[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 213 (Wednesday, November 4, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 68322]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28047]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[Docket Number CDC-2015-0008; NIOSH-282]


International Labour Office (ILO) Reference Radiographs; 
Reopening of Comment Period

AGENCY: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) 
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice and reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On April 6, 2015, the Director of the National Institute for 
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC), published a notice in the Federal 
Register [80 FR 18427] announcing a collaboration with the Labour 
Inspection, Labour Administration and Occupational Safety and Health 
Branch of the International Labour Office (ILO) in developing a set of 
digital reference radiographs for the ILO International Classification 
of Radiographs of Pneumoconiosis (ILO Classification). Today we are 
announcing the re-opening of the public comment period for an 
additional 60 days.

DATES: Comments will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. January 4, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by CDC-2015-0008 and 
docket number NIOSH-282, by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: National Institute for Occupational Safety and 
Health, NIOSH Docket Office, 1090 Tusculum Avenue MS C-34, Cincinnati, 
Ohio 45226-1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Attfield, NIOSH/Respiratory 
Health Division (RHD), 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505-2888, 
telephone (304) 285-5737 (this is not a toll free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The current ILO Classification depends on 22 
standard reference radiographs that are used to formally identify and 
characterize pneumoconiosis and related pulmonary abnormalities arising 
from occupational exposure. The original standards were based on film 
radiography, but the advent of digital radiography has led to the need 
for reference standards based on digitally-acquired images. NIOSH is 
assisting the ILO in the process of identifying such digital images.
    For this purpose, NIOSH requested trained users of the ILO 
Classification to submit comments regarding any of the current ILO 
standard reference images that are felt to be deficient and for which 
improvements could be made. Note that NIOSH is not soliciting comments 
on the structure and format of the current ILO Classification; these 
are to remain unchanged at the present time. For this reason, comments 
received on the ILO Classification as a whole will be considered 
irrelevant to the purpose of this docket. This request for comments has 
been reopened at the request of the ILO.

    Dated: October 29, 2015.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2015-28047 Filed 11-3-15; 8:45 am]
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