[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 45 (Friday, March 7, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13055-13056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-04971]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-14-0020]


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 
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to [email protected]. Send written comments 
to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 
20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received 
within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP)--(0920-0200, 
Expiration 06/30/2014)--Revision--National Institute for Occupational 
Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    NIOSH would like to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR) 
to revise the data collection instruments being utilized within the 
Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP). The current ICR 
incorporates all four components that fall under the CWHSP. Those four 
components include: Coal Workers' X-ray Surveillance Program (CWXSP), B 
Reader Program, Enhanced Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program 
(ECWHSP), and National Coal Workers' Autopsy Study (NCWAS).
    The CWHSP is a congressionally-mandated medical examination program 
for monitoring the health of underground coal miners, established under 
the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, as amended in 1977 
and 2006, PL-95-164 (the Act). The Act provides the regulatory 
authority for the administration of the CWHSP. This Program is useful 
in providing information for protecting the health of miners (whose 
participation is entirely voluntary), and also in documenting trends 
and patterns in the prevalence of coal workers' pneumoconiosis (`black 
lung' disease) among miners employed in U.S. coal mines. The 4,420 
estimated annualized hours of burden is based on the following:
     Coal Mine Operators Plan (2.10)--Under 42 CFR 37.4, every 
coal operator and construction contractor for each underground coal 
mine must submit a coal mine operator's plan every 3 years, providing 
information on how they plan to notify their miners of the opportunity 
to obtain the chest radiographic examination. To complete this form 
with all requested information (including a roster of current 
employees) takes approximately 30 minutes.
     Facility Certification Document (2.11)--X-ray facilities 
seeking NIOSH-approval to provide miner radiographs under the CWHSP 
must complete an approval packet which requires approximately 30 
minutes for completion.
     Miner Identification Document (2.9)--Miners who elect to 
participate in the CWHSP must fill out this document which requires 
approximately 20 minutes. This document records demographic and 
occupational history, as well as information required under the 
regulations from x-ray facilities in relation to coal miner 
examinations. In addition to completing this form, the process of 
capturing the chest image takes approximately 15 minutes.
     Chest Radiograph Classification Form (2.8)--Under 42 CFR 
part 37, NIOSH utilizes a radiographic classification system developed 
by the International Labour Office (ILO), in the determination of 
pneumoconiosis among underground coal miners. Physicians (B Readers) 
fill out this form regarding their interpretations of the radiographs 
(each image has at least two separate interpretations). Based on prior 
practice it takes the physician approximately three minutes per form.
     Physician Application for Certification (2.12)--Physicians 
taking the B Reader examination are asked to complete this registration 
form which provides demographic information as well as information 
regarding their medical practices. It typically takes the physician 
about 10 minutes to complete this form.
     Spirometry Testing--Miners participating in the ECWHSP 
component of the Program are asked to perform a spirometry test which 
requires no additional paperwork on the part of the miner, but does 
require approximately 15 to 20 minutes for the test itself. Since 
spirometry testing is offered as part of the ECWHSP only, the 2,500 
respondents listed in the burden table below account for about half of 
the total participants in the CWHSP.
     Pathologist Invoice--42 CFR 37.202 specifies procedures 
for the NCWAS. The invoice submitted by the pathologist must contain a 
statement that the pathologist is not receiving any other compensation 
for the autopsy. Each participating pathologist may use their 
individual invoice as long as this statement is added. It is estimated 
that only five minutes is required for the pathologist to add this 
statement to the standard invoice that they routinely use.
     Pathologist Report--42 CFR 37.203 provides the autopsy 
specifications. The pathologist must submit information found at 
autopsy, slides, blocks of tissue, and a final diagnosis indicating 
presence or absence of pneumoconiosis. The format of the autopsy 
reports are variable depending on the pathologist conducting the 
autopsy. Since an autopsy report is routinely completed by a 
pathologist, the only additional

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burden is the specific request for a clinical abstract of terminal 
illness and final diagnosis relating to pneumoconiosis. Therefore, only 
five minutes of additional burden is estimated for the pathologist's 
report.
     Consent, Release and History Form (2.6)--This form 
documents written authorization from the next-of-kin to perform an 
autopsy on the deceased miner. A minimum of essential information is 
collected regarding the deceased miner including the occupational 
history and smoking history. From past experience, it is estimated that 
15 minutes is required for the next-of-kin to complete this form.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden/
          Type of respondents                   Form name            Number of     responses per    response (in
                                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs)
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Coal Mine Operators...................  Form 2.10...............             200               1           30/60
X-ray Facility Supervisor.............  Form 2.11...............             100               1           30/60
X-ray--Coal Miners....................  No form required........           5,000               1           15/60
Coal Miners...........................  Form 2.9................           5,000               1           20/60
B Reader Physicians...................  Form 2.8................          10,000               1            3/60
Physicians taking the B Reader          Form 2.12...............             100               1           10/60
 Examination.
Spirometry Test--Coal Miners..........  No form required........           2,500               1           20/60
Pathologist...........................  Invoice--No standard                   5               1            5/60
                                         form.
Pathologist...........................  Pathology Report--No                   5               1            5/60
                                         standard form.
Next-of-kin for deceased miner........  Form 2.6................               5               1           15/60
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Leroy 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. 2014-04971 Filed 3-6-14; 8:45 am]
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