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Act of 2000 to advise the President on a 

variety of policy and technical functions 

required to implement and effectively 

manage the new compensation program. Key 

functions of the Advisory Board include 

providing advice on the development of 

probability of causation guidelines that have 

been promulgated by the Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS) as a final 

rule; advice on methods of dose 

reconstruction which have also been 

promulgated by HHS as a final rule; advice 

on the scientific validity and quality of dose 

estimation and reconstruction efforts being 

performed for purposes of the compensation 

program; and advice on petitions to add 

classes of workers to the Special Exposure 

Cohort (SEC). 

In December 2000, the President delegated 

responsibility for funding, staffing, and 

operating the Advisory Board to HHS, which 

subsequently delegated this authority to CDC. 

NIOSH implements this responsibility for 

CDC. The charter was issued on August 3, 

2001, renewed at appropriate intervals, and 

will expire on August 3, 2009. 

Purpose: The Advisory Board is charged 

with (a) Providing advice to the Secretary, 

HHS, on the development of guidelines 

under Executive Order 13179; (b) providing 

advice to the Secretary, HHS, on the 

scientific validity and quality of dose 

reconstruction efforts performed for this 

program; and (c) upon request by the 

Secretary, HHS, advise the Secretary on 

whether there is a class of employees at any 

Department of Energy facility who were 

exposed to radiation but for whom it is not 

feasible to estimate their radiation dose, and 

whether there is reasonable likelihood that 

such radiation doses may have endangered 

the health of members of this class. The 

Subcommittee on Procedures Reviews was 

established to aid the Advisory Board in 

carrying out its duty to advise the Secretary, 

HHS, on dose reconstruction. It will be 

responsible for overseeing, tracking, and 

participating in the reviews of all procedures 

used in the dose reconstruction process by 

the NIOSH Office of Compensation Analysis 

and Support (OCAS) and its dose 

reconstruction contractor. 

Matters to be Discussed: The agenda for the 

Subcommittee meeting includes: A 

discussion of proposed new versions of the 

computer-assisted telephone interview 

scripts and procedures NIOSH uses to 

interview claimants at the outset of the dose 

reconstruction process; a discussion of 

ORAUT–OTIB–0054 (‘‘Fission and 

Activation Product Assignment for Internal 

Dose-Related Gross Beta and Gross Gamma 

Analyses’’), ORAUT–OTIB–0066 

(‘‘Calculation of Dose from Intakes of Special 

Tritium Compounds’’), and ORAUT–OTIB– 

0052 (‘‘Parameters for Processing Claims for 

Construction Workers’’); and, a continuation 

of the comment-resolution process for other 

dose reconstruction procedures under review 

by the Subcommittee. 

The agenda is subject to change as 

priorities dictate. 

In the event an individual cannot attend, 

written comments may be submitted. Any 

written comments received will be provided 

at the meeting and should be submitted to 

the contact person below in advance of the 

meeting. 

This meeting was previously scheduled to 

convene on January 29, 2009, but was 

cancelled due to inclement weather and 

airport and facility inaccessibility. The 

meeting was scheduled to reconvene as soon 

as possible; therefore, this Federal Register 

notice is being published less than fifteen 

days prior to the meeting date. 

For Further Information Contact: Theodore 

Katz, Executive Secretary, NIOSH, CDC, 1600 

Clifton Road, Mailstop E–20, Atlanta GA 

30333, Telephone (513) 533–6800, Toll Free 

1 (800) CDC–INFO, E-mail ocas@cdc.gov. 

The Director, Management Analysis and 

Services Office, has been delegated the 

authority to sign Federal Register notices 

pertaining to announcements of meetings and 

other committee management activities, for 

both CDC and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Dated: March 6, 2009. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Director, Management Analysis and Services 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[Docket Number NIOSH–145] 

Notice of Public Comment Period for 

the NIOSH Childhood Agricultural 

Injury Prevention Initiative 

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 669(a). 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of Document Available 

for Public Comment. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC) 

announces the availability of the 

following document which 

encompasses progress to-date and 

planned future activities of the NIOSH 

Childhood Agricultural Injury 

Prevention Initiative. The document, 

NIOSH Childhood Agricultural Injury 

Prevention Initiative: Progress and 

Proposed Future Activities, can be 

found at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ 

review/public/145/. 

Public Comment Period: March 16, 

2009 to May 15, 2009. 

Purpose: To seek comments on the 

progress and proposed future activities 

of the Childhood Agricultural Injury 

Prevention Initiative begun by NIOSH in 

October 1996, in order to ensure that the 

program is meeting the needs of 

stakeholders (e.g., national youth 

agricultural injury prevention 

organizations, agricultural youth injury 

prevention groups, individuals, etc.) 

and other interested members of the 

public, and to identify ways in which 

the program can be improved to 

increase its impact on the safety of 

children in agriculture. A review of 

progress and public comment on the 

proposed future activities of the NIOSH 

Childhood Agricultural injury 

Prevention Initiative is desired 

periodically to assess whether the 

NIOSH Childhood Agricultural Injury 

Prevention Initiative is addressing the 

most pressing issues and areas of 

childhood agricultural injury 

prevention. NIOSH will compile and 

consider all comments received through 

the NIOSH docket and use them in 

making decisions on how to proceed 

with the Childhood Agricultural Injury 

Prevention Initiative. 

Background: The problem of children 

being injured while living, working, or 

visiting agricultural work environments 

(farms) has been recognized for several 

decades. The most recent data suggest 

about 100 youths under the age of 20 die 

on farms each year and about 27,600 

farm-related injuries occur to the same 

age group. Many individuals and groups 

have advocated for the prevention of 

agricultural injuries experienced by 

youths, and media attention has been 

generated on the issue, but until 1996 a 

national coordinated effort to address 

the problem had not existed. 

In April 1996, the National Committee 

for Childhood Agricultural Injury 

Prevention (NCCAIP) published a report 

entitled Children and Agriculture: 

Opportunities for Safety and Health, A 

National Action Plan to promote the 

health and safety of children exposed to 

agricultural hazards. The National 

Action Plan recommends leadership, 

surveillance, research, education, and 

public policy. The plan specifically 

recommended that NIOSH serve as the 

lead federal agency in preventing 

childhood agricultural injury. Due in 

large part to the efforts by NCCAIP to 

raise awareness and concern about 

childhood agricultural injury issues, in 

October 1996, NIOSH began 

implementing a Childhood Agricultural 

Injury Prevention Initiative. In July, 

1999, a review was conducted by 

NIOSH to seek input on the progress 

and direction of the Childhood 

Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative 

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to date. The input provided by 

stakeholders at that meeting was useful 

in providing insight into stakeholder 

needs and in helping to improve the 

Childhood Agricultural Injury 

Prevention Initiative. 

In 2001, a Childhood Agricultural 

Injury Prevention Summit was 

organized and convened by the National 

Children’s Center for Rural and 

Agricultural Health and Safety 

(NCCRAHS), an extramurally funded 

component, five years after the 

implementation of the NIOSH 

Childhood Agricultural Injury 

Prevention Initiative. The goal of the 

summit was to conduct a five-year 

review of the 1996 National Action Plan 

and to use a consensus development 

process to generate strategies for the 

future. Specifically, participants were 

asked to consider: (a) Successes to date, 

(b) gaps and barriers in achieving 

objectives, (c) current and potential 

effective interventions not addressed in 

the National Action Plan, and (d) 

strategies for the future. To date, NIOSH 

has undertaken a number of activities, 

both intramurally and extramurally, to 

address the recommendations in the 

1996 National Action Plan and the 2001 

Childhood Agricultural Injury 

Prevention Summit. 

Status: The Document, NIOSH 

Childhood Agricultural Injury 

Prevention Initiative: Progress and 

Proposed Future Activities, will be 

available for comment by stakeholders 

and other interested members of the 

public. Written comments should be 

submitted to the NIOSH Docket Office 

as outlined in the next section. 

Docket: Written comments on the 

usefulness of the Childhood 

Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative 

for improving childhood agricultural 

safety and suggestions for enhancing or 

improving the impact of the Initiative 

should be mailed to the NIOSH Docket 

Office, Robert A. Taft Laboratories, MS– 

C34, 4676 Columbia Parkway, 

Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, telephone (513) 

533–8303, facsimile (513) 533–8285. 

Comments may also be submitted by email to niocindocket@cdc.gov. E-mail 

attachments should be formatted in 

Microsoft Word. All materials submitted 

to the Agency should reference NIOSH 

docket number 145 and must be 

submitted by May 15, 2009 to be 

considered by the Agency. All 

electronic comments should be 

formatted as Microsoft Word. All 

information received in response to this 

notice will be available for public 

examination and copying at the NIOSH 

Docket Office, Room 111, 4676 

Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 

45226. After the comment period has 

closed, comments may be accessed 

electronically at http://www.cdc.gov/ 

niosh under the link to the NIOSH 

docket. As appropriate, NIOSH will post 

comments with the commenters’ names, 

affiliations, and other information, on 

the Internet. 

Contact Person for Technical 

Information: David Hard, Health 

Scientist, Analysis and Field 

Investigations Branch, Division of Safety 

Research, telephone (304) 285–6068, Email DHard@cdc.gov, facsimile (304) 

285–6235. 

Dated: March 9, 2009. 

James D. Seligman, 

Chief Information Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Proposed Project 

Title: Head Start Family and Child 

Experiences Survey (FACES 2009). 

OMB No.: 0970–0151. 

Description: The Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, is planning to collect data on 

a new cohort for the Head Start Family 

and Child Experiences Survey (FACES). 

FACES is a longitudinal study of a 

nationally representative sample of 

Head Start programs and children that 

will collect information for Head Start 

performance measures. Data for FACES 

will be collected annually through 

interviews with Head Start parents, 

teachers, program directors and other 

Head Start staff, as well as direct child 

assessments and observations of Head 

Start classrooms. 

Data will be collected on a sample of 

approximately 3,400 children and 

families from 60 Head Start programs. 

Data collection will include assessments 

of Head Start children, interviews with 

their parents, and ratings by their Head 

Start teachers. Site visitors will 

interview Head Start teachers in 

approximately 405 classrooms and make 

observations of the types and quality of 

classroom activities. Interviews will also 

be conducted with Head Start program 

directors and other staff. A follow-up for 

children in Kindergarten will include 

child assessments, parent interviews, 

and teacher questionnaires and child 

ratings. 

The purpose of this data collection is 

to fulfill the requirements of the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA) of 1993 (Pub. L. 103–62), 

and by the 1994 reauthorization of the 

Head Start program (Head Start Act, as 

amended, May 18, 1994, Section 649 

(d)), which call for periodic assessments 

of Head Start’s quality and effectiveness. 

Respondents: Parents of Head Start 

Children, Head Start Children, Head 

Start Teachers, Head Start Program 

Directors and Staff, and Kindergarten 

Teachers of former Head Start enrollees. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Annual number of respondents Number of responses per 

respondent 

Average burden hour per 

response 

Estimated annual burden 

hours 

Parent Interview ............................................................................................... 3,185 1.0 .81 2,564 

Child Assessment ............................................................................................ 3,245 1.0 0.75 2,434 

Head Start Teacher Interview .......................................................................... 405 1.0 0.50 203 

Head Start Teacher Child Rating .................................................................... 405 9.0 0.17 620 

Program Director Interview .............................................................................. 20 1.0 0.50 10 

Center Director Interview ................................................................................. 40 1.0 0.50 20 

Education Coordinator Interview ..................................................................... 20 1.0 0.50 10 

Kindergarten Teacher Questionnaire .............................................................. 1,128 1.3 0.50 733 

Kindergarten Teacher Child Rating ................................................................. 1,128 1.3 0.17 249 

Total Annual Burden Hours: ..................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 6,843