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of organizations to enhance worker 

safety and health in their region. 

This Notice encourages investigators 

with expertise and insights in the area 

of occupational safety and health to 

begin to consider applying for this 

upcoming FOA. 

Budget Limits for Required and 

Optional Components: ERCs are 

complex, interdisciplinary centers. Up 

to $1,800,000/year total costs may be 

requested by an ERC. The following 

table lists required and optional ERC 

components and budget information: 

ERC components Funding information 

(total costs) 

Planning and Evaluation Core (Required) ............................................... Up to $370,000/year. 

Center Administration, Planning and Evaluation ...................................... Up to $250,000/year. 

Interdisciplinary Activities ......................................................................... Up to $30,000/year. 

Diversity Recruitment and Retention ........................................................ Up to $5,000/year. 

Outreach in Occupational Safety and Health ........................................... Up to $35,000/year. 

Developmental Program Support (Optional) ............................................ Up to $50,000/year. 

Academic Training Core (Required) ......................................................... Up to $930,000/year with 70% to Direct Trainee Costs. 

Required minimum of 3 Academic Training Programs. At least 2 from 

the core disciplines of IH, OHN, OMR, or OS, and 1 may be a core 

or allied discipline.

There is no minimum number of trainees required for any one academic program. 

Applicants must fully justify need for all programs and their capacity to 

meet training demand. 

NIOSH will consider applications for Doctor of Nursing Practice Programs. 

Complementary and Special Pathways for OMRs are eligible for 

NIOSH support if administered by an OMR Program accredited by 

the ACGME.

Applicants may request trainee support for academic certificate training 

programs in approved core and allied disciplines. Trainee support is 

limited to tuition only and is included in the minimum 70% allocation 

toward Direct Trainee Costs. Certificate trainees should be clearly 

identified in academic training program budgets. 

There are no budget limits for individual academic training programs. 

Applicants must stay within the total $1.8 million per year request in 

total costs. 

A minimum of 70% of the overall Academic Training Core budget must 

go to Direct Trainee Costs that provide stipends, tuition and fees, research support, and travel. 

A maximum of 30% of the overall Academic Training Core budget may 

go to support Training-related Expenses that include support for faculty and staff salaries, supplies, equipment and non-trainee travel. 

This 70%/30% allocation of funding may be applied across all academic training programs in aggregate, and need not be applied to 

each individual academic training program. 

Research Training Core (Optional) .......................................................... Up to $400,000/year with 70% of Collaborative Research Training 

(CRT) to Direct Trainee Costs. 

Pilot Projects Research Training (Optional) ............................................. Up to $100,000/year. 

Collaborative Research Training (Optional) ............................................. Up to $300,000/year. 

CRT supports the research training needs of NIOSH trainees and students from other disciplines who receive NIOSH support during their 

academic training program. A minimum of 70% of requested funds 

must go to support Direct Trainee Costs that provide stipends, tuition 

and fees, research supplies, and travel; a maximum of 30% may go 

to support Training-related Expenses that include support for faculty 

and staff salaries, supplies, equipment and non-trainee travel. 

Continuing Education Program (Required) ..............................................

Needs-based training should be offered to safety and health practitioners and allied disciplines to have a positive impact on workplace 

practices and policies. 

Up to $100,000/year. 

Dated: March 16, 2015. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2013–1078] 

National Offshore Safety Advisory 

Committee; Meeting 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory 

Committee meetings. 

SUMMARY: The National Offshore Safety 

Advisory Committee and its 

Commercial Diving Safety on the Outer 

Continental Shelf Subcommittee will 

meet on April 7 and 8, 2015, in New 

Orleans, LA to discuss the safety of 

operations and other matters affecting 

the offshore oil and gas industry. These 

meetings are open to the public. 

DATES: The Commercial Diving Safety 

on the Outer Continental Shelf 

Subcommittee will meet on Tuesday, 

April 7, 2015, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and 

the full National Offshore Safety 

Advisory Committee will meet on 

Wednesday, April 8, 2015, from 8:30 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m. These meetings may 

end early if the Committee has 

completed its business, or they may be 

extended based on the number of public 

comments. All submitted written 

materials, comments, and requests to 

make oral presentations at the meetings 

should reach the Coast Guard (see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) by April 

1, 2015. Any written material submitted 

by the public will be distributed to the 

Committee and become part of the 

public record. 

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at 

the OMNI Riverfront Hotel, 701 

Convention Center Boulevard, New 

Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 524–8200, 

http://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/neworleans-riverfront. The April 7, 2015 

afternoon Subcommittee meeting will be 

held in the Bacchus B Conference 

Room. The April 8, 2015 full Committee 

meeting will be held in the Bacchus 

Conference Room. 

For information on facilities or 

services for individuals with 

disabilities, or to request special 

assistance at the meetings, contact the 

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individuals listed in FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section, as soon as 

possible. 

To facilitate public participation, we 

are inviting public comment on the 

issues to be considered by the 

Committee as listed in the ‘‘Agenda’’ 

section below. Written comments for 

distribution and review by Committee 

members prior to the meeting must be 

submitted no later than April 1, 2015, 

must be identified by docket number 

USCG–2013–1078 and submitted by one 

of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

(Preferred method to avoid delays in 

processing). 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility 

(M–30), U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

• Hand Delivery: Same as mail 

address above, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The telephone number 

for the Docket Management Facility is 

(202) 366–9329. 

To avoid duplication, please submit 

comments using only one of the above 

methods. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the words ‘‘Department of 

Homeland Security’’ and the docket 

number for this action, USCG 2013– 

1078. All comments submitted will be 

posted without alteration at http://

www.regulations.gov including any 

personal information provided. You 

may review a Privacy Act notice 

regarding our public dockets in the 

January 17, 2008, issue of the Federal 

Register (73 FR 3316). 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read documents or comments related to 

this notice, go to http://

www.regulations.gov, insert USCG– 

2013–1078 in the Search box, press 

Enter, and then click on the item you 

wish to view. 

A public oral comment period will be 

held during the meeting on April 8, 

2015, and speakers are requested to 

limit their comments to 3 minutes. 

Contact one of the individuals listed 

below to register as a speaker. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lieutenant Commander William 

Nabach, Designated Federal Official of 

the National Offshore Safety Advisory 

Committee, Commandant (CG–OES–2), 

U.S. Coast Guard, 2703 Martin Luther 

King Jr. Avenue SE. Stop 7509, 

Washington, DC 20593–7509; telephone 

(202) 372–1410, fax (202) 372–8382 or 

email William.A.Nabach@uscg.mil, or 

Mr. Scott Hartley, telephone (202) 372– 

1437, fax (202) 372–8382 or email 

Scott.E.Hartley@uscg.mil. If you have 

questions on viewing or submitting 

material to the docket, call Ms. Cheryl 

Collins, Program Manager, Docket 

Operations, telephone (202) 366–9826 

or (800) 647–5527. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of 

this meeting is given under the 

authority of 41 CFR 102–3 and Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. 

552(a). The National Offshore Safety 

Advisory Committee provides advice 

and recommendations to the 

Department of Homeland Security on 

matters and actions concerning 

activities directly involved with or in 

support of the exploration of offshore 

mineral and energy resources insofar as 

they relate to matters within U.S. Coast 

Guard jurisdiction. 

A copy of all meeting documentation 

will be available at https://

homeport.uscg.mil/NOSAC. 

Alternatively, you may contact Mr. Scott 

Hartley as noted in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section above. 

Agenda 

Day 1 

The National Offshore Safety 

Advisory Subcommittee on Commercial 

Diving Safety on the Outer Continental 

Shelf will meet on April 7, 2015 from 

1 p.m. to 2 p.m. to review, discuss and 

formulate recommendations for a final 

report on commercial diving safety. 

Day 2 

The National Offshore Safety 

Advisory full Committee will meet on 

April 8, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

to review and discuss Subcommittee 

progress, reports and recommendations 

received from the Subcommittee on 

Commercial Diving Safety on the Outer 

Continental Shelf from their 

deliberations on April 7, 2015. The 

National Offshore Safety Advisory 

Committee will then use this 

information and consider public 

comments in formulating 

recommendations to the Coast Guard. 

Public comments or questions will be 

taken at the discretion of the Designated 

Federal Official during the discussion 

and recommendation portions of the 

meeting as well as during the public 

comment period, see Agenda item (4). 

A complete agenda for April 8, 2015, 

is as follows: 

(1) Current Business—Presentation 

and discussion of a final report and 

included recommendations from the 

Subcommittee on Commercial Diving 

Safety on the Outer Continental Shelf. 

(2) New Business—Introduction of 

new Task Statements by the Coast 

Guard: 

(a) Cyber Security on the U.S. Outer 

Continental Shelf; 

(b) Offshore Well Intervention Vessel 

Operations, Activities, Purpose and 

Definition; 

(c) Safety of Persons Assigned to 

Lifeboats during Launching, Recovery 

and Maintenance Activities for Units 

working on the U.S. Outer Continental 

Shelf; and 

(d) Towage of Mobile Offshore 

Drilling Units, Mobile Offshore Units 

and Floating Offshore Installations on 

the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. 

(3) Presentations and discussions on 

the following matters: 

(a) Annual Report of Coast Guard 

Action/Disposition on National Offshore 

Safety Advisory Committee Final 

Reports; 

(b) International Association of 

Drilling Contractors Contractor 

Management and Bridging Arrangement; 

(c) Arctic and International Maritime 

Organization Polar Code; and 

(d) Well Intervention. 

(4) Public comment period. 

The agenda, draft final report, new 

task statements and presentations will 

be available approximately 7 days prior 

to the meeting at the https://

homeport.uscg.mil/NOSAC Web site or 

by contacting Mr. Scott Hartley. 

Minutes 

Meeting minutes will be available for 

public view and copying within 90 days 

following the meeting at the https://

homeport.uscg.mil/NOSAC Web site. 

Notice of Future 2015 National Offshore 

Safety Advisory Committee Meetings 

To receive automatic email notices of 

future National Offshore Safety 

Advisory Committee meetings in 2015, 

go to the online docket, USCG–2013– 

1078 (http://www.regulations.gov/

#!docketDetail:D=USCG-2013-1078), 

and select the sign-up-for-email-alerts 

option. 

Dated: 16 March 2015. 

J.G. Lantz, 

Director of Commercial Regulations and 

Standards, U.S. Coast Guard. 

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