Jackie Painter, 

Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Secretarial Review and Publication of 

the Annual Report to Congress and the 

Secretary Submitted by the 

Consensus-Based Entity Regarding 

Performance Measurement 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of 

Health and Human Services, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice acknowledges the 

Secretary of the Department of Health 

and Human Services’ (HHS) receipt and 

review of the 2015 Annual Report to 

Congress and the Secretary submitted by 

the consensus-based entity (CBE) in 

contract with the Secretary as mandated 

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by section 1890(b)(5) of the Social 

Security Act, which was created by 

section 183 of the Medicare 

Improvements for Patients and 

Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) and 

amended by section 3014 of the Patient 

Protection and Affordable Care Act of 

2010. The statute requires the Secretary 

to review and publish the report in the 

Federal Register together with any 

comments of the Secretary on the report 

not later than six months after receiving 

the report. This notice fulfills those 

requirements. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Corette Byrd, (410) 786–1158. 

The order in which information is 

presented in this notice is as follows: 

I. Background 

II. The 2015 Annual Report to Congress and 

the Secretary: ‘‘National Quality Forum 

Report of 2014 Activities to Congress and 

the Secretary of the Department of 

Health and Human Services’’ 

III. Secretarial Comments on the 2015 Annual 

Report to Congress and the Secretary 

Future Steps 

Collection of Information Requirements 

Background 

n recent years we have seen 

nificant improvements in many 

portant dimensions of the quality of 

 nation’s health care. The 2014 

tional Quality and Disparities Report, 

blished in April 2015 by the Agency 

 Healthcare Research and Quality and 

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earch/findings/nhqrdr/nhqdr14/ 

dex.html, shows, for example, 

nificant improvement in the quality 

hospital care in 2013, with an 

imated 1.3 million fewer harmful 

nditions acquired by patients while in 

 hospital and 50,000 fewer deaths 

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care services, specifically any 

facilitators and barriers. These data will 

provide the HIV/AIDS Bureau with the 

background to make informed policies 

and changes to the Ryan White Program 

in this new era when the well-being of 

PLWH demands a more complex and 

long-term HIV care model. 

Likely Respondents: Clinics funded by 

the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. 

Burden Statement: Burden in this 

context means the time expended by 

persons to generate, maintain, retain, 

disclose or provide the information 

requested. This includes the time 

needed to review instructions; to 

develop, acquire, install, and utilize 

technology and systems for the purpose 

of collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information; to search 

data sources; to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. The total annual burden 

hours estimated for this ICR are 

summarized in the table below. 

Total Estimated Annualized Burden— 

Hours 

Form name Number of 

responses 

Number of 

responses per 

respondents 

Total 

responses 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours for all 

responses 

Clinic Director Online Survey ............................................... 

Clinician Online Survey ........................................................ 

Data Extraction .................................................................... 

Medical Director Interview Guide ......................................... 

130 

90 

30 

30 

1 

1 

1 

1 

130 

90 

30 

30 

0.5 

0.5 

4.0 

0.5 

65 

45 

120 

15 

Total .............................................................................. 280 ........................ 280 ........................ 245 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Final Effect of 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 concerning 

the final effect of the HHS decision to 

designate a class of employees from the 

Westinghouse Electric Corp. in 

Bloomfield, New Jersey, 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 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 July 28, 2015, 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 Atomic Weapons Employees who 

worked at the facility owned by 

Westinghouse Electric Corp., in Bloomfield, 

New Jersey, during the period from February 

1, 1958, through May 31, 1958, or during the 

period from June 1, 1959, through June 30, 

1959, 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 became effective on 

August 27, 2015. Therefore, beginning 

on August 27, 2015, members of this 

class of employees, defined as reported 

in this notice, became members of the 

SEC. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

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