81_FR_3436 81 FR 3423 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

81 FR 3423 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 13 (January 21, 2016)

Page Range3423-3424
FR Document2016-01041

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 a proposed information collection project entitled ``Measuring Perceived Self- Escape Competencies among Underground Mineworkers''. The purpose of this two-year information collection is to gather survey data from up to 800 underground coal miners to measure their perceived competence in the critical knowledge, skills, and abilities that could be required for successful escape from an underground mine emergency.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-16-16KB; Docket No. CDC-2016-0010]


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.

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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 a proposed 
information collection project entitled ``Measuring Perceived Self-
Escape Competencies among Underground Mineworkers''. The purpose of 
this two-year information collection is to gather survey data from up 
to 800 underground coal miners to measure their perceived competence in 
the critical knowledge, skills, and abilities that could be required 
for successful escape from an underground mine emergency.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before March 21, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0010 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

    Measuring Perceived Self-Escape Competencies among Underground 
Mineworkers--New--National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The mission of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and 
Health (NIOSH) is to promote safety & health at work for all people 
through research and prevention. The Federal Mine Safety & Health Act 
of 1997, Public Law 91-173 as amended by Public Law 95-164, enables 
NIOSH to carry out research that is relevant to health and safety of 
workers in the underground coal industry. After a thorough review of 
United States' underground coal mine emergency escape preparedness and

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response, the National Academy of Sciences (NRC, 2013) has emphasized 
the need to improve underground mineworkers' ability to successfully 
escape a mine emergency. Specifically, several mine disasters of 2006 
raised a number of issues about mine emergency preparedness and 
response particularly as they relate to self-escape competencies. The 
resulting federal regulations under the MINER Act of 2006, now require 
all underground coal miners receive Self Contained Self Rescuer (SCSR) 
and escape way training quarterly throughout the year and new emergency 
communications and tracking systems have been mandated and installed in 
underground coal mines.
    NIOSH proposes this exploratory two-year study to better 
characterize the current state of miner self-escape competence and to 
answer the following questions:
     What gaps exist between what miners are required to do for 
self-escape and their perceptions of their actual capabilities?
     How might miner demographics and mine-specific 
characteristics (e.g., size, mining method, and geographic location) 
relate to perceived competence in self-escape knowledge, skills, 
abilities, and other characteristics? Based on the results of this and 
other concurrent exploratory work, interventions to increase mine 
escape competencies will be improved and/or developed and assessed 
which could lead to more standardized self-escape training and 
assessment throughout the industry.
    The information collected will have practical utility in efforts to 
enhance the ability of miners to successfully escape from underground 
coal mines in the event of an emergency by identifying gaps in 
perceived competence in specific knowledge and skills in moving through 
the mine, avoiding dangers, and using protective equipment. This 
information collections will contribute to our understanding of actual 
miner capabilities from the perspective of the mineworkers themselves.
    Data collection will occur above ground at a variety of coal mines 
(and other above ground facilities) to gather information from a 
diverse sample of mines to better reflect the variability (e.g., size, 
mining method, geographic location) that exists among mines and could 
impact self-escape procedures and resource availability. Variability in 
mineworker and mining site characteristics is key to generating a 
cross-sectional snapshot of current mineworkers' perceived self-escape 
competence and may reveal any potential relationships among these 
characteristics and perceived competence in a variety of self-escape 
KSAOs. This data collection will occur once for each mine site over the 
next 2 years (after OMB approval) and is designed to gather information 
not previously available. The results produced are expected to lead to 
recommendations for emphasis in new and/or existing KSAO training and 
preparation as well as to inform future self-escape training and 
research development.
    Descriptive and inferential statistics on data obtained from the 
survey will be used to quantify miner self-escape competence and to 
identify any statistically significant relationships among aggregated 
miner characteristics and perceived competence. Finally, the data will 
serve as a gross baseline measure of miner self-escape competence to be 
directly compared to future data collection utilizing the identical 
data collection instrument.
    NIOSH researchers will visit up to 20 underground coal mine sites 
to obtain informed consent from volunteer participants and administer a 
short paper and pencil survey. The survey will include demographic 
questions and 25 questions related to participants' perceived 
confidence in their own ability to escape their mine in the event of an 
emergency.
    Participants will be mining personnel drawn from multiple operating 
underground coal mines to represent the variety within the industry. 
The timing of the data collection schedule will be flexible and 
modified as needed to minimize disruption to mine operations. No more 
than 800 miner volunteers will participate in the study over two years. 
Minimal time (< 5 minutes each) will be spent in recruitment and 
obtaining informed consent. The survey is expected to take no longer 
than 10 minutes to complete
    The total estimated annualized burden hours are 101.

                                        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      (in hours)         hours
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Mine Operator.................  Mine Recruitment              10               1            5/60               1
                                 Script.
Mine Worker...................  Individual Miner             400               1            5/60              33
                                 Recruitment
                                 Script.
Mine Worker...................  Survey..........             400               1           10/60              67
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             101
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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.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Average               Total burden
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Number of
                                                                       Type of                                                                                                  Number of                                              burden per                   per
                                                                                                                                    Form name                                                            responses per
                                                                     respondent                                                                                                respondents                                              response                respondent
                                                                                                                                                                                                           respondent                   (in hours)                (hours)

                                                    Hospital    .............................................   Baseline ............................................                             7                           1                       8                  56
                                                    Hospital    .............................................   Annual ..............................................                             5                           1                       3                  15
                                                    Hospital    .............................................   Quarterly ...........................................                            12                           4                       3                 144
                                                    Hospital    .............................................   Emergency .......................................                                 7                           4                   15/60                   7
                                                    Hospital    .............................................   Crisis ................................................                           7                           7                   10/60                   8

                                                         Total ...........................................      ...........................................................   ........................   ........................   ........................            230



                                                    Leroy A. Richardson,                                                         Federal eRulemaking Portal:                                                 whether the information shall have
                                                    Chief, Information Collection Review Office,                               Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions                                       practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
                                                    Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the                              for submitting comments.                                                      agency’s estimate of the burden of the
                                                    Associate Director for Science, Office of the                                Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,                                                  proposed collection of information; (c)
                                                    Director, Centers for Disease Control and                                  Information Collection Review Office,                                         ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
                                                    Prevention.                                                                Centers for Disease Control and                                               clarity of the information to be
                                                    [FR Doc. 2016–01040 Filed 1–20–16; 8:45 am]                                Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS–                                        collected; (d) ways to minimize the
                                                    BILLING CODE 4163–18–P                                                     D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.                                                  burden of the collection of information
                                                                                                                                 Instructions: All submissions received                                      on respondents, including through the
                                                                                                                               must include the agency name and                                              use of automated collection techniques
                                                    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND                                                   Docket Number. All relevant comments                                          or other forms of information
                                                    HUMAN SERVICES                                                             received will be posted without change                                        technology; and (e) estimates of capital
                                                                                                                               to Regulations.gov, including any                                             or start-up costs and costs of operation,
                                                    Centers for Disease Control and                                            personal information provided. For                                            maintenance, and purchase of services
                                                    Prevention                                                                 access to the docket to read background                                       to provide information. Burden means
                                                                                                                               documents or comments received, go to                                         the total time, effort, or financial
                                                    [60Day-16–16KB; Docket No. CDC–2016–                                       Regulations.gov.                                                              resources expended by persons to
                                                    0010]                                                                                                                                                    generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
                                                                                                                                 Please note: All public comment should be
                                                                                                                               submitted through the Federal eRulemaking                                     provide information to or for a Federal
                                                    Proposed Data Collection Submitted
                                                                                                                               portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the                               agency. This includes the time needed
                                                    for Public Comment and                                                     address listed above.                                                         to review instructions; to develop,
                                                    Recommendations
                                                                                                                               FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:     To                                       acquire, install and utilize technology
                                                    AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and                                    request more information on the                                               and systems for the purpose of
                                                    Prevention (CDC), Department of Health                                     proposed project or to obtain a copy of                                       collecting, validating and verifying
                                                    and Human Services (HHS).                                                  the information collection plan and                                           information, processing and
                                                    ACTION: Notice with comment period.                                                                                                                      maintaining information, and disclosing
                                                                                                                               instruments, contact the Information
                                                                                                                                                                                                             and providing information; to train
                                                                                                                               Collection Review Office, Centers for
                                                    SUMMARY:   The Centers for Disease                                                                                                                       personnel and to be able to respond to
                                                                                                                               Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
                                                    Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of                                                                                                                 a collection of information, to search
                                                                                                                               Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta,
                                                    its continuing efforts to reduce public                                                                                                                  data sources, to complete and review
                                                                                                                               Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570;
                                                    burden and maximize the utility of                                                                                                                       the collection of information; and to
                                                                                                                               Email: omb@cdc.gov.
                                                    government information, invites the                                                                                                                      transmit or otherwise disclose the
                                                                                                                               SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the                                          information.
                                                    general public and other Federal
                                                                                                                               Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
                                                    agencies to take this opportunity to                                                                                                                     Proposed Project
                                                                                                                               (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies
                                                    comment on proposed and/or
                                                                                                                               must obtain approval from the Office of                                         Measuring Perceived Self-Escape
                                                    continuing information collections, as
                                                                                                                               Management and Budget (OMB) for each                                          Competencies among Underground
                                                    required by the Paperwork Reduction
                                                                                                                               collection of information they conduct                                        Mineworkers—New—National Institute
                                                    Act of 1995. This notice invites
                                                                                                                               or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also                                         for Occupational Safety and Health
                                                    comment on a proposed information
                                                                                                                               requires Federal agencies to provide a                                        (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
                                                    collection project entitled ‘‘Measuring
                                                                                                                               60-day notice in the Federal Register                                         and Prevention (CDC).
                                                    Perceived Self-Escape Competencies
                                                                                                                               concerning each proposed collection of
                                                    among Underground Mineworkers’’.                                                                                                                         Background and Brief Description
                                                                                                                               information, including each new
                                                    The purpose of this two-year                                                                                                                               The mission of the National Institute
                                                                                                                               proposed collection, each proposed
                                                    information collection is to gather                                                                                                                      for Occupational Safety and Health
                                                                                                                               extension of existing collection of
                                                    survey data from up to 800 underground                                                                                                                   (NIOSH) is to promote safety & health at
                                                                                                                               information, and each reinstatement of
                                                    coal miners to measure their perceived                                                                                                                   work for all people through research
                                                                                                                               previously approved information
                                                    competence in the critical knowledge,                                                                                                                    and prevention. The Federal Mine
                                                                                                                               collection before submitting the
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                                                    skills, and abilities that could be                                                                                                                      Safety & Health Act of 1997, Public Law
                                                                                                                               collection to OMB for approval. To
                                                    required for successful escape from an                                                                                                                   91–173 as amended by Public Law 95–
                                                                                                                               comply with this requirement, we are
                                                    underground mine emergency.                                                                                                                              164, enables NIOSH to carry out
                                                                                                                               publishing this notice of a proposed
                                                    DATES: Written comments must be                                            data collection as described below.                                           research that is relevant to health and
                                                    received on or before March 21, 2016.                                         Comments are invited on: (a) Whether                                       safety of workers in the underground
                                                    ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,                                        the proposed collection of information                                        coal industry. After a thorough review
                                                    identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–                                         is necessary for the proper performance                                       of United States’ underground coal mine
                                                    0010 by any of the following methods:                                      of the functions of the agency, including                                     emergency escape preparedness and


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                                                    response, the National Academy of                                        training and assessment throughout the                                        self-escape training and research
                                                    Sciences (NRC, 2013) has emphasized                                      industry.                                                                     development.
                                                    the need to improve underground                                             The information collected will have                                           Descriptive and inferential statistics
                                                    mineworkers’ ability to successfully                                     practical utility in efforts to enhance the                                   on data obtained from the survey will be
                                                    escape a mine emergency. Specifically,                                   ability of miners to successfully escape                                      used to quantify miner self-escape
                                                    several mine disasters of 2006 raised a                                  from underground coal mines in the                                            competence and to identify any
                                                    number of issues about mine emergency                                    event of an emergency by identifying                                          statistically significant relationships
                                                    preparedness and response particularly                                   gaps in perceived competence in                                               among aggregated miner characteristics
                                                    as they relate to self-escape                                            specific knowledge and skills in moving                                       and perceived competence. Finally, the
                                                    competencies. The resulting federal                                      through the mine, avoiding dangers, and                                       data will serve as a gross baseline
                                                    regulations under the MINER Act of                                       using protective equipment. This                                              measure of miner self-escape
                                                    2006, now require all underground coal                                   information collections will contribute                                       competence to be directly compared to
                                                    miners receive Self Contained Self                                       to our understanding of actual miner                                          future data collection utilizing the
                                                    Rescuer (SCSR) and escape way training                                   capabilities from the perspective of the                                      identical data collection instrument.
                                                    quarterly throughout the year and new                                    mineworkers themselves.                                                          NIOSH researchers will visit up to 20
                                                    emergency communications and                                                Data collection will occur above
                                                                                                                                                                                                           underground coal mine sites to obtain
                                                    tracking systems have been mandated                                      ground at a variety of coal mines (and
                                                                                                                                                                                                           informed consent from volunteer
                                                    and installed in underground coal                                        other above ground facilities) to gather
                                                                                                                             information from a diverse sample of                                          participants and administer a short
                                                    mines.                                                                                                                                                 paper and pencil survey. The survey
                                                                                                                             mines to better reflect the variability
                                                       NIOSH proposes this exploratory two-                                                                                                                will include demographic questions and
                                                                                                                             (e.g., size, mining method, geographic
                                                    year study to better characterize the                                                                                                                  25 questions related to participants’
                                                                                                                             location) that exists among mines and
                                                    current state of miner self-escape                                                                                                                     perceived confidence in their own
                                                                                                                             could impact self-escape procedures
                                                    competence and to answer the following                                                                                                                 ability to escape their mine in the event
                                                                                                                             and resource availability. Variability in
                                                    questions:                                                                                                                                             of an emergency.
                                                                                                                             mineworker and mining site
                                                       • What gaps exist between what                                        characteristics is key to generating a                                           Participants will be mining personnel
                                                    miners are required to do for self-escape                                cross-sectional snapshot of current                                           drawn from multiple operating
                                                    and their perceptions of their actual                                    mineworkers’ perceived self-escape                                            underground coal mines to represent the
                                                    capabilities?                                                            competence and may reveal any                                                 variety within the industry. The timing
                                                       • How might miner demographics                                        potential relationships among these                                           of the data collection schedule will be
                                                    and mine-specific characteristics (e.g.,                                 characteristics and perceived                                                 flexible and modified as needed to
                                                    size, mining method, and geographic                                      competence in a variety of self-escape                                        minimize disruption to mine operations.
                                                    location) relate to perceived competence                                 KSAOs. This data collection will occur                                        No more than 800 miner volunteers will
                                                    in self-escape knowledge, skills,                                        once for each mine site over the next 2                                       participate in the study over two years.
                                                    abilities, and other characteristics?                                    years (after OMB approval) and is                                             Minimal time (< 5 minutes each) will be
                                                    Based on the results of this and other                                   designed to gather information not                                            spent in recruitment and obtaining
                                                    concurrent exploratory work,                                             previously available. The results                                             informed consent. The survey is
                                                    interventions to increase mine escape                                    produced are expected to lead to                                              expected to take no longer than 10
                                                    competencies will be improved and/or                                     recommendations for emphasis in new                                           minutes to complete
                                                    developed and assessed which could                                       and/or existing KSAO training and                                                The total estimated annualized
                                                    lead to more standardized self-escape                                    preparation as well as to inform future                                       burden hours are 101.

                                                                                                                            ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Average
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Number of re-
                                                                                                                                                                              Number of                                              burden per              Total burden
                                                                Type of respondent                                                Form name                                                             sponses per
                                                                                                                                                                             respondents                                              response                  hours
                                                                                                                                                                                                         respondent                   (in hours)

                                                    Mine Operator ...................................         Mine Recruitment Script ...................                                      10                           1                    5/60                   1
                                                    Mine Worker ......................................        Individual Miner Recruitment Script                                             400                           1                    5/60                  33
                                                    Mine Worker ......................................        Survey ..............................................                           400                           1                   10/60                  67

                                                          Total ...........................................   ...........................................................   ........................   ........................   ........................            101



                                                    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.
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice with comment period.
DatesWritten comments must be received on or before March 21, 2016.
ContactTo 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]
FR Citation81 FR 3423 

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