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take 5 minutes to complete for a total 

expected burden of 17 hours. The 30 

participating agencies will then recruit 

EMS clinicians currently working fulltime or part-time using a recruitment 

flyer distributed to employees. The 

research team expects to collect 

information from as many as 3,000 

individuals to identify up to 1,500 

eligible participants. The team will 

measure eligibility using an individuallevel screening form, which is estimated 

to take 5 minutes to complete for a total 

expected burden of 250 hours. 

The research team will have the 1,500 

eligible individuals watch a video 

explaining the study and the consent 

process and will then ask them to 

indicate their consent to participate. 

The consenting process is expected to 

take 10 minutes for a total expected 

burden of 250 hours. The research team 

expects 1,200 eligible individuals to 

consent and agree to participate. These 

individuals will then complete the 

registration process including providing 

demographic information and shift 

schedules, complete a baseline survey 

including self-reported fatigue and 

sleepiness. Half of the participants will 

be asked to complete ten training 

sessions of ten minutes each within ten 

days. The other half will be asked to 

complete the training within ten days of 

the mid-point of the study. The 

expected burden for the registration 

process, baseline survey and training 

intervention is 145 minutes per 

participant for a total burden of 2,900 

hours. Once the study is underway, 

participants will be asked to respond to 

daily text messages about sleepiness and 

fatigue for eight weeks of the 24-week 

study. The expected burden of 

responding is 5 minutes per response 

for a total burden of 5,600. The research 

team also will ask participants to 

complete follow-up surveys at the study 

mid-point and at the end of the study. 

The expect burden of responding is 25 

minutes per survey for a total burden of 

1,000 hours. 

A subset of participants (30 of the 

1,200) will complete a daily sleep diary 

for eight weeks of the 24-week study. 

Completing the diary is expected to take 

3 minutes per day for a total burden of 

84 hours. This subset also will be asked 

to take a brief Psychomotor Vigilance 

Task test twice per day (at the start and 

at the end of shift) for a total of eight 

days spread across the study period. 

Completing each test is expected to take 

five minutes for a total burden of 40 

hours. The purpose of these additional 

data collections is to assess the validity 

and reliability of the self-reported study 

measures. 

Estimate of the Total Annual 

Reporting and Record Keeping Burden 

Resulting from the Collection of 

Information: The total estimated burden 

for EMS agency recruitment (17 hours), 

recruitment of EMS clinicians (250 

hours), the consenting process (250 

hours), initial data collection and 

training (2,900), follow-up data 

collection (6,600), and additional data 

collection for assessing measurement 

error (124) is 10,141 hours. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. Section 3506(c)(2)(A). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 12, 

2018. 

Jeff Michael, 

Associate Administrator, Research and 

Program Development. 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Health Services Research and 

Development Service, Scientific Merit 

Review Board; Notice of Meetings 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) gives notice under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act that the Health 

Services Research and Development 

Service Scientific Merit Review Board 

will conduct in-person and 

teleconference meetings of its eleven 

Health Services Research (HSR) 

subcommittees on the dates below from 

8:00 a.m. to approximately 4:30 p.m. 

(unless otherwise listed) at the FHI 360 

Conference Center, 1825 Connecticut 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009 

(unless otherwise listed): 

• HSR 0—Community Care on August 

21, 2018; 

• HSR 1—Health Care and Clinical 

Management on August 21–22, 2018; 

• HSR 2—Behavioral, Social, and 

Cultural Determinants of Health and 

Care on August 23–24, 2018; 

• HSR 3—Healthcare Informatics on 

August 23, 2018; 

• HSR 4—Mental and Behavioral 

Health on August 21–22, 2018; 

• HSR 5—Health Care System 

Organization and Delivery on August 

23–24, 2018; 

• HSR 6—Post-acute and Long-term 

Care on August 22, 2018; 

• HSR 7—Opioid and Pain 

Management Special Emphasis on 

August 24, 2018; 

• MRA 0—Mentored Research on 

August 24, 2018; 

• HSR 8—Implementation Research 

Project on August 23, 2018; 

• HS8 A—Randomized Program 

Evaluations on August 23, 2018; and 

• HSR 9—Learning Health Initiative 

on August 23, 2018. 

The purpose of the Board is to review 

health services research and 

development applications involving: the 

measurement and evaluation of health 

care services; the testing of new 

methods of health care delivery and 

management; and mentored research. 

Applications are reviewed for scientific 

and technical merit, mission relevance, 

and the protection of human and animal 

subjects. Recommendations regarding 

funding are submitted to the Chief 

Research and Development Officer. 

Each subcommittee meeting of the 

Board will be open to the public the first 

day for approximately one half-hour 

from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at the start 

of the meeting on August 21 (HSR 0, 1, 

4), August 22 (HSR 1, 4, 6), August 23 

(HSR 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, and HS8A), and 

August 24 (HSR 2, 5, 7, and MRA 0) to 

cover administrative matters and to 

discuss the general status of the 

program. Members of the public who 

wish to attend the open portion of the 

subcommittee meetings may dial 1 (800) 

767–1750, participant code 10443#. 

The remaining portion of each 

subcommittee meeting will be closed for 

the discussion, examination, reference 

to, and oral review of the intramural 

research proposals and critiques. During 

the closed portion of each subcommittee 

meeting, discussion and 

recommendations will include 

qualifications of the personnel 

conducting the studies (the disclosure of 

which would constitute a clearly 

unwarranted invasion of personal 

privacy), as well as research information 

(the premature disclosure of which 

would likely compromise significantly 

the implementation of proposed agency 

action regarding such research projects). 

As provided by subsection 10(d) of 

Public Law 92–463, as amended by 

Public Law 94–409, closing the meeting 

is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

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No oral or written comments will be 

accepted from the public for either 

portion of the meetings. Those who plan 

to participate during the open portion of 

a subcommittee meeting should contact 

Ms. Liza Catucci, Administrative 

Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs, 

Health Services Research and 

Development Service (10P9H), 810 

Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 

20420, or by email at Liza.Catucci@

va.gov. For further information, please 

call Ms. Catucci at (202) 443–5797. 

Dated: July 12, 2018. 

LaTonya L. Small, 

Federal Advisory Committee Management 

Officer. 

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