[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 108 (Monday, June 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34280-34281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-12029]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Submission for OMB Review; 30-Day Comment Request; Hazardous 
Waste Worker Training--National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the 
information collection listed below.

DATES: Comments regarding this information collection are best assured 
of having their full effect if received within 30-days of the date of 
this publication.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
instruments, contact: Sharon D. Beard, Director, Worker Training 
Program (WTP), Division of Extramural Research and Training (DERT), 
NIEHS, P.O. Box

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12233 MD: K3-14, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 or call non-toll-free 
number 984-287-3237 or email your request, including your address to: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposed information collection was 
previously published in the Federal Register on March 25, 2022, pages 
17095-17096 (87 FR 17095) and allowed 60 days for public comment. No 
public comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow 
an additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institute of 
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, 
may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to 
respond to, an information collection that has been extended, revised, 
or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays a 
currently valid OMB control number.
    In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and 
approval of the information collection listed below.
    Proposed Collection: Hazardous Waste Worker Training Grantee Data 
Collection--42 CFR part 65, 0925-0348, Expiration Date 07/31/2022 
REVISION, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 
National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    Need and Use of Information Collection: The NIEHS WTP is authorized 
by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), 
Section 126(g) to fund multi-state or national non-profit organizations 
with a demonstrated track record in developing and delivering high 
quality training to workers who are involved in handling hazardous 
waste or in responding to emergency releases of hazardous materials. 
The WTP contains the Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program (HWWTP), 
the Environmental Career Worker Training Program (ECWTP), the HAZMAT 
Disaster Preparedness Training Program (HDPTP), and the NIEHS/
Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Worker Training Program to fund 
nonprofit organizations to develop and administer model health and 
safety training programs for hazardous materials or waste workers. 
Respondent organizations are to provide information in accordance with 
Sec.  65.4(a), (b), (c) and Sec.  65.6(b) on the nature, duration, and 
purpose of the training; selection criteria for trainees' 
qualifications; competency of the project director and staff; 
cooperative arrangements of the consortia; and the adequacy of training 
plans and resources, including budget and response to meeting training 
criteria in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) 
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Regulations (29 CFR 
1910.120). The information collected is used by the Director through 
officers, employees, experts, and consultants to evaluate applications 
based on technical merit to determine whether to make awards, and 
whether appropriate training is being conducted to support continuation 
of the grant into subsequent years. The information collected the past 
three years has been utilized in training summaries containing 
information on numbers of workers trained, courses conducted and 
contact hours, progress reports, and highlights of accomplishments; to 
answer inquiries from Congress, NIH OD, HHS, NIEHS leadership, and 
other key leadership; to produce State Profiles and other 
communications materials that are requested and used by Congress and 
other external parties; to document and disseminate training activities 
related to supplemental funding and/or key topics, such as COVID-19, 
Opioids, the Disaster Relief Act of 2018, and environmental careers job 
training; to update the Curricula Catalog; to start the Material Upload 
and Search Tool for Infectious Disease (MUSTID) Resource Portal, an 
easy access resource on infectious disease and worker safety shared by 
and relevant to the WTP; to complete required reporting on the benefits 
and activities under the ECWTP for the White House Justice40 Initiative 
with ECWTP being named a pilot program for Justice40; and to monitor 
and report on Disaster Preparedness and Response activities. The NIEHS 
WTP Curricula Information and Data Management System (DMS), the system 
the WTP uses to collect this data from the WTP Grantees, is critical to 
the operation of the Program and the ability of the Program to continue 
the operations listed above. Without this data, the WTP would be unable 
to adequately describe program accomplishments to funders & government 
leadership, and unable to adequately monitor grants to ensure goals are 
being met. The WTP also funds Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) 
grants, an e-Learning for HAZMAT Program that focuses on the 
development of e-Learning health and safety training products from a 
variety of delivery methods to assist both students and instructors in 
the training and education process. Since 2002 the WTP has funded 85 
SBIR grants. The WTP would also like to ascertain the successes of the 
SBIR e-Learning program.
    OMB approval is requested for three years. There are no costs to 
respondents other than their time. The total estimated annualized 
burden hours are 785.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of     Average time
          Form name           Type of respondent     Number of     responses per   per response    Total annual
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      burden hour
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Information Collection        Grantee...........              25               2              14             700
 Questionnaire (Data
 Management System) (HWWTP,
 DOE).
Information Collection        Grantee...........              85               1               1              85
 Questionnaire (Survey) SBIR.
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    Total...................  ..................             110             135  ..............             785
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Jane M. Lambert,
Project Clearance Liaison, National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 2022-12029 Filed 6-3-22; 8:45 am]
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