (GSA 

will be unable to provide technical 

assistance to any listener experiencing 

technical difficulties. Testing access to 

the Web meeting site in advance of calls 

is recommended.) 

Contact Ken Sandler at ken.sandler@

gsa.gov to register to comment during 

the April 23, 2015 meeting public 

comment period. Registered speakers/

organizations will be allowed a 

maximum of 5 minutes each and will 

need to provide written copies of their 

presentations. Requests to comment at 

the meeting must be received by 5:00 

p.m. eastern daylight time on Thursday, 

April 16, 2015. Written comments also 

may be provided to Mr. Sandler at 

ken.sandler@gsa.gov by the same 

deadline. 

Background: The Administrator of the 

U.S. General Services Administration 

established the Committee on June 20, 

2011 (Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 118) 

pursuant to Section 494 of the Energy 

Independence and Security Act of 2007 

(EISA, 42 U.S.C. 17123). Under this 

authority, the Committee advises GSA 

on the rapid transformation of the 

Federal building portfolio to sustainable 

technologies and practices. The 

Committee reviews strategic plans, 

products and activities of the Office of 

Federal High-Performance Green 

Buildings and provides advice regarding 

how the Office can accomplish its 

mission most effectively. 

The Portfolio Prioritization task group 

will pursue the motion of a committee 

member to ‘‘propose a process for 

Federal agencies to consistently 

incorporate green building and 

resilience requirements into their 

capital investment criteria and 

strategies.’’ The Energy Use Index task 

group will pursue the motion of a 

committee member to ‘‘develop 

guidelines for creating a new energy 

intensity metric [to reflect impacts of] 

densified facilities, centrally located 

workplace sites . . . and expansion of 

telework and hoteling.’’ 

The conference calls will focus on 

how the task groups can best refine 

these motions into consensus 

recommendations of each group to the 

full Committee, which will in turn 

decide whether to proceed with formal 

advice to GSA based upon these 

recommendations. 

April 23, 2015 Meeting Agenda 

• Welcome, Introductions, Updates & 

Plans for Today; 

• Daylighting Research Findings & 

Federal Applications; 

• Portfolio Prioritization: Task Group 

Report & Discussion; 

• Working Lunch (with Presentation); 

• Climate Change: Progress & 

Opportunities; 

• Energy Use Index: Task Group 

Report & Discussion; 

• Federal Building Performance 

Labels: Final Proposal; 

• Topics Proposed by Committee 

Members; 

• Public Comment Period; 

• Closing comments; 

• Adjourn. 

Detailed agendas, background 

information and updates for the meeting 

and conference calls will be posted on 

GSA’s Web site at http://www.gsa.gov/

gbac. 

Meeting Access: The Committee will 

convene its April 23, 2015 meeting at 

the U.S. General Services 

Administration building, Room 1153, 

1800 F Street NW., Washington DC 

20405, and the site is accessible to 

individuals with disabilities. 

Dated: February 12, 2015. 

Kevin Kampschroer, 

Federal Director, Office of Federal HighPerformance Green Buildings, General 

Services Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2015–03400 Filed 2–17–15; 8:45 am] 

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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, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approve the proposed 

changes to the currently approved 

information collection project: ‘‘Medical 

Expenditure Panel Survey—Insurance 

Component.’’ In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 

3501-3521, AHRQ invites the public to 

comment on this proposed information 

collection. 


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DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by April 20, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Leflcowitz, 

Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by 

email at dorislefkowitz@AHRO.hhs.gov. 

Copies of the proposed collection 

plans, data collection instruments, and 

specific details on the estimated burden 

can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey— 

Insurance Component 

Employer-sponsored health insurance 

is the source of coverage for 78 million 

current and former workers, plus many 

of their family members, and is a 

cornerstone of the U.S. health care 

system. The Medical Expenditure Panel 

Survey—Insurance Component (MEPSIC) measures on an annual basis the 

extent, cost, and coverage of employersponsored health insurance. These 

statistics are produced at the National, 

State, and sub-State (metropolitan area) 

level for private industry. Statistics are 

also produced for State and Local 

governments. The MEPS-IC was last 

approved by OMB on November 21, 

2013 and will expire on November 30th, 

2016. The OMB control number for the 

MEPSIC is 0935-0110. All of the 

supporting documents for the current 

MEPS-IC can be downloaded from 

OMB’s Web site at http://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/

PRAViewDocument?ref_nbr=201310- 

0935-001. 

In order to ensure that the MEPS-IC is 

able to capture important changes in the 

employer-sponsored health insurance 

market due to the implementation of the 

Patient Protection and Affordable Care 

Act (PPACA), AHRQ will field a 

longitudinal survey in 2015 to include 

a sample of 5,000 small private sector 

employers that responded to the 2014 

MEPS-IC. The OMB clearance that was 

approved on November 21, 2013 

included the 2014 longitudinal survey, 

a survey of 3,000 respondents to the 

2013 MEPS-IC, but did not include the 

2015 longitudinal survey because the 

sample size was not finalized. This 

submission is for the 2015 longitudinal 

survey only; there are no other changes. 

This research has the following goals: 

(1) To provide data for Federal 

policymakers evaluating the effects of 

National and State health care reforms. 

(2) To provide descriptive data on the 

current employer-sponsored health 

insurance system and data for modeling 

the differential impacts of proposed 

health policy initiatives. 

(3) To supply critical State and 

National estimates of health insurance 

spending for the National Health 

Accounts and Gross Domestic Product. 

(4) To support evaluation of the 

impact on health insurance offered by 

small employers due to the 

implementation of Small Business 

Health Options Program (SHOP) 

exchanges under the PPACA, through 

the addition of a longitudinal 

component to the sample. 

The MEPS-IC is conducted pursuant 

to AHRQ’ s statutory authority to 

conduct surveys to collect data on the 

cost, use and quality of health care, 

including the types and costs of private 

insurance. 42 U.S.C. 299b–2(a). 

Method of Collection 

To achieve the goals of this project the 

following data collections for both 

private sector and state and local 

government employers will be 

implemented: 

(1) Prescreener Questionnaire—The 

purpose of the Prescreener 

Questionnaire, which is collected via 

telephone, varies depending on the 

insurance status of the establishment 

contacted. (Establishment is defined as 

a single, physical location in the private 

sector and a governmental unit in state 

and local governments.) For 

establishments that do not offer health 

insurance to their employees, the 

prescreener is used to collect basic 

information such as number of 

employees. Collection is completed for 

these establishments through this 

telephone call. For establishments that 

do offer health insurance, contact name 

and address information is collected 

that is used for the mailout of the 

establishment and plan questionnaires. 

Obtaining this contact information helps 

ensure that the questionnaires are 

directed to the person in the 

establishment best equipped to 

complete them. 

(2) Establishment Questionnaire—The 

purpose of the mailed Establishment 

Questionnaire is to obtain general 

information from employers that 

provide health insurance to their 

employees. Information, such as total 

active enrollment in health insurance, 

other employee benefits, demographic 

characteristics of employees, and retiree 

health insurance, is collected through 

the establishment questionnaire. 

(3) Plan Questionnaire—The purpose 

of the mailed Plan Questionnaire is to 

collect plan-specific information on 

each plan (up to four plans) offered by 

establishments that provide health 

insurance to their employees. This 

questionnaire obtains information on 

total premiums, employer and employee 

contributions to the premium, and plan 

enrollment for each type of coverage 

offered—single, employee-plus-one, and 

family—within a plan. It also asks for 

information on deductibles, copays, and 

other plan characteristics. 

(4) Longitudinal Sample (LS)—For 

2015, an additional sample of small 

employers (those with 100 or fewer 

employees) will be included in the 

collection. The LS will consist of 5,000 

small, private-sector employers that 

responded to the 2014 MEPS–IC regular 

survey. These employers will be 

surveyed again in 2015—using the same 

collection methods as the regular 

survey—in order to track changes in 

their health insurance offerings, 

characteristics, and costs. 

The primary objective of the MEPS– 

IC is to collect information on employersponsored health insurance. Such 

information is needed in order to 

provide the tools for Federal, State, and 

academic researchers to evaluate current 

and proposed health policies and to 

support the production of important 

statistical measures for other Federal 

agencies. 

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden 

Exhibit 1 shows the estimated 

annualized burden hours for the 

respondent’s time to provide the 

requested data for the 2015 longitudinal 

survey. The Prescreener questionnaire 

will be completed by 4,300 respondents 

and takes about 5 minutes to complete. 

The Establishment questionnaire will be 

completed by 2,054 respondents and 

takes about 23 minutes to complete. The 

Plan questionnaire will be completed by 

2,054 respondents and will require an 

average of 1.4 responses per respondent. 

Each Plan questionnaire takes about 11 

minutes to complete. The total burden 

hours are estimated to be 1,686 hours. 

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated 

annualized cost burden associated with 

the respondents’ time to participate in 

this data collection. The annualized cost 

burden is estimated to be $51,322. 


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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS FOR THE 2015 LONGITUDINAL SURVEY

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Hours per response Total burden hours 

Prescreener Questionnaire .............................................. 4,300 1 0.09 387 

Establishment Questionnaire ........................................... 2,054 1 * 0.38 781 

Plan Questionnaire .......................................................... 2,054 1.4 0.18 518 

Total .......................................................................... 8,408 na na 1,686 

* The burden estimate printed on the establishment questionnaire is 45 minutes which includes the burden estimate for completing the establishment questionnaire, an average of 1.4 plan questionnaires, plus the prescreener. The establishment and plan questionnaires are sent to the 

respondent as a package and are completed by the respondent at the same time. 

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED COST BURDEN FOR THE 2015 LONGITUDINAL SURVEY

Form name Number of 

respondents Total burden hours Average hourly wage rate * Total burden hours 

Prescreener Questionnaire .............................................. 4,300 387 $30.44 $11,780 

Establishment Questionnaire ........................................... 2,054 781 $30.44 $23,774 

Plan Questionnaire .......................................................... 2,054 518 $30.44 $15,768 

Total .......................................................................... 8,408 1,686 na $51,322 

* Based upon the mean hourly wage for Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists occupation code 13–1141, at http://

www.b1s.gov/oes/current/oes131141.htm (U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics). 

Request for Comments 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s 

information collection are requested 

with regard to any of the following: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of AHRQ health care 

research and information dissemination 

functions, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of AHRQ’s estimate of 

burden (including hours and costs) of 

the proposed collection(s) 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 upon the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the Agency’s subsequent 

request for OMB approval of the 

proposed information collection. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. 

Dated: February 5, 2015. 

Richard Kronick, Ph.D., 

AHRQ Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–15–0920] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) has submitted the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for 

the proposed information collection is 

published to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information are encouraged. Your 

comments should address any of the 

following: (a) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of the agencies estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (d) Minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses; and (e) Assess information 

collection costs. 

To request additional information on 

the proposed project or to obtain a copy 

of the information collection plan and 

instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or 

send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written 

comments and/or suggestions regarding 

the items contained in this notice 

should be directed to the Attention: 

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 

Data Collection Through Web Based 

Surveys for Evaluating Act Against 

AIDS Social Marketing Campaign 

Phases Targeting Consumers (Generic 

ICR, OMB# 0920–0920, Expires 2/28/

2015)—Extension—National Center for 

HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB 

Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

In response to the continued HIV 

epidemic in our country, CDC has 

launched Act Against AIDS, a 5-year, 

multifaceted communication campaign 

to reduce HIV incidence in the United 

States. CDC plans to release the 

campaign in phases, with some of the 

phases running concurrently. Each 

phase of the campaign will use mass 

media and direct-to-consumer channels 

to deliver HIV prevention and testing 

messages. Some components of the 

campaign will be designed to provide 


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