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at sites that are the subject of petitions

from the public; and other healthrelated activities such as epidemiologic

studies, health surveillance, exposure

and disease registries, health education,

substance-specific applied research,

emergency response, and preparation of

toxicological profiles. In addition, under

an MOU signed in December 1990 with

DOE and replaced by an MOU signed in

2000, the Department of Health and

Human Services (HHS) has been given

the responsibility and resources for

conducting analytic epidemiologic

investigations of residents of

communities in the vicinity of DOE

facilities, workers at DOE facilities, and

other persons potentially exposed to

radiation or to potential hazards from

non-nuclear energy production and use.

HHS has delegated program

responsibility to CDC.

Purpose

This subcommittee is charged with

providing advice and recommendations

to the Director, CDC, and the

Administrator, ATSDR, pertaining to

CDC’s and ATSDR’s public health

activities and research at this DOE site.

Activities shall focus on providing the

public with a vehicle to express

concerns and provide advice and

recommendations to CDC and ATSDR.

The purpose of this meeting is to receive

updates from ATSDR and CDC, and to

address other issues and topics, as

necessary.

Matters to be Discussed: The agenda

includes a discussion of the public

health assessment, updates from the

Public Health Assessment, Health Needs

Assessment, Agenda, Communications

and Outreach, and the Ad Hoc Mission

Workgroup. Agenda items are subject to

change as priorities dictate.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

La Freta Dalton, Designated Federal

Official, or Marilyn Palmer, Committee

Management Specialist, Division of

Health Assessment and Consultation,

ATSDR, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, M/S E–

54, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 1–

888–42–ATSDR(28737), fax 404/498–

1744.

The Director, Management Analysis

and Services Office, has been delegated

the authority to sign Federal Register

notices pertaining to announcements of

meetings and other committee

management activities, for both the

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic

Substances and Disease Registry.

Dated: December 17, 2001.

John Burckhardt,

Acting Director, Management Analysis and

Services Office, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration on Aging

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Submission to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for Clearance; Comment

Request; Revision and Reinstatement

of Information Collection

AGENCY: Administration on Aging, HHS.

The Administration on Aging (AoA),

Department of Health and Human

Services, provides an opportunity for

comment on the following proposal for

the collection of information in

compliance with the Paperwork

Reduction Act (PRA; Pub. L. 96–511):

Title of Information Collection: State

Program Report (SPR): Reporting

Requirements for Titles III and VII of the

Older Americans Act (OAA).

Type of Request: Reinstatement with

modifications.

Use: The SPR is the source of program

data for State programs on behalf of

elderly individuals across the nation,

administered under the OAA. The data

are used by AoA to fulfill reporting

requirements mandated under the OAA,

the Government Performance and

Results Act, and other Federal

management statutes. AoA uses the data

for program planning, management,

assessment, accountability and

development. Data for all States are

published each year on the AoA website

for use by the States, area agencies,

providers and research entities for

program analysis and other statistical

purposes.

Frequency: Annual.

Respondents: State agencies on aging,

including comparable agencies in U.S.

territories and the District of Columbia,

which administer OAA programs.

Estimated Number of Responses: 56.

Total Estimated Burden Hours:

140,000.

Additional Information or Comments:

The Administration on Aging (AoA) has

initiated a cooperative effort with State

agencies on aging, area agencies on

aging, and aging service providers to

modify the SPR. Multiple factors

influence AoA’s plans to modify this

fundamental information collection

requirement at this time, particularly

the following: (1) Need to incorporate

into the SPR information requirements

for the National Family Caregiver

Support Program authorized by the 2000

Amendments to the OAA; (2) need to

revise information requirements to

comply with Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) standards for gathering

information on race and ethnicity; (3)

the need to streamline and reduce the

current information requirements of the

SPR; and (4) the expiration of OMB

approval of the SPR under the

Paperwork Reduction Act in August

2002. Written comments and

recommendations for the modification

of this proposed information collection

should be sent within 60 days of the

publication of this Notice directly to the

following address: Office of Planning

and Evaluation, Administration on

Aging, Attention: Frank Burns, 330

Independence Avenue, SW., Rm. 4741,

Washington, DC 20201.

Dated: December 17, 2001.

Josefina G. Carbonell,

Assistant Secretary for Aging.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration on Aging

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Submission to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for Clearance; Comment

Request; Approval of an Information

Collection Survey

AGENCY: Administration on Aging, HHS.

The Administration on Aging (AoA),

Department of Health and Human

Services, provides an opportunity for

comment on the following proposal for

the collection of information in

compliance with the Paperwork

Reduction Act (PRA; Pub. L. 96–511):

Title of Information Collection:

National Family Caregiver Support

Program Survey: Grandparents and

Other Relatives Raising Children.

Type of Request: This request is for

approval of a one-time survey to

identify agencies currently providing

services to grandparents and other

relatives caring for grandchildren.

Use: Data will be collected by

Generations United, a National Family

Caregiver Support Program

discretionary grantee, on organizations

providing services to grandparents and

other relatives caring for children,

nature of services provided, number of

grandparents and other relative

caregivers served annually; number of

children assisted annually, and training

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needs of these organizations to

adequately evaluate the

implementation, progress and process of

the National Family Caregiver Support

Program, Title III–E of the Older

Americans Act (42 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.),

as amended by the Older Americans Act

Amendments of 2000 (Pub.L. 106–501).

AoA and Generations United will use

this data to plan technical assistance to

these organizations in the forthcoming

year. The data will also be used by the

AoA to evaluate and describe all

projects funded by this initiative and

address the program’s evaluation and

Government Performance and Results

Act (GPRA) requirements. Findings will

be used to manage the program and

better target future activities.

Frequency: One-time survey

administered by Generations United.

Respondents: State Units on Aging,

Area Agencies on Aging, Tribal and

Native Organizations, Primary Health

Care Centers.

Estimated Number of Responses:

1600.

Total Estimated Burden Hours: 10

minutes/organization × 1600

organizations = 267 hours.

Additional Information or Comments:

The Administration on Aging plans to

submit to the Office of Management and

Budget for approval a one-time survey

to identify organizations providing

services to grandparents and other

relative caregivers of children to design

technical assistance to those

organizations. Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent

within 60 days of the publication of this

Notice directly to the following address:

Office of Program Development,

Administration on Aging, Attention:

Rick Greene, 330 Independence Avenue,

SW., Rm 4748, Washington, DC 20201.

Dated: December 17, 2001.

Josefina G. Carbonell,

Assistant Secretary for Aging.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[30DAY–03–02]

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) 639–7090. Send written

comments to CDC, Desk Officer, Human

Resources and Housing Branch, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, DC 20503. Written

comments should be received within 30

days of this notice.

Proposed Project

Hanford Birth Cohort Study—New—

The Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry (ATSDR) is mandated

pursuant to the 1980 Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act

(CERCLA) and its 1986 Amendments,

the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), to prevent or

mitigate adverse human health effects

and diminished quality of life resulting

from the exposure to hazardous

substances into the environment. This

legislation was, in part, in response to

the lack of scientific information about

potential adverse health effects resulting

from exposure of a general population to

hazardous substances. Although

environmental exposures have been

documented at many hazardous waste

sites in the United States, most existing

data are for occupational exposures.

However, environmental exposure of a

general population is more likely to

include exposure of vulnerable

subpopulations (e.g., pregnant women,

children, elderly, and the infirm).

ATSDR plans activities to address these

issues which include conducting health

studies at sites on the Environmental

Protection Agency’s (EPA) National

Priorities List (NPL) to determine

whether and to what degree exposure to

hazardous substances at these sites are

harmful to human health.

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, in

south central Washington State, is on

EPA’s National Priorities List. Between

1944 when it opened until its closing in

1972, radioactive Iodine was released to

the air from chemical separation

facilities funded to produce plutonium

for atomic weapons. The Hanford

Environmental Dose Reconstruction

Project (HEDR) estimates that the

majority of releases of Iodine-131

occurred between 1944 and 1951.

Broad-based scientific studies indicate

that exposure to radioactive materials

(including Iodine-131), may be

associated with an increased risk of

developing autoimmune or

cardiovascular diseases. Children up to

five years of age may be at higher risk

than the general population of

developing these diseases after

exposure.

The objective of the Hanford Birth

Cohort Study is to compare information

on the rates of autoimmune and

cardiovascular disease among a

population exposed to radioactive

contaminants during 1945–1951 and the

rates of a less-exposed comparison

population. This study may have

applicability to other sites where

exposure to radioactive contaminants

has occurred.

ATSDR currently has underway an

information collection at the Hanford

Nuclear Reservation to develop

educational materials and interventions

related to thyroid disease for

individuals exposed to I–131 as young

children—the Hanford Community

Health Project (OMB No. 0923–0031).

This Hanford Birth Cohort Study is a

separate project which will collect

information on rates of autoimmune and

cardiovascular disease among the

selected population. Integral to

designing this project, ATSDR reviewed

the work of the National Cancer

Institute’s (NCI) Committee on Exposure

of the American People to I–131 from

the Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests as well

as the NCI’s report titled ‘‘Exposure of

the American People to IODINE–131

from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests.’’

In another ATSDR project (OMB No.

0923–0006), approximately 6,000

people were located who were born

between 1940 and 1951 in three highexposed counties nearest the Hanford

site (Benton, Franklin, and Adams). For

the currently proposed study, ATSDR

will randomly select and interview up

to 1,000 individuals from this entire

birth cohort of 15,001 (including the

6,000 people who were previously

located). The comparison population

will include a random selection of 1,000

persons born in three low-exposed

counties located farther away from the

Hanford site (San Juan, Whatcom, and

Mason).

To reduce the amount of time

required by the respondents, Computer

Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI)

will be conducted. Following

completion of all respondent interviews,

the data will be tabulated and analyzed

(the high exposed group will be

compared with the low exposed group).

The information collected in this

proposed study will provide reliable

baseline information on the incidence of

autoimmune and cardiovascular

diseases as related to exposure to

releases from the Hanford facility and

will also provide the information

needed to generate appropriate and

valid hypotheses for future activities,

such as other epidemiologic studies.