82 FR 49226 - Drafting a New Federal Strategy To Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and Impacts: Request for Information
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 204 (October 24, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 24, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 49226-49228] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-23039] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR-6049-N-01] Drafting a New Federal Strategy To Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and Impacts: Request for Information AGENCY: Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, HUD. ACTION: Request for information. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Through this notice, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which co-chairs the Lead Subcommittee of the President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children (Task Force) requests public comment on a new federal lead strategy being developed by the Task Force. DATES: Comments Due Date: November 24, 2017. ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments responsive to this request for information. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Number, and should be sent, either electronically to the email address of the Task Force for commenting on this federal lead strategy, [email protected], or by mail to Warren Friedman, Ph.D., CIH, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 8236, Washington, DC 20410. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Warren Friedman, Ph.D., Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 8236, Washington, DC 20410; telephone number 202-402-7698 (this is not a toll-free number). Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access this number through TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service, 800-877-8339 (toll-free number). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background President's Task Force On April 21, 1997, the President issued Executive Order 13045,\1\ establishing the President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children. The Task Force works to identify children's environmental health and safety issues, develops federal interagency strategies to protect children's environmental health and safety, and communicates information to federal, state, and local decision makers to protect children from environmental health risks.\2\ Among other things, the Task Force is developing a comprehensive strategy to further reduce lead exposure in children's environments.\3\ The Task Force has 11 executive agency members and 7 Executive Office of the President agency members.\4\ Ongoing activities of the Task Force are managed by its Senior Staff Steering Committee, co-chaired by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Health and Human Services (HHS). The Senior Staff Steering Committee has established five subcommittees, one of which is the Lead Subcommittee, which is co- chaired by HUD, EPA, and HHS staff. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ The Executive Order was subsequently published in the Federal Register on April 23, 1997, at 62 FR 19885. \2\ The Task Force's Web site is available at: https://ptfceh.niehs.nih.gov. \3\ The Task Force's Web site's lead exposures page is available at: https://ptfceh.niehs.nih.gov/activities/lead-exposures/. \4\ The member agencies are listed on the Task Force's Web site's ``About'' page and is available at: https://ptfceh.niehs.nih.gov/about/. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lead Reports by the Task Force In February 2000, the Task Force published ``Eliminating Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Federal Strategy Targeting Lead Paint Hazards.'' \5\ The strategy put forward a set of recommendations aimed at eliminating childhood lead poisoning in the United States as a major public health problem by the year 2010. It focused primarily on expanding efforts to correct lead paint hazards (especially in low-income housing), a major source of lead exposure for children. Addressing lead exposures in the United States, however, requires consideration of sources of lead exposure in addition to lead paint, including, among others, soil, food, drinking water, and consumer products. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \5\ The strategy is available at: https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/about/fedstrategy2000.pdf. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In November 2016, the Task Force published ``Key Federal Programs to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and [[Page 49227]] Eliminate Associated Health Impacts.'' \6\ This inventory report summarized the efforts of nine federal departments and agencies currently planned or underway to understand, prevent, and reduce various sources of lead exposure among children. These efforts include a wide range of activities such as research, surveillance, regulation, and enforcement, as well as community interventions and educational outreach. The report also provided a basis for increased coordination and collaboration among multiple federal agencies that, as with previous progress on the issue of lead exposures, will be required to further protect the nation's children. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \6\ The report is available at: https://ptfceh.niehs.nih.gov/features/assets/files/key_federal_programs_to_reduce_childhood_lead_exposures_and_eliminate_associated_health_impactspresidents_508.pdf. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Development of a Comprehensive Federal Lead Strategy The Task Force determined that the inventory report provides a starting point for the development of a comprehensive federal lead strategy that will inform policy makers about evidence gaps and steps needed to further reduce lead exposures in children in the United States. The Task Force charged its Lead Subcommittee with drafting the strategy, conducting outreach to stakeholder groups, and soliciting comments from stakeholders for consideration in developing the strategy. This Request for Information (RFI) is part of the comment solicitation process. II. Key Components of the Draft Federal Lead Strategy 1. A vision of this new federal lead strategy, such as to ensure that the United States will become a place where children live, learn and play free from the harmful effects of lead exposure. 2. A mission of the strategy, such as to improve the health of children in the United States, through federal collaboration, by eliminating harm from lead exposure. 3. A background section that includes the following topics: The Task Force, its lead activities, including development of its 2000 federal lead paint strategy, 2016 inventory report, and this strategy; the problems to be addressed by this strategy; children's lead exposure, including exposure sources, routes, and pathways; lead doses and blood-lead levels lead toxicity, and children's health effects; and federal lead and related (e.g., environmental justice, fair housing, civil rights) statutes, regulations, policy, and guidance. 4. A set of goals for the strategy, such as to effect the following: Reducing sources of lead exposure in children's environments; improving identification and monitoring of lead exposed children; improving the health of children identified as lead-exposed; communicating effectively and consistently with stakeholders about childhood lead exposure; supporting or conducting research to advance our scientific understanding of the effects, evaluation, and control of lead hazards in children's environments. 5. Under each of the goals, a set of objectives that would further define the focus of this strategy. 6. Under each of the objectives, specific actions that would further the enumerated goals of the strategy.\7\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \7\ A starting point for developing actions could be the list of over 58 current and planned Federal programs and activities in Section 7 of the November 2016 inventory report. The actions under the strategy would not be limited to those programs and activities in the inventory report. Similarly, not all those programs and activities need to be mentioned in the strategy because of the need to keep the strategy to manageable size and focus. But such a decision should not be used to infer that the Task Force considers that any programs or activities not mentioned are less important than those mentioned. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Request for Information The purpose of this RFI is to solicit feedback on developing the new federal lead strategy report. HUD encourages participation from stakeholder groups, including the general public; non-governmental organizations, including philanthropic organizations; health care providers; the housing industry; the general aviation industry; health economics researchers; outcomes researchers; environmental firms, including certified lead professionals; and lead hazard control firms. While HUD, as co-chair of the Lead Subcommittee, welcomes comments on all aspects of the drafting of a new federal lead strategy, HUD is particularly interested in receiving comments and data on the following: 1. Priority Risks and Goals a. What priority risks, for example, exposures from housing, air, water, soil, food, etc., and issues should be addressed in a new federal lead strategy? b. Should any of the suggested goals above be deleted or revised, and/or should any goals be added? Within the suggested goals above (as stated, or as you would revise them), or additional goals, what specific objectives should be identified? 2. Strategy Development and Implementation a. What actions should be implemented to address these priority risks and issues? b. What obstacles should be considered in determining which actions to include in the strategy? What obstacles pertain to one or more goals, objectives, or actions? Please be specific about the anticipated impact of the obstacles. c. How can the obstacles be overcome? What effect, if any, would the effort to overcome these obstacles have on the ability to achieve the goals of the strategy? 3. Messaging and Outreach a. What federal agency messaging regarding lead exposure in children, including information on where lead is found and how to avoid exposure, have been useful in the past and to which audiences? How could such messaging be improved? b. Which non-Federal partners should the Task Force consult with to address the environmental health risks and safety risks of lead exposure to children, and why? Please identify specific organizations, or categories of organizations. IV. Request for Information Response Guidelines If you submit comments by email, your response must be provided as one or more attachments, specifically, as Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or Microsoft Excel (.xls or .xslx) attachment. Graphics may be provided as JPEG (.jpg or .jpeg) file attachments or as JPEG images embedded in the Microsoft Word or Excel attachments. It is recommended that emails with attachments having total file sizes exceeding 10 MB be compressed (.zip or .zipx) to ensure message delivery. If you submit comments by mail, your response should be no longer than 50 pages. Please provide the following information at the start of your response to this RFI: Company/institution name (if applicable); contact information, including address, phone number, and email address. Do not submit Confidential Business Information (CBI) in your response to this RFI. Responses identified as containing CBI will not be reviewed and will be discarded. Please identify your answers by responding to a specific question or topic if applicable. You may answer as many or as few questions as you wish. HUD will not respond to individual submissions or publish publicly a compendium of responses. [[Page 49228]] To help you prepare your comments, please see the How Do I Prepare Effective Comments segment of the Commenting on HUD Rules Web page, https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/general_counsel/Commenting-On-HUD-Rules#1. While written for commenting on regulatory proposals, these tips are generally applicable to this RFI. Dated: October 18, 2017. Matthew Ammon, Director, Office of Lead Hazard, Control and Healthy Homes. [FR Doc. 2017-23039 Filed 10-23-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P
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OMB Number: 1660–0039. Dated: October 16, 2017. I. Background
FEMA Forms: FEMA Form 078–0–2, Tammi Hines,
President’s Task Force
National Fire Academy Long-Term Acting Records Management Program Chief,
Evaluation Form for Supervisors; FEMA Mission Support, Federal Emergency On April 21, 1997, the President
Form 078–0–2A, National Fire Academy Management Agency, Department of issued Executive Order 13045,1
Homeland Security.
Long-Term Evaluation Form for establishing the President’s Task Force
[FR Doc. 2017–23064 Filed 10–23–17; 8:45 am] on Environmental Health Risks and
Students/Trainees.
Abstract: The National Fire Academy
BILLING CODE 9111–45–P Safety Risks to Children. The Task Force
Long-Term Evaluation Forms will be works to identify children’s
used to evaluate all National Fire environmental health and safety issues,
Academy (NFA) on-campus resident develops federal interagency strategies
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND to protect children’s environmental
training courses. Course graduates and URBAN DEVELOPMENT
their supervisors will be asked to health and safety, and communicates
information to federal, state, and local
evaluate the impact of the training on
[Docket No. FR–6049–N–01] decision makers to protect children
both individual job performance and the
from environmental health risks.2
performance of the fire and emergency Drafting a New Federal Strategy To Among other things, the Task Force is
response department where the student Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures developing a comprehensive strategy to
works. The data provided by students and Impacts: Request for Information further reduce lead exposure in
and supervisors is used to update
children’s environments.3 The Task
existing NFA course materials and to AGENCY: Office of Lead Hazard Control Force has 11 executive agency members
develop new courses that reflect the and Healthy Homes, HUD. and 7 Executive Office of the President
emerging issues and needs of the
ACTION: Request for information. agency members.4 Ongoing activities of
Nation’s fire service. the Task Force are managed by its
Affected Public: State, local or Tribal SUMMARY: Through this notice, the U.S. Senior Staff Steering Committee, co-
Government. Department of Housing and Urban chaired by the Environmental Protection
Estimated Number of Respondents: Development (HUD), which co-chairs Agency (EPA) and Health and Human
3,000. the Lead Subcommittee of the Services (HHS). The Senior Staff
President’s Task Force on Steering Committee has established five
Estimated Number of Responses:
Environmental Health Risks and Safety subcommittees, one of which is the
3,000.
Risks to Children (Task Force) requests Lead Subcommittee, which is co-
Estimated Total Annual Burden public comment on a new federal lead chaired by HUD, EPA, and HHS staff.
Hours: 405 hours. strategy being developed by the Task Lead Reports by the Task Force
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Force.
Cost: $17,154.30. In February 2000, the Task Force
DATES: Comments Due Date: November published ‘‘Eliminating Childhood Lead
Estimated Respondents’ Operation 24, 2017.
and Maintenance Costs: $0. Poisoning: A Federal Strategy Targeting
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are Lead Paint Hazards.’’ 5 The strategy put
Estimated Respondents’ Capital and forward a set of recommendations
Start-Up Costs: $0. invited to submit comments responsive
to this request for information. aimed at eliminating childhood lead
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Comments should refer to the proposal poisoning in the United States as a
Federal Government: $44,786.65. by name and/or Office of Management major public health problem by the year
and Budget (OMB) Control Number, and 2010. It focused primarily on expanding
Comments
should be sent, either electronically to efforts to correct lead paint hazards
Comments may be submitted as the email address of the Task Force for (especially in low-income housing), a
indicated in the ADDRESSES caption commenting on this federal lead major source of lead exposure for
above. Comments are solicited to (a) strategy, FedLeadStrategy@nih.gov, or children. Addressing lead exposures in
evaluate whether the proposed data by mail to Warren Friedman, Ph.D., CIH, the United States, however, requires
collection is necessary for the proper Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of consideration of sources of lead
performance of the agency, including Lead Hazard Control and Healthy exposure in addition to lead paint,
whether the information shall have Homes, Department of Housing and including, among others, soil, food,
practical utility; (b) evaluate the Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., drinking water, and consumer products.
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the Room 8236, Washington, DC 20410. In November 2016, the Task Force
burden of the proposed collection of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
published ‘‘Key Federal Programs to
information, including the validity of Warren Friedman, Ph.D., Office of Lead Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and
the methodology and assumptions used; Hazard Control and Healthy Homes,
(c) enhance the quality, utility, and Department of Housing and Urban
1 The Executive Order was subsequently
clarity of the information to be Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room
published in the Federal Register on April 23,
collected; and (d) minimize the burden 1997, at 62 FR 19885.
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8236, Washington, DC 20410; telephone 2 The Task Force’s Web site is available at:
of the collection of information on those number 202–402–7698 (this is not a toll- https://ptfceh.niehs.nih.gov.
who are to respond, including through free number). Persons with hearing or 3 The Task Force’s Web site’s lead exposures page
the use of appropriate automated, speech impairments may access this is available at: https://ptfceh.niehs.nih.gov/
electronic, mechanical, or other activities/lead-exposures/.
number through TTY by calling the 4 The member agencies are listed on the Task
technological collection techniques or Federal Relay Service, 800–877–8339 Force’s Web site’s ‘‘About’’ page and is available at:
other forms of information technology, (toll-free number). https://ptfceh.niehs.nih.gov/about/.
e.g., permitting electronic submission of 5 The strategy is available at: https://
responses. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/about/fedstrategy2000.pdf.
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To help you prepare your comments, State, if such land is otherwise southwest 1/4 of section 8, a distance of
please see the How Do I Prepare available. Lands selected by, but not 1,320.74 feet (South 0°10′ East, 20.01
Effective Comments segment of the conveyed to, the State are subject to the chains) to the west 1/16 section corner
Commenting on HUD Rules Web page, terms and conditions of Public Land of sections 8 and 17, marked with a 21⁄2
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/ Order No. 5186 (37 FR 5589, March 16, inch iron post, with brass cap marked
general_counsel/Commenting-On-HUD- 1972), as amended, and any other S8 W1/16 S17 1987, said corner being
Rules#1. While written for commenting withdrawal, application, or segregation identical with the northwest corner of
on regulatory proposals, these tips are of record. The partial revocation of the Public Land Order No. 7763;
generally applicable to this RFI. withdrawal will not result in a THENCE, South 0°12′28″ East on the
Dated: October 18, 2017. significant restriction on subsistence north and south center line of the
uses while the lands remain in Federal northwest 1⁄4 of section 17, identical
Matthew Ammon,
ownership. Any significant restriction with the westerly line of Public Land
Director, Office of Lead Hazard, Control and
on subsistence uses, due to subsequent Order No. 7763, a distance of 330.00
Healthy Homes.
conveyance of the lands to the State of feet, identical with the southwesterly
[FR Doc. 2017–23039 Filed 10–23–17; 8:45 am]
Alaska, would be unavoidable under corner of Public Land Order No. 7763;
BILLING CODE P Section 810(c) of the Alaska National THENCE, South 42°47′04″ East, on the
Interest Lands Conservation Act because southwesterly line of Public Land Order
the lands would be conveyed pursuant No. 7763, a distance of 1,950.25 feet to
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR to the Alaska Statehood Act. the north and south center line of
section 17, identical with the most
Bureau of Land Management Order
southerly corner of Public Land Order
[17X.LLAK941000–L14100000–ET0000; By virtue of the authority vested in No. 7763;
F–025943] the Secretary of the Interior by Section THENCE, South 0°10′47″ East (South
204 of the Federal Land Policy and 0°10′ East), on the north and south
Public Land Order No. 7863; Partial Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. center line of section 17, a distance of
Revocation of Public Land Order No. 1714, it is ordered as follows: 3,517.92 feet to the 1⁄4 section corner of
3708; Alaska 1. Public Land Order No. 3708 (30 FR sections 17 and 20, marked with a 21⁄2
8753 (1965)), as modified by Public inch iron post, with brass cap marked
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Land Order No. 6709 (54 FR 6919 T2N R2E S17 1/4 S20 1987;
Interior.
(1989)), partially revoked by Public THENCE, North 89°53′20″ East (North
ACTION: Public Land Order. Land Order No. 7682 (72 FR 71940 89°55′ East), on the line between
SUMMARY: This order revokes Public (2007)), extended by Public Land Order sections 17 and 20, a distance of 478.71
Land Order No. 3708, insofar as it No. 7710 (73 FR 35708 (2008)), and feet, identical with the northwest corner
affects 709.17 acres of public lands near partially revoked by Public Land Order of Public Land Order No. 7682;
Fairbanks, Alaska, which reserved lands No. 7763 (76 FR 23334 (2011)), which THENCE, South 3°22′04″ West, on the
for use by the National Oceanic and withdrew public land from all forms of westerly line of Public Land Order No.
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). appropriation under the public land 7682, a distance of 2,360.42 feet,
The NOAA has determined the lands laws, including the mining laws, but not identical with the southwesterly corner
are no longer needed for the purpose for from leasing under the mineral leasing of Public Land Order No. 7682;
which they were withdrawn. laws, is hereby revoked as to the THENCE, South 40°05′00″ East, on the
DATES: This Public Land Order is
following described land: southerly line of Public Land Order No.
effective on October 24, 2017. 7682, a distance of 1,541.97 feet to the
Fairbanks Meridian, Alaska
north and south center line of the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A parcel of land situated within southeast 1⁄4 of section 20, identical
David V. Mushovic, BLM Alaska State sections 7, 8, 17, 18, 19 and 20, with the most southerly corner of Public
Office, 222 West Seventh Avenue, Township 2 North, Range 2 East, being Land Order No. 7682;
Mailstop #13, Anchorage, Alaska a portion of that parcel of land THENCE, South 0°08′36″ East (South
99513–7504, 907–271–4682, or by email described in Public Land Order Nos. 0°09′ East), on the north and south
at dmushovi@blm.gov. Persons who use 3708 and 6709, and the plat for the center line of the southeast 1⁄4 of section
a telecommunications device for the Record of Survey, Parcel G, surveyed by 20, a distance of 1,455.29 feet to line 1–
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Jake Gerondale, Registered Professional 2 of the Scheelite Load claim of Mineral
Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to Land Surveyor No. LS–11758, for Survey No. 2008, marked with a 21⁄2
contact the above individual during Lounsbury and Associates, filed in the inch iron post, with brass cap marked E
normal business hours. The FRS is Fairbanks recording district as plat No. CC S20 E S MS2008 1987;
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 2017–54 on July 21, 2017, and being THENCE, South 72°19′41″ West on
to leave a message or question with the more particularly described as follows line 2–1 of said Scheelite Load claim of
above individual. You will receive a (all bearings are true mean bearings): Mineral Survey No. 2008, a distance of
reply during normal business hours. (Record bearings and distances from the 685.63 feet (South 72°22′ West, 10.39
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Bureau of Land Management plat of chains) to corner No. 1, Scheelite Load
NOAA has determined that 709.17 acres survey for Township 2 North, Range 2 claim of Mineral Survey No. 2008,
asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES
of land withdrawn by Public Land East, Fairbanks Meridian, Alaska, marked with a 3⁄4 inch aluminum rod,
Order No. 3708 is excess to its needs officially filed on July 28, 1988, are with aluminum cap marked T2N R2E C1
and has requested a partial revocation of shown in parentheses.) S MS2008 1987;
the withdrawal. Upon revocation, the BEGINNING at the southwest 1/16 THENCE, North 55°58′55″ West; a
selection applications made by the State section corner of section 8, marked with distance of 231.00 feet;
of Alaska under the Alaska Statehood a 21⁄2 inch diameter iron post, with brass THENCE, North 0°15′04″ East, a
Act and the Alaska National Interest cap marked SW 1/16 S8 1987; distance of 1,154.78 feet;
Lands Conservation Act become THENCE, South 0°12′28″ East, on the THENCE, South 89°36′39″ West, a
effective without further action by the north and south center line of the distance of 1,740.61 feet;
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| Action | Request for information. | |
| Dates | Comments Due Date: November 24, 2017. | |
| Contact | Warren Friedman, Ph.D., Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 8236, Washington, DC 20410; telephone number 202-402-7698 (this is not a toll-free number). Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access this number through TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service, 800-877-8339 (toll-free number). | |
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