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cross-sectional and retrospective

studies, it is widely agreed that a

prospective study design is the best

approach for the investigation of this

problem. Up to 2000 workers will be

enrolled into the study and will

participate in three annual data

collection surveys. The surveys will be

comprised of a self-administered

questionnaire and standard health tests

to identify MSDs, including HAVS. Job

tasks will be studied using uniform

exposure assessment methods to

quantify physical stressors. The study

data will be used to test and expand

existing guidelines for limiting exposure

to physical job stressors, and for

developing new guidelines where none

exist. The results from this research

study will provide practitioners in

occupational health critical data that

will facilitate their ability to quickly and

reliably discriminate job tasks that

represent low, moderate and high risk

for MSDs among workers employed

across different industries. In addition,

the results of this study will provide

guidance on effective job design to

reduce the burden of work-related

MSDs. The total estimated annual cost

to respondents is $33,190.

Data collection activity Number of

respondents

Number of

responses per

respondents

Response

per hour

Response

burden

(in hrs)

Questionnaire Administration:

Core Questionnaire .................................................................................. 2,000 3 45/60 4,500

Upper Limb Module .................................................................................. 1,000 3 9/60 450

Back Module ............................................................................................. 700 3 6/60 210

HAVS Module ........................................................................................... 300 3 15/60 225

Intervention Module .................................................................................. 225 4 6/60 90

Physical Examination:

Upper Limb MSDs .................................................................................... 1,000 3 45/60 2,250

Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome ................................................................. 300 3 2.00 1,800

Total Respondent Burden Hours: ......................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 9,525

Dated: December 1, 2000.

John Moore,

Acting Associate Director for Policy,

Planning, and Evaluation, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC).

[FR Doc. 00–31315 Filed 12–7–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[30DAY–09–01]

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

National Sexually Transmitted

Disease Morbidity Surveillance

System—Extension—OMB No. 0920–

0011 National Center for HIV, STD, and

TB Prevention (NCHSTP), Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The reports used for this surveillance

system provide ongoing surveillance

data on national sexually transmitted

disease morbidity. The data are used by

health care planners at the national,

state, and local (including selected

metropolitan and territorial health

departments) levels to develop and

evaluate STD prevention and control

programs. In addition, there are many

other users of the data including

scientists, researchers, educators, and

the media. Sexually transmitted disease

(STD) data gathered in these reports are

used to produce national statistics

published in the annual STD

Surveillance Report, MMWR articles,

and serve as a progress report to meet

objectives in Healthy People 2000: Midcourse Review and 1995 Revisions. It is

important to note that these reporting

forms are in the process of being phased

out and replaced by electronic, linelisted STD data collected in the National

Electronic Telecommunications System

for Surveillance (NETSS). The total

number of burden hours is 644.

Forms Number of

respondents

Number of

responses/

respondent

Average

burden

(in hours)

CDC 73.688* ................................................................................................................................ 20 4 1

CDC 73.688** .............................................................................................................................. 21 4 1

CDC 73.998 ................................................................................................................................. 30 12 35/60

CDC 73.2638 ............................................................................................................................... 30 3 3

* State-level reporting: Respondents for the state-specific CDC 73.688 forms now include 26 state health departments (originally, respondents

included 50 states, but 24 states have now discontinued hardcopy reporting and send all STD data as electronic line-listed records through

NETSS), seven large city health departments and three outlying areas.

** City-level reporting: The health departments for the 26 states and one of the outlying regions (Puerto Rico) also prepare and submit reports

for additional large cities within their jurisdictions.

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Dated: December 4, 2000.

Chuck Gollmar,

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

Health Care Financing Administration

[Document Identifier: HCFA–10019]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Care Financing

Administration, HHS.

In compliance with the requirement

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the

Health Care Financing Administration

(HCFA), Department of Health and

Human Services, is publishing the

following summary of proposed

collections for public comment.

Interested persons are invited to send

comments regarding this burden

estimate or any other aspect of this

collection of information, including any

of the following subjects: (1) The

necessity and utility of the proposed

information collection for the proper

performance of the agency’s functions;

(2) the accuracy of the estimated

burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to

be collected; and (4) the use of

automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology to

minimize the information collection

burden.

Type of Information Request: New

collection; Title of Information

Collection: Durable Medical Equipment

and Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies

(DMEPOS) Supplier Survey; HCFA

Form Number: HCFA–10019 (OMB

approval #: 0938–NEW); Use: This

survey is necessary to collect access,

quality, and financial performance

information from suppliers of durable

medical equipment (hospital beds,

oxygen, urologic supplies, enteral

nutrition, or wound care). The

information will be presented to HCFA

and to Congress, who will use the

results to determine whether the

demonstration should be extended to

other sites; Frequency: Once; Affected

Public: Business or other for-profit;

Number of Respondents: 340; Total

Annual Responses: 340; Total Annual

Burden Hours: 620.

To obtain copies of the supporting

statement and any related forms for the

proposed paperwork collections

referenced above, access HCFA’s Web

Site address at http://www.hcfa.gov/

regs/prdact95.htm, or E-mail your

request, including your address, phone

number, OMB number, and HCFA

document identifier, to

Paperwork@hcfa.gov, or call the Reports

Clearance Office on (410) 786–1326.

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collections must be mailed

within 60 days of this notice directly to

the HCFA Paperwork Clearance Officer

designated at the following address:

HCFA, Office of Information Services,

Security and Standards Group, Division

of HCFA Enterprise Standards,

Attention: Julie Brown, Room N2–14–

26, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore,

Maryland 21244–1850.

Date: November 29, 2000.

John P. Burke III,

Reports Clearance Officer, Security and

Standards Group, Division of HCFA

Enterprise Standards.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4557–N–49]

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities

To Assist the Homeless

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Community Planning and

Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This Notice identifies

unutilized, underutilized, excess, and

surplus Federal property reviewed by

HUD for suitability for possible use to

assist the homeless.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Clifford Taffet, room 7266, Department

of Housing and Urban Development,

451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington,

DC 20410; telephone (202) 708–1234;

TTY number for the hearing- and

speech-impaired (202) 708–2565 (these

telephone numbers are not toll-free), or

call the toll-free Title V information line

at 1–800–927–7588.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

accordance with 24 CFR part 581 and

section 501 of the Stewart B. McKinney

Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.

11411), as amended, HUD is publishing

this Notice to identify Federal buildings

and other real property that HUD has

reviewed for suitability for use to assist

the homeless. The properties were

reviewed using information provided to

HUD by Federal landholding agencies

regarding unutilized and underutilized

buildings and real property controlled

by such agencies or by GSA regarding

its inventory of excess or surplus

Federal property. This Notice is also

published in order to comply with the

December 12, 1988 Court Order in

National Coalition for the Homeless v.

Veterans Administration, No. 88–2503–

OG (D.D.C.).

Properties reviewed are listed in this

Notice according to the following

categories: Suitable/available, suitable/

unavailable, suitable/to be excess, and

unsuitable. The properties listed in the

three suitable categories have been

reviewed by the landholding agencies,

and each agency has transmitted to

HUD: (1) Its intention to make the

property available for use to assist the

homeless, (2) its intention to declare the

property excess to the agency’s needs, or

(3) a statement of the reasons that the

property cannot be declared excess or

made available for use as facilities to

assist the homeless.

Properties listed as suitable/available

will be available exclusively for

homeless use for a period of 60 days

from the date of this Notice. Homeless

assistance providers interested in any

such property should send a written

expression of interest to HHS, addressed

to Brian Rooney, Division of Property

Management, Program Support Center,

HHS, room 5B–41, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857; (301) 443–2265.

(This is not a toll-free number.) HHS

will mail to the interested provider an

application packet, which will include

instructions for completing the

application. In order to maximize the

opportunity to utilize a suitable

property, providers should submit their

written expressions of interest as soon

as possible. For complete details

concerning the processing of

applications, the reader is encouraged to

refer to the interim rule governing this

program, 24 CFR part 581.

For properties listed as suitable/to be

excess, that property may, if

subsequently accepted as excess by

GSA, be made available for use by the

homeless in accordance with applicable

law, subject to screening for other

Federal use. At the appropriate time,

HUD will publish the property in a

Notice showing it as either suitable/

available or suitable/unavailable.

For properties listed as suitable/

unavailable, the landholding agency has

decided that the property cannot be

declared excess or made available for

use to assist the homeless, and the

property will not be available.

Properties listed as unsuitable will

not be made available for any other

purpose for 20 days from the date of this