8544 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 36 / Wednesday, February 25, 2009 / Notices 

of the Medicare Improvements for 

Patients and Providers Act of 2008, 

Public Law 110–275, as amended, 

pertaining to contracting with the 

Institute of Medicine for reports on best 

practices for conducting systematic 

reviews of clinical effectiveness 

research and for developing clinical 

protocols. 

This delegation shall be exercised in 

accordance with the Department’s 

applicable policies, procedures, 

guidelines and regulations. 

In addition, the delegation ratifies and 

affirms any actions taken by you or your 

subordinates that involved the exercise 

of the authorities delegated herein prior 

to the effective date of this delegation. 

This delegation is effective upon date 

of signature. 

Dated: February 9, 2009. 

Charles E. Johnson, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–3837 Filed 2–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4160–90–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–09–08BP] 

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) 639–5960 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, Washington, 

DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project: Audience Profiling 

for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 

Prevention Status—New—National 

Center for Environmental Health 

(NCEH), Coordinating Center for 

Environmental Health and Injury 

Prevention (CCEHIP), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Carbon monoxide (CO) is one of the 

leading causes of poison-related deaths 

in the United States. The Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 

estimates that each year approximately 

500 people die of unintentional, 

nonfire-related CO exposure, and 

another 15,000 individuals visit 

emergency rooms for treatment from 

exposure to CO gas. 

Despite our current knowledge of 

scenarios and products that lead to CO 

poisoning, questions remain about when 

and how individuals use CO-emitting 

products, why they engage in certain 

risk behaviors, how best to inform them 

about the CO poisoning, and how 

receptive they are to existing prevention 

materials. This study aims to address 

these questions through assessing the 

basis for current audience knowledge, 

attitudes, and practices and, ultimately, 

strengthen educational materials about 

CO poisoning prevention. 

The study will employ the use of 

qualitative methods during three phases 

of data collection. Phase I will consist 

of eight in-person focus groups among 

home furnace owners and portable 

generator owners (n = 64) as well as four 

telephone interviews with organizations 

that serve populations at risk for CO 

poisoning (n = 4). Phase II will consist 

of analyzing previously collected data 

on consumer media usage and 

preferences. Phase III will consist of 16 

in-person triad interviews (3 individuals 

per interview) with home furnace 

owners and portable generator owners 

(n = 48) to pretest CO poisoning 

educational materials. 

NCEH will identify individuals for the 

focus groups and triad interviews using 

recruiting firms that specialize in the 

two at-risk populations: (1) Home 

furnace owners and (2) portable 

generator owners. Individuals in these 

two groups will be screened over the 

telephone by the recruiting firms, and if 

they meet the eligibility criteria, will be 

invited to participate in the study. At 

the end of each focus group and triad 

interview, NCEH will ask participants to 

complete a brief exit questionnaire on 

demographics and media usage. 

There is no cost to respondents other 

than their time. The total estimated 

burden hours are 276. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Instrument type Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden 

per response 

(in hours) 

Owners of Gas or Oil Burning Household 

Appliances.

Focus Group Screener ............................. 64 1 10/60 

Focus Group ............................................. 32 1 2 

Exit Questionnaire .................................... 32 1 10/60 

Triad Screener .......................................... 48 1 10/60 

Triad ......................................................... 24 1 2 

Owners of Portable Gas Burning Generator Focus Group Screener ............................. 64 1 10/60 

Focus Group ............................................. 32 1 2 

Exit Questionnaire .................................... 32 1 10/60 

Triad Screener .......................................... 48 1 10/60 

Triad ......................................................... 24 1 2 

Expert ........................................................ Telephone Interview ................................. 4 1 1 


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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 36 / Wednesday, February 25, 2009 / Notices 8545 

Dated: February 13, 2009. 

Maryam I. Daneshvar, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E9–3999 Filed 2–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–09–09AW] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–639–5960 and 

send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar, 

CDC Acting Reports Clearance Officer, 

1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, 

GA 30333 or send an email to 

omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Measuring Preferences for Quality of 

Life for Child Maltreatment—New— 

National Center for Injury Prevention 

and Control (NCIPC), Division of 

Violence Prevention (DVP), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The CDC requests approval of a study 

and subsequent survey fielding to 

measure the quality-of-life (QoL) 

impacts resulting from child 

maltreatment (CM) using a quantitative, 

preference-based approach. The U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, among many others, has 

identified child maltreatment as a 

serious U.S. public health problem with 

substantial long-term physical and 

psychological consequences. Despite 

considerable research on the 

consequences of CM in adult survivors, 

few studies have utilized standard QoL 

techniques and none have quantified 

childhood QoL impacts. This gap in the 

literature means the full QoL burden of 

CM has not been measured inhibiting 

the evaluation and comparison of CM 

intervention programs. This study will 

improve public health knowledge and 

economic evaluation of the QoL impacts 

of physical and sexual CM, including 

effects specific to juvenile and 

adolescent survivors, through the 

development and fielding of a 

preference-based survey instrument. 

CDC has contracted with RTI 

International to develop and field a 

survey instrument to measure the QoL 

impacts of child maltreatment. RTI will 

develop the instrument based on 

standardized QoL methods, existing 

instruments, a literature review of CM 

outcomes, and qualitative research 

techniques. The final instrument will be 

fielded to a national sample and data 

analyzed to measure the impacts of CM. 

Survey development will include 

interviews with both clinician proxies 

for adolescent survivors and CM 

survivors, as well as focus groups with 

same-sex adult CM survivors. 

The instrument will be pretested to an 

online national sample of all U.S. 

adults. After pretesting, the final survey 

will be fielded to a nationallyrepresentative sample of 2000 U.S. 

adults. The survey will focus on QoL 

measures of preferences and contain 

limited questions on past CM exposure 

to identify possible CM survivors. The 

national sample will be representative 

of the U.S. population and include a 

significant number of CM survivors so 

that preferences can be estimated 

separately based on past CM exposure. 

Final results will provide an estimate 

of the quality-of-life burden of child 

maltreatment in the United States. 

Analysis and results of the survey data 

will be used to inform the public health 

community of the impact of CM, and to 

evaluate and compare CM intervention 

programs. 

There are no costs to respondents 

other than their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondent Form No. of respondents 

No. of responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

Same-sex adult CM survivors ................... Focus groups ............................................ 50 1 1.5 75 

U.S. Adults ................................................ Pretest interviews ..................................... 15 1 1.5 23 

Pilot Instrument ........................................ 100 1 20/60 34 

National Sample ....................................... 2000 1 20/60 667 

Clinicians ................................................... In-depth interviews ................................... 15 1 1 15 

Total ................................................... ................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 814 


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