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OMB Control No: 0920-0020	ICR Reference No: 201406-0920-018
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201403-0920-010
Agency/Subagency: HHS/CDC	Agency Tracking No: 21545
Title: National Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP)
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 07/30/2014
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 08/05/2014
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 07/09/2014
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	02/28/2015	6 Months From Approved	05/31/2017
Responses	94,744	0	22,915
Time Burden (Hours)	16,359	0	4,418
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: Due to new legislation, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is requesting a revision which will expand data collection. Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (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, which includes both a health surveillance and an autopsy component, has been useful in providing tools 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. During the early 1970s, one out of every three miners examined through the CWHSP who had worked at least 25 years underground had evidence of pneumoconiosis on their chest x-ray. An analysis among over 25,000 miners who participated in the x-ray Programs from 1996 to 2002 indicated that the proportion of affected individuals had decreased to about one in 20. However, recent surveillance analyses and research studies have confirmed that the prevalence of 'black lung' disease is increasing, there is regional clustering of rapidly progressive pneumoconiosis cases, and coal miners have a higher risk of disease if they perform certain jobs, work in smaller mines, or are from certain geographic areas. Importantly, young coal miners are developing the disabling and lethal forms of 'black lung'.

Emergency Justfication: August 1, 2014 implementation requirement of expanded data collection due to new legislation.

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	94,744	22,915	71,829
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	16,359	4,418	11,941
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Changing Regulations

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Changing Regulations

Short Statement: Increase in burden is due to expansion of data collection in accordance with MSHA final rule 30 CFR parts 70, 71, 72, 75 and 90.