82 FR 4885 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

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

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 10 (January 17, 2017)

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 titled ``Assessment of the Market for Electronic Technology for Underground Coal Mining Safety and Health Applications.'' From this information collection project, NIOSH seeks to provide insight into what the most important barriers are from the perspective of the organizations that must purchase, use, approve, and manufacture these safety technologies.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4885-4886]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00833]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-17-17KB; Docket No. CDC-2017-0002]


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 titled ``Assessment of the Market for Electronic 
Technology for Underground Coal Mining Safety and Health 
Applications.'' From this information collection project, NIOSH seeks 
to provide insight into what the most important barriers are from the 
perspective of the organizations that must purchase, use, approve, and 
manufacture these safety technologies.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before March 20, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2017-
0002 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.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

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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

    Assessment of the Market for Electronic Technology for Underground 
Coal Mining Safety and Health Applications--New--National Institute for 
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Underground coal mining in the U.S. is a relatively small industry 
(about 46,000 employees) that operates in a unique and hazardous work 
environment. The common presence of explosive gasses and other hazards 
creates special safety requirements for equipment, including safety and 
health protection technologies, used in underground coal mines. This 
request is for a 2-year approval period.
    The MINER Act of 2006 assigned the National Institute for 
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) the responsibility to enhance 
development of new mine safety and health protection technology and 
technological applications and to expedite the commercial availability 
and implementation of such technology. As part of this study, NIOSH 
seeks to identify the barriers to commercial availability and 
implementation of such technology in U.S. mines.
    Experience to date has shown that there are many issues that the 
U.S. mining industry faces that create barriers to the availability and 
implementation of safety technologies, and we believe there are other 
more subtle reasons that we do not fully understand as a Government 
research agency. The data are intended to provide insight into what the 
most important barriers are from the perspective of the organizations 
that must purchase, use, approve, and manufacture these safety 
technologies.
    NIOSH has an understanding of some of these barriers, however NIOSH 
is not an end user of these products. Thus the goal of the study is to 
provide a complete perspective of the barriers from the point of view 
of the mine operators and technology innovators, in order to improve 
the efficacy of the contract and grant awards that NIOSH administers 
under the authority of the MINER Act.
    The Federal Mine Safety & Health Act of 1977, Section 501 
authorizes the collection of this data. A CDC contractor will collect 
the required data.
    NIOSH will identify 200 stakeholder organizations for structured 
interviews. Stakeholder organizations include those parties involved in 
the development, supply, use, and regulation of safety and health 
protection technologies relevant to underground coal mining. Because 
there is no nationally representative database of these stakeholder 
organizations, NIOSH will use web searches of supplier and mining 
company Web sites, online mining publications, trade association member 
directories, federal and state regulator Web sites, and university 
mining research and development programs to compile a list of 200 
organizations. Representatives of NIOSH Office of Mining Safety and 
Health Research will also augment the search with their input.
    Of the 200 stakeholder organizations, we expect to elicit 
participation from 100 and conduct 150 interviews (up to 2 interviews 
per organization).
    A pre-call to each organization is expected to require 15 minutes 
to complete and the structured interview is expected to require 60 
minutes to complete; including the time it may take respondents to 
look-up and retrieve needed information.
    In addition, the workshop will be held in-person and last for nine 
hours. An average of six hours of travel is estimated for participants 
in the workshop. The estimated annualized burden hours for the 
respondents' time to participate in this information collection is 650 
hours.

                                                            Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                                              Average
                                                                                             Number of       Number of      burden  per    Total burden
           Type of respondents                               Form name                      respondents    responses per   response  (in    (in hours)
                                                                                                            respondent        hours)
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Receptionists............................  Pre-Call.....................................             200               1           15/60              50
General and Operational Managers.........  Structured Interview.........................              75               1           60/60              75
Industrial Production Managers...........  .............................................              38               1           60/60              38
Architecture and Engineering Occupations.  .............................................              37               1           60/60              37
General and Operations Managers..........  Workshop.....................................              15               1              15             225
Industrial Production Managers...........  .............................................               8               1              15             120
Architecture and Engineering Occupations.  .............................................               7               1              15             105
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    Total................................  .............................................  ..............  ..............  ..............             650
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2017-00833 Filed 1-13-17; 8:45 am]
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