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agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information,

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used; (3)

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected; and (4)

ways to minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including the use of

appropriate automated, electronic,

mechanical, or other technological

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology.

Comments due date

Comments regarding this information

collection are best assured of having

their full effect if received on or before

August 13, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

request more information on the

proposed project or to obtain a copy of

the data collection plans and

instruments, contact: Bryce Reeve,

Ph.D., National Cancer Institute,

Executive Plaza North, Room 4026, 6130

Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD,

20852, non-toll free telephone (301)

594–6574, or email:

reeveb@mail.nih.gov, or

br117c@nih.gov.

Dated: June 5, 2001.

Reesa Nichols,

OMB Clearance Liaison.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request; Agricultural Health Study—A

Prospective Cohort Study of Cancer

and Other Diseases Among Men and

Women in Agriculture

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

National Cancer Institute (NCI), 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.

Proposed Collection

Title: Agricultural Health Study—A

Prospective Cohort Study of Cancer and

Other Diseases Among Men and Women

in Agriculture.

Type of Information Collection

Request: Revision (OMB) 0925–0406,

expiration 11/31/01).

Need and Use of Information

Collection: The Agricultural Health

Study is in its third year of follow-up

data collection on a prospective cohort

of 89,189 farmers, their spouses, and

commercial applicators of pesticides

from Iowa and North Carolina. Followup is not yet complete; an additional

two years of followup is being

requested.

Frequency of Response: Single time

reporting.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households, Farms.

Type of Respondents: Private

pesticide applicators and their spouses.

The annual reporting burden is as

follows:

Estimated Number of Respondents:

21,999.

Estimated Number of Responses per

Respondent: 1.0.

Average Burden Hours Per Response:

1.66.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours Requested: 13,156.

The annualized cost to respondents is

estimated at: $131,544. There are no

Capital Costs to report. There are no

Operating or Maintenance Costs to

report.

Request for Comments

Written comments and/or suggestions

from the public and affected agencies

are invited on one or more of the

following points: (1) Whether the

proposed collection of information is

necessary for the proper performance of

the function of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility; (2) The accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information,

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used; (3)

Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (4) Ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on those who are to respond, including

the use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

Comments Due Date

Comments regarding this information

collection are best assured of having

their full effect if received on or before

August 13, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

request more information on the

proposed project or to obtain a copy of

the data collection plans and

instruments, contact Michael C.R.

Alavanja, Dr. P.H., Division of

Epidemiology and Genetics, National

Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza South,

Suite 8000, 6120 Executive Boulevard,

Rockville, MD 20852, or call non-toll

free (301) 435–4720, or E-mail your

request, including your address to:

alavanjam@mail.nih.gov.

Dated: June 5, 2001.

Reesa Nichols,

NCI Project Clearance Liaison.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Heart, Lung, and Blood

Institute; Proposed Collection;

Comment Request The Framingham

Study

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of

Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, the National

Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

(NHLBI), the National Institutes of

Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) a

request for review and approval the

information collection listed below.

This proposed information collection

was previously published in the Federal

Register on May 2, 2001, pages 21988–

21989, and allowed 60-days for public

comment. No public comments were

received. The purpose of this notice is

to allow an addtional 30 days for public

comment. The National Institutes of

Health may not conduct or sponsor, and

the respondent is not required to

respond to an information collection

that has been extended, revised, or

implemented on or after October 1,

1995, unless it displays a currently valid

OMB control number.

Proposed Collection

Title: The Framingham Study. Type of

Information Collection Request:

Revision of a currently approved

collection (OMB NO. 0925–0216). Need

and Use of Information Collection: The

Framingham Study will conduct

examinations and morbidity and

mortality follow-up in original,

offspring, and third generation

participants for the purpose of studying

the determinants of cardiovascular

disease. Frequency of Response: The

participants will be contacted annually.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households; Businesses or other for

profit; Small Businesses or

organizations.

Type of Respondents: Adult men and

women; doctors and staff of hospitals

and nursing homes. The annual

reporting burden is as follows:

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Estimated Number of Respondents:

2,833; Estimated Number of Responses

Per Respondent: 3.78; Average Burden

Hours Per Response: 0.806; and

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours

Requested: 8,639. The annualized cost

to respondents is estimated at $44,080,

assuming respondents time at the rate of

$10 per hour for participant and $55 per

hour for physicians and other

professional health care respondents.

There are no Capital Costs to report.

There are no Operating or Maintenance

Costs to report.

Type of Respondents

Estimated

number of

respondents

Estimated

number of

responses

per respondent

Average

burden

hours per

response

Estimated

total annual

burden

hours requested

Participant Examination ................................................................................................... 2,133 4.69 0.836 8,376.5

Physician, hospital, nursing home staff 1 ......................................................................... 350 1.0 0.6700 234.5

Participant’s next-of-kin 1 ................................................................................................. 350 1.0 0.0800 28

Total .......................................................................................................................... 2,833 3.78 0.806 8,639

1Annual burden is placed on doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and respondent relatives/informants through requests for information which will

help in the compilation of the number and nature of new fatal and nonfatal events.

Request for Comments

Written comments and/or suggestions

from the public and affected agencies

are invited on one or more of the

following points: (1) Whether the

proposed collection of information is

necessary for the proper performance of

the function of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information,

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used; (3)

Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (4) Ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on those who are to respond, including

the use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

Direct Comments To OMB

Written comments and/or suggestions

regarding the item(s) contained in this

notice, especially regarding the

estimated public burden and associated

response time, should be directed to the:

Office of Management and Budget,

Office of Regulatory Affairs, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk

Officer for NIH. To request more

information on the proposed project or

to obtain a copy of the data collection

plans and instruments, contact Dr. Paul

Sorlie, Project Officer, National

Institutes of Health, Division of

Epidemiology and Clinical

Applications, National Heart, Lung and

Blood Institute, 6701 Rockledge Drive,

MSC 7934, Bethesda, MD 20892, or call

non-toll-free number (301) 435–0707 or

E-mail your request, including your

address to: Sorlie@nih.gov.

Comments Due Date

Comments regarding this information

collection are best assured of having

their full effect if received on or before

July 12, 2001.

Dated: June 4, 2001.

Peter Savage,

Acting Director, Division of Epidemiology and

Clinical Applications.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute; Notice of

Closed Meeting

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice

is hereby given of the meeting of the

President’s Cancer Panel.

The meeting will be closed to the

public in accordance with the

provisions set forth in section

552b(c)(9)(B), Title 5 U.S.C., as amended

because the premature disclosure of

information and the discussions would

likely to significantly frustrate

implementation of recommendations.

Name of Committee: President’s Cancer

Panel.

Date: June 26, 2001.

Closed: 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM.

Agenda: To review the 2000–2001 draft

annual report and formulate

recommendations for the future direction of

the National Cancer Program to be submitted

to the President for consideration prior to

presentation to Congress.

Place: National Institutes of Health, 31

Center Drive, Building 31C, Conference

Room 10, Bethesda, MD 20892, (Telephone

Conference Call).

Contact Person: Maureen O. Wilson, Ph.D.,

Executive Secretary, National Cancer

Institute, NIH, 31 Center Drive, Building 31,

Room 4A48, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 496–

1148.

This notice is being published less than 15

days prior to the meeting due to the

scheduling conflicts.

Any interested person may file written

comments with the committee by forwarding

the statement to the Contact Person listed on

this notice. The statement should include the

name, address, telephone number and when

applicable, the business or professional

affiliation of the interested person.

Information is also available on the

Institute’s/Center’s home page:

deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/pcp.htm,

where an agenda and any additional

information for the meeting will be posted

when available.

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 93.392, Cancer Construction;

93.393, Cancer Cause and Prevention

Research; 93.394, Cancer Detection and

Diagnosis Research; 93.395, Cancer

Treatment Research; 93.396, Cancer Biology

Research; 93.397, Cancer Centers Support;

93.398, Cancer Research Manpower; 93.399,

Cancer Control, National Institutes of Health,

HHS)

Dated: June 5, 2001.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Director, Office of Federal Advisory

Committee Policy.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute; Notice of

Closed Meeting

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice

is hereby given of a meeting of the

Board of Scientific Counselors, National

Cancer Institute.

The meeting will be closed to the

public as indicated below in accordance

with the provisions set forth in section