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Act (CERCLA) and its 1986

Amendments, The Superfund

Amendments and Reauthorization Act

(SARA), to prepare toxicological profiles

in accordance with guidelines

developed by ATSDR and EPA. Each

profile is revised and republished as

necessary, but no less often than every

three years. The principal audiences for

the toxicological profiles are health

professionals at the federal, state, and

local levels, interested private sector

organizations and groups, and members

of the public.

This is a request for a three-year

extension of a previously approved data

collection to collect information

pertaining to: (a) Affiliation of users of

the profiles, (b) clarity of discussion in

the profiles, (c) consistency of

information in the profiles, (d)

completeness of information in the

profile, and (e) utility of information in

the profile.

The information will be used to

maintain customer satisfaction

concerning use of the profiles by these

multi-disciplinary users. This will also

ensure that we continue to provide a

client-oriented product. This effort will

be accomplished through enhancement

of the system used for updating existing

toxicological profiles and improving the

utility of newly developed profiles by

use of these user surveys. There is no

cost to respondents. The estimated

burden hours to respondents are 250.

Respondents Number of

respondents

Responses

per respondent

Hours

per response

Total burden

hours

Individuals completing questionnaires ............................................................. 1000 1 15/60 250

Dated: November 8, 2000.

Nancy E. Cheal,

Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning

and Evaluation, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[30DAY–03–01]

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) 639–7090. Send written

comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human

Resources and Housing Branch, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235;

Washington, DC 20503. Written

comments should be received within 30

days of this notice.

Proposed Project

A Research Program to Develop

Optimal NIOSH Alerts for Occupational

Safety and Health—New—The mission

of the National Institute of Occupational

Safety and Health (NIOSH) is to

promote safety and health at work for all

people through research and prevention.

The Alert is one of the primary

publications by which NIOSH

communicates health and safety

recommendations to at-risk workers.

The Alert is mailed to workers affected

by a particular health or safety hazard

and contains information about the

nature of the hazard, as well as

recommendations for avoiding or

controlling it. Despite the important role

of the Alert in conveying health and

safety information to workers, these

publications have not been routinely

pretested and evaluated for

effectiveness. Therefore, the degree to

which the NIOSH Alerts actually

produce risk awareness, as well as

comprehension, acceptance and use of

the recommended health and safety

measures, is unknown.

NIOSH proposes to apply recent

theoretical advances in communication

research to the development of NIOSH

Alerts in order to ensure maximal

effectiveness in conveying health and

safety information to workers. The

Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) is

a communication theory that has

received much empirical support.

During the past year, an initial test (still

in progress) was conducted to compare

a standard Alert to an Alert with revised

content and format based on the

postulates of the ELM. Although this

initial study will be informative, much

additional research of this nature is

necessary to gain an understanding of

the communication variables that

contribute to high levels of worker

awareness, comprehension, acceptance,

and use of safety recommendations.

According to the ELM, the greatest

impact on long-term health/safety

attitudes and behaviors should occur

when workers are motivated and able to

elaborate upon a message, and when a

message contains strong arguments.

Therefore, the current investigation

aims to (1) examine variables that will

increase level of message-related

elaboration and (2) create messages that

contain strong arguments. The

effectiveness of the standard version of

the Alert for Preventing Injuries and

Deaths from Skid-Steer Loaders will be

compared with revised versions of this

Alert that incorporate variables known

to increase message elaboration and

strong arguments selected through

pretesting. Specifically, the revised

Alerts will use high imagery language to

increase message elaboration. After the

initial messages are developed, they will

be pretested using a sample of 60

farmers and 60 West Virginia University

Agricultural Sciences students.

Following this pretesting phase, data

will be gathered from (1) 300 volunteer

farmers who attend an on-site testing

and (2) a national random sample of 300

farmers, and (3) 600 West Virginia

University Agricultural Science

students. In each of these cases,

participants will be randomly assigned

to receive either a standard or revised

version of the Alert, and the effect of the

different Alert formats on safety

attitudes and behaviors will be assessed.

Data collected in this investigation

should further our understanding of the

variables that increase effectiveness in

communicating health and safety

information to workers. By continuing

to systematically apply postulates of the

ELM to the design of the Alerts, it

should become possible to develop a

standard communication template to

use in future NIOSH publications. The

total estimated annualized burden is

660 hours.

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Type of respondent No. of

respondents

No.

of responses/

respondent

Avg. burden/

response

(in hrs.)

Farmers (pretesting) .................................................................................................................... 60 1 .5

Student (pretesting) ..................................................................................................................... 60 1 .5

Farmers ........................................................................................................................................ 300 1 .333

Farmers ........................................................................................................................................ 300 2 .333

Students ....................................................................................................................................... 600 1 .5

Dated: November 8, 2000.

Nancy Cheal,

Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning

and Evaluation, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

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Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[30DAY–05–01]

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) 639–7090. Send written

comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human

Resources and Housing Branch, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235;

Washington, DC 20503. Written

comments should be received within 30

days of this notice.

Proposed Project

NIOSH Training Grants, 42 CFR Part

86, Application and Regulations (OMB

No. 9020–0261)—Extension—National

Institute for Occupational Safety and

Health (NIOSH). Public law 91–596

requires CDC/NIOSH to provide an

adequate supply of professionals to

carry out the purposes of the Act to

assure a safe and healthful work

environment. NIOSH supports

educational programs through training

grant awards to academic institutions

for the training of industrial hygienists,

occupational physicians, occupational

health nurses and safety professionals.

Grants are provided to 15 Education and

Research Centers (ERCs) which provide

multi-disciplinary graduate academic

and research training for professionals,

continuing education for practicing

professionals and outreach programs in

the Region. There are also currently 41

Training Project Grants (TPGs) which

provide single discipline academic and

technical training throughout the

country. 42 CFR Part 86, Grants for

Education Programs in Occupational

Safety and Health, Subpart B—

Occupational Safety and Health

Training, provides guidelines for

implementing Public Law 91–596.

The training grant application form

(CDC2.145.A) is used by the National

Institute of Occupational Safety and

Health to collect information from new

grant applicants submitting competing

applications, and from existing

applicants for competing renewal

grants. The information is used to

determine the eligibility of applicants

for grant review and by peer reviewers

during the peer review process to

evaluate the merit of the proposed

training project. CDC Form 2.145B is

used for non-competing awards to

evaluate the annual progress of the

applicant during the approved project

period.

Extramural training grant awards are

made annually following an extramural

review process of the training grant

applications, review by an internal

Training Grants Council and an internal

review of non-competing applicants.

The estimated annualized burden is

6,161 hours.

Respondents No. of

respondents

No. of

responses/

respondent

Avg. burden

per response

(in hrs)

Universities .................................................................................................................................. 61 1 101

Dated: November 8, 2000.

Nancy Cheal,

Acting Associate Director for Policy,

Planning, and Evaluation, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. 97D–0530]

FDA Modernization Act of 1997:

Modifications to the List of Recognized

Standards, Recognition List Number:

004

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) is announcing a

publication containing modifications

the agency is making to the list of

standards FDA will recognize for use in

premarket reviews (FDA Recognized

Consensus Standards). This publication

entitled ‘‘Modifications to the List of

Recognized Standards, Recognition List

Number: 004’’ (Recognition List

Number: 004) will assist manufacturers

who elect to declare conformity with

consensus standards to meet certain

requirements for medical devices.

DATES: Written comments concerning

this document may be submitted at any

time. See section VI of this document

for the effective date of the recognition

of standards announced in this

document.

ADDRESSES: Submit written requests for

single copies on a 3.5′ diskette of

‘‘Modifications to the List of Recognized

Standards, Recognition List Number: