80 FR 23004 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 79 (April 24, 2015)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 79 (April 24, 2015)
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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 79 (Friday, April 24, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 23004-23006] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-09524] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [60Day-15-15ZI; Docket No. CDC-2015-0024] Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ACTION: Notice with comment period. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing efforts 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. This notice invites comment on the proposed information collection entitled Metal and Nonmetal Miner Health Program (MNMHP). The MNMHP proposes to gather health data on metal and nonmetal miners to identify opportunities for reducing the incidence and severity of disease. DATES: Written comments must be received on or before June 23, 2015. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015- 0024 by any of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS- D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329. Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or comments received, go to Regulations.gov. Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the address listed above. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS- D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a proposed data collection as described below. 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. Proposed Project Metal and Nonmetal Miner Health Program (MNMHP)--New--National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [[Page 23005]] Background and Brief Description This is a new information collection request seeks data collection approval for a public health surveillance project. The proposed information collection will provide much needed health data pertaining to an estimated 66,000 workers in the metal and nonmetal (MNM) mining industry in the United States. Additionally, approximately 81,000 contractors worked in the metal, nonmetal, and sand/stone/gravel mining sectors in 2013; this information collection will provide health data on those contractors working in the metal and nonmetal mining sectors. Metal and nonmetal (MNM) mining is an important industry throughout the United States, providing materials for the manufacture of many common items, such as electronics and medications, and employing approximately 25% of the total U.S. mining workforce. Work in this industry exposes miners to recognized hazards including noise, heat, repetitive stress, sleep deprivation, fumes, diesel exhaust, silica and other mine dusts, and radon gas, but the extent to which modern mining practices have mitigated these hazards is unknown. Little is known about the health status of this population of workers, in part because no comprehensive health surveillance system exists for the MNM mining sector. The Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 authorized NIOSH to ``conduct such studies, research, experiments, and demonstrations as may be appropriate to improve working conditions and practices in coal or other mines.'' Surveillance of general occupational illnesses, injuries, and exposures is an important part of NIOSH responsibilities as authorized by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 CFR 671). Comprehensive health surveillance data are critical in estimating and reducing prevalence of occupational illness. A National Academies review of NIOSH research programs in 2007 emphasized that mining production is expected to increase and incorporate new technologies in the next decade, and that an informed assessment of health and safety issues is necessary to ensure that NIOSH research remains relevant. This program will address a number of high priority goals set by NIOSH to advance and coordinate research across the Institute. These goals include the following: Prevent and reduce work-related airways diseases; prevent and reduce work-related interstitial lung diseases; advance cross-cutting issues that affect all work-related respiratory diseases, in particular surveillance, exposure assessment, and emerging issues; reduce the incidence of musculoskeletal disorders in mine workers; reduce the incidence and mortality of work-related cardiovascular disease; and improve the health and safety of working people through research and surveillance to better understand work organization characteristics and their associations with health and safety outcomes. NIOSH proposes to implement a health surveillance program to assess the health status and burden of disease among MNM mine workers. This program will provide current information on a sector of the mining workforce that is not available elsewhere, thereby closing a current knowledge gap. The information will enable NIOSH to develop targeted workplace interventions and health programs directed toward a high risk population of workers. Mining researchers will be able to prioritize research on occupational illnesses. The mining industry will be able to develop, adapt, and promote policies to reduce unhealthy exposures and improve overall miner health. Data collection will take place at selected mine sites and in mining communities in the United States, focusing initially on the western states of the United States where metal mining is concentrated. NIOSH will collaborate with health and safety leaders from western MNM mines, labor, academic researchers, and other NIOSH researchers to identify mines interested in participating in the health assessments. A mobile health clinic will visit each participating site for a number of days, during which NIOSH will solicit voluntary participation from mine employees and contractors. Program staff will collaborate with mine operators and labor representatives to determine the best method to recruit participants. Data collection from consenting individuals working, or having previously worked, in the MNM mining sectors will include: Completion of a questionnaire, measurements of height, weight and blood pressure, collection of a fingerstick blood sample for measurement of cholesterol and hemoglobin A1C levels, pulmonary function testing, and a chest radiograph. The purpose of the questionnaire is to determine prevalence of certain health conditions and risk factors for disease, and to characterize miners' working conditions and workplace exposures. Information will be collected on demographics, occupation, work status, working conditions and occupational exposures, work stress, musculoskeletal disorders, hearing, sleep and fatigue, chronic disease and chronic disease risk factors, and respiratory health. Responding to any of the questions in the questionnaire will be optional; participants may choose to opt out of any portion of the questionnaire, or any of the individual biometric tests. In such cases, participants will still be eligible for remaining tests in which they choose to participate. All data collection activities will be conducted in full compliance with the CDC regulations to maintain the privacy of data obtained on persons and to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects, as contained in Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 22 and 46. Overall, there are no direct costs to MNMHP participants. The total estimated annualized burden hours are 5,213. This estimate is based on the following:Consent form signature: Miners who elect to participate will be asked to read and sign a consent form describing the purpose of the research, risks and benefits of participation, what to expect for participants, data security, and voluntary participation. The consent has been modified to be readable at approximately an eighth grade level. The consent will take approximately 5 minutes to read and sign. Questionnaire completion: Miners who elect to participate in the MNMHP will complete an electronic questionnaire, which takes an average of approximately 23 minutes, with a range of 19-30 minutes. Up to 5% of miners may prefer to complete the questionnaire in hardcopy format, which is estimated to take up to 25% longer to complete. Measurements of height, weight and blood pressure: Miners will be asked to sit quietly for approximately 5 minutes, after which their blood pressure will be measured. Afterward, their height and weight will be measured. In total, these measurements take approximately 10 minutes. No forms are required. Collection of a fingerstick blood sample for measurement of cholesterol and hemoglobin A1C levels: Miners will be asked to provide a fingerstick blood sample, which will be used to measure cholesterol and hemoglobin A1C (for diabetes). The sample collection will take approximately 5-10 minutes, and the results will be available in approximately 5-10 minutes. However, the miners will proceed to other testing stations (chest radiography and pulmonary function testing) while waiting for the results of their fingerstick blood tests, and therefore no [[Page 23006]] extra time is required beyond the blood sample collection. No forms are required. Pulmonary function testing: This test requires approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. No forms are required. Chest radiograph: Chest radiography will take approximately 5 minutes. No forms are required. B Reader Physicians: Physicians provide classifications of chest radiographs by completing a standard NIOSH chest radiograph classification form, which uses the International Labour Office classification system for determination of pneumoconiosis. Each image requires two readings, and according to the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP), approximately 7% of the images require at least one additional reading. The CWHSP estimates that it takes each B Reader approximately three minutes to complete each form. Estimated Annualized Burden Hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Number of Number of burden/ Total burden Type of respondent Form name respondents responses per response (in (in hrs) respondent hrs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Miners........................ Form # 2,375 1 30/60 1,188 questionnaire. Miners........................ Form # 125 1 40/60 83 questionnaire (hardcopy). Miners........................ Height, weight, 2,500 1 10/60 417 blood pressure-- No form required. Miners........................ Fingerstick--No 2,500 1 10/60 417 form required. Miners........................ Spirometry Test-- 2,500 1 20/60 833 No form required. Miners........................ Radiograph--No 2,500 1 10/60 417 form required. Miners........................ Consent form.... 2,500 1 5/60 208 B Reader Physician............ Form 2.8........ 10 550 3/60 275 --------------------------------------------------------------- Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 3,838 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 2015-09524 Filed 4-23-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163-18-P
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by Section 106 of the NHPA, and for Public Comment and collection of information they conduct
updates on consultation with the U.S. Recommendations or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
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Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 60-day notice in the Federal Register
under Section 7 of the Endangered concerning each proposed collection of
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information, including each new
be concluded prior to the Record of ACTION: Notice with comment period. proposed collection, each proposed
Decision. The Final EIS also updates the extension of existing collection of
proposed action to support emerging SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of information, and each reinstatement of
advanced tactical training needs and a previously approved information
change in the availability of existing its continuing efforts to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of collection before submitting the
facilities. The proposed action includes collection to OMB for approval. To
limited use of helicopters in training to government information, invites the
general public and other Federal comply with this requirement, we are
approximately one or two days per publishing this notice of a proposed
month and the addition of an agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or data collection as described below.
Ammunition Supply Point on the Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
proposed site. The Final EIS addresses continuing information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction the proposed collection of information
and responds to agency and public is necessary for the proper performance
comments on the Supplemental Draft Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on the proposed information of the functions of the agency, including
EIS. whether the information shall have
The Final EIS has been distributed to collection entitled Metal and Nonmetal
Miner Health Program (MNMHP). The practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
various federal, state, and local agency’s estimate of the burden of the
agencies, and interested individuals. MNMHP proposes to gather health data
on metal and nonmetal miners to proposed collection of information; (c)
The Final EIS is available for review on ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
the project Web site http:// identify opportunities for reducing the
incidence and severity of disease. clarity of the information to be
www.state.gov/recovery/fastc. Printed collected; (d) ways to minimize the
copies are available for viewing at the DATES: Written comments must be
burden of the collection of information
following libraries: received on or before June 23, 2015.
on respondents, including through the
• Nottoway County Library—Louis ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, use of automated collection techniques
Spencer Epes Memorial Library, 415 identified by Docket No. CDC–2015– or other forms of information
South Main St., Blackstone, VA. 0024 by any of the following methods: technology; and (e) estimates of capital
• Amelia County—James L. Hamner Federal eRulemaking Portal: or start-up costs and costs of operation,
Public Library, 16351 Dunn St., Amelia, Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions maintenance, and purchase of services
VA. for submitting comments. to provide information. Burden means
• Brunswick County—Brunswick Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, the total time, effort, or financial
County Library, 133 W. Hicks St., Information Collection Review Office, resources expended by persons to
Lawrenceville, VA. Centers for Disease Control and generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
• Dinwiddie County—Dinwiddie Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS– provide information to or for a Federal
Library, 14103 Boydton Plank Road, D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329. agency. This includes the time needed
Dinwiddie, VA. Instructions: All submissions received to review instructions; to develop,
• Lunenburg County—Ripberger must include the agency name and acquire, install and utilize technology
Library, 117 South Broad St., Kenbridge, Docket Number. All relevant comments and systems for the purpose of
VA. received will be posted without change collecting, validating and verifying
• Prince Edward County—Prince to Regulations.gov, including any information, processing and
Edward Community Library, 1303 West personal information provided. For maintaining information, and disclosing
3rd St., Farmville, VA. access to the docket to read background and providing information; to train
• Chesterfield County—Central documents or comments received, go to personnel and to be able to respond to
Library, 9501 Lori Road, Chesterfield, Regulations.gov. a collection of information, to search
VA. Please note: All public comment
• Mecklenburg County—Southside data sources, to complete and review
should be submitted through the the collection of information; and to
Regional Library, 1294 Jefferson St., Federal eRulemaking portal
Boydton, VA. transmit or otherwise disclose the
(Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the information.
address listed above.
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Dated: April 15, 2015.
Toby Tobin, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
Proposed Project
Director, Facilities Management & Services request more information on the Metal and Nonmetal Miner Health
Programs Division, U.S. GSA, Mid-Atlantic proposed project or to obtain a copy of Program (MNMHP)—New—National
Region. the information collection plan and Institute for Occupational Safety and
[FR Doc. 2015–09461 Filed 4–23–15; 8:45 am] instruments, contact the Information Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease
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extra time is required beyond the blood • Chest radiograph: Chest determination of pneumoconiosis. Each
sample collection. No forms are radiography will take approximately 5 image requires two readings, and
required. minutes. No forms are required. according to the Coal Workers’ Health
• Pulmonary function testing: This • B Reader Physicians: Physicians Surveillance Program (CWHSP),
test requires approximately 15–20 provide classifications of chest approximately 7% of the images require
radiographs by completing a standard at least one additional reading. The
minutes to complete. No forms are
NIOSH chest radiograph classification CWHSP estimates that it takes each B
required.
form, which uses the International Reader approximately three minutes to
Labour Office classification system for complete each form.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
Number of
Number of burden/ Total burden
Type of respondent Form name responses per
respondents response (in hrs)
respondent (in hrs)
Miners ............................................... Form # questionnaire ....................... 2,375 1 30/60 1,188
Miners ............................................... Form # questionnaire (hardcopy) ..... 125 1 40/60 83
Miners ............................................... Height, weight, blood pressure—No 2,500 1 10/60 417
form required.
Miners ............................................... Fingerstick—No form required ......... 2,500 1 10/60 417
Miners ............................................... Spirometry Test—No form required 2,500 1 20/60 833
Miners ............................................... Radiograph—No form required ........ 2,500 1 10/60 417
Miners ............................................... Consent form .................................... 2,500 1 5/60 208
B Reader Physician .......................... Form 2.8 ........................................... 10 550 3/60 275
Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 3,838
Leroy A. Richardson, this collection of information, including proposed collection(s) summarized in
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, any of the following subjects: (1) The this notice, you may make your request
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the necessity and utility of the proposed using one of following:
Associate Director for Science, Office of the information collection for the proper 1. Access CMS’ Web site address at
Director, Centers for Disease Control and performance of the agency’s functions; http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
Prevention. (2) the accuracy of the estimated PaperworkReductionActof1995.
[FR Doc. 2015–09524 Filed 4–23–15; 8:45 am] burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, 2. Email your request, including your
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be collected; and (4) the use of and CMS document identifier, to
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND other forms of information technology to 3. Call the Reports Clearance Office at
HUMAN SERVICES minimize the information collection (410) 786–1326.
burden. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services DATES: Comments must be received by Reports Clearance Office at (410) 786–
June 23, 2015. 1326.
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recommendations must be submitted in use and burden associated with the
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & any one of the following ways: following information collections. More
Medicaid Services, HHS. 1. Electronically. You may send your detailed information can be found in
ACTION: Notice. comments electronically to http:// each collection’s supporting statement
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