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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 183 / Thursday, September 20, 2012 / Notices 58383 


DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Determination Concerning a Petition 

To Add a Class of Employees 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 

determination concerning a petition to 

add a class of employees from Titanium 

Alloys Manufacturing in Niagara Falls, 

New York, to the Special Exposure 

Cohort (SEC) under the Energy 

Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000 

(EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. 7384q. On August 

23, 2012, the Secretary of HHS 

determined that the following class of 

employees does not meet the statutory 

criteria for addition to the SEC as 

authorized under EEOICPA: 

All employees who worked in any area or 

building at Titanium Alloys Manufacturing 

from January 1, 1955, through December 31, 

1956. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division 

of Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Secretary’s Advisory Committee on 

Human Research Protections 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Health, Office of the 

Secretary, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 10(a) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

U.S.C. Appendix 2, notice is hereby 

given that the Secretary’s Advisory 

Committee on Human Research 

Protections (SACHRP) will hold its 

twenty-ninth meeting. The meeting will 

be open to the public. Information about 

SACHRP and the full meeting agenda 

will be posted on the SACHRP Web site 

at: http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/sachrp/ 

mtgings/index.html. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. 

until 5:00 p.m. and Wednesday, October 

10, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Department of Health 

and Human Services, 200 Independence 

Avenue SW., Room 705A, Washington, 

DC 20201. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry 

Menikoff, M.D., J.D., Director, Office for 

Human Research Protections (OHRP), or 

Julia Gorey, J.D., Executive Director, 

SACHRP; U.S. Department of Health 

and Human Services, 1101 Wootton 

Parkway, Suite 200, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852; 240–453–8141; fax: 

240–453–6909; email address: 

Julia.Gorey@hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

authority of 42 U.S.C. 217a, Section 222 

of the Public Health Service Act, as 

amended, SACHRP was established to 

provide expert advice and 

recommendations to the Secretary of 

Health and Human Services and the 

Assistant Secretary for Health on issues 

and topics pertaining to or associated 

with the protection of human research 

subjects. 

The meeting will open Tuesday, 

October 9, with remarks from SACHRP 

Chair Dr. Barbara Bierer and OHRP 

Director Dr. Jerry Menikoff, followed by 

a report from the Subpart A 

Subcommittee (SAS). SAS will discuss 

their recent work, including 

considerations for revisions to the 

expedited review list, principal 

investigator responsibilities, and 

informed consent waiver criteria. SAS is 

charged with developing 

recommendations for consideration by 

SACHRP regarding the application of 

subpart A of 45 CFR part 46 in the 

current research environment; this 

subcommittee was established by 

SACHRP in October 2006. Tuesday 

afternoon will be a discussion of 

informed consent issues in cluster 

randomized trials, featuring Dr. Andrew 

McRae, Research Director of the 

Division of Emergency Medicine, 

University of Calgary. 

On the morning of October 10, the 

Subcommittee on Harmonization (SOH) 

will give a report and discuss their 

recent work, including local context 

guidance recommendations. SOH was 

established by SACHRP at its July 2009 

meeting, and is charged with identifying 

and prioritizing areas in which 

regulations and/or guidelines for human 

subjects research adopted by various 

agencies or offices within HHS would 

benefit from harmonization, 

consistency, clarity, simplification and/ 

or coordination. Wednesday afternoon 

SACHRP will discuss a revised 

document on the issue of the use of the 

Internet in human subjects research, 

drafted by Drs. Elizabeth Buchanan and 

Dean Gallant. Public Comment will be 

heard on both days. 

Public attendance at the meeting is 

limited to space available. Individuals 

who plan to attend the meeting and 

need special assistance, such as sign 

language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodations, should 

notify the designated contact persons. 

Members of the public will have the 

opportunity to provide comments on 

both days of the meeting. Public 

comment will be limited to five minutes 

per speaker. Any members of the public 

who wish to have printed materials 

distributed to SACHRP members for this 

scheduled meeting should submit 

materials to the Executive Director, 

SACHRP, prior to the close of business 

October 1, 2012. 

Dated: September 13, 2012. 

Jerry Menikoff, 

Director, Office for Human Research 

Protections, Executive Secretary, Secretary’s 

Advisory Committee on Human Research 

Protections. 

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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, HHS. 


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) approve the proposed 

information collection project: ‘‘Online 

Application Order Form for Products 

from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization 

Project (HCUP).’’ In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 

3501–3521, AHRQ invites the public to 

comment on this proposed information 

collection. 

This proposed information collection 

was previously published in the Federal 

Register on June 27th, 2012 and allowed 

60 days for public comment. Several 

comments were received. The purpose