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1. Caisse Nationale de Credit

Agricole; Paris, France, to retain,

indirectly through Banco Espirito Santo,

S.A., Lisbon, Portugal, an existing

investment in and acquire additional

shares of Clarity Incentive Systems,

New York, New York, and thereby

continue engaging in data processing

and management consulting activities

pursuant to §§ 225.28(b)(9) and (b)(14)

of Regulation Y.

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indirectly through Banco Espirito Banco

Espirito Santo, S.A., Lisbon, Portugal,

shares of FiNet.com, Inc., San Ramon,

California, and thereby continue

engaging in extending credit and

activities related to extending credit

pursuant to §§ 225.28(b)(1) and (b)(2) of

Regulation Y.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, May 10, 2001.

Robert deV. Frierson

Associate Secretary of the Board.

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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 the CDC Reports

Clearance Officer on (404) 639–7090.

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. Send comments to Anne

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comments should be received within 60

days of this notice.

Proposed Project

Patterns of Eye Movement and

Message Processing—NEW—The

National Institute for Occupational

Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The mission of the National Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health is to

promote safety and health at work for all

people through research and prevention.

NIOSH often develops work-related

health and safety messages designed to

persuade workers to follow specific

work-related habits that reduce the risk

of on-the-job injury or disease. Research

has shown that the more a reader thinks

about a message being read, the more

persuasive the message will be in

changing the attitude and behavior of

the reader. However, assessing how

much a reader is actually thinking about

a message has been difficult to do in any

way beyond simply asking the reader

questions about the material. Such selfreport methods are limited in that they

are imprecise and are vulnerable to

measurement error.

The primary purpose of this study by

the Institute’s Health Effects Laboratory

Division, Health Communication

Research Branch (HCRB) is to determine

if specific patterns of eye movement are

related to the amount of thinking a

person does while reading persuasive

materials. From the eye-tracking

literature, certain patterns of eye

movement have already been associated

with reading conceptually difficult text.

It is believed that these identified

patterns of eye movement represent

more thinking about what is being read.

It is predicted that the same patterns of

eye-movement found for conceptually

difficult text also will be found when

participants are reading persuasive

materials designed to be more thought

provoking, or persuasive. If consistent

patterns of eye movement are found to

be related to more or less thinking about

persuasive materials, then eye-tracking

can be further developed as a measure

of persuasive message effectiveness.

Such a finding would be an

improvement over the more commonly

employed self-report methods of

assessing message effectiveness.

As a secondary consideration, a

measure of impulsivity will be included

in this study to determine if higher or

lower ratings of impulsivity predict if a

person will think about a persuasive

message. It is predicted that participants

higher in impulsivity will be less likely

to think as much about a message as

participants lower in impulsivity. If this

prediction about impulsivity is

confirmed in this study, messages could

possibly be tailored in ways to improve

persuasive effectiveness for readers

potentially high in impulsivity.

Additionally, a general measure of

personality traits also will be

administered for the purpose of

considering other personality

characteristics that may be related to

more or less thinking about persuasive

materials.

The persuasion theory guiding the

first two studies is the Elaboration

Likelihood Model (ELM). Each study

will involve a manipulation of

constructs used in the model,

persuasive message relevance (high or

low) and argument strength (strong or

weak). The high relevance condition is

intended to lead to more thinking about

the material than the low relevance

condition. The strong and weak

arguments are a manipulation check to

make sure that the high and low

relevance manipulation was convincing.

Both self-report measures of thinking

and measures of eye movement will be

obtained from all participants. Analyses

will be performed to test the predictions

stated above. Analyses also will be

performed to determine the relation

between impulsivity and personality

traits to more or less thinking about the

persuasive materials.

The third year will be an application

of the results obtained from the first two

studies. From the first two studies a

template will have been developed that

will show how to best design effective

occupational safety and health

communication materials. This template

will be incorporated into other current

and future HCRB projects.

The specific goals for this project are

as follows: (1) partially replicate an ELM

study with the addition of eye

movement measures, (2) examine the

relation between amount of thinking

while reading persuasive materials and

eye movement, (3) extend the replicated

study and eye movement measure to an

occupational safety and health issue,

i.e., forklift operation, (4) incorporate

the eye movement template into

ongoing HCRB projects, and (5)

disseminate findings at relevant

conferences and in the appropriate

professional journals. There are no costs

to respondents.

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Type of respondents Number. of

respondents

Number. of

responses per

respondent

Average

burden per

response

(in hours)

Total burden

in hours

Morgantown community members ................................................................... 200 1 90/60 300

Forklift operators .............................................................................................. 200 1 90/60 300

Various occupational groups ........................................................................... 400 1 90/60 600

Total ...................................................................................................... 800 ........................ ........................ 1,200

Dated: May 9, 2001.

Nancy Cheal,

Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning

and Evaluation, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention.

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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

Survey of User Satisfaction with

National Health Care Survey Data—

New—National Center for Health

Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC). This

Survey of User Satisfaction with

National Health Care Survey Data is

needed to provide current information

on the use and usefulness of the variety

of data products describing health care

delivery systems in the United States.

The National Health Care Survey

comprises several component surveys:

National Hospital Discharge Survey,

National Nursing Home Survey,

National Home and Hospice Care

Survey, National Ambulatory Medical

Care Survey, National Hospital

Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and

occasional other similar surveys when

funded, such as the National Health

Provider Inventory. Unlike other

national surveys conducted by CDC

National Center for Health Statistics, the

National Health Care surveys address

the health care delivery systems rather

than the vital statistics, health status,

health-related behavior, and access to

care experienced by individuals and

households who are consumers of the

health care delivery systems. Between

the years of 1968 and 1984, a number

of surveys were conducted to learn more

about National Center for Health

Statistics (NCHS) data users and to

assess the quality of data dissemination

activities conducted by NCHS. Studies

focusing solely on user satisfaction with

National Health Care Survey data

products have not been conducted since

1984. We need current specific

information on how well our users’

needs are being met, how to improve

our data products, and how to serve

current non-users of our data who are,

nonetheless, potential users. Our data

products consist mainly of published

reports and web-published data sets

including Data Highlights and E-Stats.

Our published reports include Advance

Data Reports, a newsletter-like summary

of more detailed analyses to be

published later, and Series Reports,

which are in-depth analyses of specific

topics addressed by our collected data.

As the contractor for this project, CHPS

Consulting will conduct a multi-mode

survey using a web-based survey for

those in the sample for whom an email

address is available and a mail survey

for those without an email address.

Current users will be asked questions

about what publications they use, how

they use them, and their opinion of the

timeliness, accessibility, format, and

quality of the data publications. Nonusers will be asked why they do not use

our publications, their current sources

of health care provider data, and how

we improve data products to meet their

needs. Our target population will

include the following groups of persons:

researchers, educators, health facility

administrators, practitioners, and

policymakers. Our goal for this survey is

to obtain 600 returned surveys with an

approximately equal number of returned

surveys from users and non-users. The

total annualized burden is 75 hours.

Respondents Number of

respondents

Number of

responses per

respondent

Avg. burden per

response (in hrs.)

Users .......................................................................................................................... 300 1 10/60

Non-Users .................................................................................................................. 300 1 5/60