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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Grants.gov 

(EGOV), Department of Health and 

Human Services, announces plans to 

submit an Information Collection 

Request (ICR), described below, to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). The ICR is for a 3 year renewal 

of a previously-approved information 

collection assigned OMB control 

number 4040–0006–SF–424 D 

Assurances for Construction Programs, 

which expired on June 30, 2014. The 

ICR also requests categorizing the form 

as a common form, meaning HHS will 

only request approval for its own use of 

the form rather than aggregating the 

burden estimate across all Federal 

Agencies as was done for previous 

actions on this OMB control number. 

Prior to submitting that ICR to OMB, 

EGOV seeks comments from the public 

regarding the burden estimate, below, or 

any other aspect of the ICR. 

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be 

received on or before January 5, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 

ed.calimag@hhs.gov or (202) 690–7569. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ed.Calimag@hhs.gov or (202) 690–7569. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When 

submitting comments or requesting 

information, please include the 

document identifier HHS–EGOV– 

21478–60D for reference. 

Information Collection Request Title: 

SF–424 D Assurances for Construction 

Programs. 

Abstract: SF–424 D Assurances for 

Construction Programs is used as 

certification of assurances by the grant 

applicant when requesting funds for 

construction grant programs. Need and 

Proposed Use of the Information: The 

SF–424 D Assurances for Construction 

Programs form is used as certification of 

assurances by the grant applicant when 

requesting funds for non-construction 

grant programs. The Federal awarding 

agencies use information submitted on 

this form for award determination of the 

Federal assistance awards programs. 

Likely Respondents: Federal grant 

applicants. 

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 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

5,694 1 1 5,694 

Total .......................................................................................................... 5,694 1 1 5,694 

Grants.gov specifically requests 

comments on (1) the necessity and 

utility of the proposed information 

collection for the proper performance of 

the agency’s functions, (2) the accuracy 

of the estimated burden, (3) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected, and 

(4) the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology to minimize the information 

collection burden. 

Darius Taylor, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–26376 Filed 11–5–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–37–P 

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 the 

Simonds Saw and Steel Company in 

Lockport, New York, to the Special 

Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy 

Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000 

(EEOICPA). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division 

of Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 1090 

Tusculum Avenue, MS C–47, 

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]. 

On October 9, 2014, 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 Atomic Weapons Employer 

employees who worked at Simonds Saw 

and Steel Co. in Lockport, New York, 

from January 1, 1958, through December 

31, 2006. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2014–26425 Filed 11–5–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–19–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–15–15DA] 

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 

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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: A New Paradigm 

for Metrics’’—American Society for 

Microbiology—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 

procurement and processing, analytical 

methods, and results reporting for 

effective diagnosis and management of 

disease and health conditions. LPGs 

may be disseminated to, and used by, 

laboratorians and clinicians to assist 

with test selection and test result 

interpretation. The overall purpose of 

these cooperative agreements is to 

increase the effectiveness of LPGs by 

defining measures and collecting 

information to inform better LPG 

creation, revision, dissemination, 

promotion, uptake and impact on 

clinical testing and public health. The 

project will explore how these processes 

and their impediments and facilitators 

differ among various intended users of 

LPGs. Through this demonstration 

project, CDC seeks to understand how to 

customize LPG creation and promotion 

to better serve these intended users of 

LPGs. An important goal is to help 

organizations that sponsor the 

development of LPGs create a 

sustainable approach for continuous 

quality improvement to evaluate and 

improve an LPG’s impact through better 

collection of information. 

The CDC selected three organizations 

that currently create and disseminate 

LPGs to support activities under a 

cooperative agreement funding 

mechanism to improve the impact of 

their LPGs. The American Society for 

Microbiology (ASM), the Clinical and 

Laboratory Standards Institute, and the 

College of American Pathologists, will 

each use their LPGs as models to better 

understand how to improve uptake and 

impact of these and future LPGs. Only 

the ASM submission will be described 

in this notice. 

The ASM project will address four 

LPGs that are important to clinical 

testing and have a high public health 

impact: Reducing blood culture 

contamination (BCC), rapid diagnosis of 

blood stream infections (BSI), proper 

collection and transport of urine (UT), 

and microbiological practices to 

improve the diagnosis and management 

of patients with Clostridium difficile (C. 

difficile) infection (CDI). The BCC LPG 

was published and it includes 

recommendations for the use of: (1) 

Venipuncture over catheters as the 

preferred technique for sample 

collection in a clinical setting, and (2) 

phlebotomy teams over nonphlebotomist staff for collecting blood 

for culture. The BSI report examines the 

effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests to 

promote more accurate and timely 

administration of targeted antibiotic 

therapy for patients with bloodstream 

infections. This report will be published 

and recommendations will be 

developed based on additional 

information collected. Practices related 

to the collection, storage and 

preservation of urine for microbiological 

culture that improve the diagnosis and 

management of patients with urinary 

tract infections were analyzed and 

approved recommendations will be 

published. Microbiological practices 

related to improving diagnosis and 

management of patients with C. difficile 

infection will be collected and analyzed, 

and recommendations will also be 

developed and published. 

The intended respondents of ASM’s 

surveys will include microbiology 

supervisors, laboratory directors, and 

laboratory managers. For this request for 

OMB approval of a new information 

collection, we will be requesting 

approval to collect baseline and postdissemination information for the BCC 

LPG. Because the BSI, UT and CDI 

reports are not yet published, ASM will 

conduct a baseline survey to determine 

current practices prior to dissemination 

of the LPGs. 

On behalf of the ASM and the CDC, 

the Laboratory Response Network 

(LRN), which was founded by the CDC, 

will recruit laboratories that perform the 

kinds of testing affected by these LPGs 

to take the surveys. Messages regarding 

ASM surveys will be worded as an 

invitation, not as a coercive request. 

Some states may opt not to recruit LRN 

laboratory participation, but because the 

issues are important to clinical and 

public health, we expect good 

participation by most states. This 

mechanism will assure the best 

response rate of all the options we 

considered. 

The CDC LRN Coordinator will email 

a letter to the Laboratory Director of the 

LRN Reference Laboratories, (i.e., 50 

State Public Health Laboratories, the 

New York City Public Health Laboratory 

and the Los Angeles County Public 

Health Laboratory). These 52 LRN 

Reference Laboratory Directors will be 

asked to then email the sentinel 

laboratories, which include hospital and 

independent laboratories, in their states, 

and provide a hyperlink to access the 

survey tool on-line via a landing page 

provided by ASM through their Clinical 

Microbiology portal. Survey Monkey 

will be used as the data collection 

instrument and responses will be 

collected and maintained by ASM. We 

anticipate that a maximum of 4,200 

sentinel laboratories will be contacted 

and asked to complete the survey online. ASM anticipates achieving an 80% 

response rate with their information 

collections, or 3,360 out of ∼4,200 

aggregate responses for each of the 5 

different surveys. 

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For burden calculations, we assume 

one respondent per laboratory and we 

also assume respondents will include 

microbiology supervisors, laboratory 

directors, and laboratory managers, 

approximately in a 50%:25%:25% 

distribution, respectively. According to 

ASM, the burden hours per respondent 

who will be invited to participate in the 

BCC baseline and post-dissemination 

surveys and the BSI, UT and CDI 

baseline surveys will be 20 minutes. 

This time frame was specified based on 

ASM’s previous experiences conducting 

laboratory surveys. Each survey will be 

pilot tested with 9 or fewer respondents 

before dissemination to assure that 

completing the surveys does not extend 

past 20 minutes. 

CDC is requesting a three-year OMB 

approval to collect this information. 

There are no costs 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 

(in hours) 

Microbiology Supervisors ..................................... BCC .............................. 2,100 2 20/60 1,400 

BSI ................................ 2,100 1 20/60 700 

UT ................................. 2,100 1 20/60 700 

CDI ................................ 2,100 1 20/60 700 

Laboratory Directors ............................................. BCC .............................. 1,050 2 20/60 700 

BSI ................................ 1,050 1 20/60 350 

UT ................................. 1,050 1 20/60 350 

CDI ................................ 1,050 1 20/60 350 

Laboratory Managers ........................................... BCC .............................. 1,050 2 20/60 700 

BSI ................................ 1,050 1 20/60 350 

UT ................................. 1,050 1 20/60 350 

CDI ................................ 1,050 1 20/60 350 

Total ............................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 7,000 

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. 2014–26354 Filed 11–5–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–15–0931] 

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 

Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning 

Surveillance System (HHLPSS) (OMB 

No. 0920–0931, expires 04/30/2015)— 

Extension—National Center for 

Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention 

(CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The overarching goal of the Healthy 

Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance 

System (HHLPSS) is to support healthy 

homes surveillance activities at the state 

and national levels. CDC is requesting a 

three-year extension of Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for up to 40 state and local 

Healthy Homes Childhood Lead 

Poisoning Prevention Programs (CLPPP) 

and the state-based Adult Blood Lead 

Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES) 

programs. The programs will report 

information (e.g., presence of lead paint, 

age of housing, occupation of adults and 

type of housing) to the CDC. They will 

use the system as designed. 

Over the last three years, 7 states have 

adopted the HHLPPS and 13 are in betatesting. In October 2014, CDC began 

funding 40 state and local blood lead 

surveillance programs. Many of these 

programs and their subcontractors at the 

local level will come on line with 

HHLPSS in the next year. 

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