[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 56 (Thursday, March 21, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 11642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6793]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
[30DAY-08]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review, in compliance 
with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a 
copy of these requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance Office on (404) 
639-7090.
    The following request has been submitted for review since the last 
publication date on February 6, 1996:

Proposed Project

    Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project Milk 
Producers Survey--New--OMB approved the information collections for the 
``Hanford Thyroid Disease Full Epidemiology Study'' under OMB No. 0920-
0296 to determine the health effects to the public from radioactive 
releases from the Hanford Nuclear Site Operations during the 1940's and 
1950's. A primary component of these releases was radioactive iodine. 
Consumption of fresh milk from cows that have eaten contaminated 
vegetation and fresh leafy vegetables and eggs from chickens with 
access to outdoor vegetation are important pathways of radioactive 
iodine to the human body which adversely affects the thyroid gland. To 
estimate the doses to the thyroid that individuals and populations 
could have received, historical milk cow and chicken feeding and 
distribution practices must be reconstructed for the downwind area. 
This information is particularly important for use in this ongoing 
study and its relation to radiation exposures. Researchers from LTG 
Associates will collect information from a representative sample of 
individuals who farmed in 7 counties within the study area during the 
periods of 1945 and 1951.

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                                                  No. of    Avg. burden/
           Respondents               No. of     responses/  response (in
                                  respondents  respondents      hrs.)   
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Contact Potential Sources of                                            
 Names of farmers...............           50            1          0.16
Initial Contact of Potential                                            
 Candidates.....................        1,600            1          0.16
Scheduling Interview............          400            1          0.08
Telephone Interview.............          400            1          2   
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    The total annual burden is 1108. Send comments to Allison Eydt; 
Human Resources and Housing Branch, New Executive Office Building, Room 
10235; Washington, DC 20503.
Wilma G. Johnson,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 96-6793 Filed 3-20-96; 8:45 am]
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