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ATSDR administrator must prepare 

Toxicological Profiles for substances 

enumerated on the priority list of 

hazardous substances. This list 

identifies 275 hazardous substances 

which, according to ATSDR and U.S. 

EPA, pose the most significant potential 

threat to human health. The availability 

of the revised priority list of 275 

hazardous substances was announced in 

the Federal Register on November 03, 

2011 (76 FR 68193). In addition, ATSDR 

has the authority to prepare 

Toxicological Profiles for substances not 

found at sites on the National Priorities 

List, in an effort to ‘‘. . . establish and 

maintain inventory of literature, 

research, and studies on the health 

effects of toxic substances’’ under 

CERCLA Section 104(i)(1)(B). ATSDR 

also prepares Toxicological Profiles in 

response to requests for consultation 

under section 104(i)(4), and as 

otherwise necessary to support the sitespecific response actions conducted by 

ATSDR. 

Each profile will include an 

examination, a summary, and an 

interpretation of available toxicological 

information and epidemiological 

evaluations. This information and these 

data identify the levels of significant 

human exposure for the substance and 

for the associated health effects. The 

profiles must also include a 

determination of whether adequate 

information on the health effects of each 

substance is available (or in the process 

of development) in order to identify 

levels of significant human exposure. If 

adequate information is not available, 

ATSDR, in cooperation with the 

National Toxicology Program (NTP), is 

required to ensure the initiation of a 

program of research to provide such 

information. 

Set 26 Toxicological Profiles: 

Name CAS 

1 Trichloroethylene(UPDATE) ............ 79–01–6 

2 Tetrachloroethylene (UPDATE) ............................... 127–18–4 

3 Hydrogen Sulfide/Carbonyl Sulfide (UPDATE) ... 7783–06–4 

463–58–1 

4 Parathion (NEW) ............. 56–38–2 

Sascha Chaney, 

Acting Director, Office of Policy, Planning 

and Evaluation, National Center for 

Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic, 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–15–0020] 

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 and maximize the utility of 

government information, 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; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including 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—Coal Workers’ 

Health Surveillance Program 

(CWHSP)(OMB Control No. 0920–0020, 

Expiration Date 2/28/2015)—Revision— 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

NIOSH would like to submit an 

Information Collection Request (ICR) to 

revise the data collection instruments 

being utilized within the Coal Workers’ 

Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP). 

On May 1, 2014, the Mine Safety and 

Health Administration (MSHA) 

published final rule 30 CFR parts 70, 71, 

72, 75, and 90. The new MSHA rule 

added surface coal miners, a respiratory 

health assessment, and spirometry 

testing for chronic obstructive 

pulmonary disease (COPD) to the 

previously mandated chest x-ray 

examination program. These additions 

are being referred to as the Expanded 

CWHSP (an additional component 

under the current CWHSP). 

This request incorporates all 

components that now fall under the 

CWHSP. Those components include: 

Coal Workers’ X-ray Surveillance 

Program (CWXSP), B Reader Program, 

Enhanced Coal Workers’ Health 

Surveillance Program (ECWHSP), 

Expanded Coal Workers’ Health 

Surveillance Program, and National 

Coal Workers’ Autopsy Study (NCWAS). 

The CWHSP is a congressionallymandated medical examination program 

for monitoring the health of coal miners 

and was originally established under the 

Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety 

Act of 1969 with all subsequent 

amendments (the Act). The Act provides 

the regulatory authority for the 

administration of the CWHSP. This 

Program, which operates in accordance 

with 42 CFR part 37, is useful in 

providing information for protecting the 

health of miners (whose participation is 

entirely voluntary), and also in 

documenting trends and patterns in the 

prevalence of coal workers’ 

pneumoconiosis (‘black lung’ disease) 

among miners employed in U.S. coal 

mines. The total estimated annualized 

burden hours of 13,471 is based on the 

following collection instruments: 

• Coal Mine Operator Plan (2.10) and 

Coal Contractor Plan (2.18)—Under 42 

CFR part 37, every coal operator and 

coal contractor in the U.S. must submit 

a plan approximately every 4 years, 

providing information on how they plan 

to notify their miners of the opportunity 


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to obtain the medical examination. 

Completion of this form with all 

requested information (including a 

roster of current employees) takes 

approximately 30 minutes. 

• Radiographic Facility Certification 

Document (2.11)—X-ray facilities 

seeking NIOSH approval to provide 

miner radiographs under the CWHSP 

must complete an approval packet 

including this form which requires 

approximately 30 minutes for 

completion. 

• Miner Identification Document 

(2.9)—Miners who elect to participate in 

the CWHSP must fill out this document 

which requires approximately 20 

minutes. This document records 

demographic and occupational history, 

as well as information required under 

the regulations in relation to the 

examinations. 

• Chest Radiograph Classification 

Form (2.8)—NIOSH utilizes a 

radiographic classification system 

developed by the International Labour 

Office (ILO) in the determination of 

pneumoconiosis among coal miners. 

Physicians (B Readers) fill out this form 

regarding their interpretations of the 

radiographs (each image has two 

separate interpretations, and 

approximately 7% of the images require 

additional interpretations). Based on 

prior practice it takes the physician 

approximately 3 minutes per form. 

• Physician Application for 

Certification (2.12)—Physicians taking 

the B Reader examination are asked to 

complete this registration form which 

provides demographic information as 

well as information regarding their 

medical practices. It typically takes the 

physician about 10 minutes to complete 

this form. 

• Guidelines for Spirometry in the 

ECWHSP Mobile (Internal use, no form 

number assigned)—Miners (both active 

and former) participating in the 

ECWHSP component of the Program are 

offered a spirometry test. This form is 

administered by a NIOSH employee (or 

contractor) in the ECWHSP Mobile Unit 

during the initial intake process and 

takes approximately 5 minutes to 

complete. This information is required 

to make sure that the test can be done 

safely and that the miner is physically 

capable of performing the spirometry 

maneuvers. 

• Spirometry Facility Certification 

Document (2.14)—This new form is 

analogous to the Radiographic Facility 

Certification Document (2.11) and 

records the spirometry facility 

equipment/staffing information. 

Spirometry facilities seeking NIOSH 

approval to provide miner spirometry 

testing under the CWHSP must 

complete an approval packet which 

includes this form. It is estimated that 

it will take approximately 30 minutes 

for this form to be completed at the 

facility. 

• Respiratory Assessment Form 

(2.13)—This new form is designed to 

assess respiratory symptoms and certain 

medical conditions and risk factors. It is 

estimated that it will take approximately 

5 minutes for this form to be 

administered to the miner by an 

employee at the facility. 

• Spirometry Results Notification 

Form (2.15)—This new form will 

replace previous forms 2.15, 2.16 and 

2.17. It is used to: Collect information 

that will allow NIOSH to identify the 

miner in order to provide notification of 

the spirometry test results; assure that 

the test can be done safely; record 

certain factors that can affect test 

results; provide documentation that the 

required components of the spirometry 

examination have been transmitted to 

NIOSH for processing; and conduct 

quality assurance audits and 

interpretation of results. It is estimated 

that it will take the facility 

approximately 20 minutes to complete 

this form. 

• Pathologist Invoice—Under the 

NCWAS, the invoice submitted by the 

pathologist must contain a statement 

that the pathologist is not receiving any 

other compensation for the autopsy. 

Each participating pathologist may use 

their individual invoice as long as this 

statement is added. It is estimated that 

only 5 minutes is required for the 

pathologist to add this statement to the 

standard invoice that they routinely use. 

• Pathologist Report—Under the 

NCWAS the pathologist must submit 

information found at autopsy, slides, 

blocks of tissue, and a final diagnosis 

indicating presence or absence of 

pneumoconiosis. The format of the 

autopsy reports is variable depending 

on the pathologist conducting the 

autopsy. Since an autopsy report is 

routinely completed by a pathologist, 

the only additional burden is the 

specific request for a clinical abstract of 

terminal illness and final diagnosis 

relating to pneumoconiosis. Therefore, 

only 5 minutes of additional burden is 

estimated for the pathologist’s report. 

• Consent, Release and History Form 

(2.6)—This form documents written 

authorization from the next-of-kin to 

perform an autopsy on the deceased 

miner. A minimum of essential 

information is collected regarding the 

deceased miner including an 

occupational history and a smoking 

history. From past experience, it is 

estimated that 15 minutes is required for 

the next-of-kin to complete this form. 

As indicated by the below burden 

table, the total annualized burden hours 

for this request are 13,471. There are no 

costs to respondents other than their 

time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of 

respondents Form name Number of respondents 

Number of 

responses 

per respondent 

Average 

burden/response 

(in hrs) 

Total 

burden 

(in hrs) 

Coal Mine Operator ........................... 2.10 .................................................. 388 1 30/60 194 

Coal Mine Contractor ........................ 2.18 .................................................. 575 1 30/60 288 

X-ray Facility Supervisor ................... 2.11 .................................................. 40 1 30/60 20 

Coal Miner ......................................... 2.9 .................................................... 14,560 1 20/60 4,853 

B Reader Physician ........................... 2.8 .................................................... 31,000 1 3/60 1,550 

Physicians taking the B Reader Examination.2.12 .................................................. 100 1 10/60 17 

NIOSH employee (or contractor) ...... Guidelines for Spirometry in the 

ECWHSP Mobile Unit—No Form 

# assigned (internal document).

4,560 1 5/60 380 

Spirometry Facility Supervisor .......... 2.14 .................................................. 200 1 30/60 100 

Spirometry Facility Employee ............ 2.13 .................................................. 14,560 1 5/60 1,213 

Spirometry Technician ....................... 2.15 .................................................. 14,560 1 20/60 4,853 

Pathologist ......................................... Invoice —No standard form ............. 5 1 5/60 1 


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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued 

Type of 

respondents Form name Number of respondents 

Number of 

responses 

per respondent 

Average 

burden/response 

(in hrs) 

Total 

burden 

(in hrs) 

Pathologist ......................................... Pathology Report—No standard 

form.

5 l 5/60 1 

Next-of-kin for deceased miner ......... 2.6 .................................................... 5 1 15/60 1 

Total ........................................... .......................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 13,471 

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 

[30Day–15–0621] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) has submitted the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for 

the proposed information collection is 

published to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information are encouraged. Your 

comments should address any of the 

following: (a) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of the agencies estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (d) Minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses; and (e) Assess information 

collection costs. 

To request additional information on 

the proposed project or to obtain a copy 

of the information collection plan and 

instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or 

send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written 

comments and/or suggestions regarding 

the items contained in this notice 

should be directed to the Attention: 

CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management 

and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or 

by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

National Youth Tobacco Surveys 

(NYTS) 2015–2017—Revision—National 

Center for Chronic Disease Prevention 

and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) has periodically 

collected information about tobacco use 

among adolescents since 2004 (National 

Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) 2004, 

2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014; 

OMB no. 0920–0621, exp. 1/31/2015). 

At present, the NYTS is the most 

comprehensive source of nationally 

representative tobacco data among 

students in grades 9–12, and the only 

source of such data for students in 

grades 6–8. The NYTS has provided 

national estimates of tobacco use 

behaviors, information about exposure 

to pro- and anti-tobacco influences, and 

information about racial and ethnic 

disparities in tobacco-related topics. 

Information collected through the NYTS 

is used to identify trends over time, to 

inform the development of tobacco 

cessation programs for youth, and to 

evaluate the effectiveness of existing 

interventions and programs. 

CDC is requesting OMB approval to 

conduct additional cycles of the NYTS 

in the spring of 2015, 2016, and 2017. 

The survey will be conducted among 

nationally representative samples of 

students attending public and private 

schools in grades 6–12, and will be 

administered to students as an optically 

scannable booklet of multiple-choice 

questions. Information supporting the 

NYTS also will be collected from 

state-, district-, and school-level 

administrators and teachers. During the 

2015–2017 timeframe, a number of 

changes will be incorporated that reflect 

CDC’s ongoing collaboration with FDA 

and the need to measure progress 

toward meeting strategic goals 

established by the Family Smoking 

Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. 

The 2015 survey will examine the 

following topics: Use of cigarettes, 

smokeless tobacco, cigars, pipes, bidis, 

snus, hookahs, electronic vapor 

products, and dissolvable tobacco 

products; knowledge and attitudes; 

media and advertising; access to tobacco 

products; secondhand smoke exposure; 

and cessation. Information collection 

will occur annually. 

Results of the NYTS will continue to 

be used for public health program 

planning and evaluation. Information 

collected through the NYTS is also 

expected to provide multiple measures 

and data for monitoring progress on 

multiple tobacco-related objectives for 

Healthy People 2020. 

OMB approval is requested for three 

years. Participation is voluntary and the 

total estimated annualized burden hours 

are 15,504. There are no costs to 

respondents other than their time. 


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