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2528 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 12 / Friday, January 19, 2007 / Notices 

PLACE: 4th Floor Conference Room, 


1250 H Street, NW., Washington, DC. 


STATUS: Closed to the public. 


MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Personnel. 


CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 


Thomas J. Trabucco, Director, Office of 


External Affairs, (202) 942–1640. 


Dated: January 16, 2007. 

Thomas K. Emswiler, 

Secretary to the Board, Federal Retirement 

Thrift Investment Board. 

[FR Doc. 07–220 Filed 1–16–07; 4:42 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6760–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health; Decision to 

Evaluate a Petition To Designate a 

Class of Employees at Hanford Nuclear 

Reservation, Richland, WA, To Be 

Included in the Special Exposure 

Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) gives notice as 

required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a 

decision to evaluate a petition to 

designate a class of employees at the 

Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Richland, 

Washington, to be included in the 

Special Exposure Cohort under the 

Energy Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000. The 

initial proposed definition for the class 

being evaluated, subject to revision as 

warranted by the evaluation, is as 

follows: 

Facility: Hanford Nuclear Reservation. 

Location: Richland,Washington. 

Job Title and/or Job Duties: All former 

Dupont production workers in the 100 

area and the 300 area and all 200 area 

production workers and all guards and 

construction workers. 

Period of Employment: January 1, 

1943 through September 1, 1946 for 

former Dupont production workers in 

the 100 and 300 areas and December 1, 

1944 through September 1, 1946 for all 

200 area production workers and all 

guards and construction workers. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry Elliott, Director, Office of 

Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 

Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513– 

533–6800 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Information requests can also 

be submitted by e-mail to 

OCAS@CDC.GOV. 

Dated: January 12, 2007. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 07–194 Filed 1–18–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–19–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–07–0004] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of 

information collection requests under 

review by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). To request a copy of these 

requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance 

Officer at (404) 639–5960 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, Washington, 

DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

National Disease Surveillance 

Program—II. Disease Summaries (0920– 

0004)—Revision—National Center for 

Preparedness, Detection, and Control of 

Infectious Diseases (proposed) 

(NCPDCID), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Surveillance of the incidence and 

distribution of disease has been an 

important function of the U.S. Public 

Health Service (PHS) since 1878. 

Through the years, PHS/CDC has 

formulated practical methods of disease 

ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS 

control through field investigations. The 

CDC National Disease Surveillance 

Program is based on the premise that 

diseases cannot be diagnosed, 

prevented, or controlled until existing 

knowledge is expanded and new ideas 

developed and implemented. Over the 

years, the mandate of CDC has 

broadened to include preventive health 

activities and the surveillance systems 

maintained have expanded. 

CDC and the Council of State and 

Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) 

collect data on disease and preventable 

conditions in accordance with jointly 

approved plans. Changes in the 

surveillance program and in reporting 

methods are effected in the same 

manner. At the onset of this surveillance 

program in 1968, the CSTE and CDC 

decided on which diseases warranted 

surveillance. These diseases are 

reviewed and revised based on 

variations in the public’s health. 

Surveillance forms are distributed to the 

State and local health departments who 

voluntarily submit these reports to CDC 

at variable frequencies, either weekly or 

monthly. CDC then calculates and 

publishes weekly statistics via the 

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 

(MMWR), providing the states with 

timely aggregates of their submissions. 

The following diseases/conditions are 

included in this program: Diarrheal 

disease surveillance (includes 

campylobacter, salmonella, and 

shigella), foodborne outbreaks, arboviral 

surveillance (ArboNet), Influenza virus 

(includes the annual survey and 

influenza-like illness), Respiratory and 

Enterovirus surveillance, rabies, 

waterborne diseases, cholera and other 

vibrio illnesses, calicivirus surveillance, 

and Listeria case form. These data are 

essential on the local, state, and Federal 

levels for measuring trends in diseases, 

evaluating the effectiveness of current 

prevention strategies, and determining 

the need for modifying current 

prevention measures. 

This request is for approval of the 

data collection for three years. Because 

of the distinct nature of each of the 

diseases, the number of cases reported 

annually is different for each. There is 

no cost to respondents other than their 

time. The total estimated annualized 

burden hours are 21,107. 

Form Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses Avg. burden 

Diarrheal Disease Surveillance: 

—Campylobacter (electronic) ............................................................................................... 53 52 3/60