49926 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 164 / Thursday, August 25, 2005 / Notices 

2All numbers pertaining to hours and cost 

burden estimates have been rounded to the nearest 

thousand.

requirements should be sent to Neil 

Blickman, Attorney, Division of 

Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer 

Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 

600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326–3038.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), 44 

U.S.C. 3501–3520, Federal agencies 

must obtain approval from OMB for 

each collection of information they 

conduct or sponsor. ‘‘Collection of 

information’’ means agency requests or 

requirements that members of the public 

submit reports, keep records, or provide 

information to a third party. 44 U.S.C. 

3502(3); 5 CFR 1320.3(c). As required by 

section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, the 

FTC is providing this opportunity for 

public comment before requesting that 

OMB extend the existing paperwork 

clearance for the regulations noted 

herein. 

The FTC invites comments on: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions 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 

through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology, e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. All comments 

should be filed as prescribed in the 

ADDRESSES section above, and must be 

received on or before October 24, 2005. 

The Fuel Rating Rule, 16 CFR part 306 

(OMB Control Number: 3084–0068), 

establishes standard procedures for 

determining, certifying, and disclosing 

the octane rating of automotive gasoline 

and the automotive fuel rating of 

alternative liquid automotive fuels, as 

required by the Petroleum Marketing 

Practices Act. 15 U.S.C. 2822(a)–(c). The 

Rule also requires refiners, producers, 

importers, distributors, and retailers to 

retain records showing how the ratings 

were determined, including delivery 

tickets or letters of certification. 

Estimated annual hours burden: 2

40,000 total burden hours (16,000 

recordkeeping hours + 24,000 disclosure 

hours).

Recordkeeping: Based on industry 

sources, staff estimates that 195,000 fuel 

industry members each incur an average 

annual burden of approximately five 

minutes to ensure retention of relevant 

business records for the period required 

by the Rule, resulting in a total of 16,000 

hours. 

Disclosure: Staff estimates that 

affected industry members incur an 

average burden of approximately one 

hour to produce, distribute, and post 

octane rating labels. Because the labels 

are durable, only about one of every 

eight industry members (i.e., 

approximately 24,000 of 195,000 

industry members) incur this burden 

each year, resulting in a total annual 

burden of 24,000 hours. 

Estimated annual cost burden:

$804,000 ($720,000 in labor costs and 

$84,000 in non-labor costs). 

Labor costs: Staff estimates that the 

work associated with the Rule’s 

recordkeeping and disclosure 

requirements is performed by skilled 

information and record clerks at an 

average rate of $18.00 per hour. Thus, 

the annual labor cost to respondents of 

complying with the recordkeeping and 

disclosure requirements of the Rule is 

estimated to be $720,000 ((16,000 hours 

+ 24,000 hours) × $18.00 per hour). 

Capital or other non-labor costs:

$84,000. 

Staff believes that there are no current 

start-up costs associated with the Rule. 

Because the Rule has been effective 

since 1979 for gasoline, and since 1993 

for liquid alternative automotive fuels, 

industry members already have in place 

the capital equipment and other means 

necessary to comply with the Rule. 

Retailers (approximately 170,000 

industry members), however, do incur 

the cost of procuring (and replacing) 

fuel dispenser labels to comply with the 

Rule. According to industry input, the 

price per label is about fifty cents. Based 

on ranging industry estimates of a 6–10 

year useful life per dispenser label, staff 

will conservatively factor into its 

calculation of labeling cost the shortest 

assumed useful life, i.e., 6 years. Staff 

believes that the average retailer has six 

dispensers, with all of them being 

obtained either simultaneously or 

otherwise within the same year. 

Assuming that, in any given year, 1⁄6th 

of all retailers (28,000 retailers) will 

replace their dispenser labels, staff 

estimates total labeling cost to be 

$84,000 (28,333 × 6 × .50 ).

Christian S. White, 

Acting General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 05–16889 Filed 8–24–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–05–05CK] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

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) 371–5974 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, Washington, 

DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

Collection of Assessment Information 

about the Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention Publications—NEW—

National Center for Health Marketing 

(NCHM), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

As part of CDC’s Future’s Initiative, 

the National Center for Health 

Marketing was created to ensure that 

health information, interventions, and 

programs at CDC are based on sound 

science. 

Numerous CDC-operated 

communication platforms targeting 

scientific, professional, and technical 

audiences have been developed in the 

past twenty years. The reach of many of 

these platforms has increased 

significantly in the past five years. In 

order to ensure future growth, it is 

critical to obtain feedback from 

subscribers of these platforms to 

understand who uses them, how they 

use them, how satisfied they are with 

the platforms, and solicit suggestions on 

ways to improve each platform to 

bolster satisfaction. The data collected 

from this effort will allow us to answer 

critical operating questions, including: 

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• Which audiences (e.g., doctors, 

local health officials, researchers, etc.) 

receive their information from which 

CDC platforms? 

• How often and with what purpose 

do they access CDC platforms? 

• How satisfied are subscribers of the 

platforms with the content and delivery 

of information? 

• Are there ways to enhance the 

platforms for the subscriber through 

improvements to current offerings or 

through new products / services? 

• Who are our most critical target 

audiences, i.e., what are our publication 

and dissemination priorities in service 

to our health impact goals? 

The purpose of this project is to 

evaluate the content, processes, and 

channels through which CDC 

communicates scientific information to 

partners and customers to ensure that 

health impact is maximized through the 

delivery of timely, effective, and 

credible information, which will result 

in optimal benefit for public health. The 

evaluation will help to ensure that these 

platforms meet subscriber and partner 

priorities, build CDC’s brand, and 

contribute to health impact goals. 

Feedback from the subscriber base is 

necessary to fully evaluate the 

performance of CDC’s platforms. 

At this time, the scope of this project 

is limited to five communication 

platforms owned and managed by CDC 

which transmits information primarily 

intended for scientific and professional 

audiences. However, future plans 

include adding additional publications 

as needed. The initial five 

communications platforms are: 

Emerging Infections Journal, MMWR, 

Epi-X, Preventing Chronic Diseases 

Journal, and Health Alert Network. We 

want to ensure that the timeliness, 

effectiveness, and credibility of this 

communication maximizes the health 

impact of that information, resulting in 

optimum benefit for public health. 

These channels include both print and 

electronic versions of the five platforms. 

There is no cost to respondents other 

than their time. The total estimated 

burden hours are 18,970.

ESTIMATES OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Form Respondents 

Responses 

per

respondent 

Hrs/response

(in hrs) 

MMWR ......................................................................................................................................... 30,000 1 20/60 

EID ............................................................................................................................................... 12,750 1 20/60 

PCD ............................................................................................................................................. 10,500 1 20/60 

Epi-X ............................................................................................................................................ 1,650 1 20/60 

HAN ............................................................................................................................................. 2,000 1 20/60 

Dated: August 18, 2005. 

Joan F. Karr, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention.

[FR Doc. 05–16894 Filed 8–24–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–05–05AF] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

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) 371–5983 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, Washington, 

DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

How Miners Modify Their Behavior In 

Response To Personal Dust Monitor 

Information—New—National Institute 

for Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The Federal Mine Safety & Health Act 

of 1977, Section 501, and the 

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 

1970, Public Law 91–256 enables CDC/

NIOSH to carry out research relevant to 

the health and safety of workers in the 

mining industry. The objective of this 

project is to document how coal miners 

can use real-time information from their 

personal dust monitors (PDM) to reduce 

their exposure to respirable dust. The 

specific aims are to (1) identify several 

specific examples of how miners use 

PDM information to discover which 

parts of their jobs and/or which aspects 

of their work environment may be 

causing them to be overexposed to 

respirable dust, and (2) identify the 

types of changes that miners could make 

in order to try to reduce their exposure. 

Although the most recent data on the 

prevalence of Coal Workers’ 

Pneumoconiosis (CWP) in the United 

States indicates that it is declining, 

substantial numbers of CWP cases 

continue to be diagnosed. In recent 

years, CWP has contributed to the 

deaths of approximately 1,000 people in 

the U.S. each year. 

A personal dust monitor (PDM) has 

recently been developed through a 

collaboration involving NIOSH, the 

Bituminous Coal Operators’ 

Association, the United Mine Workers 

of America, the National Mining 

Association, and Rupprecht & 

Patashnick Co., Inc. This new device 

represents a major advance in the tools 

available for assessing coal miners’ 

exposure to respirable dust levels. It 

will soon be field tested with coal 

miners throughout the U.S. As with the 

introduction of any new technology, it 

is very important to systematically 

document how workers react to it and 

make use of it. If miners know how to 

properly use the information PDMs are 

capable of providing, they should be 

able to make adjustments to their work 

place or work procedures that will 

reduce their exposure to respirable coal 

dust. 

Various parties have speculated about 

the processes by which miners will use 

the information to reduce their exposure 

to respirable dust. There appears to be 

great potential. However, no one knows 

precisely how miners performing a wide 

variety of tasks and jobs are actually 

going to use this new information to 

reduce their exposure to dust. It is 

assumed that, once PDMs are 

introduced, miners will eventually find 

new ways to reduce their exposure to