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to develop evidence-based prevention 

strategies for SDY. The SDYr will also 

create the infrastructure for future 

expanded research. CDC is authorized to 

collect this information by Section 241 

of the Public Health Service Act [42 

U.S.C. 241]. 

CDC estimates that the participating 

states will collect data on approximately 

1,000 SDY cases per year (20–150 per 

state, with an average of 67 per state). 

No information will be collected 

directly from family members of the 

deceased. CDC estimates that each 

specialist on the advanced clinical 

review team will devote 15 minutes to 

the review and completion of the 

autopsy check list and other records 

associated with each death reported 

through the SDYr. For participating 

state health departments, the estimated 

burden for entering each case into the 

case reporting system is 30 minutes. 

OMB approval is requested for three 

years. Reporting is required for 

cooperative agreement awardees. There 

are no costs to respondents other than 

their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondent Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

State Health Department .................. NCRPCD–CRS–SDY Module .......... 15 67 30/60 503 

Pediatric Cardiologist ........................ NCRPCD–CRS–SDY Module .......... 15 67 15/60 251 

Epileptologist ..................................... NCRPCD–CRS–SDY Module .......... 15 67 15/60 251 

Neurologist ........................................ NCRPCD–CRS–SDY Module .......... 15 67 15/60 251 

Forensic Pathologist ......................... NCRPCD–CRS–SDY Module .......... 15 67 15/60 251 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,507 

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 

[60Day–14–0530] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce public 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To 

request more information on the below 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

the information collection plan and 

instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send 

comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 

Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 

30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. Comments are invited on: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected;(d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including 

through the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology; and (e) estimates of capital 

or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. Burden means 

the total time, effort, or financial 

resources expended by persons to 

generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. 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. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

EEOICPA Dose Reconstruction 

Interviews and Forms (OMB No. 0920– 

0530, expires 02/28/2015)—Extension— 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (DHHS). 

Background and Brief Description 

On October 30, 2000, the Energy 

Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000 (42 

U.S.C. 7384–7385) was enacted. This 

Act established a federal compensation 

program for employees of the 

Department of Energy (DOE) and certain 

of its contractors, subcontractors and 

vendors, who have suffered cancers and 

other designated illnesses as a result of 

exposures sustained in the production 

and testing of nuclear weapons. 

Executive Order 13179, issued on 

December 7, 2000, delegated authorities 

assigned to ‘‘the President’’ under the 

Act to the Departments of Labor (DOL), 

Health and Human Services, Energy and 

Justice. The Department of Health and 

Human Services (DHHS) was delegated 

the responsibility of establishing 

methods for estimating radiation doses 

received by eligible claimants with 

cancer applying for compensation. 

NIOSH is applying the following 

methods to estimate the radiation doses 

of individuals applying for 

compensation. 

In performance of its dose 

reconstruction responsibilities, under 

the Act, NIOSH is providing voluntary 

interview opportunities to claimants (or 

their survivors) individually and 

providing them with the opportunity to 

assist NIOSH in documenting the work 

history of the employee by 

characterizing the actual work tasks 

performed. In addition, NIOSH and the 

claimant may identify incidents that 

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may have resulted in undocumented 

radiation exposures, characterizing 

radiological protection and monitoring 

practices, and identify co-workers and 

other witnesses as may be necessary to 

confirm undocumented information. In 

this process, NIOSH uses a computer 

assisted telephone interview (CATI) 

system, which allows interviews to be 

conducted more efficiently and quickly 

as opposed to a paper-based interview 

instrument. Both interviews are 

voluntary and failure to participate in 

either or both interviews will not have 

a negative effect on the claim, although 

voluntary participation may assist the 

claimant by adding important 

information that may not be otherwise 

available. NIOSH is requesting a three 

year approval for these data collection 

activities. 

NIOSH uses the data collected in this 

process to complete an individual dose 

reconstruction that accounts, as fully as 

possible, for the radiation dose incurred 

by the employee in the line of duty for 

DOE nuclear weapons production 

programs. After dose reconstruction, 

NIOSH also performs a brief, voluntary 

final interview with the claimant to 

explain the results and to allow the 

claimant to confirm or question the 

records NIOSH has compiled. This will 

also be the final opportunity for the 

claimant to supplement the dose 

reconstruction record. Approximately 

4,200 claimants will be interviewed 

with an average burden of one hour per 

response. 

At the conclusion of the dose 

reconstruction process, the claimant 

submits a conclusion form to confirm 

that the claimant has no further 

information to provide to NIOSH about 

the claim at this time. The form notifies 

the claimant that signing the form 

allows NIOSH to forward a dose 

reconstruction report to DOL and to the 

claimant, and closes the record on data 

used for the dose reconstruction. 

Signing this form does not indicate that 

the claimant agrees with the outcome of 

the dose reconstruction. The dose 

reconstruction results will be supplied 

to the claimant and to the DOL, the 

agency that will utilize them as one part 

of its determination of whether the 

claimant is eligible for compensation 

under the Act. It is estimated that 8,400 

claimants will complete the conclusion 

form which takes approximately 5 

minutes per response. 

The total estimated burden hours are 

4,900. There is no cost to respondents 

other than their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondent Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

Claimant ............................................ Initial interview .................................. 4,200 1 1 4,200 

Claimant ............................................ Conclusion form OCAS–1 ................ 8,400 1 5/60 700 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 4,900 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2014–26032 Filed 10–31–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60-Day 15–15CK] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce public 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To 

request more information on the below 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

the information collection plan and 

instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send 

comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 

Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 

30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. Comments are invited on: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including 

through the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology; and (e) estimates of capital 

or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. Burden means 

the total time, effort, or financial 

resources expended by persons to 

generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. 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. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Improving the Impact of Laboratory 

Practice Guidelines (LPGs): A New 

Paradigm for Metrics—College of 

American Pathologists—NEW—Center 

for Surveillance, Epidemiology and 

Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention is funding three 5-year 

projects collectively entitled ‘‘Improving 

the Impact of Laboratory Practice 

Guidelines: A New Paradigm for 

Metrics’’. An ‘‘LPG’’ is defined as 

written recommendations for voluntary, 

standardized approaches for medical 

laboratory testing that takes into account 

processes for test selection, sample 

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