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It is hypothesized that cognitive

tuning influences the motivation to

think about an issue. Transmitters

should be more motivated than

receivers to think about presented

information because transmitters expect

to pass on the information. This

hypothesis will be tested in the context

of promoting the NIOSH Safety Zone, a

website that introduces children and

teenagers to occupational safety and

health issues. Four different messages

about the website will be sent to high

school teachers. The messages will vary

whether the teacher is told that other

teachers have been sent the letter (i.e.,

whether the teacher is given a

transmitter orientation). The messages

will also vary the quality of the

arguments (strong arguments vs. weak

arguments for visiting the website). A

subset of the teachers will later be

contacted by telephone to answer

questions about their attitudes toward

the website and whether they intend to

visit it. Website hits will be recorded for

all teachers in the study, such that

teachers receiving different messages

will be directed to different entry pages

with independent hit counters. Teachers

who get transmitter messages should be

more influenced by the quality of the

arguments than teachers who get

receiver messages.

Prior to the study, pretesting sessions

will be conducted with high school

teachers in or near the Morgantown, WV

area. The pretesting will insure that

strong arguments and weak arguments

differ in the kinds of thoughts elicited

from teachers. Strong arguments should

elicit more positive thoughts toward

visiting the NIOSH website than weak

arguments.

If the results support predictions,

cognitive tuning will be a promising

communication intervention that may

be applied across a wide range of

occupational safety and health issues.

Simply by emphasizing the possibility

that occupational safety and health

information may be useful in future

social interaction with others, a message

may motivate people to think carefully

about an issue and thus form a more

lasting attitude that will influence how

they behave. At an median wage of

$20.00 per hour, the total cost to

respondents will be $5,066.60.

Respondents Number of

respondents

Number of

responses

per respondent

Average

burden per

response

(in hours)

Total burden

in hours

High School Teachers (pretest) ....................................................................... 120 1 1 120.00

High School Teachers (phone contact) ........................................................... 800 1 10⁄60 133.33

Total .......................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 253.33

Dated: May 15, 2001.

Nancy Cheal,

Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning

and Evaluation, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[60Day–01–38]

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

O’Connor, CDC Assistant Reports

Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road,

MS–D24, Atlanta, GA 30333. Written

comments should be received within 60

days of this notice.

Proposed Project: Data Collection,

Management, Reporting, and Evaluation

for the National Minority AIDS

Initiative (NMAI) to be conducted from

2001 to 2005—New—National Center

for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention

(NCHSTP), Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC). The purpose of

this request is to obtain OMB clearance

to collect primary and secondary data to

assess the HIV prevention and capacitybuilding activities of community-based

organizations (CBOs) and other not-forprofit organizations funded under the

NMAI. The objective of the NMAI is to

implement an approach to HIV

Prevention for communities of color

through three strategies: Support of

CBOs to deliver HIV prevention

services; community coalition

development projects to increase access

to a linked network of HIV, STD, TB,

and substance abuse services; and

capacity-building assistance (CBA)

(which includes a Faith-Based

component) to sustain, improve, and

expand HIV prevention services.

The CDC requires NMAI grantees to

evaluate their programs. CDC has the

responsibility to support these

evaluation efforts by assisting grantees

in the design and implementation of

their program evaluation activities,

including the provision of evaluation

forms and conducting an overall

evaluation of the NMAI. The data

collected during this evaluation will

allow CDC to (1) address accountability

needs, (2) provide necessary

information to the NMAI grantees for

improving their programs, and (3)

provide a context for understanding the

effectiveness of programs targeting

African Americans and other racial and

ethnic minorities.

Data collection will include selfadministered questionnaires, document

reviews, and interviews with directors

of CBOs (or their representatives) and

other collaborating organizations. The

first phase of data collection is planned

for the fall of 2001. Subsequent phases

of data collection are planned for 2002,

2003, and 2004, with data collection

culminating by the summer of 2005.

Self-administered questionnaires will be

submitted annually. Interviews will be

conducted at 24, 36, and 48 months

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from the start of the project. The total

cost to respondents is estimated at

$30,080, assuming an average working

wage for assigned personnel at $20.00

per hour in the study period.

Respondents Number of

respondents

Number of

responses per

respondent

Average

burden response (in

hrs.)

Total burden

per response

(in hrs.)

CBO General Questionnaire ............................................................................ 79 4 1 316

CBO Needs Assessment & Epi Profile Questionnaire .................................... 79 4 20/60 105

CBO Staffing Plan Questionnaire .................................................................... 79 4 40/60 211

CBO Cultural, Linguistic, and Educational Appropriateness Questionnaire ... 79 4 10/60 53

CBO Interview Schedule ................................................................................. 79 3 2 474

CBA Program Plan .......................................................................................... 16 4 15/60 16

CBA Needs Assessment Questionnaire .......................................................... 16 4 20/60 21

CBA Staffing Plan Questionnaire .................................................................... 16 4 40/60 43

CBA Cultural, Linguistic, and Educational Appropriateness Questionnaire .... 16 4 10/60 11

CBA Resource Networks and Community Advisory Board Questionnaire ..... 16 4 20/60 21

Provision of Capacity-Building Assistance Questionnaire ............................... 16 4 2 128

CBA Interview Schedule .................................................................................. 16 3 2 96

Faith-Based Needs Assessment Questionnaire .............................................. 1 4 20/60 1

Faith-Based General Questionnaire ................................................................ 1 1 1 1

Faith-Based Staffing Plan Questionnaire ........................................................ 1 4 40/60 3

Faith-Based Cultural, Linguistic, and Educational Appropriateness Questionnaire ............................................................................................................. 1 4 10/60 1

Faith-Based Curriculum Development and Training Program Interview

Schedule ...................................................................................................... 1 3 1 3

Total .......................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 1504

Dated: May 11, 2001.

Nancy Cheal,

Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning

and Evaluation, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention.

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BILLING CODE 4163–18–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[60 Day–01–41]

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

O’Connor, CDC Assistant Reports

Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road,

MS-D24, Atlanta, GA 30333. Written

comments should be received within 60

days of this notice.

Proposed Project: Report of Verified

Cases of Tuberculosis (RVCT) OMB No.

0920–0026—Extension—The National

Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention

(NCHSTP), Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC) proposes to

continue data collection for the Report

of Verified Case of Tuberculosis (RVCT).

This request is for a 1-year extension of

clearance.

To accomplish the CDC goal of

eliminating tuberculosis (TB) in the

United States, CDC maintains the

national TB surveillance system. The

system, initiated in 1953, has been

modified several times to better monitor

and respond to changes in TB

morbidity. The most recent modification

was implemented in 1993 when the

RVCT was expanded in response to the

TB epidemic of the late 1980s and early

1990s and incorporated into a CDC

software for electronic reporting of TB

case reports to CDC. The expanded

system improved the ability of CDC to

monitor important aspects of TB

epidemiology in the United States,

including drug resistance, TB risk

factors, including HIV coinfection, and

treatment. The timely system also

enabled CDC to monitor the recovery of

the nation from the resurgence and

identify that current TB epidemiology

supports the renewed national goal of

elimination. To measure progress in

achieving this goal, as well as continue

to monitor TB trends and potential TB

outbreaks, identify high risk

populations for TB, and gauge program

performance, CDC proposes to extend

use of the RVCT.

Data are collected by 60 Reporting

Areas (the 50 states, the District of

Columbia, New York City, Puerto Rico,

and 7 jurisdictions in the Pacific and

Caribbean) using the RVCT. An RVCT is

completed for each reported TB case

and contains demographic, clinical, and

laboratory information. A

comprehensive software package, the

Tuberculosis Information Management

System (TIMS) is used for RVCT data

entry and electronic transmission of TB

case reports to CDC. TIMS provides

reports, query functions, and export

functions to assist in analysis of the

data. CDC publishes an annual report

summarizing national TB statistics and

also periodically conducts special

analyses for publication in peerreviewed scientific journals to further

describe and interpret national TB data.

These data assist public health officials