80 FR 52287 - 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 167 (August 28, 2015)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 167 (August 28, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-21346 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 167 (Friday, August 28, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 52287-52289] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-21346] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [60 Day-15-0960: Docket No. CDC-2015-0073] 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Epidemiologic Study of Health Effects Associated With Low Pressure Events in Drinking Water Distribution Systems. DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 27, 2015. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015- 0073 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 [[Page 52288]] 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 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 Epidemiologic Study of Health Effects Associated With Low Pressure Events in Drinking Water Distribution Systems (OMB Control Number 0920- 0960, Expiration 3/31/2016)--Extension--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Background and Brief Description In the United States (U.S.), drinking water distribution systems are designed to deliver safe, pressurized drinking water to our homes, hospitals, schools and businesses. However, the water distribution infrastructure is 50-100 years old in much of the U.S. and an estimated 240,000 water main breaks occur each year. Failures in the distribution system such as water main breaks, cross-connections, back-flow, and pressure fluctuations can result in potential intrusion of microbes and other contaminants that can cause health effects, including acute gastrointestinal and respiratory illness. Approximately 200 million cases of acute gastrointestinal illness occur in the U.S. each year, but we lack reliable data to assess how many of these cases are associated with drinking water. Further, data are even more limited on the human health risks associated with exposure to drinking water during and after the occurrence of low pressure events (such as water main breaks) in drinking water distribution systems. A study conducted in Norway from 2003-2004 found that people exposed to low pressure events in the water distribution system had a higher risk for gastrointestinal illness. A similar study is needed in the United States. The purpose of this data collection is to conduct an epidemiologic study in the U.S. to assess whether individuals exposed to low pressure events in the water distribution system are at an increased risk for acute gastrointestinal or respiratory illness. This study would be, to our knowledge, the first U.S. study to systematically examine the association between low pressure events and acute gastrointestinal and respiratory illnesses. Study findings will inform the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), CDC, and other drinking water stakeholders of the potential health risks associated with low pressure events in drinking water distribution systems and whether additional measures (e.g., new standards, additional research, or policy development) are needed to reduce the risk for health effects associated with low pressure events in the drinking water distribution system. We will conduct a cohort study among households that receive water from six water utilities across the U.S. The water systems will be geographically diverse and will include both chlorinated and chloraminated systems. These water utilities will provide information about low pressure events that occur during the study period using a standardized form (approximately 11 events per utility). Utilities will provide address listings of households in areas exposed to the low pressure event and comparable households in an unexposed area to CDC staff, who will randomly select participants and send them an introductory letter and questionnaire. Consenting household respondents will be asked about symptoms and duration of any recent gastrointestinal or respiratory illness, tap water consumption, and other exposures including international travel, daycare attendance or employment, animal contacts, and recreational water exposures. Study participants may choose between two methods of survey response: A mail- in paper survey and a web-based survey. Participation in this study will be voluntary. No financial compensation will be provided to study participants. The study duration is anticipated to last 30 months. An estimated 6,750 individuals will be contacted and we anticipate 4,050 utility customers (18 years of age or older) will consent to participate in this study. The total estimated annualized hours associated with this study is expected to be 548. There are no costs to respondents other than their time. [[Page 52289]] Estimated Annualized Burden Hours -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Average burden Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden respondents respondent (in hrs.) (in hrs.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Households..................................... Paper-based questionnaire.............. 1,215 1 12/60 243 Households..................................... Web-based questionnaire................ 810 1 12/60 162 Utility employees.............................. Household listing...................... 6 5 3 90 Utility employees.............................. Water sample collection (grab samples). 6 3 130/60 39 Utility employees.............................. Water sample collection 6 2 30/60 6 (ultrafiltration samples). Utility employees.............................. Low pressure event form................ 6 5 15/60 8 --------------------------------------------------------------- Total...................................... ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 548 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. [FR Doc. 2015-21346 Filed 8-27-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163-18-P
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Comment: The application form landholding agencies in support of the information to be collected; and ways in
should be used by all federal agencies. application process. No change will be which we can minimize the burden of
Response: The current draft made to the application in response to the collection of information on those
application for wireless antenna this comment. who are to respond through the use of
installations is being processed as a Comment: Applicants may opt in to appropriate technological collection
Common Form for use by all federal the rates, terms, and conditions of other techniques or other forms of information
agencies. Once the Federal Register providers located at the federal technology.
posting process is complete, the property. Obtaining Copies of Proposals:
application will be submitted to OMB Response: This comment speaks not Requesters may obtain a copy of the
for approval. An application for right-of- to the application, but rather to shared information collection documents from
way and easements, the SF299 policy and procedures to be developed the General Services Administration,
‘‘Application for Transportations and by the executive landholding agencies Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB),
Utility Systems on Federal Land,’’ is acting in common in support of the 1800 F Street NW., Second Floor,
already in existence, and its use is application process. No change will be Washington, DC 20405, telephone 202–
required for all federal agencies. The made to the application in response to 501–4755. Please cite OMB Control No.
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Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Comment: The ‘‘Notice of Competitive Telecommunications Company
and Transportation. Procedures’’ should be posted to Application, in all correspondence.
Comment: Moratoria on accepting FedBizOps.gov upon receipt of an Dated: August 21, 2015.
applications are prohibited. application.
David A. Shive,
Response: This comment speaks not Response: This comment speaks not
to the application, but rather to shared to the application, but rather to shared Chief Information Officer.
policy and procedures to be developed policy and procedures to be developed [FR Doc. 2015–21249 Filed 8–27–15; 8:45 am]
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acting in common in support of the acting in common in support of the
application process. This comment will application process. No change will be
be taken into consideration; however, made to the application in response to DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
no change will be made to the this comment. HUMAN SERVICES
application in response to this Comment: Application forms should
comment. be utilized to initiate amendments to Centers for Disease Control and
Comment: Timely responses to existing installations and the applicable Prevention
applications are mandatory. lease, easement, or right-of-way. [60 Day–15–0960: Docket No. CDC–2015–
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responses are important; however, the to the application, but rather to shared
comment speaks not to the application, policy and procedures to be developed Proposed Data Collection Submitted
but rather to shared policy and by the executive landholding agencies for Public Comment and
procedures to be developed by the acting in common in support of the Recommendations
executive landholding agencies acting application process. No change will be
in common in support of the application AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and
made to the application in response to
process. No change will be made to the Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
this comment.
application in response to this and Human Services (HHS).
Comment: Executive agencies may
comment. utilize easements or leases with 25-year ACTION: Notice with comment period.
Comment: Applications should be terms for wireless siting requests. SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease
‘‘deemed approved’’ upon passage of Response: This comment speaks not Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
time. to the application, but rather to shared its continuing efforts to reduce public
Response: While timely approval is a policy and procedures to be developed burden and maximize the utility of
shared goal, federal agencies must by the executive landholding agencies government information, invites the
perform the due diligence required to acting in common in support of the general public and other Federal
confirm that implementation of a application process. No change will be agencies to take this opportunity to
proposal is in the best interests of the made to the application in response to comment on proposed and/or
Government and the taxpayer. this comment.
Comment: Applications should be continuing information collections, as
presumed consistent with each agency’s C. Annual Reporting Burden required by the Paperwork Reduction
mission and property use. Act of 1995. This notice invites
Respondents: 20.
Response: Given the different Responses per Respondent: 1. comment on Epidemiologic Study of
missions and property uses existent Total Response Hours: 20. Health Effects Associated With Low
among the executive landholding Hours per Response: 1. Pressure Events in Drinking Water
agencies, it is not clear how making Total Burden Hours: 20. Distribution Systems.
such a presumption is in the best DATES: Written comments must be
D. Public Comments received on or before October 27, 2015.
interest of the Government and the
taxpayer. Public comments are particularly ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
Comment: The application form invited on: Whether this collection of identified by Docket No. CDC–2015–
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Center review for commercial providers will have practical utility; whether our • Federal eRulemaking Portal:
of unlicensed wireless services. estimate of the public burden of this Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
Response: The decision to use collection of information is accurate and for submitting comments.
unlicensed wireless services is an based on valid assumptions and • Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
internal policy decision to be developed methodology; ways to enhance the Information Collection Review Office,
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
Number of
Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name responses per
respondents response (in hrs.)
respondent (in hrs.)
Households ................................ Paper-based questionnaire ..................... 1,215 1 12/60 243
Households ................................ Web-based questionnaire ....................... 810 1 12/60 162
Utility employees ........................ Household listing ..................................... 6 5 3 90
Utility employees ........................ Water sample collection (grab samples) 6 3 130/60 39
Utility employees ........................ Water sample collection (ultrafiltration 6 2 30/60 6
samples).
Utility employees ........................ Low pressure event form ........................ 6 5 15/60 8
Total .................................... ................................................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ 548
Leroy A. Richardson, GA 30333 or send an email to omb@ information, and each reinstatement of
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, cdc.gov. previously approved information
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the collection before submitting the
DATES: Written comments must be
Associate Director for Science, Office of the collection to OMB for approval. To
Director, Centers for Disease Control and received on or before October 27, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
comply with this requirement, we are
Prevention.
identified by Docket No. CDC–2015– publishing this notice of a proposed
[FR Doc. 2015–21346 Filed 8–27–15; 8:45 am] data collection as described below.
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0072 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions the proposed collection of information
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND for submitting comments. is necessary for the proper performance
HUMAN SERVICES • Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, of the functions of the agency, including
Information Collection Review Office, whether the information shall have
Centers for Disease Control and Centers for Disease Control and practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
Prevention Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS– agency’s estimate of the burden of the
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329. proposed collection of information; (c)
[60Day–15–0307; Docket No. CDC–2015– Instructions: All submissions received
0072] ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
must include the agency name and clarity of the information to be
Proposed Data Collections Submitted Docket Number. All relevant comments collected; (d) ways to minimize the
for Public Comment and received will be posted without change burden of the collection of information
Recommendations to Regulations.gov, including any on respondents, including through the
personal information provided. For use of automated collection techniques
AGENCY: The Centers for Disease Control access to the docket to read background or other forms of information
and Prevention (CDC). documents or comments received, go to technology; and (e) estimates of capital
ACTION: Notice with comment period. Regulations.gov. or start-up costs and costs of operation,
SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Please note: All public comment should be maintenance, and purchase of services
submitted through the Federal eRulemaking to provide information. Burden means
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
its continuing effort to reduce public the total time, effort, or financial
address listed above. resources expended by persons to
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
general public and other Federal request more information on the provide information to or for a Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to proposed project or to obtain a copy of agency. This includes the time needed
comment on proposed and/or the information collection plan and to review instructions; to develop,
continuing information collections, as instruments, contact the Information acquire, install and utilize technology
required by the Paperwork Reduction Collection Review Office, Centers for and systems for the purpose of
Act of 1995. This notice invites Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 collecting, validating and verifying
comment on the proposed extension of Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, information, processing and
the information collection entitled The Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570; maintaining information, and disclosing
Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project Email: omb@cdc.gov. and providing information; to train
(GISP), which is the only source in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the personnel and to be able to respond to
United States of national, regional, and Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) a collection of information, to search
site-specific gonococcal antibiotic (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies data sources, to complete and review
resistance information that provides must obtain approval from the Office of the collection of information; and to
information to support informed and Management and Budget (OMB) for each transmit or otherwise disclose the
scientifically-based treatment collection of information they conduct information.
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recommendations. or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also Proposed Project
To request more information on the requires Federal agencies to provide a
below proposed project or to obtain a 60-day notice in the Federal Register The Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance
copy of the information collection plan concerning each proposed collection of Project (GISP), (OMB No.0920–0307
and instruments, call 404–639–7570 or information, including each new exp. 08/31/2016)—Extension—National
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