[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 160 (Monday, August 19, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 53802]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-20930]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-43-02]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) 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 Officer at (404) 498-1210. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
    Proposed Project: Evaluation of Worker Notification Program--New--
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The mission of NIOSH 
is to promote safety and health at work for all people through research 
and prevention. NIOSH routinely notifies subjects about the results of 
epidemiologic studies and the implications of the results. The overall 
purpose of the proposed project is to gain insight into the 
effectiveness of NIOSH worker notification, in order to improve the 
quality and usefulness of the Institute's worker notification 
activities. Researchers from the NIOSH Division of Surveillance, Hazard 
Evaluations and Field Studies (DSHEFS) propose to provide notified 
workers with a Reader Response Form as an evaluation instrument for 
routinely assessing individual letter notification materials sent to 
them by NIOSH.
    The results of this ongoing evaluation activity will be used to 
refine notification activities by standardizing and streamlining 
written notification materials, and to develop materials which are more 
readable, understandable, and informative to notified workers, their 
families, and other stakeholders. The findings from these evaluations 
may also allow the NIOSH worker notification program to help alleviate 
any negative impacts and enhance any positive impacts of risk 
communications.
    The objective of the Reader Response Form, therefore, is to provide 
a structured reporting form which will capture the recipients' 
responses concerning the effectiveness of the NIOSH notification 
efforts and their impact on workers and other stakeholders.
    The average number of letter-type notifications is estimated at 
8,000 per year. Each form is estimated to take less than 10 minutes to 
complete. The annual burden for this data collection is 1,333 hours.

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                                                             Avg. burden
                                    Number of    Number of       per
           Respondents             respondents   responses/    response
                                                 respondent   (in hours)
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Reader Response Form.............         8000            1        10/60
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    Dated: August 9, 2002.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-20930 Filed 8-16-02; 8:45 am]
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