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 Baker Brothers site 

in Toledo, Ohio, as an addition to the 

Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under 

the Energy Employees Occupational 

Illness Compensation Program Act of 

2000. On March 6, 2013, the Secretary 

of HHS designated the following class of 

employees as an addition to the SEC: 

All Atomic Weapons Employees who 

worked at the Baker Brothers site in Toledo, 

Ohio, during the period from June 1, 1943, 

through December 31, 1944, 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 April 5, 2013, 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 


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acquisition of commercial items and 

services. 

Pertinent to this information 

collection is the FAR provision at 

52.212–3, Offeror Representations and

Certifications-Commercial Items. The

provision is among the representation

and certifications that are available fo

completion in the On-line 

Representation and Certification 

Application (ORCA) function of the 

System for Award Management (SAM

database. Because an offeror only has

complete representations and 

certifications once on an annual basis

with periodic updates, use of the ORC

function by prospective contractors 

decreases the number of responses pe

respondent per year for purposes of th

information collection. ORCA was 

developed to eliminate the 

administrative burden for contractors

submitting the same information to 

various contracting offices, and to 

establish a common source for this 

information to procurement offices 

across the Government. Prior to ORCA

implementation, prospective contract

were required to submit representatio

and certifications in paper form for ea

individual contract award. Using the 

ORCA function in SAM, a contractor 

can enter their representations and 

certification information once for use

all Federal contracts. FAR 4.1201(a) 

requires prospective contractors to 

complete electronic annual 

representations and certifications in 

conjunction with required registration 

in the Central Contractor Registration 

(CCR). These requiremnts are met 

through functionality in SAM. The 

ORCA function reuses data pulled from 

the CCR function and, in many cases, 

pre-populates several of the required 

representations and certifications with 

CCR data. The representations and 

certifications are effective until one year 

from the date of submission or update 

to the ORCA function in SAM. 

B. Annual Reporting Burden 

Because ORCA allows for multiple 

uses from one entry, i.e., a contractor 

can enter their representations and 

certification information once a year 

(with any needed updates) for use on all 

Federal contracts, the number of 

responses per respondent has decreased 

from the currently approved number 34 

to 4. For purposes of this information 

collection, initial entry plus three 

updates are estimated as the number of 

responses per respondent per year, i.e., 

4 responses per respondent. As of May 

2012, there were 162,000 vendors 

registered in the ORCA function of 

SAM. For purposes of estimation, the 

number of vendors registered in the 

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ORCA function of SAM will serve as the 

number of respondents. Data entry by 

contractors is estimated at 30 minutes 

per response. As a result, a downward 

adjustment is being made to the 

estimated annual reporting burden since 

the notice regarding an extension to this 

clearance published in the Federal 

Register at 75 FR 6668, on February 10, 

2010. 

Respondents: 162,000. 

Responses per Respondent: 4. 

Total Responses: 648,000. 

Hours per Response: .5. 

Total Burden Hours: 324,000. 

Obtaining Copies of Proposals: 

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the General Services Administration, 

Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1275 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20417, 

telephone (202) 501–4755. Please cite 

OMB Control No. 9000–0136 regarding 

Commercial Item Acquisitions in all 

correspondence. 

Dated: March 20, 2013. 

William Clark, 

Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy, 

Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, 

Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of 

Governmentwide Policy. 

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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 Joslyn 

Manufacturing and Supply Company in 

Fort Wayne, Indiana, as an addition to 

the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) 

under the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation 

Program Act of 2000. On March 6, 2013, 

the Secretary of HHS designated the 

following class of employees as an 

addition to the SEC: 

All Atomic Weapons Employees who 

worked for Joslyn Manufacturing and Supply 

Company at the covered facility in Fort 

Wayne, Indiana, from March 1, 1943, through 

December 31, 1947, 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 April 5, 2013, 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division 

of Compensation Analysis and Support, 

NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS 

C–46, Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 

1–877–222–7570. Information requests 

can also be submitted by email to 

DCAS@CDC.GOV. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

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