80 FR 48861 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 157 (August 14, 2015)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing efforts 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. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection entitled National Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (NUDORS). CDC will use the information collected to perform fatal unintentional drug overdose surveillance in a quickly and comprehensive way.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 157 (Friday, August 14, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48861-48863]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19992]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-15-15BBT; Docket No. CDC-2015-0068]


Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part 
of its continuing efforts 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. This notice invites comment on a proposed 
information collection entitled National Unintentional Drug Overdose 
Reporting System (NUDORS). CDC will use the information collected to 
perform fatal unintentional drug overdose surveillance in a quickly and 
comprehensive way.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 13, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0068 by any of the following methods:
    Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions 
for submitting comments.
    Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review Office, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted 
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.

    Please note:  All public comment should be submitted through the 
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the 
address listed above.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office, 
Centers for

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Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of 
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires 
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register 
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new 
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of 
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information 
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    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.

Proposed Project

    National Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (NUDORS)--New 
-- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    In 2013, in the United States, there were nearly 44,000 drug 
overdose deaths, including nearly 36,000 unintentional drug overdose 
deaths. More people are now dying of drug overdose than automobile 
crashes in the United States. A major driver of the problem are 
overdoses related to opioids, both opioid pain relievers (OPRs) and 
illicit forms such as heroin. In order to address this public health 
problem, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has 
made addressing the opioid abuse problem a high priority.
    In order to support targeting of drug overdose prevention efforts, 
detect new trends in fatal unintentional drug overdoses, and assess the 
progress of HHS's initiative to reduce opioid abuse and overdoses, the 
National Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (NUDORS) plans to 
generate public health surveillance information at the national, state, 
and local levels that is more detailed, useful, and timely than is 
currently available.
    The goal of the proposed information collection is to generate 
public health surveillance information on unintentional fatal drug 
overdoses at the national, state, and local levels that is more 
detailed, useful, and timely than is currently available. This 
information will help develop, inform, and assess the progress of drug 
overdose prevention strategies at both the state and national levels.
    NUDORS will collect information that is currently not collected on 
death certificates such as whether the drug(s) causing the overdoses 
were injected or taken orally, a toxicology report on the decedent, if 
available, and risk factors for fatal drug overdoses including previous 
drug overdoses, decedent's mental health, and whether the decedent 
recently exiting a treatment program. Without this information, drug 
overdose efforts are often based on limited information available in 
the death certificate and anecdotal evidence.
    OMB approval is requested for three years. Participation is based 
on secondary data and is dependent on separate data collection efforts 
in each state managed by the state health departments or their bona 
fide agent. There are no costs to respondents. CDC estimates the 
information collection burden hours for the 16 participating state 
health agencies that will retrieve and refile records for this 
collection are 5,704.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                   Total number       Average
                                                     Number of     of responses     burden per     Total burden
      Type of respondent            Form name       respondents         per        response (in      hours (in
                                                                    respondent        hours)          hours)
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Public Agencies...............  Retrieving and                16             713           30/60           5,704
                                 refile records.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           5,704
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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.
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