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standards; (2) address current, relevant 

needs; and (3) produce intended results. 

Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items 

include a report from the Director of NIOSH, 

Firefighter Fatality Investigation and 

Prevention Program review, Training Grant 

Program review, Noise-induced Hearing Loss 

Program review, and closing remarks. 

Agenda items are subject to change as 

priorities dictate. 

For Further Information Contact: Roger 

Rosa, Executive Secretary, BSC, NIOSH, CDC, 

200 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 715H, 

Washington, DC 20201, telephone (202) 205–

7856, fax (202) 260–4464. 

The Director, Management Analysis 

and Services Office, has been delegated 

the authority to sign Federal Register 

notices pertaining to announcements of 

meetings and other committee 

management activities for both the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Dated: March 20, 2007. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Acting Director, Management Analysis and 

Services Office, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request; Proposed 

Projects 

Title: DHHS/ACF/ASPE/DOL 

Enhanced Services for the Hard-toEmploy Demonstration and Evaluation: 

Kansas and Missouri 36-Month Data 

Collection 

OMB No.: New Collection 

Description: The Enhanced Services 

for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration 

and Evaluation Project (HtE) seeks to 

learn what services improve the 

employment prospects of low-income 

persons who face serious obstacles to 

steady work. The project is sponsored 

by the Office of Planning, Research and 

Evaluation (OPRE) within the 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF) and the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Planning and 

Evaluation (ASPE), both within the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), and the U.S. 

Department of Labor (DOL). 

The HtE project is a multi-year, multisite evaluation that employs an 

experimental longitudinal research 

design to test four strategies aimed at 

promoting employment among hard-toemploy populations. The four strategies 

include; (1) Intensive care management 

and job services project for Rhode Island 

Medicaid recipients with serious 

depression; (2) job readiness training, 

worksite placements, job coaching, job 

development and other training 

opportunities for recent parolees in New 

York City; (3) pre-employment services 

and transitional employment for longterm participants receiving Temporary 

Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), 

and (4) two-generational Early Head 

Start (EHS) services providing enhanced 

self-sufficiency services for parents, 

parent skills training, and high-quality 

child care for children in low-income 

families in Kansas and Missouri. 

The purpose of this document is to 

request public comment on the 

proposed 36-month parent survey and 

direct child assessments in Kansas and 

Missouri. The research team plans to 

collect parent-reported survey assessing 

parents’ employment, education and 

economic outcomes, child outcomes, as 

well as aspects of parental psychological 

well-being, parenting, family 

functioning and routines, and child care 

use. This data collection effort will also 

include direct assessments of young 

children’s cognitive, socioemotional and 

behavioral development. 

The follow-up survey and direct child 

assessments at the 36-month follow-up 

in Kansas and Missouri will be used for 

the following purposes: To study the 

extent to which EHS services with 

enhanced self-sufficiency services 

(enhanced EHS services) affect 

employment, earnings, income, and 

welfare dependence of low-income 

parents with young children; to study 

the impacts of enhanced EHS services 

on child well-being and school 

readiness; to examine the impacts of 

enhanced EHS services on key aspects 

of parental psychological well-being, 

parenting, family functioning and 

routines, and child care that might 

account for the effects of the 

intervention on young children; to 

collect data on a wider range of outcome 

measures than is available through 

welfare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Social 

Security, and Unemployment Insurance 

records. 

The 36-month data collection effort 

draws heavily from the 15-month survey 

and direct child assessments conduced 

in this site. Materials for the survey and 

direct child assessments for the 15- 

month data collection effort were 

previously submitted to OMB and were 

approved (OMB Control No. 0970–026). 

Respondents: The target population of 

the HtE project in Kansas and Missouri 

is low-income pregnant women and 

families with infants and toddlers. 

The respondents to the 36-month data 

collection effort will be all participants 

in the program and the control groups 

of the HtE project in Kansas and 

Missouri. Parents will be responding to 

a survey. Children between the ages of 

2 and 7 years old at the 36-month 

follow-up will be asked to participate in 

direct child assessments aimed at 

understanding their emotional, 

behavioral, and cognitive development 

and school readiness. 

The annual burden estimates are 

detailed below, and the substantive 

content of each component will be 

detailed in the supporting statement 

attached to the forthcoming 30-day 

notice. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of responses 

per respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

KS/MO 36-month parent survey ...................................................................... 610 1 .75 457.50 

KS/MO 36-month direct child assessments .................................................... 610 1 .50 305.00 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 762.50. 

In compliance with the requirements 

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Administration for Children and 

Families is soliciting public comment 

on the specific aspects of the 

information collection described above. 

Copies of the proposed collection of 

information can be obtained and 

comments may be forwarded by writing 

to the Administration for Children and 

Families, Office of Information Services, 

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Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF 

Reports Clearance Officer. All requests 

should be identified by the title of the 

information collection. 

The Department specifically requests 

comments 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) 

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. 

Consideration will be given to 

comments and suggestions submitted 

within 60 days of this publication. 

Dated: March 20, 2007. 

Robert Sargis, 

Reports Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. 2007N–0098] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Focus Groups as 

Used by the Food and Drug 

Administration 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA) is announcing an 

opportunity for public comment on the 

proposed collection of certain 

information by the agency. Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the 

PRA), Federal agencies are required to 

publish notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information, including each proposed 

extension of an existing collection of 

information, and to allow 60 days for 

public comment in response to the 

notice. This notice solicits comments on 

focus groups as used by FDA to gauge 

public opinion. 

DATES: Submit written or electronic 

comments on the collection of 

information by May 29, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Submit electronic 

comments on the collection of 

information to: http://www.fda.gov/ 

dockets/ecomments. Submit written 

comments on the collection of 

information to the Division of Dockets 

Management (HFA–305), Food and Drug 

Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 

1061, Rockville, MD 20852. All 

comments should be identified with the 

docket number found in brackets in the 

heading of this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jonna Capezzuto, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer (HFA–250), Food 

and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers 

Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301–827–

4659. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal 

agencies must obtain approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for each collection of 

information they conduct or sponsor. 

‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined 

in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 

1320.3(c) and includes agency requests 

or requirements that members of the 

public submit reports, keep records, or 

provide information to a third party. 

Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) requires Federal 

agencies to provide a 60-day notice in 

the Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information, 

before submitting the collection to OMB 

for approval. To comply with this 

requirement, FDA is publishing notice 

of the proposed collection of 

information set forth in this document. 

With respect to the following 

collection of information, FDA invites 

comments on these topics: (1) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of FDA’s functions, including whether 

the information will have practical 

utility; (2) the accuracy of FDA’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques, 

when appropriate, and other forms of 

information technology. 

Focus Groups as Used by FDA (OMB 

Control Number 0910–0497)—Extension 

Focus groups provide an important 

role in gathering information because 

they allow for a more in-depth 

understanding of consumers’ attitudes, 

beliefs, motivations, and feelings than 

do quantitative studies. Focus groups 

serve the narrowly defined need for 

direct and informal opinion on a 

specific topic and as a qualitative 

research tool have three major purposes: 

• To obtain consumer information 

that is useful for developing variables 

and measures for quantitative studies, 

• To better understand consumers’

attitudes and emotions in response to 

topics and concepts, and 

• To further explore findings 

obtained from quantitative studies. 

FDA will use focus group findings to 

test and refine their ideas, but will 

generally conduct further research 

before making important decisions such 

as adopting new policies and allocating 

or redirecting significant resources to 

support these policies. 

FDA estimates the burden for 

completing the forms for this collection 

of information as follows: 

TABLE 1.—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN1

FDA Center Subject 

No. of 

Focus 

Groups per 

Study 

No. of Focus 

Groups Sessions 

Conducted 

Annually 

No. of 

Participants 

per Group 

Hours of Duration for 

Each Group (Includes 

Screening) 

Total 

Hours 

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research May use focus groups when 

appropriate 

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