[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 14 (Thursday, January 22, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3239-3240]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01010]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-15-0929]
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
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 be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
World Trade Center Health Program Petition for the Addition of a
New WTC-Related Health Condition for Coverage under the World Trade
Center (WTC) Health Program (OMB No. 0920-0929, expires 4/30/2015)--
Revision--National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Title I of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of
2010 (Pub. L. 111-347), amended the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act)
to add Title XXXIII establishing the WTC Health Program within the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The WTC Health Program provides medical monitoring and treatment
benefits to eligible firefighters and related personnel, law
enforcement officers, and rescue, recovery, and cleanup workers who
responded to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York
City, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania (responders),
and to eligible persons who were present in the dust or dust cloud on
September 11, 2001 or who worked, resided, or attended school,
childcare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area
(survivors). PHS Act Sec. 3312(a)(3) identifies a list of health
conditions for which individuals who are enrolled in the WTC Health
Program may be monitored or treated. PHS Act Sec. 3312(a)(6)(B)
specifies that interested parties may petition the Administrator of the
WTC Health Program to request that a new health condition be added to
the List of WTC-Related Health Conditions in 42 CFR 88.1.
To aid the petitioner, the WTC Health Program provides a petition
form to be completed and then sent to the Administrator for review.
However, the petitioner is not required to use the form, and may submit
a petition in a different format, provided it contains all of the data
elements requested on the form. Data elements include the interested
party's name, contact information, signature, and a statement about the
medical basis for the relationship/association between the 9/11
exposure and the proposed health condition, which the Administrator of
the WTC Health Program will use to determine whether to propose a rule
to add the condition, to not to add the condition, or to seek a
recommendation
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from the Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee (STAC).
The petition form is amended slightly to reflect a WTC Health
Program policy change. The current form asks respondents to offer
reference to ``a peer-reviewed, published, epidemiologic study.'' The
revised form will ask respondents to reference ``peer-reviewed,
published, epidemiologic and/or direct observational studies.''
The submission of a petition is purely voluntary, and is not
required or otherwise compelled by NIOSH or the WTC Health Program.
NIOSH expects to receive no more than 20 submissions annually.
Petitioners include prospective and enrolled WTC responders,
screening-eligible survivors, certified-eligible survivors, or members
of groups who advocate on behalf of responders or survivors, such as
physicians. We estimate that an individual spends an average of 40
hours gathering information to substantiate a request to add a health
condition and assembling the petition.
There is no cost to respondents other than their time. The total
estimated annualized burden hours are 800.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (hours) hours
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Responder/Survivor/Advocate Petition for the 20 1 40 800
(physician). addition of
health
conditions.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 800
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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. 2015-01010 Filed 1-21-15; 8:45 am]
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