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than 5 p.m. EST on January 19, 2007, at 

the address below. 

ADDRESSES: Bruce G. Gellin, M.D., 

M.P.H., Executive Secretary, National 

Vaccine Advisory Committee, Office of 

Public Health and Science, Department 

of Health and Human Services, 200 

Independence Avenue, SW., Room 443–

H, Washington, DC 20201. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Emma English, Program Analyst, 

National Vaccine Program Office, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, 200 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Room 443–H, Washington, DC 

20201; (202) 690–5566; 

nvac@osophs.dhhs.gov. 

A copy of the Committee charter and 

list of the current membership can be 

obtained by contacting Ms. English or 

by accessing the NVAC Web site at: 

http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Committee 

Function: Qualifications and 

Information Required: As part of an 

ongoing effort to enhance deliberations 

and discussions with the public on 

vaccine and immunization policy, 

nominations are being sought for 

interested individuals to serve on the 

Committee. Individuals selected for 

appointment to the Committee will 

serve as voting members. Voting 

members shall be selected from 

individuals who are engaged in vaccine 

research or the manufacture of vaccines, 

or who are physicians, members of 

parent organizations concerned with 

immunizations, representatives of State 

or local health agencies, or public health 

organizations. Individuals selected for 

appointment to the Committee can be 

invited to serve terms with periods of 

up to four years. 

Nominations should be typewritten. 

The following information should be 

included in the package of material 

submitted for each individual being 

nominated for consideration: (1) A letter 

of nomination that clearly states the 

name and affiliation of the nominee, the 

basis for the nomination (i.e., specific 

attributes which qualify the nominee for 

service in this capacity), and a statement 

that the nominee is willing to serve as 

a member of the Committee; (2) the 

nominator’s name, address, and daytime 

telephone number, and the home and/ 

or work address, telephone number, and 

e-mail address of the individual being 

nominated; and (3) a current copy of the 

nominee’s curriculum vitae. 

Applications cannot be submitted by 

facsimile. The names of Federal 

employees should not be submitted for 

consideration of appointment to this 

Committee. 

The Department makes every effort to 

ensure that the membership of HHS 

Federal advisory committees is fairly 

balanced in terms of points of view 

represented and the committee’s 

function. Every effort is made to ensure 

that a broad representation of 

geographic areas, gender, ethnic and 

minority groups, and the disabled are 

given consideration for membership on 

HHS Federal advisory committees. 

Appointment to this committee shall be 

made without discrimination on the 

basis of age, race, ethnicity, gender, 

sexual orientation, disability, and 

cultural, religious, or socioeconomic 

status. 

Dated: November 30, 2006. 

Bruce Gellin, 

Director, National Vaccine Program Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator for 

Health Information Technology; 

American Health Information 

Community Meeting 

ACTION: Amendment of meeting 

announcement, dated November 28, 

2006. 

SUMMARY: This notice amends the 

announcement of the tenth meeting of 

the American Health Information 

Community in accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App.) The 

American Health Information 

Community will advise the Secretary 

and recommend specific actions to 

achieve a common interoperability 

framework for health information 

technology (IT). 

DATES: December 12, 2006, from 8:30 to 

11:30 a.m. 

Meeting Format: This meeting was 

originally scheduled to be held in the 

Hubert H. Humphrey Building (200 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20201), Conference 

Room 800. However, the meeting format 

has been changed to provide remote 

participation only (Web cast and/or 

telephone) for the Community members, 

HHS staff, invited presenters, and 

general public. A time period will be 

allotted before the conclusion of the 

meeting for the general public to deliver 

brief (3 minutes or less) oral public 

comment. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

agenda includes an update on the 

Personalized Healthcare Workgroup; a 

panel discussion on the American 

Health Information Management 

Association’s State Steering Committee 

Recommendations; and an update on 

the National Health Information 

Network (NHIN). The instructions to 

participate remotely (Web cast and/or 

telephone) can be found at http:// 

www.hhs.gov/healthit/m20061212.html. 

If you have any questions concerning 

the remote instructions or meeting 

format, please call (866) 505–3500. 

Dated: November 30, 2006. 

Judith Sparrow, 

Director, American Health Information 

Community, Office of Programs and 

Coordination, Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology. 

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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, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

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) allow the proposed 

information collection project: ‘‘Pilot 

Study of Proposed Medical Office 

Surveys on Patient Safety.’’ 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 information collection. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by February 5, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 

Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, 540 

Gaither Road, Room 5036, Rockville, 

MD 20850. Copies of the proposed 

collection plans, data collection 

instruments, and specific details on the 

estimated burden can be obtained from 

AHRQ’s Reports Clearance Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ, Reports 

Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477. 

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Proposed Project 

Pilot Study of Proposed Medical Office 

Surveys on Patient Safety 

This activity is an expansion and 

refinement of AHRQ’s Hospital Survey 

on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) 

which was developed and released to 

the public for use in November 2004. 

Two new surveys are proposed to assess 

patient safety culture in outpatient 

medical office settings: One for 

clinicians (physicians, physician 

assistants, and nurse practitioners who 

diagnose, prescribe for, and treat 

patients) and one for medical office staff 

(all other non-clinician staff). The 

proposed new surveys will be based on 

the HSOPSC but also contain new and 

revised items as well as dimensions that 

are more applicable to the outpatient 

medical office setting. The two 

proposed surveys will contain some 

items that are the same and some item 

that are unique to each survey. 

The instruments will be pilot tested 

with clinicians and staff working in 97 

outpatient medical offices. The data 

collected will be analyzed to determine 

the psychometric properties of each 

survey’s items and dimensions and 

provide information for the revision and 

shortening of the final surveys based on 

an assessment of their reliability and 

construct validity. The final surveys 

will be made publicly available to 

enable outpatient medical offices to 

assess patient safety culture from the 

perspectives of their clinicians and staff. 

The surveys can be used by outpatient 

medical offices to identify areas for 

patient safety culture improvement. 

Methods of Collection 

A purposive sample of 97 outpatient 

medical offices will be recruited and 

selected. These medical offices will 

represent a distribution of singlespecialty offices (of various types) and 

multi-specialty offices, and will vary by 

office size (based on number of 

physicians in the office), as well as 

geographic region of the United States. 

Recruited medical offices will be 

allocated to each category in numbers 

roughly proportionate to the national 

distribution of offices in each category. 

All clinicians in each medical office 

will be asked to respond to the clinician 

survey and all other non-clinician staff 

will be asked to complete the medical 

office staff survey. Since not all medical 

office staff have access to email or the 

internet, paper surveys will be 

administered. Standard non-response 

follow-up techniques such as reminder 

postcards and distribution of a second 

survey will be used. Individuals and 

organizations contacted will be assured 

of the confidentiality of their replies 

under Section 924(c) of the Healthcare 

Research and Quality Act of 1999. 

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden 

Paper surveys will be distributed to a 

total of approximately 2,340 individuals 

from 97 medical offices (about 592 

clinicians and 1,748 medical office 

staff), with a target response rate of 

70%, or 1,638 completed surveys (414 

completed clinician surveys and 1,224 

medical office staff surveys). 

Respondents should take approximately 

15 minutes to complete either survey. 

Therefore, we estimate that the total 

respondent burden for completing the 

survey will be 410 hours (414 

completed clinician surveys multiplied 

by 0.25 hours per survey or 104 hours; 

and 1,224 completed medical office staff 

surveys multiplied by 0.25 hours per 

survey or 306 hours). 

Type of respondent Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Estimated time 

per respondent (hours) 

Estimated total 

respondent 

burden hours 

Clinicians .......................................................................................................... 414 1 0.25 104 

Medical office staff ........................................................................................... 1,224 1 0.25 306

Total .......................................................................................................... 1,638 ........................ ........................ 410 

Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal 

Government 

The total cost to the Government for 

developing the clinician survey is 

approximately $257,000, and for the 

medical office staff survey is 

approximately $268,000. These 

estimates include the costs of 

background literature reviews, survey 

development, cognitive testing, pilot 

data collection, data analysis, and 

preparation of final deliverables and 

reports. 

Request for Comments 

In accordance with the above-cited 

Paperwork Reduction Act legislation, 

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 health 

care 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: November 21, 2006. 

Carolyn M. Clancy, 

Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Proposed Projects: 

Title: National Directory of New 

Hires. 

OMB No.: 0970–0166. 

Description: Public Law 104–193, the 

‘‘Personal Responsibility and Work 

Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 

1996,’’ requires the Office of Child 

Support Enforcement (OCSE) to operate 

a National Directory of New Hires 

(NDNH) to improve the ability of State 

child support enforcement agencies to 

locate noncustodial parents and collect 

child support across State lines. The law 

requires employers to report newly 

hired employees to States. States are 

then required to periodically transmit 

new hire data received from employers 

to the NDNH, and to transmit wage and 


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