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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 

NCEH/ATSDR Exposure 

Investigations (EIs) [OMB NO: 0923– 

0040]—Extension—The National Center 

for Environmental Health (NCEH), and 

the Agency for Toxic Substances and 

Disease Registry (ATSDR), and the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

This is a brief summary of a joint 

clearance between the NCEH and 

ATSDR, (hereafter ATSDR will 

represent both ATSDR and NCEH). 

ATSDR is mandated pursuant to the 

1980 Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA) and its 1986 

Amendments, the Superfund 

Amendments and Reauthorization Act 

(SARA) to prevent or mitigate adverse 

human health effects and diminished 

quality of life resulting from the 

exposure to hazardous substances in the 

environment. EIs are an approach 

developed by ATSDR that employs 

targeted biologic (e.g., urine, blood, hair 

samples) and environmental (e.g., air, 

water, soil, or food) sampling to 

determine whether people are or have 

been exposed to unusual levels of 

pollutants at specific locations (e.g., 

where people live, spend leisure time, 

or anywhere they might come into 

contact with contaminants under 

investigation). After a chemical release 

or suspected release into the 

environment, ATSDR’s EIs are used by 

public health professionals, 

environmental risk managers, and other 

decision makers to determine if current 

conditions warrant intervention 

strategies to minimize or eliminate 

human exposure. EIs are usually 

requested by officials of a state health 

agency, county health departments, the 

Environmental Protection Agency, the 

general public, and ATSDR staff. 

ATSDR has been conducting EIs since 

1995 throughout the United States. All 

of ATSDR’s biomedical assessments and 

some of the environmental 

investigations involve participants. 

Participation is completely voluntary. 

To assist in interpreting the sampling 

results, a survey questionnaire 

appropriate to the specific contaminant 

is administered to participants. ATSDR 

collects contact information (e.g., name, 

address, phone number) to provide the 

participant with their individual results. 

Name and address information are 

broken into nine separate questions 

(data fields) for computer entry. General 

information, which includes height, 

weight, age, race, gender, etc., is also 

collected primarily on biomedical 

investigations to assist with results 

interpretation. General information can 

account for approximately 28 questions 

per investigation. Some of this 

information is investigation-specific; not 

all of this data is collected for every 

investigation. ATSDR is seeking an 

extension of our approved set of 61 

general information questions. 

ATSDR also collects information on 

other possible confounding sources of 

chemical(s) exposure such as medicines 

taken, foods eaten, hobbies, jobs, etc. In 

addition, ATSDR asks questions on 

recreational or occupational activities 

that could increase a participant’s 

exposure potential. That information 

represents an individual’s exposure 

history. To cover those broad categories, 

ATSDR is seeking an extension to our 

approved sets of topical questions. Of 

these, we use approximately 12–15 

questions about the pertinent 

environmental exposures per 

investigation. This number can vary 

depending on the number of chemicals 

being investigated, the route of exposure 

(e.g., breathing, eating, touching), and 

number of other sources of the 

chemical(s) (e.g., products used, jobs). 

Typically, the number of participants 

in an individual EI ranges from 10 to 50. 

Questionnaires are generally needed in 

less than half of the EIs (approximately 

10–15 per year). 

The subject matter for the complete 

set of topical questions includes the 

following: (1) Media specific which 

includes: Air (indoor/outdoor); water 

(water source and plumbing); soil, and 

food (gardening, fish, game, domestic 

animals (e.g., chickens)). (2) Other 

sources such as: Occupations; hobbies; 

household chemical uses and house 

construction characteristics; lifestyle 

(e.g., smoking); medicines and/or health 

conditions, and foods. 

There are no costs to respondents 

other than their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Respondents Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

Exposure Investigation Participants ................................................................ 750 1 30/60 375 

Dated: April 8, 2009. 

Maryam I. Daneshvar, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E9–8537 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: 

Comment Request 

In compliance with the requirement 

for opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects 

(section 3506(c)(2)(A) of Title 44, United 

States Code, as amended by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. 

L. 104–13), the Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA) 

publishes periodic summaries of 

proposed projects being developed for 

submission to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. To request more 

information on the proposed project or 

to obtain a copy of the data collection 

plans and draft instruments, e-mail 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA 

Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443– 

1129. 

Comments are invited on: (a) The 

proposed collection of information for 

the proper performance of the functions 

of the agency; (b) the accuracy of the 


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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. 

Proposed Project: The Health Education 

Assistance Loan (HEAL) Program: 

Forms (OMB No. 0915–0034)— 

Extension 

The HEAL program provided 

federally insured loans to assure the 

availability of funds for loans to eligible 

students to pay for their education costs. 

In order to administer and monitor the 

HEAL program the following forms are 

utilized: the Lender’s Application for 

Contract of Federal Loan Insurance form 

(used by lenders to make application to 

the HEAL insurance program); the 

Borrower’s Deferment Request form 

(used by borrowers to request 

deferments on HEAL loans and used by 

lenders to determine borrower’s 

eligibility for deferment); the Borrower 

Loan Status update electronic 

submission (submitted monthly by 

lenders to the Secretary on the status of 

each loan); and the Loan Purchase/ 

Consolidation electronic submission 

(submitted by lenders to the Secretary to 

report sales, and purchases of HEAL 

loans). 

The estimates of burden for the forms 

are as follows: 

HRSA form Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Hours per 

responses 

Total burden 

hours 

Lender’s Application for Contract of Federal Loan Insurance .................................................................................. 13 1 13 0.13 2 

Borrower’s Deferment Request: 

Borrowers ...................................................................... 58 1 58 0.17 10 

Employers ..................................................................... 43 1.34 58 0.08 5 

Borrower Loan Status Update ............................................. 8 13 104 0.17 18 

Loan Purchase/Consolidation .............................................. 1 1 1 0.07 .07 

Total ................................................................... 123 ........................ 234 ........................ 35 

E-mail comments to 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA 

Reports Clearance Officer, Room 10–33, 

Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments 

should be received within 60 days of 

this notice. 

Dated: April 8, 2009. 

Alexandra Huttinger, 

Director, Division of Policy Review and 

Coordination. 

[FR Doc. E9–8608 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4165–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request; A Process Evaluation of the 

NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (NDPA) 

Program 

Summary: 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 

Office of the Director, the National 

Institutes of Health (NIH), will publish 

periodic summaries of proposed 

projects to be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. 

An Outcome Evaluation of the NIH 

Director’s Pioneer Award (NDPA) 

Program. Type of Information Collection 

Request: New collection. Need and Use 

of Information Collection: This study 

will assess the NDPA Program outputs 

and outcomes. The primary objectives of 

the study are to assess: (1) Whether the 

NDPA awardees are conducting 

pioneering research, and (2) whether 

there are spillover effects on the 

awardees, their lab members, NIH, and 

the scientific community. The findings 

will provide valuable information 

concerning the success of the awardees 

(pioneers) and whether the 

characteristics of the NDPA program are 

adopted by other NIH programs. 

Frequency of Response: Once. 

Affected Public: none. Type of 

Respondents: Applicants, Interviewees 

(finalist), Pioneer Lab Members, Focus 

Group Panelists. There are no Capital 

Costs to report. Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 83; Estimated Number of 

Responses per Respondent: 1; Average 

Burden Hours per Response: 2.14 (60 

minutes for awardees, 10 minutes for 

finalists, 30 minutes for pioneer lab 

members, and 10 hours for focus group 

panelists). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours Requested: 177.83 and the 

annualized cost to respondents is 

estimated at $11,308.21. Table 1 and 

Table 2, respectively, present data 

concerning the burden hours and cost 

burdens for this data collection. 

TABLE 1—ANNUALIZED ESTIMATE OF HOUR BURDEN

Type of respondents Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Average time 

for response 

(hr) 

Total hour 

burden* 

Awardees (Pioneers) ................................................................................... 22 1 1 .0 22 .00 

Finalists ........................................................................................................ 20 1 0 .16 3 .33 

Pioneer Lab Members ................................................................................. 25 1 0 .5 12 .5 

Expert Panel ................................................................................................ 14 1 10 .0 140 .00 


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