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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 28 / Friday, February 9, 2018 / Notices 

Amy McNulty, 

Acting Director, Division of the Executive 

Secretariat. 

[FR Doc. 2018–02594 Filed 2–8–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Designation of a Class of Employees 

for Addition to the Special Exposure 

Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention, Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HHS gives notice of a 

decision to designate a class of 

employees from the Ames Laboratory in 

Ames, Iowa, as an addition to the 

Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under 

the Energy Employees Occupational 

Illness Compensation Program Act of 

2000. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division 

of Compensation Analysis and Support, 

NIOSH, 1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C– 

46, Cincinnati, OH 45226–1938, 

Telephone 1–877–222–7570. 

Information requests can also be 

submitted by email to DCAS@CDC.GOV. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7384q(b). 42 U.S.C. 

7384l(14)(C). 

On February 1, 2018, as provided for 

under 42 U.S.C. 7384l(14)(C), the 

Secretary of HHS designated the 

following class of employees as an 

addition to the SEC: 

All employees of the Department of 

Energy, its predecessor agencies, and their 

contractors or subcontractors who worked in 

any area of the Ames Laboratory in Ames, 

Iowa, during the period from January 1, 1971, 

through December 31, 1989, for a number of 

work days aggregating at least 250 work days, 

occurring either solely under this 

employment or in combination with work 

days within the parameters established for 

one or more other classes of employees 

included in the Special Exposure Cohort. 

This designation will become 

effective on March 3, 2018, unless 

Congress provides otherwise prior to the 

effective date. After this effective date, 

HHS will publish a notice in the 

Federal Register reporting the addition 

of this class to the SEC or the result of 

any provision by Congress regarding the 

decision by HHS to add the class to the 

SEC. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2018–02675 Filed 2–8–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: Public 

Comment Request; Information 

Collection Request Title: National 

Survey of Organ Donation Attitudes 

and Practices, OMB No. 0915–0290— 

Reinstatement With Change 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), Department of 

Health and Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

HRSA announces plans to submit an 

Information Collection Request (ICR), 

described below, to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). The 

ICR is for reinstatement with change of 

a previously approved information 

collection, assigned OMB control 

number 0915–0290, which expired on 

March 31, 2015. Prior to submitting the 

ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments 

from the public regarding the burden 

estimate below or any other aspect of 

the ICR. 

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be 

received no later than April 10, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, 14N39, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Rockville, MD 20857. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on the 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and draft 

instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov 

or call Lisa Wright-Solomon, the HRSA 

Information Collection Clearance Officer 

at (301) 443–1984. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When 

submitting comments or requesting 

information, please include the 

information request collection title for 

reference, in compliance with Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

Information Collection Request Title: 

National Survey of Organ Donation 

Attitudes and Practices, OMB No. 0915– 

0290—Reinstatement With Change 

Abstract: HRSA is requesting 

approval from OMB for a reinstatement 

with change of a previously approved 

collection of information (OMB control 

number 0915–0290). The National 

Survey of Organ Donation Attitudes and 

Practices (NSODAP) is conducted 

approximately every 6–7 years and 

serves a critical role in providing HRSA 

and the donation community with data 

regarding why Americans choose to 

donate organs, current barriers to 

donation, and potential new approaches 

to increasing donations. Survey data 

and derived analytic insights inform 

HRSA’s public outreach and 

educational initiatives. HRSA is 

improving the quality and relevance of 

the data collected by making the 

following changes: 

(1) HRSA is increasing the ability to

produce more precise results by 

targeting 10,000 completed surveys 

(increased from 3,250 in 2012). This 

increase will allow for a more accurate 

and robust analysis of the attitudes and 

donation practices of important 

subgroups such as Americans over the 

age of 50 and various minority 

populations. While the precision of the 

results from the survey will increase, 

respondent burden will be reduced and 

survey completion costs will be lower 

resulting in a cost neutral change. 

(2) HRSA is streamlining the data

collection process to minimize 

respondent burden. Of the 10,000 

targeted completed surveys, 8,000 will 

be completed online by a nationally 

representative web panel composed of 

Americans over the age of 18 who have 

already agreed to participate in a survey. 

Web panels target a representative 

section of a population used by other 

approved surveys. HRSA will complete 

the remaining 2,000 surveys by 

telephone. In 2012, all 3,250 surveys 

were conducted by telephone and 

respondents were contacted using 

random-digit dialing, a process that 

yielded a low response rate. Contacting 

respondents by telephone will remain a 

part of the survey protocol to compare 

current data to the 2012 data. However, 

for this survey, identification of a 

sample of adults over the age of 18 for 

a telephone survey will be from a 

national list of home addresses. Prior to 

contact, those selected for the telephone 

survey will receive a mailed prenotification letter with information 

about the survey. This mailing will 

improve survey cooperation and reduce 

the number of people contacted for the 

survey. Additionally, it is more time 

and cost effective to take the survey 

online than taking the survey by phone