80 FR 15020 - Notice of Intent To Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 54 (March 20, 2015)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 54 (March 20, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-06468 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 54 (Friday, March 20, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 15020-15021] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-06468] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Notice of Intent To Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice provides information on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) intent to publish a funding opportunity announcement for Education and Research Centers (ERCs). The purpose of this program is to support existing NIOSH ERCs and establish new ERCs, as appropriate, to address the burden of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) in the United States by providing state-of-the-art interdisciplinary graduate and research training for the next generation of OSH practitioners and researchers. Table of Contents Dates For Further Information Contact Supplementary Information Recipient Reporting Requirements Award Information Needs Assessment Regional Presence Budget Limits for Required and Optional Components DATES:Anticipated Publication Date of Announcement: May 2015 First Anticipated Application Due Date: November 2015 Earliest Anticipated Award Date: June 2016 Earliest Anticipated Start Date: July 2016 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Elizabeth H. Maples, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control, 1600 Clifton Road NE., Mailstop E-74, Atlanta, GA 30333; Phone (not toll-free numbers): (404) 498-2557, Fax: (404) 498-2571, Email: [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), intends to publish a funding opportunity announcement for Education and Research Centers (ERCs) that are focused on occupational safety and health graduate training and research training. NIOSH is mandated to provide an adequate supply of qualified personnel to carry out the purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the ERCs are one of the principal means for meeting this mandate. ERCs are academic institutions that provide high-quality interdisciplinary graduate training, continuing education, and outreach in the core occupational safety and health disciplines of industrial hygiene (IH), occupational health nursing (OHN), occupational medicine residency (OMR), and occupational safety (OS), as well as closely related allied disciplines. Research and research training are integral components of ERCs, with ERC faculty and NIOSH trainees conducting research on issues related to the NIOSH National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA). The ERCs also serve as regional resources for industry, labor, government, and the public. This Notice of Intent is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects. The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is expected to be published in May 2015 with an expected application due date in November 2015. The FOA will utilize the T42 activity code. ERCs are located in accredited academic institutions across the country and provide graduate degree and certificate training in core and allied disciplines of OSH. ERCs also provide interdisciplinary research training to identify, assess, address, and improve OSH. ERCs conduct outreach to help improve knowledge and awareness of work-related safety and health issues, and they provide continuing education for OSH professionals. Through comprehensive, integrated programs, ERCs improve the safety and health of our nation's workers. Recipient Reporting Requirements: Recipients funded with NIOSH ERC appropriations will be required to report project status on an annual basis. Specific reporting requirements will be detailed in the Terms and Conditions of the Notice of Award. Award Information: Approximate Current Fiscal Year Funding: $24,000,000. Approximate Number of Awards: 15-20. Approximate Average Awards: Up to $1,800,000/year. Fiscal Year Funds: 2016. Budget Period: 12 months. Project Period: Up to 5 years for established ERCs and up to 3 years for new ERCs. Application Selection Process: Applications will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by an appropriate peer review group, in accordance with CDC peer review policy and procedure using review criteria that will be stated in the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). As part of the scientific peer review, all applications will: Undergo a selection process in which all responsive applications will be discussed and assigned an overall impact/priority score, and Receive a written critique. Needs Assessment: ERCs must document that their proposed academic and research training programs meet specific regional or national workforce need and demand. Regional Presence: ERCs should demonstrate collaborative efforts by working with a diverse and broad range [[Page 15021]] of organizations to enhance worker safety and health in their region. This Notice encourages investigators with expertise and insights in the area of occupational safety and health to begin to consider applying for this upcoming FOA. Budget Limits for Required and Optional Components: ERCs are complex, interdisciplinary centers. Up to $1,800,000/year total costs may be requested by an ERC. The following table lists required and optional ERC components and budget information: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Funding information (total ERC components costs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Planning and Evaluation Core (Required) Up to $370,000/year. Center Administration, Planning and Up to $250,000/year. Evaluation. Interdisciplinary Activities........... Up to $30,000/year. Diversity Recruitment and Retention.... Up to $5,000/year. Outreach in Occupational Safety and Up to $35,000/year. Health. Developmental Program Support Up to $50,000/year. (Optional). Academic Training Core (Required)...... Up to $930,000/year with 70% to Direct Trainee Costs. Required minimum of 3 Academic Training There are no budget limits for Programs. At least 2 from the core individual academic training disciplines of IH, OHN, OMR, or OS, programs. Applicants must stay and 1 may be a core or allied within the total $1.8 million discipline. per year request in total There is no minimum number of trainees costs. required for any one academic program.. A minimum of 70% of the overall Applicants must fully justify need for Academic Training Core budget all programs and their capacity to must go to Direct Trainee meet training demand.. Costs that provide stipends, NIOSH will consider applications for tuition and fees, research Doctor of Nursing Practice Programs.. support, and travel. Complementary and Special Pathways for A maximum of 30% of the overall OMRs are eligible for NIOSH support if Academic Training Core budget administered by an OMR Program may go to support Training- accredited by the ACGME. related Expenses that include Applicants may request trainee support support for faculty and staff for academic certificate training salaries, supplies, equipment programs in approved core and allied and non-trainee travel. This disciplines. Trainee support is 70%/30% allocation of funding limited to tuition only and is may be applied across all included in the minimum 70% allocation academic training programs in toward Direct Trainee Costs. aggregate, and need not be Certificate trainees should be clearly applied to each individual identified in academic training academic training program. program budgets.. Research Training Core (Optional)...... Up to $400,000/year with 70% of Collaborative Research Training (CRT) to Direct Trainee Costs. Pilot Projects Research Training Up to $100,000/year. (Optional). Collaborative Research Training Up to $300,000/year. (Optional). CRT supports the research training needs of NIOSH trainees and students from other disciplines who receive NIOSH support during their academic training program. A minimum of 70% of requested funds must go to support Direct Trainee Costs that provide stipends, tuition and fees, research supplies, and travel; a maximum of 30% may go to support Training-related Expenses that include support for faculty and staff salaries, supplies, equipment and non-trainee travel. Continuing Education Program (Required) Up to $100,000/year. Needs-based training should be offered to safety and health practitioners and allied disciplines to have a positive impact on workplace practices and policies.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dated: March 16, 2015. John Howard, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [FR Doc. 2015-06468 Filed 3-19-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163-19-P
![15020 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 54 / Friday, March 20, 2015 / Notices
www.regulations.gov along with your establish new ERCs, as appropriate, to This Notice of Intent is being
state/province and country (if address the burden of Occupational provided to allow potential applicants
provided), the name of your Safety and Health (OSH) in the United sufficient time to develop meaningful
representative (if any), and the category States by providing state-of-the-art collaborations and responsive projects.
identifying you (e.g., individual, interdisciplinary graduate and research The Funding Opportunity
consumer, academic, industry). For training for the next generation of OSH Announcement (FOA) is expected to be
written submissions submitted to the practitioners and researchers. published in May 2015 with an
Division of Dockets Management, FDA Table of Contents expected application due date in
will post the body of your comments on November 2015.
http://www.regulations.gov, but you can Dates The FOA will utilize the T42 activity
put your name and/or contact For Further Information Contact code. ERCs are located in accredited
Supplementary Information
information on a separate cover sheet Recipient Reporting Requirements
academic institutions across the country
and not in the body of your comments. Award Information and provide graduate degree and
Needs Assessment certificate training in core and allied
III. Topics for Discussion
Regional Presence disciplines of OSH. ERCs also provide
The public workshop will include Budget Limits for Required and Optional interdisciplinary research training to
presentations and panel discussion Components identify, assess, address, and improve
regarding e-cigarettes and the public DATES: OSH. ERCs conduct outreach to help
health, specifically relating to the • Anticipated Publication Date of improve knowledge and awareness of
impact of e-cigarettes on the population Announcement: May 2015 work-related safety and health issues,
as a whole. Topics to be addressed • First Anticipated Application Due and they provide continuing education
include: (1) Prevalence and patterns of Date: November 2015 for OSH professionals. Through
use; (2) impacts on current tobacco • Earliest Anticipated Award Date: June comprehensive, integrated programs,
product users; (3) impacts on non-users 2016 ERCs improve the safety and health of
of tobacco products; and (4) knowledge, • Earliest Anticipated Start Date: July our nation’s workers.
attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions about 2016 Recipient Reporting Requirements:
e-cigarette products. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Recipients funded with NIOSH ERC
Additional information related to Elizabeth H. Maples, National Institute appropriations will be required to report
workshop presentations and discussion for Occupational Safety and Health, project status on an annual basis.
topics, including specific questions to Centers for Disease Control, 1600 Clifton Specific reporting requirements will be
be addressed at the workshop, can be Road NE., Mailstop E–74, Atlanta, GA detailed in the Terms and Conditions of
found at http://www.fda.gov/ 30333; Phone (not toll-free numbers): the Notice of Award.
TobaccoProducts/NewsEvents/ (404) 498–2557, Fax: (404) 498–2571, Award Information:
ucm238308.htm. Email: EMaples@cdc.gov. • Approximate Current Fiscal Year
Dated: March 16, 2015. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Funding: $24,000,000.
Leslie Kux, National Institute for Occupational • Approximate Number of Awards:
Associate Commissioner for Policy. Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for 15–20.
[FR Doc. 2015–06388 Filed 3–19–15; 8:45 am] Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), • Approximate Average Awards: Up
BILLING CODE 4164–01–P intends to publish a funding to $1,800,000/year.
opportunity announcement for • Fiscal Year Funds: 2016.
Education and Research Centers (ERCs) • Budget Period: 12 months.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND that are focused on occupational safety • Project Period: Up to 5 years for
HUMAN SERVICES and health graduate training and established ERCs and up to 3 years for
research training. new ERCs.
Centers for Disease Control and NIOSH is mandated to provide an Application Selection Process:
Prevention adequate supply of qualified personnel Applications will be evaluated for
to carry out the purposes of the scientific and technical merit by an
Notice of Intent To Publish a Funding Occupational Safety and Health Act, appropriate peer review group, in
Opportunity Announcement for and the ERCs are one of the principal accordance with CDC peer review
Occupational Safety and Health means for meeting this mandate. ERCs policy and procedure using review
Education and Research Centers are academic institutions that provide criteria that will be stated in the
AGENCY: National Institute for high-quality interdisciplinary graduate Funding Opportunity Announcement
Occupational Safety and Health training, continuing education, and (FOA).
(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease outreach in the core occupational safety As part of the scientific peer review,
Control and Prevention (CDC), and health disciplines of industrial all applications will:
Department of Health and Human hygiene (IH), occupational health • Undergo a selection process in
Services (HHS). nursing (OHN), occupational medicine which all responsive applications will
ACTION: Notice. residency (OMR), and occupational be discussed and assigned an overall
safety (OS), as well as closely related impact/priority score, and
SUMMARY: This notice provides allied disciplines. Research and • Receive a written critique.
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information on the Centers for Disease research training are integral Needs Assessment: ERCs must
Control and Prevention (CDC), National components of ERCs, with ERC faculty document that their proposed academic
Institute for Occupational Safety and and NIOSH trainees conducting and research training programs meet
Health (NIOSH) intent to publish a research on issues related to the NIOSH specific regional or national workforce
funding opportunity announcement for National Occupational Research Agenda need and demand.
Education and Research Centers (ERCs). (NORA). The ERCs also serve as regional Regional Presence: ERCs should
The purpose of this program is to resources for industry, labor, demonstrate collaborative efforts by
support existing NIOSH ERCs and government, and the public. working with a diverse and broad range
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of organizations to enhance worker begin to consider applying for this to $1,800,000/year total costs may be
safety and health in their region. upcoming FOA. requested by an ERC. The following
This Notice encourages investigators Budget Limits for Required and table lists required and optional ERC
with expertise and insights in the area Optional Components: ERCs are components and budget information:
of occupational safety and health to complex, interdisciplinary centers. Up
Funding information
ERC components (total costs)
Planning and Evaluation Core (Required) ............................................... Up to $370,000/year.
Center Administration, Planning and Evaluation ...................................... Up to $250,000/year.
Interdisciplinary Activities ......................................................................... Up to $30,000/year.
Diversity Recruitment and Retention ........................................................ Up to $5,000/year.
Outreach in Occupational Safety and Health ........................................... Up to $35,000/year.
Developmental Program Support (Optional) ............................................ Up to $50,000/year.
Academic Training Core (Required) ......................................................... Up to $930,000/year with 70% to Direct Trainee Costs.
Required minimum of 3 Academic Training Programs. At least 2 from There are no budget limits for individual academic training programs.
the core disciplines of IH, OHN, OMR, or OS, and 1 may be a core Applicants must stay within the total $1.8 million per year request in
or allied discipline. total costs.
There is no minimum number of trainees required for any one aca- A minimum of 70% of the overall Academic Training Core budget must
demic program. go to Direct Trainee Costs that provide stipends, tuition and fees, re-
Applicants must fully justify need for all programs and their capacity to search support, and travel.
meet training demand. A maximum of 30% of the overall Academic Training Core budget may
NIOSH will consider applications for Doctor of Nursing Practice Pro- go to support Training-related Expenses that include support for fac-
grams. ulty and staff salaries, supplies, equipment and non-trainee travel.
Complementary and Special Pathways for OMRs are eligible for This 70%/30% allocation of funding may be applied across all aca-
NIOSH support if administered by an OMR Program accredited by demic training programs in aggregate, and need not be applied to
the ACGME. each individual academic training program.
Applicants may request trainee support for academic certificate training
programs in approved core and allied disciplines. Trainee support is
limited to tuition only and is included in the minimum 70% allocation
toward Direct Trainee Costs. Certificate trainees should be clearly
identified in academic training program budgets.
Research Training Core (Optional) .......................................................... Up to $400,000/year with 70% of Collaborative Research Training
(CRT) to Direct Trainee Costs.
Pilot Projects Research Training (Optional) ............................................. Up to $100,000/year.
Collaborative Research Training (Optional) ............................................. Up to $300,000/year.
CRT supports the research training needs of NIOSH trainees and stu-
dents from other disciplines who receive NIOSH support during their
academic training program. A minimum of 70% of requested funds
must go to support Direct Trainee Costs that provide stipends, tuition
and fees, research supplies, and travel; a maximum of 30% may go
to support Training-related Expenses that include support for faculty
and staff salaries, supplies, equipment and non-trainee travel.
Continuing Education Program (Required) .............................................. Up to $100,000/year.
Needs-based training should be offered to safety and health practi-
tioners and allied disciplines to have a positive impact on workplace
practices and policies.
Dated: March 16, 2015. SUMMARY: The National Offshore Safety make oral presentations at the meetings
John Howard, Advisory Committee and its should reach the Coast Guard (see FOR
Director, National Institute for Occupational Commercial Diving Safety on the Outer FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) by April
Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control Continental Shelf Subcommittee will 1, 2015. Any written material submitted
and Prevention. meet on April 7 and 8, 2015, in New by the public will be distributed to the
[FR Doc. 2015–06468 Filed 3–19–15; 8:45 am] Orleans, LA to discuss the safety of Committee and become part of the
BILLING CODE 4163–19–P operations and other matters affecting public record.
the offshore oil and gas industry. These ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at
meetings are open to the public. the OMNI Riverfront Hotel, 701
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND DATES: The Commercial Diving Safety Convention Center Boulevard, New
SECURITY on the Outer Continental Shelf Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 524–8200,
Subcommittee will meet on Tuesday, http://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/new-
Coast Guard April 7, 2015, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and orleans-riverfront. The April 7, 2015
the full National Offshore Safety afternoon Subcommittee meeting will be
held in the Bacchus B Conference
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[Docket No. USCG–2013–1078] Advisory Committee will meet on
Wednesday, April 8, 2015, from 8:30 Room. The April 8, 2015 full Committee
National Offshore Safety Advisory a.m. to 4:30 p.m. These meetings may meeting will be held in the Bacchus
Committee; Meeting end early if the Committee has Conference Room.
AGENCY:Coast Guard, DHS. completed its business, or they may be For information on facilities or
extended based on the number of public services for individuals with
Notice of Federal Advisory
ACTION:
comments. All submitted written disabilities, or to request special
Committee meetings.
materials, comments, and requests to assistance at the meetings, contact the
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| Contact | Dr. Elizabeth H. Maples, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control, 1600 Clifton Road NE., Mailstop E-74, Atlanta, GA 30333; Phone (not toll-free numbers): (404) 498-2557, Fax: (404) 498-2571, Email: [email protected] | |
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