[Federal Register: February 15, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 30)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences; Division of Extramural Research and Training
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Hazardous Waste
Worker Training
Summary: Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
a request to review and approve the information collection listed
below. This proposed information collection was previously published in
the Federal Register on December 8, 2004, pages 71061-71062, 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 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.
Proposed Collection: Title: Hazardous Waste Worker Training--42 CFR
Part 65. Type of Information Collection Request: Revision of OMB No.
0925-0348, expiration date February 28, 2005. Need and Use of
Information Collection: This request for OMB review and approval of the
information collection is required by regulation 42 CFR part 65(a)(6).
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has
been given major responsibility for initiating a worker safety and
health training program under Section 126 of the Superfund Amendments
and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) for hazardous waste workers and
emergency responders. A network of non-profit organizations that are
committed to protecting working and their communities by delivering
high-quality, peer-reviewed safety and health curricula to target
populations of hazardous waste workers and emergency responders has
been developed. In seventeen years (FY 1987-2004), the NIEHS Worker
Training program has successfully supported 20 primary grantees that
have trained more than 1.3 million workers across the country and
presented over 69,000 classroom and hands-on training courses, which
have accounted for nearly 18 million contact hours of actual training.
Generally, the grant will initially be for one year, and subsequent
continuation awards are also for one year at a time. Grantees must
submit a separate application to have the support continued for each
subsequent year. Grantees are to provide information in accordance with
S65.4 (a), (b), (c) and 65.6 (b) on the nature, duration, and purpose
of the training, selection criteria for trainees' qualifications and
competency of the project director and staff, cooperative agreements in
the case of joint applications, the adequacy of training plans and
resources, including budget and curriculum, and response to meeting
training criteria in OSHA's Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency
Response Regulations (29 CFR 1910.120). As a cooperative agreement,
there are additional requirements for the progress report section of
the application. Grantees are to provide their information in hard copy
as well as enter information into the WETP Grantee Data Management
System. 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. Frequency
of Response: Biannual. Affected Public: Non-profit organizations. Type
of Respondents: Grantees. The annual reporting burden is as follows:
Estimated Number of Respondents: 18; Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 2; Average Burden Hours Per Response: 10; and Estimated
Total Annual Burden Hours Requested: 360. The annualized cost to
respondents is estimated at: $10,764. There are no Capital Costs,
Operating Costs and/or Maintenance Costs to report.
Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the
following points: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the function of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) The
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used; (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) Ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of information on those who are to
respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
Direct Comments to OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding
the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be
directed to the: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory
Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503, Attention: Desk Officer for NIH. To request more information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans
and instruments, contact: Joseph T. Hughes, Jr., Director, Worker
Education and Training Program, Division of Extramural Research and
Training, NIEHS, P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 or
call non-toll-free number (919) 541-0217 or E-mail your request,
including your address to wetp@niehs.nih.gov.
Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30-days
of the date of this publication.
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Dated: February 5, 2005.
Richard A. Freed,
NIEHS, Associate Director for Management.
[FR Doc. 05-2830 Filed 2-14-05; 8:45 am]
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