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Affected Public: Business or other forprofit, Not-for-profit institutions. 

Annual Number of Respondents: 

6,000. 

Total Annual Responses: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Total Annual Hours: 1500. 

To obtain copies of the supporting 

statement and any related forms for the 

proposed paperwork collections 

referenced above, e-mail your request, 

including your address, phone number, 

OMB number, and OS document 

identifier, to Sherette.funncoleman 

@hhs.gov, or call the Reports Clearance 

Office on (202) 690–6162. Written 

comments and recommendations for the 

proposed information collections must 

be received within 60 days, and directed 

to the OS Paperwork Clearance Officer 

at the following address:Department of 

Health and Human Services, Office of 

the Secretary, Assistant Secretary for 

Resources and Technology,Office of 

Resources Management,Attention: 

Sherrette Funn-Coleman (0990–

NEW),Room 537–H,200 Independence 

Avenue, SW.,Washington DC 20201. 

Dated: February 2, 2007. 

Mary Oliver-Anderson, 

Office of the Secretary,Paperwork Reduction 

Act Reports Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health 

Decision To Evaluate a Petition To 

Designate a Class of Employees at 

Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. 

(NUMEC) in Apollo, PA, To Be Included 

in the Special Exposure Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) gives notice as 

required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a 

decision to evaluate a petition to 

designate a class of employees at the 

Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. 

(NUMEC)—Apollo, Apollo, 

Pennsylvania, to be included in the 

Special Exposure Cohort under the 

Energy Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000. The 

initial proposed definition for the class 

being evaluated, subject to revision as 

warranted by the evaluation, is as 

follows: 

Facility: Nuclear Materials and 

Equipment Corp. (NUMEC)—Apollo. 

Location: Apollo, Pennsylvania. 

Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All office 

employees who worked at the Apollo 

site. 

Period of Employment: January 1, 

1957 through December 31, 1983. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry Elliott, Director, Office of 

Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 

Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513–

533–6800 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Information requests can also 

be submitted by e-mail to 

OCAS@CDC.GOV. 

Dated: February 6, 2007. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health 

Decision to Evaluate a Petition To 

Designate a Class of Employees at the 

Y–12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 

To Be Included in the Special 

Exposure Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) gives notice as 

required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a 

decision to evaluate a petition to 

designate a class of employees at the Y–

12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to be 

included in the Special Exposure Cohort 

under the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation 

Program Act of 2000. The initial 

proposed definition for the class being 

evaluated, subject to revision as 

warranted by the evaluation, is as 

follows: 

Facility: Y–12 Plant. 

Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee. 

Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All 

statisticians in all locations. 

Period of Employment: January 1, 

1951 through June 30, 1959. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry Elliott, Director, Office of 

Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 

Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513–

533–6800 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Information requests can also 

be submitted by e-mail to 

OCAS@CDC.GOV. 

Dated: February 6, 2007. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) allow the proposed 

information collection project: ‘‘Pilot 

Study of Proposed Medical Office 

Surveys on Patient Safety.’’ In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–

13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), AHRQ 

invites the public to comment on this 

proposed information collection. 

This proposed information collection 

was previously published in the Federal 

Register on December 6, 2006 and 

allowed 60 days for public comment. No 

public comments were received. The 

purpose of this notice is to allow an 

additional 30 days for public comment. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by March 12, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 

Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, 540 

Gaither Road, Room #5036, Rockville, 

MD 20850, or by e-mail at 

doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov. 

Copies of the proposed collection 

plans, data collection instruments, and 

specific details on the estimated burden 

can be obtained from AHRQ’s Reports 

Clearance Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkiwitz, AHRQ, Reports 

Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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Proposed Project 

‘‘Pilot Study of Proposed Medical 

Office Surveys on Patient Safety’’

This activity is an expansion and 

refinement of AHRQ’s Hospital Survey 

on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) 

which was developed and released to 

the public for use in November 2004. 

Two new surveys are proposed to assess 

patient safety culture in outpatient 

medical office settings: one for 

clinicians (physicians, physician 

assistants, and nurse practitioners who 

diagnose, prescribe for, and treat 

patients) and one for medical office staff 

(all other non-clinician staff). The 

proposed new surveys will be based on 

the HSOPSC but also contain new and 

revised items as well as dimensions that 

are more applicable to the outpatient 

medical office setting. The two 

proposed surveys will contain some 

items that are the same and some items 

that are unique to each survey. 

The instruments will be pilot tested 

with clinicians and staff working in 97 

outpatient medical offices. The data 

collected will be analyzed to determine 

the psychometric properties of each 

survey’s items and dimensions and 

provide information for the revision and 

shortening of the final surveys based on 

an assessment of their reliability and 

construct validity. The final surveys 

will be made publicly available to 

enable outpatient medical offices to 

assess patient safety culture from the 

perspectives of their clinicians and staff. 

The surveys can be used by outpatient 

medical offices to identify areas for 

patient safety culture improvement. 

Methods of Collection 

A purposive sample of 97 outpatient 

medical offices will be recruited and 

selected. These medical offices will 

represent a distribution of singlespecialty offices (of various types) and 

multi-specialty offices, and will vary by 

office size (based on number of 

physicians in the office), as well as 

geographic region of the United States. 

Recruited medical offices will be 

allocated to each category in numbers 

roughly proportionate to the national 

distribution of offices in each category. 

All clinicians in each medical office 

will be asked to respond to the clinician 

survey and all other non-clinician staff 

will be asked to complete the medical 

office staff survey. Since not all medical 

office staff have access to e-mail or the 

internet, paper surveys will be 

administered. Standard non-response 

follow-up techniques such as reminder 

postcards and distribution of a second 

survey will be used. Individuals and 

organizations contacted will be assured 

of the confidentiality of their replies 

under Section 924(c) of the Healthcare 

Research and Quality Act of 1999. 

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden 

Paper surveys will be distributed to a 

total of approximately 2,340 individuals 

from 97 medical offices (about 592 

clinicians and 1,748 medical office 

staff), with a target response rate of 

70%, or 1,638 completed surveys (414 

completed clinician surveys and 1,224 

medical office staff surveys). 

Respondents should take approximately 

15 minutes to complete either survey. 

Therefore, we estimate that the total 

respondent burden for completing the 

survey will be 410 hours (414 

completed clinician surveys multiplied 

by 0.25 hours per survey or 104 hours; 

and 1,224 completed medical office staff 

surveys multiplied by 0.25 hours per 

survey or 306 hours). 

Type of respondent Number of respondents 

Number of responses per 

respondent 

Estimated time per respondent 

Estimated total 

respondent 

burden hours 

Clinicians ................................................................................. 414 1 0.25 hours .............................. 104 

Medical office staff .................................................................. 1,224 1 0.25 hours .............................. 306 

Total ................................................................................. 1,638 ........................ ................................................ 410 

Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal 

Government 

The total cost to the Government for 

developing the clinician survey is 

approximately $257,000, and for the 

medical office staff survey is 

approximately $268,000. These 

estimates include the costs of 

background literature reviews, survey 

development, cognitive testing, pilot 

data collection, data analysis, and 

preparation of final deliverables and 

reports. 

Request for Comments 

In accordance with the above-cited 

Paperwork Reduction Act legislation, 

comments on AHRQ’s information 

collection are requested with regard to 

any of the following: (a) Whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

AHRQ health care research and health 

care information dissemination 

functions, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of AHRQ’s estimate of 

burden (including hours and costs) of 

proposed collection(s) 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 

upon the respondents, including the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the Agency’s subsequent 

request for OMB approval of the 

proposed information collection. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. 

Dated: January 22, 2007. 

Carolyn M. Clancy, 

Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–07–0457] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

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) 639–5960 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. 


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