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Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San

Francisco, CA 94105. Comments should

reference ‘‘Home Depot U.S.A.

Prospective Purchaser Agreement, San

Fernando Valley Superfund Site,

Glendale Operable Unit,’’ and ‘‘Docket

No. 2001–06’’ and should be addressed

to Marie M. Rongone at the above

address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marie M. Rongone, Senior Counsel

(ORC–3), Office of Regional Counsel,

U.S. EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105; E-mail:

rongone.marie@epa.gov; Telephone:

(415) 744–1313, Facsimile: (415) 744–

1041.

Dated: March 6, 2001.

Keith Takata,

Director, Superfund Division, Region IX.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission to OMB Review;

Comment Request

The Department of Health and Human

Services, Office of the Secretary

publishes a list of information

collections it has submitted to the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) for

clearance in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. Chapter 35) and 5 CFR 1320.5.

The following are those information

collections recently submitted to OMB.

1. Organizing an Institutional

Investigation Assistance Program: A

Feasibility Study—NEW—A review

group charged with examining the

Office of Research Integrity’s (ORI) role

in handling allegations of research

misconduct developed numerous

recommendations. One of the

recommendations stated that ‘‘HHS

should encourage the development of a

consortium-based approach to be used

by awardee institutions that do not have

the capacity to conduct the fact-finding

process, or at which there is otherwise

inadequate institutional or

organizational capacity.’’ The Office of

Research Integrity is proposing a survey

of research institutions, educational

institutions, and related organizations to

assess the level of interest in the

development of consortia.

Respondents: Businesses or other forprofit; Non-profit institutions; State or

local governments; Number of

Respondents: 1,000; Burden per

Response: 20 minutes; Total Burden:

333 hours. OMB Desk Officer: Allison

Herron Eydt.

Copies of the information collection

packages listed above can be obtained

by calling the OS Reports Clearance

Officer on (202) 690–6207. Written

comments and recommendations for the

proposed information collection should

be sent directly to the OMB desk officer

designated above at the following

address: Human Resources and Housing

Branch, Office of Management and

Budget, New Executive Office Building,

Room 10235, 725 17th Street NW.,

Washington, DC 20503.

Comments may also be sent to

Cynthia Agens Bauer, OS Reports

Clearance Officer, Room 503H,

Humphrey Building, 200 Independence

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201.

Written comments should be received

within 30 days of this notice.

Dated: May 21, 2001.

Kerry Weems,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Budget.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[60Day–01–40]

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: Cognitive Tuning

for Website Promotion—NEW—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 is guided by the

National Occupational Research Agenda

(NORA), which specifies 21 priority

areas for occupational safety and health

research. One of the NORA priority

areas is intervention effectiveness,

which includes ‘‘information

dissemination and health

communication practices.’’ This project,

in testing the effectiveness of a cognitive

tuning instruction in increasing visits to

a NIOSH website for children and

teenagers, would address the

intervention effectiveness priority area.

Cognitive tuning refers to two

possible orientations a person may have

when exposed to information. One

orientation is that of a receiver, who is

primarily concerned with

understanding the information for its

own sake. The other orientation is that

of a transmitter, who expects to pass on

the information by communicating with

others. Unlike the receiver, the

transmitter is faced with the demand of

using the information in the near future

and is likely to be motivated to appear

competent and knowledgeable in front

of other people when passing on the

information. Past research has shown

that transmitters, compared to receivers,

show more attitude change when given

information about issues or persons.

Also, the attitude change for

transmitters tends to be more persistent

than for receivers.

The Elaboration Likelihood Model

(ELM) is a theory of attitude change that

has achieved much empirical support

and has organized a large body of

previously fragmented results. The ELM

posits that the nature of attitude change

depends on whether the person is

thinking carefully about the issue at

hand. A person thinking about an issue

is likely to form an attitude that is

persistent, resistant to attack, and

predictive of behavior. Conversely, a

person who lacks either the motivation

or the ability to think carefully about an

issue is likely to form an attitude that is

transitory, easy to change, and

unpredictive of behavior.

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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