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of the individual who is the subject of 

the record. 

g. To an expert, consultant, or 

contractor of GSA in the performance of 

a Federal duty to which the information 

is relevant. 

h. To the National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA) for 

records management purposes. 

i. To appropriate agencies, entities, 

and persons when (1) The Agency 

suspects or has confirmed that the 

security or confidentiality of 

information in the system of records has 

been compromised; (2) the Agency has 

determined that as a result of the 

suspected or confirmed compromise 

there is a risk of harm to economic or 

property interests, identity theft or 

fraud, or harm to the security or 

integrity of this system or other systems 

or programs (whether maintained by 

GSA or another agency or entity) that 

rely upon the compromised 

information; and (3) the disclosure 

made to such agencies, entities, and 

persons is reasonably necessary to assist 

in connection with GSA’s efforts to 

respond to the suspected or confirmed 

compromise and prevent, minimize, or 

remedy such harm. 

j. To the workspace and room 

scheduling system. When an individual 

swipes their card the information 

automatically checks them into 

previously reserved workspace. This is 

done as a convenience so the individual 

won’t lose a seat assignment or 

conference room. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF SYSTEM RECORDS: 

STORAGE: 

System records and documents are 

electronically stored on servers and/or 

compact discs. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Records may be retrieved by name 

and/or other personal identifier or 

appropriate type of designation. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

System records are safeguarded in 

accordance with the requirements of the 

Privacy Act, the Computer Security Act, 

and the System Security Plan. 

Technical, administrative, and 

personnel security measures are 

implemented to ensure confidentiality 

and integrity of the data. Security 

measures include password protections, 

assigned roles, and transaction tracking. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Disposition of records will be 

according to the National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA) 

guidelines, set forth in the GSA Records 

Maintenance and Disposition System 

(OAD P 1820.2A) handbook. 

SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS: 

Office of Mission Assurance (OMA), 

Identity, Credential and Access 

Management, 1800 F Street, NW., 

Washington DC 20405. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

Individuals may obtain information 

about their records from the E–PACS 

Program Manager at the above address. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Requests from individuals for access 

to their records should be addressed to 

the E–PACS Program Manager. GSA 

rules for individuals requesting access 

to their records are published in 41 CFR 

part 105–64. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

Individuals may contest their records’ 

contents and appeal determinations 

according to GSA rules published in 41 

CFR part 105–64. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Information is obtained from 

individuals who are receiving 

credentials to enter a federal facility and 

the Government credentialing 

authorities. 

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BILLING CODE 6820–20–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

[Document Identifier HHS–OS–0990-New30D] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Public Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with section 

3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the 

Secretary (OS), Department of Health 

and Human Services, has submitted an 

Information Collection Request (ICR), 

described below, to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. The ICR is for a 

new collection. Comments submitted 

during the first public review of this ICR 

will be provided to OMB. OMB will 

accept further comments from the 

public on this ICR during the review 

and approval period. 

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be 

received on or before January 20, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or via 

facsimile to (202) 395–5806. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Information Collection Clearance staff, 

Information.CollectionClearance@

hhs.gov or (202) 690–6162. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When 

submitting comments or requesting 

information, please include the 

Information Collection Request Title 

and document identifier HHS–OS– 

0990–New—30D for reference. 

Information Collection Request Title: 

National Standards for Culturally and 

Linguistically Appropriate Services 

(CLAS) in Health and Health Care: 

Evaluation of Awareness, Adoption, and 

Implementation 

Abstract: The Office of Minority 

Health (OMH), Office of the Secretary 

(OS), Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) is requesting a new 

approval from OMB for data collection 

on an evaluation project entitled 

‘‘National Standards for Culturally and 

Linguistically Appropriate Services 

(CLAS) in Health and Health Care: 

Evaluation of Awareness, Adoption, and 

Implementation.’’ The purpose of this 

assessment is to systematically describe 

and examine the awareness, knowledge, 

adoption, and implementation of the 

HHS OMH’s National Standards for 

Culturally and Linguistically 

Appropriate Services in Health and 

Health Care (hereafter referred to as the 

National CLAS Standards) in a sample 

of health and health care organizations, 

and to use the resultant data to develop 

a preliminary, model of implementation 

to guide organizational adoption and 

implementation of the National CLAS 

Standards. Originally released in 2001, 

the HHS OMH’s National CLAS 

Standards are a set of recommended 

action steps intended to advance health 

equity, improve quality, and help 

eliminate health care disparities. The 

National CLAS Standards, revised in 

2013, are comprised of 15 Standards 

that provide health and health care 

organizations with a blueprint for 

successfully implementing and 

maintaining culturally and linguistically 

appropriate services. 

Despite increased recognition of the 

National CLAS Standards as a 

fundamental tool for health and health 

care organizations to use in their efforts 

to become more culturally and 

linguistically competent, neither the 

original nor the enhanced National 

CLAS Standards have been 

systematically evaluated in terms of 

public awareness, organizational 

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1Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine. 

1994. How Should the Recommended Dietary 

Allowances Be Revised? National Academy Press, 

Washington, DC. 

2 Dietary Reference Intakes: A Risk Assessment 

Model for Establishing Upper Intake Levels for 

Nutrients. National Academy Press, Washington, 

DC. 

adoption and implementation, or impact 

on health services outcomes. There is a 

need, then, to collect information from 

health and health care organizations to 

understand how and to what extent the 

National CLAS Standards have been 

utilized by its intended audiences. 

Likely Respondents: The information to 

be collected as part of this assessment 

will come from five categories of 

respondents: Training and Development 

Specialists and Managers; Other 

Management; Health and Health Care 

Organization Executives and Managers; 

Health and Health Care Providers, 

Managers, and Support Staff; Health 

Care Practitioners; and Technical Staff. 

TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN—HOURS

Form name Type of 

respondent 

Number of 

respondent 

Number 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(hours) 

Total burden 

(hours) 

National CLAS Standards Stakeholder Interview.Training and Development Specialists and Managers; Other Management Occupations (that contributed to development of National CLAS Standards).21 1 45/60 16 

CLAS Stakeholder Interview ............. Training and Development Specialists and Managers; Other Management Occupations (with subject matter expertise in cultural 

competence or cultural and linguistic appropriate services).

21 1 1 21 

Health and Health Care Organization 

Leadership Interview.

Health and Health Care Organization Executives and Managers.140 1 1 140 

Health and Health Care Organization 

Staff Survey.

Health and Health Care Providers, 

Managers, and Support Staff.

2,500 1 15/60 625 

Health and Health Care Organization 

Screener Survey.

Health and Health Care Organization Executives.50,000 1 5/60 4,167 

National CLAS Standards Experience Form.Health Care Practitioners and Technical Occupations.240,000 1 10/60 40,000 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 44,969 

Darius Taylor, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29740 Filed 12–18–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Announcement of a Workshop and a 

Request for Public Comment on 

Questions Regarding Dietary 

Reference Intakes and Chronic 

Disease Endpoints 

AGENCY: Office of Disease Prevention 

and Health Promotion, Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of 

the Secretary, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Dietary Reference Intakes 

(DRI) Committees of the U.S. and 

Canadian governments will hold a 

workshop entitled ‘‘Options for 

Consideration of Chronic Disease 

Endpoints for Dietary Reference 

Intakes.’’ The objective of the workshop 

is to critically evaluate key scientific 

issues involved in using chronic disease 

endpoints for setting DRIs and, in this 

context, to provide information for 

future decisions as to whether and/or 

how chronic disease endpoints can be 

incorporated into the setting of DRI 

values. In preparation for this meeting, 

the DRI Committees are asking for 

public comment on the set of questions 

that the meeting panelists will discuss. 

DATES: This meeting will be held on 

March 10, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 

p.m. E.D.T. and on March 11, 2015 from 

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. E.D.T. 

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held 

at the Lister Hill Auditorium, National 

Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, 

Maryland, USA. The workshop will be 

open to the public either in-person 

(seating is limited) or by videocast on 

the Internet. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Additional information about this 

workshop and the agenda will be made 

available on the Internet at http://

www.health.gov/dri/as the meeting 

approaches. You may also send emails 

to DRI@hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background Information 

The current DRI approaches for 

selecting indicators of adequacy and 

toxicity and for estimating doseresponse relationships between nutrient 

intakes and selected outcomes derive 

from several Food and Nutrition Board 

committee reports published by the 

Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1994 1

and 1998.2 These committees 

recommended that DRIs for adequacy be 

expressed as Estimated Average 

Requirements (EARs) and 

Recommended Dietary Allowances 

(RDAs, representing 97.5% of 

population requirements). They also 

recommended that reference values for 

Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (ULs) be 

included in future DRI evaluations. 

Additionally, the 1994 IOM committee 

concluded that future RDA processes 

(now called DRIs) should include the 

concept of chronic disease risk 

reduction in addition to the classical 

nutrient deficiency endpoints. The 

approaches recommended by the 1994 

and 1998 committees were applied, 

with a few additions (e.g., Adequate 

Intakes, Acceptable Macronutrient 

Distribution Ranges), for all seven of the 

DRI reviews published from 1997 to 

2011. These reports can be accessed at 

the following Web site: http://

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