Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 154 / Friday, August 9, 2013 / Notices 48683 

Leroy A. Richardson, 

Chief, Information Collection Review Office, 

Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the 

Associate Director for Science, Office of the 

Director, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[CDC–2013–0016; NIOSH 129–A] 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH) Personal 

Protective Technology (PPT) Program; 

Framework Document for the 

Healthcare Worker Personal Protective 

Equipment Action Plan 

AGENCY: The National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of draft document for 

public comment. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC) 

announces the availability of a 

document titled ‘‘Framework for Setting 

the NIOSH PPT Program Action Plan for 

Healthcare Worker Personal Protective 

Equipment: 2013–2018’’, now available 

for public comment at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

DATES: Public comment period: 

Comments must be received by Friday, 

September 13, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by CDC–2013–0016 and 

Docket Number NIOSH–129–A, by 

either of the two following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: NIOSH Docket Office, Robert 

A. Taft Laboratories, MS–C34, 4676 

Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 

45226. 

Instructions: All information received 

in response to this notice must include 

the agency name and docket number 

(CDC–2013–0016; NIOSH–129–A). All 

relevant comments received will be 

posted without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. All 

electronic comments should be 

formatted as Microsoft Word. Please 

make reference to CDC–2013–0016 and 

Docket Number NIOSH–129–A. Access 

to any prior background documents or 

previous comments received please go 

to NIOSH Docket 129 (http:// 

www.cdc.gov/niosh/docket/archive/ 

docket129.html). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

NIOSH personal protective technology 

(PPT) program publishes and 

periodically updates its research agenda 

on personal protective equipment (PPE) 

for healthcare workers. The research 

agenda or action plan describes the near 

term and long term strategy for the PPT 

program’s research and intervention, 

standards development, and 

information dissemination program to 

improve the efficacy and effectiveness 

of PPE used in healthcare settings. Since 

the healthcare worker PPE action plan 

was last updated in 2010 (revision 4), 

several reports have been published that 

provide updated national priorities 

related to PPE for healthcare workers. 

For example, in 2011, the Institute of 

Medicine (IOM) published a report 

entitled Preventing Transmission of 

Pandemic Influenza and Other Viral 

Respiratory Diseases: Personal 

Protective Equipment for Healthcare 

Personnel Update 2010 that assessed the 

nation’s progress on improving PPE for 

healthcare personnel exposed to 

infectious respiratory diseases and made 

recommendations to address research 

gaps (to access this document please go 

to http://www.regulations.gov). 

The NIOSH PPT program has started 

the process to update the PPE for 

healthcare workers action plan for 

2013–2018. A framework document 

titled ‘‘Framework for Setting the 

NIOSH PPT Program Action Plan for 

Healthcare Worker Personal Protective 

Equipment: 2013–2018’’ has been 

drafted to: 

1. Identify proposed 

‘‘recommendations’’ and ‘‘activities’’ to 

use in an updated healthcare worker 

PPE action plan; 

2. Compare current NIOSH intramural 

and extramural program activities 

versus the proposed recommendations 

and activities; 

3. Propose an overarching strategy for 

NIOSH PPT program management to 

prioritize among competing 

recommendations, activities, and future 

action steps; and 

4. Outline the process planned for 

seeking stakeholder input on what 

‘‘action steps’’ should be taken by 

NIOSH and the NIOSH PPT program to 

address the recommendations. 

Comments are sought in three specific 

areas: 

1. Proposed use of the 2011 IOM 

report recommendations as the basis for 

the 12 overarching recommendations 

and 36 activities in next revision of the 

action plan; 

2. Proposed use of improving 

healthcare worker PPE compliance as 

the overarching goal for prioritization; 

and 

3. Specific actions that NIOSH and 

the NIOSH PPT program should take to 

address the proposed recommendations 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Ronald E. Shaffer, Senior Scientist, 

NIOSH NPPTL Office of the Director at 

RShaffer@cdc.gov, telephone (412) 386– 

4001, fax (412) 386–6617. 

Dated: August 2, 2013. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) 

Announcement of Requirements and 

Registration for Million Hearts®

Hypertension Control Challenge 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

Award Approving Official: Thomas R. 

Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, and 

Administrator, Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC) located 

within the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) announces the 

launch of the Million Hearts®

Hypertension Control Challenge on 

August 9, 2013. The challenge will be 

open until September 9, 2013. 

Million Hearts® is a national initiative 

to prevent 1 million heart attacks and 

strokes by 2017. Achieving this goal 

means that 10 million more Americans 

must have their blood pressure under 

control. Million Hearts® is working to 

control high blood pressure through 

clinical approaches, such as using 

health information technology to its 

fullest potential and integrating teambased approaches to care, as well as 

community approaches, such as 

strengthening tobacco control, and 

lowering sodium consumption. 

To support improved blood pressure 

control, HHS/CDC is announcing the 

Million Hearts® Hypertension Control 


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