Leroy A. Richardson, 

Chief, Information Collection Review, Office 

Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the 

Associate Director for Science Office of the 

Director, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

National Center for Health Statistics 

(NCHS) Confidentiality Pledge 

Revision Notice 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: General notice—notice of 

revision of confidentiality pledges 

under the Confidential Information 

Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act. 

SUMMARY: Under 44 U.S.C. 3506(e) and 

44 U.S.C. 3501, CDC’s National Center 

for Health Statistics (NCHS) is 

announcing revisions to the 

confidentiality pledge(s) it provides to 

its respondents under the Confidential 

Information Protection and Statistical 

Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3501) 

(CIPSEA). These revisions are required 

by the passage and implementation of 

provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity 

Enhancement Act of 2015 (H.R. 2029, 

Division N, Title II, Subtitle B, Sec. 

223), which permit and require the 

Secretary of the Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS) to provide 

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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 Pantex Plant in 

Amarillo, Texas, 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 January 4, 2017, 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 and subcontractors who worked 

at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, 

during the period from January 1, 1951, 

through December 31, 1957, 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 in the 

Special Exposure Cohort. 

This designation will become 

effective on February 3, 2017, 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. 

Frank Hearl 

Chief of Staff, National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

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Federal civilian agencies’ information 

technology systems with cybersecurity 

protection for their Internet traffic. More 

details on this announcement are 

presented in the SUPPLEMENTARY 

INFORMATION section below. 

DATES: These revisions become effective 

January 19, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Questions about this notice 

should be addressed to the Information 

Collection Review Office, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 

Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30329. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Leroy A. Richardson by telephone at 

404–639–7570 (this is not a toll-free 

number); by email omb@cdc.gov, or by 

mail Information Collection Review 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS– 

D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329. Because of 

delays in the receipt of regular mail 

related to security screening, 

respondents are encouraged to use 

electronic communications. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal 

statistics provide key information that 

the Nation uses to measure its 

performance and make informed 

choices about budgets, employment, 

health, investments, taxes, and a host of 

other significant topics. The 

overwhelming majority of Federal 

surveys are conducted on a voluntary 

basis. Respondents, ranging from 

businesses to households to institutions, 

may choose whether or not to provide 

he requested information. Many of the 

most valuable Federal statistics come 

rom surveys that ask for highly 

sensitive information such as 

proprietary business data from 

companies or particularly personal 

nformation or practices from 

ndividuals. The CDC’s National Center 

or Health Statistics (NCHS) protects all 

data collected under its authority under 

he confidentiality provisions of section 

308(d) of the Public Health service Act 

42 U.S.C. 242m). Strong and trusted 

confidentiality and exclusively 

statistical use pledges under the 

Confidential Information Protection and 

Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) and 

similar statistical confidentiality 

pledges are effective and necessary in 

honoring the trust that businesses, 

ndividuals, and institutions, by their 

esponses, place in statistical agencies. 

Under CIPSEA and similar statistical 

confidentiality protection statutes, many 

Federal statistical agencies make 

statutory pledges that the information 

espondents provide will be seen only 

by statistical agency personnel or their 

sworn agents, and will be used only for 

statistical purposes. CIPSEA and similar 

statutes protect the confidentiality of 

information that agencies collect solely 

for statistical purposes and under a 

pledge of confidentiality. These acts 

protect such statistical information from 

administrative, law enforcement, 

taxation, regulatory, or any other nonstatistical use and immunize the 

information submitted to statistical 

agencies from legal process. Moreover, 

many of these statutes carry criminal 

penalties of a Class E felony (fines up to 

$250,000, or up to five years in prison, 

or both) for conviction of a knowing and 

willful unauthorized disclosure of 

covered information. 

As part of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016 

signed on December 17, 2015, the 

Congress included the Federal 

Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 

(H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, Subtitle 

B, Sec. 223). This Act, among other 

provisions, permits and requires the 

Secretary of the Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS) to provide 

Federal civilian agencies’ information