[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 132 (Thursday, July 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39401-39402]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-16120]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60-Day-14-14AMY]
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 Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send
an email to [email protected].
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
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be received within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Registration of Closed-Circuit Escape Respirator (CCER) units upon
purchase--42 CFR part 84--Regulation--New--National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
This project partially satisfies the requirement created by 42 CFR
84.311, Registration of CCER Units upon purchase. Applicants for
approval of closed-circuit escape respirator (CCER) units must request
respirator purchasers register their respirators with the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The purpose of
the information collection, is given in Sec. 84.311c: ``The National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) requests, but does
not require, that purchasers of this respirator register each unit with
NIOSH. Registration will enable NIOSH, which approved this model of
respirator, to attempt to notify you if a problem is discovered that
might affect the safety or performance of this respirator. Registration
will also assist NIOSH in locating deployed units to periodically
evaluate whether this respirator model is remaining effective under
field conditions of storage and use.''
CCER units are respirators designed for escape from certain
hazardous atmospheres, notably atmospheres that may be encountered
during mining incidents. Subpart O, Closed-Circuit Escape Respirators,
(Sec. Sec. 84.300--84.311) was added to 42 CFR Part 84, Approval of
Respiratory Protective Devices, describing requirements for a new class
of NIOSH-approved respirators in response to issues with deployed Self-
Contained Self-Rescuers (SCSR) respirators. Purchaser data collection
was added to enable direct communication about potentially hazardous
issues that may arise with approved CCER units, and to facilitate
collection of CCER units from the field for evaluation.
In support of these goals, the collection will request the name and
postal address of the company that purchased the respirators, a contact
email address and position title, the respirator manufacturer, model,
serial number or numbers, and date of manufacture, and the company
industry and worksite regulation body (i.e. Mining Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA), or Other). Data collection will be through a structured email
created using a NIOSH-hosted web form. Data collection is expected to
take approximately five minutes per submission.
While the Federal Government is expected to purchase approximately
40,000 CCER units annually, these purchases will not be included in the
burden estimate as MSHA will require the collection of this data for
mine safety checks. Purchasers covered by MSHA regulations will be
advised that MSHA reporting requirements will include all expected
benefits of this CCER registration, and therefore registration is not
recommended. The private sector is expected to purchase approximately
4,000 CCER units annually and a conservative estimate purchase lot size
of ten (400 units).
We estimate an 80% response rate, for an estimated 320 responses.
The estimated overall burden is 27 hours. There are no costs to the
respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of Responses per per response (in Total burden
respondents respondent hours) hours
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Purchaser of CCER units....................... CCER Registration Form.......... 320 1 5/60 27
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Total..................................... 27
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Leroy 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. 2014-16120 Filed 7-9-14; 8:45 am]
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