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I have ratified any actions taken by 

the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness 

and Response, or any other Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Preparedness 

and Response officials, which, in effect, 

involved the exercise of this authority 

prior to the effective date of this 

delegation. 

This delegation is effective 

immediately. 

Dated: April 16, 2007. 

Michael O. Leavitt, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 07–2193 Filed 5–3–07; 8:45 am] 

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Prevention 

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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 or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

Special Exposure Cohort Petitions— 

Extension—National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

On October 30, 2000, the Energy 

Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000 

(EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. 7384–7385 [1994, 

supp. 2001] was enacted. It established 

a compensation program to provide a 

lump sum payment of $150,000 and 

medical benefits as compensation to 

covered employees suffering from 

designated illnesses incurred as a result 

of their exposure to radiation, 

beryllium, or silica while in the 

performance of duty for the Department 

of Energy and certain of its vendors, 

contractors and subcontractors. This 

legislation also provided for payment of 

compensation for certain survivors of 

these covered employees. The only 

change to the collection is an increase 

in burden hours because more 

petitioners are requesting to have their 

work site named as a special exposure 

cohort. This program has been 

mandated to be in effect until Congress 

ends the funding. 

EEOICPA instructed the President to 

designate one or more Federal Agencies 

to carry out the compensation program. 

Accordingly, the President issued 

Executive Order 13179 (‘‘Providing 

Compensation to America’s Nuclear 

Weapons Workers’’) on December 7, 

2000 (65 FR 77487), assigning primary 

responsibility for administration of the 

compensation program to the 

Department of Labor (DOL). The 

executive order directed the Department 

of Health and Human Services (HHS) to 

perform several technical and 

policymaking roles in support of the 

DOL program. 

Among other duties, the executive 

order directed HHS to establish and 

implement procedures for considering 

petitions by classes of nuclear weapons 

workers to be added to the ‘‘Special 

Exposure Cohort’’ (the ‘‘Cohort’’), various 

groups of workers whose claims for 

cancer under EEOICPA can be 

adjudicated without demonstrating that 

their cancer was ‘‘at least as likely as 

not’’ caused by radiation doses they 

incurred in the performance of duty. In 

brief, EEOICPA authorizes HHS to 

designate such classes of employees for 

addition to the Cohort when NIOSH 

lacks sufficient information to estimate 

with sufficient accuracy the radiation 

doses of the employees, if HHS also 

finds that the health of members of the 

class may have been endangered by the 

radiation dose the class potentially 

incurred. HHS must also obtain the 

advice of the Advisory Board on 

Radiation and Worker Health (the 

‘‘Board’’) in establishing such findings. 

On March 7, 2003, HHS proposed 

procedures for adding such classes to 

the Cohort in a notice of proposed 

rulemaking at 42 CFR part 83. 

The HHS procedures authorize a 

variety of individuals and entities to 

submit petitions, as specified under 

§ 83.7. Petitioners are required to 

provide the information specified in 

§ 83.9 to qualify their petitions for a 

complete evaluation by HHS and the 

Board. HHS has developed two petition 

forms to assist the petitioners in 

providing this required information 

efficiently and completely. Petition 

Form A is a one-page form to be used 

by EEOICPA claimants for whom 

NIOSH will have attempted to conduct 

dose reconstructions and will have 

determined that available information is 

not sufficient to complete the dose 

reconstruction. The form addresses the 

informational requirements specified 

under § 83.9(a) and (b). Petition Form B, 

accompanied by separate instructions, is 

intended for all other petitioners. The 

form addresses the informational 

requirements specified under § 83.9(a) 

and (c). Forms A and B can be 

submitted electronically as well as in 

hard copy. Petitioners should be aware 

that HHS is not requiring petitioners to 

use the forms. Petitioners can choose to 

submit petitions as letters or in other 

formats, but petitions must meet the 

informational requirements referenced 

above. NIOSH expects, however, that all 

petitioners for whom Form A would be 

appropriate will actually use the form, 

since NIOSH will provide it to them 

upon determining that their dose 

reconstruction cannot be completed and 

encourage them to submit the petition. 

NIOSH expects the large majority of 

petitioners for whom Form B would be 

appropriate will also use the form, since 

it provides a simple, organized format 

for addressing the informational 

requirements of a petition. 

NIOSH will use the information 

obtained through the petition for the 

following purposes: (a) Identify the 

petitioner(s), obtain their contact 

information, and establish that the 

petitioner(s) is qualified and intends to 

petition HHS; (b) establish an initial 

definition of the class of employees 

being proposed to be considered for 

addition to the Cohort; (c) determine 

whether there is justification to require 

HHS to evaluate whether or not to 

designate the proposed class as an 

addition to the Cohort (such an 

evaluation involves potentially 

extensive data collection, analysis, and 

related deliberations by NIOSH, the 

Board, and HHS); and, (d) target an 

evaluation by HHS to examine relevant 

potential limitations of radiation 

monitoring and/or dosimetry-relevant 

records and to examine the potential for 

related radiation exposures that might 

have endangered the health of members 

of the class. 

Finally, under § 83.18, petitioners 

may contest the proposed decision of 

the Secretary to add or deny adding 

classes of employees to the cohort by 

submitting evidence that the proposed 

decision relies on a record of either 

factual or procedural errors in the 

implementation of these procedures. 

NIOSH estimates that the time to 

prepare and submit such a challenge is 

45 minutes. Because of the uniqueness 

of this submission, NIOSH is not 

providing a form. The submission 

should be in a letter format. 

There are no costs to petitioners 

unless a petitioner chooses to purchase 


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the services of a expert in dose 

reconstruction, an option provided for 

under 42 CFR § 83.9(c)(2)(iii). The 

petitioner would assume the financial 

burden of purchasing such services at 

their option. In such cases, HHS 

estimates a report by such an expert 

may cost between $640 and $6,400, 

depending on the scope of the petition 

and access to relevant information. This 

is based on an estimate of costs of $80 

per hour for contractual services by a 

health physicist, who NIOSH estimates 

would be employed within a range of 

eight to eighty hours to conduct and 

prepare a report on the required 

assessment. The total estimated 

annualized burden hours are 235. 

Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours 

Form name& number (CFR 

reference) Respondents Number of respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

respondent 

(in hours) 

83.9 ........................................ Petitioners using Form A ........................................................ 30 1 3/60 

83.9 ........................................ Petitioners using Form B ........................................................ 40 1 5 

83.9 ........................................ Petitioners not using Form B .................................................. 5 1 5.5 

83.18 ...................................... Petitioners Appealing proposed decisions .............................. 5 1 45/60 

Authorization Form ................. ................................................................................................. 20 1 3/60 

Dated: April 27, 2007. 

Maryam Daneshvar, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E7–8593 Filed 5–3–07; 8:45 am] 

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[30Day–07–06BL] 

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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 or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

Examining the Efficacy of the HIV 

Testing Social Marketing Campaign for 

African American Women (HTSMC)— 

New—National Center for HIV/AIDS, 

Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention 

(NCHHSTP), Coordinating Center for 

Infectious Diseases (CCID), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

This project involves evaluation of the 

HIV Testing Social Marketing Campaign 

for African American Women (HTSMC), 

a CDC-sponsored social marketing 

campaign aimed at increasing HIV 

testing rates among young, single, 

African American women. The CDC has 

designed an efficacy study to evaluate 

the HTSMC and its messages under 

controlled conditions. The study entails 

selecting a sample of single African 

American females, ages 18 to 34, with 

less than 4 years of college education 

and collecting baseline data on their 

knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, intentions, 

and behaviors related to HIV testing. 

The study represents an ‘‘efficacy’’ 

methodology in that participants will be 

divided into treatment and control 

conditions. Participants in the treatment 

condition, will be exposed to campaign 

materials including radio 

advertisements, a billboard, and an 

informational booklet that will be 

distributed over the Internet. Thus the 

study participants’ exposure will occur 

under controlled conditions, without 

the distractions and variability of 

potential exposure in the real world. As 

part of the advertisement stimuli 

package, the billboard advertisement 

will appear as part of the online log-in 

for each stimuli session in order to 

simulate the appearance of a sign. 

Therefore, we do not estimate any 

additional burden for exposure to the 

billboard advertisement. 

Key outcomes related to the HTSMC 

will be measured in two follow-up 

surveys. The first follow-up survey will 

occur 2 weeks after the baseline survey. 

The second follow-up survey will occur 

6 weeks after the baseline survey. 

Comparisons of changes in these 

outcomes would then be made between 

participants in the treatment and control 

conditions. Findings from this study 

will be used by CDC and its partners to 

inform current and future program 

activities. 

We expect a total of 1630 participants 

to complete the baseline survey. The 

1630 participants who complete the 

baseline survey will be randomly 

assigned to the treatment or control 

condition. Eight hundred fifteen 

participants (the treatment condition) 

will be exposed to the radio ad and 

booklet. Of the 1630 participants who 

completed the baseline survey, we 

expect 1140 to complete the first followup survey. Of the 1140 who complete 

the first follow-up survey, we expect 

800 to complete the second follow-up 

survey, which will have fewer questions 

than the first follow-up survey because 

it will only pertain to questions about 

behavior change and selected behavioral 

intentions. 

There are no costs to the respondents 

other than their time. The total 

estimated annual burden hours are 

1,127. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Respondents Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Study Screener ............................................................................................................................ 1630 1 2/60. 

Baseline survey ........................................................................................................................... 1630 1 13/60. 

Radio ad stimuli viewing .............................................................................................................. 815 1 12/60. 


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