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publishing the following summary of
proposed collections for public
comment. Interested persons are invited
to send comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the agency’s functions;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
Type of Information Collection
Request: Revision of Currently
Approved Collection;
Title of Information Collection: Public
Health Service Policies on Research
Misconduct (42 CFR Part 93;
Form/OMB No.: OS–0937–0198;
Use: Section 493 of the Public Health
Service Act and 42 CFR Part 93 require
each institution that applies for research
and research-related grants to establish
policies and procedures for
investigation and reporting instances of
alleged or apparent misconduct.
Frequency: Recordkeeping, reporting,
annually;
Affected Public: Business or other for-
profit, not-for-profit institutions; and
individuals or households, Federal
government, state, local or tribal
government;
Annual Number of Respondents:
4,000;
Total Annual Responses: 3,800;
Average Burden Per Response: Six
minutes;
Total Annual Hours: 400;
To obtain copies of the supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed paperwork collections
referenced above, access the HHS Web
site address at http://www.hhs.gov/
oirm/infocollect/pending/ or e-mail your
request, including your address, phone
number, OMB number, and OS
document identifier, to
naomi.cook@hhs.gov, or call the Reports
Clearance Office on (202) 690–6162.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collections must be mailed
within 60 days of this notice directly to
the OS Paperwork Clearance Officer
designated at the following address:
Department of Health and Human
Services, Office of the Secretary,
Assistant Secretary for Budget,
Technology, and Finance, Office of
Information and Resource Management,
Attention: Naomi Cook (0937–0198),
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Room 531–H, 200 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.
Dated: November 3, 2005.
Robert E. Polson,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction
Act Reports Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the National Coordinator (the
Community); Announcement of
Meeting
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
second meeting of the American Health
Information Community in accordance
with the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (Pub. L. No. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App.)
The American Health Information
Community will advise the Secretary
and recommend specific actions to
achieve a common interoperability
framework for health information
technology (IT).
DATES: November 29, 2005 from 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Department of Health and
Human Services’ Hubert H. Humphrey
building (200 Independence Ave.,
Southwest, Washington, DC 20201),
conference room 800.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
http://www.hhs.gov/healthit.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Web
cast of the second Community meeting
will be available on the NIH Web site at:
http://www.videocast.nih.gov/.
Dated: November 8, 2005.
Dana Haza,
Acting Director of the Office of Programs and
Coordination, Office of the National
Coordinator.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality; Notice of Meeting
In accordance with section 10(d) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5
U.S.C., Appendix 2), announcement is
made of a Health Care Policy and
Research Special Emphasis Panel (SEP)
meeting.
A Special Emphasis Panel is a group of
experts in fields related to health care
research who are invited by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ),
and agree to be available, to conduct on an
as needed basis, scientific reviews of
applications for AHRQ support. Individual
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members of the Panel do not attend regularly-
scheduled meetings and do not serve for
fixed terms or a long period of time. Rather,
they are asked to participate in particular
review meetings which require their type of
expertise.
Substantial segments of the upcoming SEP
meeting listed below will be closed to the
public in accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, section 10(d) of 5
U.S.C., Appendix 2 and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6).
Grant applications for the Pilot Testing of
Electronic Prescribing Standards will be
discussed at this meeting. These discussions
are likely to reveal personal information
concerning individuals associated with the
applications. This information is exempt
from mandatory disclosure under the above-
cited statutes.
SEP Meeting on: Pilot Testing of Electronic
Prescribing Standards—Cooperative
Agreements.
Date: December 1, 2005 (Open on
December 1 from 8 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. and
closed for the remainder of the meeting).
Place: John M. Eisenberg Building, AHRQ
Conference Center, 540 Gaither Road,
Rockville, Maryland 20850.
Contact Person: Anyone wishing to obtain
a roster of members, agenda or minutes of the
non-confidential portions of this meeting
should contact Mrs. Bonnie Campbell,
Committee Management Officer, Office of
Extramural Research, Education and Priority
Populations, AHRQ, 540 Gaither Road, Room
2038, Rockville, Maryland 20850, Telephone
(301) 427–1554.
Agenda items for this meeting are subject
to change as priorities dictate.
Dated: November 3, 2005.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
Title: Evaluation of the Refugee Social
Service (RSS) and Targeted Assistance
Formula Grant (TAG) Programs: Data
Collection.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Office of Refugee
Resettlement (ORR) within the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) funds the Refugee Social
Services (RSS) and Targeted Assistance
Formula Grant (TAG) programs, which
are designed to help refugees achieve
economic success quickly following
their arrival in the U.S. through
employment services, English-language
instruction, vocational training, and
other social services. ORR is sponsoring
a project to (1) conduct a comprehensive
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evaluation of the effectiveness of ORR
employability services through RSS and
TAG, and (2) propose options for
institutionalizing ongoing evaluation
and performance assessment into the
programs. ORR is requesting OMB
clearance for three methods of
information collection: (1) Interviews
with state and local refugee program
administrators and service providers in
three sites to learn about service
delivery and organizational
arrangements, and with a small number
of local employers who work with RSS-
and TAG-funded service providers to
learn about their experiences with the
programs; (2) a sample of 1,125 refugees
Instrument
Interviews with program staff .........................................................................
Interviews with employers .............................................................................
Survey of refugees ........................................................................................
Focus group with program clients .................................................................
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 899.
Additional Information
Copies of the proposed collection may
be obtained by writing to the
Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Administration,
Office of Information Services, 370
L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington,
DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance
Officer. All requests should be
identified by the title of the information
collection. E-mail address:
infocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
OMB Comment
OMB is required to make a decision
concerning the collection of information
between 30 and 60 days after
publication of this document in the
Federal Register. Therefore, a comment
is best assured of having its full effect
if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
directly to the following: Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork
Reduction Project, Attn: Desk Officer for
ACF, E-mail address:
Katherine_T._Astrich@omb.eop.gov.
Dated: November 8, 2005.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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to collect data on refugees’ employment
an earnings outcomes; (3) two to four
focus groups with seven to ten program
clients in each of the three sites to
obtain customer perspectives of the
services they received and their
adjustment experiences.
Respondents
(1) Interviews will be conducted with
three state refugee coordinators,
voluntary agency (VOLAG) and Mutual
Assistance Association (MAA) staff,
local RSS and TAG service providers,
and employers who employ significant
numbers of refugees.
(2) The respondents of the survey are
refugees who have been in the United
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of
respondents
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. 2005N–0317]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for Office of
Management and Budget Review;
Comment Request; Record Retention
Requirements for the Soy Protein and
Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Health
Claim
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,
HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) is announcing
that a proposed collection of
information has been submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance under
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Fax written comments on the
collection of information by December
15, 2005.
ADDRESSES: OMB is still experiencing
significant delays in the regular mail,
including first class and express mail,
and messenger deliveries are not being
accepted. To ensure that comments on
the information collection are received,
OMB recommends that comments be
faxed to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: Fumie
Yokota, Desk Officer for FDA, FAX:
202–395–6974.
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States for fewer than five years, and,
thus, are eligible for RSS and TAG
services. The survey relies on a mixed-
mode data collection method that
involves both telephone and in-person
interviews. If individuals cannot be
reached by phone, an attempt will be
made to contact them in person.
Approximately 900 of the 1,125 refugees
sampled will complete the survey over
a nine-week period.
(3) Respondents of the focus groups
will include refugees who have received
RSS- and TAG-funded services.
Approximately 70 refugees will
participate in the focus groups.
Number of Average
Total burden
responses per burden hours
hours
respondent per response
60 1 1 60
12 1 2 24
900 1 0.75 675
70 1 2 140
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Peggy Robbins, Office of Management
Programs (HFA–250), Food and Drug
Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, MD 20857, 301–827–1223.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA
has submitted the following proposed
collection of information to OMB for
review and clearance.
Record Retention Requirements for the
Soy Protein and Risk of Coronary Heart
Disease Health Claim—21 CFR
101.82(c)(2)(ii)(B) (OMB Control
Number 0910–0428)—Extension
Section 403(r)(3)(A)(i) of the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C.
343(r)(3)(A)(i)) provides for the use of
food label statements characterizing a
relationship of any nutrient of the type
required to be in the label or labeling of
the food to a disease or a health related
condition only where that statement
meets the requirements of the
regulations issued by the Secretary of
Health and Human Services to authorize
the use of such a health claim. Section
101.82 (21 CFR 101.82) of FDA’s
regulations authorizes a health claim for
food labels about soy protein and the
risk of coronary heart disease. To bear
the soy protein/coronary heart disease
health claim, foods must contain at least
6.25 grams of soy protein per reference
amount customarily consumed.
Analytical methods for measuring total
protein can be used to quantify the
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