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2The Report is available at http://www.ftc.gov/os/ 

2003/09/synovatereport.pdf. 

3The questionnaire for the 2003 survey is 

available as Appendix A to the Report. 

6974 because U.S. Postal Mail is subject 

to lengthy delays due to heightened 

security precautions. 

The FTC Act and other laws the 

Commission administers permit the 

collection of public comments to 

consider and use in this proceeding as 

appropriate. All timely and responsive 

public comments will be considered by 

the Commission and will be available to 

the public on the FTC Web site, to the 

extent practicable, at www.ftc.gov. As a 

matter of discretion, the FTC makes 

every effort to remove home contact 

information for individuals from the 

public comments it receives before 

placing those comments on the FTC 

Web site. More information, including 

routine uses permitted by the Privacy 

Act, may be found in the FTC’s privacy 

policy at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/ 

privacy.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the proposed collection of 

information, should be addressed to 

Joanna P. Crane, Program Manager, 

Federal Trade Commission ID Theft 

Program, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20580. 

Telephone: (202) 326–3228. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In March 

2003, OMB approved the FTC’s request 

to conduct a survey on ID Theft and 

assigned OMB Control Number 3084–

0124. The FTC completed the consumer 

research in April 2003 and issued its 

report, Federal Trade Commission—

Identity Theft Survey Report, in 

September 2003.2 On August, 25, 2005, 

the FTC published a Federal Register 

Notice seeking comments from the 

public concerning a new survey that 

would follow up on the 2003 survey. 

See 70 FR 49924. No comments were 

received. Pursuant to the OMB 

regulations that implement the PRA (5 

CFR Part 1320), the FTC is providing 

this second opportunity for public 

comment while requesting that OMB 

reinstate the clearance for the survey. 

All comments should be filed as 

prescribed in the ADDRESSES section 

above, and must be received on or 

before December 19, 2005. 

Description of the Collection of 

Information and Proposed Use 

The FTC proposes to survey up to 

5,000 consumers in order to gather 

specific information on the incidence of 

ID Theft in the general population. All 

information will be collected on a 

voluntary basis, and the identities of the 

consumers will remain confidential. 

The FTC has contracted with a 

consumer research firm to identify 

consumers and conduct the survey. The 

results will assist the FTC in 

determining the incidence of ID Theft in 

the general population, whether the 

type and frequency of ID Theft is 

changing, and how best to combat ID 

Theft. 

ID Theft has been the top consumer 

complaint reported to the FTC since 

calendar year 2000. The information 

collected by the survey will ensure that 

the FTC has accurate and timely 

information on the extent of ID Theft 

and its impact on victims. This 

information will be highly useful to 

Congress and others who often request 

statistical information on ID Theft from 

the FTC. 

The FTC intends to use a larger 

sample size than the 2003 survey to 

allow for a more in-depth analysis of the 

resulting data. The additional data 

points should produce statistically 

significant samples for particular types 

of fraud and particular demographic 

characteristics. The questions will be 

very similar to the 2003 survey so that 

the results from the 2003 survey can be 

used as a baseline for a time-series 

analysis.3 The FTC may conduct 

another follow-up survey in 

approximately two years. 

Estimated Hours Burden 

The consumer research firm will 

pretest the survey on approximately 100 

respondents to ensure that all questions 

are easily understood. This pretest will 

take approximately 3 minutes per 

person and 5 hours as a whole (100 

respondents × 3 minutes each). Based 

on FTC staff’s experience with the 2003 

survey, the staff estimates that 

approximately 12 percent of those 

interviewed will have experienced ID 

Theft within the last 5 years. Survey 

participants who have not experienced 

ID Theft in this period of time will only 

be asked the initial 4 to 5 survey 

questions. The staff expects that this 

will take less than 2 minutes. For those 

who have experienced ID Theft in the 

last 5 years, our experience with the 

earlier survey suggests that it will take 

about 12 to 15 minutes to complete the 

survey. The staff therefore anticipates 

that the average time per survey 

participant will be approximately 3 

minutes. Answering the consumer 

survey will require approximately 250 

hours as a whole (5,000 respondents × 

3 minutes each). Thus, cumulative total 

burden hours for the first year of the 

clearance will approximate 255 hours. 

Estimated Cost Burden 

The cost per respondent should be 

negligible. Participation is voluntary 

and will not require start-up, capital, or 

labor expenditures by respondents. 

William Blumenthal, 

General Counsel. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60 Day–06–06AC] 

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 404–639–4766 and 

send comments to Seleda Perryman, 

CDC Assistant Reports Clearance 

Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, 

Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail to 

omb@cdc.gov. 

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. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Low Back Exposure Assessment Tool 

for Mining—NEW—National Institute 

for Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

The Federal Mine Safety & Health Act 

of 1977, section 501, enables CDC/ 

NIOSH to carry out research relevant to 

the health and safety of workers in the 

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mining industry. Mining has one of the 

highest incidence rates for back pain of 

any industry, and back injuries are 

consistently the leading cause of lost 

work days in the industry. The objective 

of this project is to develop a selfadministered, paper and pencil risk 

assessment tool for the development of 

low back disorders specifically directed 

towards use in the mining industry. 

Many current methods of assessing the 

risk of low back disorders do not 

address stressors that are relatively 

unique to the mining environment, 

including the restricted vertical spaces 

in many coal mines that require workers 

to adopt stooping or kneeling postures 

for extended periods of their workday. 

The low back exposure assessment 

tool for mining will assess various 

occupational exposures associated with 

development of back disorders in the 

literature (postural demands, lifting, 

whole body vibration exposure, 

individual and psychosocial issues), as 

well as specific mining stressors and 

will develop a score that will be used 

to assess the degree of risk for the job 

and the individual. The tool will be 

useful in both prioritizing jobs that need 

interventions to reduce low back 

disorder risk, and in evaluating the 

effectiveness of interventions through 

tool administration before and after the 

implementation of an intervention. 

There will be no cost to respondents 

other than their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE

Respondents Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

Surface and Underground Miners ......................................................................... 320 miners ..... 1 15/60 80 

Total ...................................................................................................................... ........................ ...................... ...................... 80 

Dated: November 10, 2005. 

Betsey Dunaway, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, 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–06–0463] 

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 404–639–4766 and 

send comments to Seleda Perryman, 

CDC Assistant Reports Clearance 

Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, 

Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail to 

omb@cdc.gov. 

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. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Longitudinal Surveillance for 

Beryllium Disease Prevention—

Extension—National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH)—Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The mission of the National Institute 

for Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH) is to promote safety and health 

at work for all people through research 

and prevention. The Occupational 

Safety and Health Act, Pub. L. 91–596 

(section 20[a][1]) authorizes the 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH) to conduct 

research to advance the health and 

safety of workers. 

NIOSH has been conducting this 

survey of beryllium workers for three 

years and this extension will allow for 

completion of the data collection. 

Workers are asked to complete an 

interviewer administered medical and 

work history questionnaire and to give 

a blood sample. Without medical and 

work history data on former workers, 

NIOSH staff will be unable to conduct 

the necessary research to make 

recommendations for preventing 

beryllium sensitization and disease. 

Follow-up on this cohort will provide 

invaluable information on the natural 

history of disease, gene-gene, and geneenvironment interactions, which can 

become the basis for prevention policy 

at both company and government levels. 

Beryllium is a lightweight metal with 

many applications. Exposed workers 

may be found in the primary 

production, nuclear power and 

weapons, aerospace, scrap metal 

reclamation, specialty ceramics, and 

electronics industries, among others. 

The size of the U.S. workforce at risk of 

chronic beryllium disease (CBD), from 

either current or past work-related 

exposure to the metal, may be as high 

as one million workers. Demand for 

beryllium is growing worldwide, which 

means that increasing numbers of 

workers are likely to be exposed. 

CBD is a chronic granulomatous lung 

disease mediated through an 

immunologic mechanism in workers 

who become sensitized to the metal. 

Sensitization can be detected with a 

blood test called the beryllium 

lymphocyte proliferation test (BeLPT), 

which is used by the industry as a 

surveillance tool. Use of this test for 

surveillance was first reported in 1989. 

Sensitized workers, identified through 

workplace surveillance programs, 

undergo clinical diagnostic tests to 

determine whether they have CBD. 

Research has indicated certain genetic 

determinants in the risk of CBD; followup studies will be invaluable for further 

characterizing the genetic contribution 

to sensitization and disease. 

NIOSH is in a unique position to 

accomplish this research for a number 

of reasons: (a) It has a successful 

collaboration with the leading