81_FR_53026 81 FR 52872 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

81 FR 52872 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

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

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 154 (August 10, 2016)

Page Range52872-52873
FR Document2016-18939

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 Information Collection on Feasibility of Social Distancing Measures in K-12 Schools in the United States, which is being conducted to determine if the implementation of social distancing strategies other than school closures can be accomplished without causing major detrimental effects to ongoing education activities.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 154 (Wednesday, August 10, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 154 (Wednesday, August 10, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52872-52873]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-18939]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-16-16AXB; Docket No. CDC-2016-0076]


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 Information 
Collection on Feasibility of Social Distancing Measures in K-12 Schools 
in the United States, which is being conducted to determine if the 
implementation of social distancing strategies other than school 
closures can be accomplished without causing major detrimental effects 
to ongoing education activities.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 11, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0076 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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 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

    Feasibility of Social Distancing Measures in K-12 Schools in the 
United States--New--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic 
Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global Migration and 
Quarantine (DGMQ), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National 
Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division 
of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), requests approval of a new 
information collection to identify social distancing strategies to 
reduce person-to-person contact among students and staff in K-12 
schools that are implementable without causing major detrimental 
effects to ongoing education activities. CDC is requesting a one-year 
approval to collect information.
    The information collection for which approval is sought is in 
accordance with DGMQ/CDC's mission to reduce morbidity and mortality in 
mobile populations, and to prevent the introduction, transmission, or 
spread of communicable diseases within the United States. Insights 
gained from this information collection will assist in the planning and 
implementation of CDC Pre-Pandemic Community Mitigation Guidance on the 
use of school-based measures to slow transmission during an influenza 
pandemic.
    School-aged children are often the main introducers and an 
important transmission source of influenza and other respiratory 
viruses in their families, and school-based outbreaks frequently pre-
date wide-spread influenza transmission in the surrounding communities. 
Therefore, infection control measures undertaken to reduce virus 
transmission among children at schools may also help prevent or 
postpone influenza outbreaks in communities. In respiratory 
transmission of influenza, proximity to the person with influenza plays 
a significant role. Strategies that increase physical distance between 
students and/or reduce the duration of person to person contact in 
school settings may, theoretically, be effective in slowing influenza 
transmission. There have been no evaluations to date of feasibility of 
implementing social distancing measures other than school closures. 
Therefore, there is a need to research

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alternative social distancing strategies that can help reduce influenza 
transmission in schools while minimizing social and economic burdens on 
the community.
    CDC staff proposes that the information collection for this package 
will target senior educators in each of the 10 HHS regions. CDC will 
collect qualitative data on current knowledge, attitudes, and practices 
with regard to organizing and delivering K-12 instruction in ways that 
help increase space between students and/or reduce daily duration of 
in-person instruction, while preserving the normal education process; 
this will be accomplished through focus group discussions.
    Findings obtained from this information collection will be used to 
inform the update CDC's Pre-pandemic Community Mitigation Guidance on 
the implementation of school related measures to prevent the spread of 
influenza. This Guidance is used as an important planning and reference 
tool for both State and local health departments in the United States.
    There is no cost to respondents other than their time. The 
estimated annualized burden hours for this data collection are 1,400 
hours.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondents           Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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Senior educators (e.g. school   Social                       700               1               2           1,400
 principals, superintendents,    Distancing
 teachers, senior leaders from   Questionnaire
 state agencies, etc.).          Form.
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           1,400
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Health Scientist, Acting 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. 2016-18939 Filed 8-9-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4163-18-P

52872 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 154 / Wednesday, August 10, 2016 / Notices Jeffrey M. Zirger, Please note: All public comment data sources, to complete and review Acting Chief, Information Collection Review should be submitted through the the collection of information; and to Office, Health Scientist, Office of Scientific Federal eRulemaking portal transmit or otherwise disclose the Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the information. Science, Office of the Director, Centers for address listed above. Disease Control and Prevention. Proposed Project FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To [FR Doc. 2016–18940 Filed 8–9–16; 8:45 am] request more information on the Feasibility of Social Distancing BILLING CODE 4163–18–P proposed project or to obtain a copy of Measures in K–12 Schools in the United the information collection plan and States—New—National Center for instruments, contact the Information Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Collection Review Office, Centers for Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global HUMAN SERVICES Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, Centers for Disease Control and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prevention Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov. Background and Brief Description [60Day–16–16AXB; Docket No. CDC–2016– SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 0076] The Centers for Disease Control and Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) Prevention (CDC), National Center for Proposed Data Collection Submitted (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious for Public Comment and must obtain approval from the Office of Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global Recommendations Management and Budget (OMB) for each Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), collection of information they conduct requests approval of a new information AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also collection to identify social distancing Prevention (CDC), Department of Health requires Federal agencies to provide a strategies to reduce person-to-person and Human Services (HHS). 60-day notice in the Federal Register contact among students and staff in ACTION: Notice with comment period. concerning each proposed collection of K–12 schools that are implementable information, including each new without causing major detrimental SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease proposed collection, each proposed effects to ongoing education activities. Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of extension of existing collection of CDC is requesting a one-year approval to its continuing efforts to reduce public information, and each reinstatement of collect information. burden and maximize the utility of previously approved information The information collection for which government information, invites the collection before submitting the approval is sought is in accordance with general public and other Federal collection to OMB for approval. To DGMQ/CDC’s mission to reduce agencies to take this opportunity to comply with this requirement, we are morbidity and mortality in mobile comment on proposed and/or publishing this notice of a proposed populations, and to prevent the continuing information collections, as data collection as described below. introduction, transmission, or spread of required by the Paperwork Reduction Comments are invited on: (a) Whether communicable diseases within the Act of 1995. This notice invites the proposed collection of information United States. Insights gained from this comment on Information Collection on is necessary for the proper performance information collection will assist in the Feasibility of Social Distancing of the functions of the agency, including planning and implementation of CDC Measures in K–12 Schools in the United whether the information shall have Pre-Pandemic Community Mitigation States, which is being conducted to practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Guidance on the use of school-based determine if the implementation of agency’s estimate of the burden of the measures to slow transmission during social distancing strategies other than proposed collection of information; (c) an influenza pandemic. school closures can be accomplished ways to enhance the quality, utility, and School-aged children are often the without causing major detrimental clarity of the information to be main introducers and an important effects to ongoing education activities. collected; (d) ways to minimize the transmission source of influenza and DATES: Written comments must be burden of the collection of information other respiratory viruses in their received on or before October 11, 2016. on respondents, including through the families, and school-based outbreaks ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, use of automated collection techniques frequently pre-date wide-spread identified by Docket No. CDC–2016– or other forms of information influenza transmission in the 0076 by any of the following methods: technology; and (e) estimates of capital surrounding communities. Therefore, • Federal eRulemaking Portal: or start-up costs and costs of operation, infection control measures undertaken Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions maintenance, and purchase of services to reduce virus transmission among for submitting comments. to provide information. Burden means children at schools may also help • Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information the total time, effort, or financial prevent or postpone influenza outbreaks Collection Review Office, Centers for resources expended by persons to in communities. In respiratory Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 generate, maintain, retain, disclose or transmission of influenza, proximity to Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, provide information to or for a Federal the person with influenza plays a Georgia 30329. agency. This includes the time needed significant role. 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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 154 / Wednesday, August 10, 2016 / Notices 52873 alternative social distancing strategies organizing and delivering K–12 implementation of school related that can help reduce influenza instruction in ways that help increase measures to prevent the spread of transmission in schools while space between students and/or reduce influenza. This Guidance is used as an minimizing social and economic daily duration of in-person instruction, important planning and reference tool burdens on the community. while preserving the normal education for both State and local health CDC staff proposes that the process; this will be accomplished departments in the United States. information collection for this package through focus group discussions. will target senior educators in each of Findings obtained from this There is no cost to respondents other the 10 HHS regions. CDC will collect information collection will be used to than their time. The estimated qualitative data on current knowledge, inform the update CDC’s Pre-pandemic annualized burden hours for this data attitudes, and practices with regard to Community Mitigation Guidance on the collection are 1,400 hours. ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Average Number of Number of burden per Total burden Type of respondents Form name responses per respondents response (in hours) respondent (in hours) Senior educators (e.g. school principals, super- Social Distancing Ques- 700 1 2 1,400 intendents, teachers, senior leaders from state tionnaire Form. agencies, etc.). Total ............................................................... ....................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,400 Jeffrey M. Zirger, of asthma data and to address critical must obtain approval from the Office of Health Scientist, Acting Chief, Information questions surrounding the health and Management and Budget (OMB) for each Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific experiences of persons with asthma. collection of information they conduct Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also DATES: Written comments must be Science, Office of the Director, Centers for requires Federal agencies to provide a Disease Control and Prevention. received on or before October 11, 2016. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 60-day notice in the Federal Register [FR Doc. 2016–18939 Filed 8–9–16; 8:45 am] concerning each proposed collection of identified by Docket No. CDC–2016– BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 0082 by any of the following methods: information, including each new • Federal eRulemaking Portal: proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions information, and each reinstatement of HUMAN SERVICES for submitting comments. previously approved information • Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information collection before submitting the Centers for Disease Control and Collection Review Office, Centers for collection to OMB for approval. To Prevention Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 comply with this requirement, we are Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, [60Day–16–16AWJ; Docket No. CDC–2016– publishing this notice of a proposed 0082] Georgia 30329. data collection as described below. Instructions: All submissions received Comments are invited on: (a) Whether Proposed Data Collection Submitted must include the agency name and the proposed collection of information for Public Comment and Docket Number. All relevant comments is necessary for the proper performance Recommendations received will be posted without change of the functions of the agency, including to Regulations.gov, including any whether the information shall have AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and personal information provided. For Prevention (CDC), Department of Health practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the access to the docket to read background agency’s estimate of the burden of the and Human Services (HHS). documents or comments received, go to ACTION: Notice with comment period. proposed collection of information; (c) Regulations.gov. ways to enhance the quality, utility, and SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Please note: All public comment clarity of the information to be Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of should be submitted through the collected; (d) ways to minimize the its continuing efforts to reduce public Federal eRulemaking portal burden of the collection of information burden and maximize the utility of (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the on respondents, including through the government information, invites the address listed above. use of automated collection techniques general public and other Federal FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To or other forms of information agencies to take this opportunity to request more information on the technology; and (e) estimates of capital comment on proposed and/or proposed project or to obtain a copy of or start-up costs and costs of operation, continuing information collections, as the information collection plan and maintenance, and purchase of services required by the Paperwork Reduction instruments, contact the Information to provide information. Burden means Act of 1995. This notice invites Collection Review Office, Centers for the total time, effort, or financial mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES comment on the ‘‘Behavioral Risk Factor Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 resources expended by persons to Surveillance System (BRFSS) Asthma Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, generate, maintain, retain, disclose or Call-back Survey (ACBS).’’ The ACBS is Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570; provide information to or for a Federal an in-depth asthma survey conducted Email: omb@cdc.gov. agency. This includes the time needed on a subset of BRFSS respondents with SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the to review instructions; to develop, an asthma diagnosis. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice with comment period.
DatesWritten comments must be received on or before October 11, 2016.
ContactTo 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]
FR Citation81 FR 52872 
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