[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 14 (Thursday, January 22, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3239-3240]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01010]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-15-0929]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 
its continuing effort 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. To request more information on the below 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 
and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to LeRoy 
Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an 
email to [email protected].
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) approval. 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 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. Written comments should be received within 60 
days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    World Trade Center Health Program Petition for the Addition of a 
New WTC-Related Health Condition for Coverage under the World Trade 
Center (WTC) Health Program (OMB No. 0920-0929, expires 4/30/2015)--
Revision--National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Title I of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 
2010 (Pub. L. 111-347), amended the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) 
to add Title XXXIII establishing the WTC Health Program within the 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
    The WTC Health Program provides medical monitoring and treatment 
benefits to eligible firefighters and related personnel, law 
enforcement officers, and rescue, recovery, and cleanup workers who 
responded to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York 
City, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania (responders), 
and to eligible persons who were present in the dust or dust cloud on 
September 11, 2001 or who worked, resided, or attended school, 
childcare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area 
(survivors). PHS Act Sec.  3312(a)(3) identifies a list of health 
conditions for which individuals who are enrolled in the WTC Health 
Program may be monitored or treated. PHS Act Sec.  3312(a)(6)(B) 
specifies that interested parties may petition the Administrator of the 
WTC Health Program to request that a new health condition be added to 
the List of WTC-Related Health Conditions in 42 CFR 88.1.
    To aid the petitioner, the WTC Health Program provides a petition 
form to be completed and then sent to the Administrator for review. 
However, the petitioner is not required to use the form, and may submit 
a petition in a different format, provided it contains all of the data 
elements requested on the form. Data elements include the interested 
party's name, contact information, signature, and a statement about the 
medical basis for the relationship/association between the 9/11 
exposure and the proposed health condition, which the Administrator of 
the WTC Health Program will use to determine whether to propose a rule 
to add the condition, to not to add the condition, or to seek a 
recommendation

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from the Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee (STAC).
    The petition form is amended slightly to reflect a WTC Health 
Program policy change. The current form asks respondents to offer 
reference to ``a peer-reviewed, published, epidemiologic study.'' The 
revised form will ask respondents to reference ``peer-reviewed, 
published, epidemiologic and/or direct observational studies.''
    The submission of a petition is purely voluntary, and is not 
required or otherwise compelled by NIOSH or the WTC Health Program. 
NIOSH expects to receive no more than 20 submissions annually.
    Petitioners include prospective and enrolled WTC responders, 
screening-eligible survivors, certified-eligible survivors, or members 
of groups who advocate on behalf of responders or survivors, such as 
physicians. We estimate that an individual spends an average of 40 
hours gathering information to substantiate a request to add a health 
condition and assembling the petition.
    There is no cost to respondents other than their time. The total 
estimated annualized burden hours are 800.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondent            Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent        (hours)          hours
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Responder/Survivor/Advocate     Petition for the              20               1              40             800
 (physician).                    addition of
                                 health
                                 conditions.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             800
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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. 2015-01010 Filed 1-21-15; 8:45 am]
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