82 FR 47741 - Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 197 (October 13, 2017)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 197 (October 13, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 197 (Friday, October 13, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 47741-47742] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-22199] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [30Day-17-0728] Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted the information collection request titled National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. CDC previously published a ``Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations'' notice on December 26, 2016 to obtain comments from the public and affected agencies. CDC received one comment related to the previous notice. This notice serves to allow an additional 30 days for public and affected agency comments. CDC will accept all comments for this proposed information collection project. The Office of Management and Budget is particularly interested in comments that: (a) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including, through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses; and (e) Assess information collection costs. To request additional information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call (404) 639-7570 or send an email to [email protected]. Direct written comments and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street NW., [[Page 47742]] Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Provide written comments within 30 days of notice publication. Proposed Project National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (0920-0728, January 31, 2019)--Revision--Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Background and Brief Description The Public Health Services Act (42 U.S.C. 241) authorizes CDC to disseminate nationally notifiable condition information. The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) is based on data collected at the state, territorial and local levels as a result of legislation and regulations in those jurisdictions that require health care providers, medical laboratories, and other entities to submit health-related data on reportable conditions to public health departments. These reportable conditions, which include infectious and non-infectious diseases, vary by jurisdiction depending upon each jurisdiction's health priorities and needs. Infectious disease agents and environmental hazards often cross geographical boundaries. Each year, the Council of State and Territorial Disease Epidemiologists (CSTE), supported by CDC, determines which reportable conditions should be designated nationally notifiable or under standardized surveillance and voluntarily submitted to CDC so that information can be shared across jurisdictional boundaries and surveillance and prevention and control activities can be coordinated at regional and national levels. CDC requests a three-year approval for this Revision, which includes requests to receive: (1) Case notification data from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau (independent nations that operate under a Compact of Free Association with the United States of America that are commonly referred to as ``freely associated states''); (2) new laboratory data elements for all conditions; (3) new data elements for all vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs); (4) new data elements for the following conditions that are already approved: Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS), Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, Campylobacteriosis, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), Hepatitis, and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS); (5) case notification data for histoplasmosis which is now under standardized surveillance; (6) case notification data for Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) which is now under standardized surveillance; and (7) case notification data for all enteric Escherichia coli infections should any of them become nationally notifiable or be placed under standardized surveillance. CDC already has approval to receive case notification data for STEC, which is nationally notifiable. The burden estimates include the number of hours that the public health department uses to process and send case notification data from their jurisdiction to CDC. Specifically, the burden estimates include separate burden hours incurred for automated and non-automated transmissions, separate weekly burden hours incurred for modernizing surveillance systems as part of NNDSS Modernization Initiative (NMI) implementation, separate burden hours incurred for annual data reconciliation and submission, and separate one-time burden hours incurred for the addition of new diseases and data elements. These estimates are based on information from CDC employees that manage the NMI effort and conduct site visits to provide technical assistance to help the public health departments modernize their surveillance systems. The estimated annual burden is 18,529 hours. Estimated Annualized Burden Hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Number of Number of burden per Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in respondent hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- States................................ Weekly (Automated)...... 50 52 20/60 States................................ Weekly (Non-automated).. 10 52 2 States................................ Weekly (NMI 50 52 4 Implementation). States................................ Annual.................. 50 1 75 States................................ One-time Addition of 50 1 8 Diseases and Data Elements. Territories........................... Weekly (Automated)...... 1 52 20/60 Territories........................... Weekly, Quarterly (Non- 5 56 20/60 automated). Territories........................... Weekly (NMI 5 52 4 Implementation). Territories........................... Annual.................. 5 1 5 Territories........................... One-time Addition of 1 1 10/60 Diseases and Data Elements. Freely Associated States.............. Weekly, Quarterly (Non- 3 56 20/60 automated). Freely Associated States.............. Annual.................. 3 1 5 Cities................................ Weekly (Automated)...... 2 52 20/60 Cities................................ Weekly (Non-automated).. 2 52 2 Cities................................ Weekly (NMI 2 52 4 Implementation). Cities................................ Annual.................. 2 1 75 Cities................................ One-time Addition of 2 1 8 Diseases and Data Elements. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 2017-22199 Filed 10-12-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163-18-P
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NYTS is the only source of such data for questions or as a digitally-based survey. access; secondhand smoke including e-
students in grades 6–8. The NYTS has CDC will also collect information cigarette aerosol exposure; provision of
provided national estimates of tobacco supporting the NYTS from state-, school- and community-based
use behaviors, information about district-, and school-level administrators interventions, and cessation.
exposure to pro- and anti-tobacco and teachers. During the 2018–2020
CDC will continue to use the results
influences, and information about racial timeframe, changes will be incorporated
of the NYTS to inform and evaluate the
and ethnic disparities in tobacco-related that reflect CDC’s ongoing collaboration
topics. CDC uses the information with FDA and the need to measure National Comprehensive Tobacco
collected through the NYTS to identify progress toward meeting strategic goals Control Program; provide data to inform
trends over time, to inform the established by the Family Smoking the Department of Health and Human
development of tobacco cessation Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Service’s Tobacco Control Strategic
programs for youth, and to evaluate the Information collection will occur Action Plan, and provide national
effectiveness of existing interventions annually and may include a number of benchmark data for state-level Youth
and programs. new questions, as well as increased Tobacco Surveys. CDC also expects the
CDC plans to request OMB approval representation of minority youth. information collected through the NYTS
to conduct additional cycles of the The survey will examine the to provide multiple measures and data
NYTS in 2018, 2019, and 2020. CDC following topics: Use of cigarettes, for monitoring progress on six of the 20
will conduct the survey among cigars, smokeless tobacco, electronic tobacco-related objectives (TU–2, 3, 7,
nationally representative samples of cigarettes, hookahs, pipes, bidis, snus, 11, 18, and 19) for Healthy People 2020.
students attending public and private and dissolvable tobacco products;
CDC seeks to request a three-year
schools in grades 6–12, and administer knowledge and attitudes; media and
OMB approval. There are no costs to
to students either as an optically advertising; access to tobacco products
scannable booklet of multiple-choice and enforcement of restrictions on respondents other than their time.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
Number of
Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondent Form name responses per
respondents response (in hours)
respondent (in hours)
State Administrators .......................... State-level Recruitment Script for 38 1 30/60 19
the NYTS.
District Administrators ....................... District-level Recruitment Script for 153 1 30/60 77
the NYTS.
School Administrators ....................... School-level Recruitment Script for 240 1 30/60 120
the NYTS.
Teachers ........................................... Data Collection Checklist ................. 973 1 15/60 243
Students ............................................ National Youth Tobacco Survey ...... 24,000 1 45/60 18,000
Testing Activities .............................. 150 1 31/60 78
Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 18,537
Leroy A. Richardson, (OMB) for review and approval. CDC including the validity of the
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, previously published a ‘‘Proposed Data methodology and assumptions used;
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the Collection Submitted for Public (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
Associate Director for Science, Office of the Comment and Recommendations’’ clarity of the information to be
Director, Centers for Disease Control and notice on December 26, 2016 to obtain collected;
Prevention.
comments from the public and affected (d) Minimize the burden of the
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agencies. CDC received one comment collection of information on those who
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related to the previous notice. This are to respond, including, through the
notice serves to allow an additional 30 use of appropriate automated,
days for public and affected agency electronic, mechanical, or other
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comments. technological collection techniques or
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CDC will accept all comments for this other forms of information technology,
Centers for Disease Control and proposed information collection project. e.g., permitting electronic submission of
Prevention The Office of Management and Budget responses; and
is particularly interested in comments (e) Assess information collection
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In accordance with the Paperwork for the proper performance of the instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for functions of the agency, including send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Direct
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) whether the information will have written comments and/or suggestions
has submitted the information practical utility; regarding the items contained in this
collection request titled National (b) Evaluate the accuracy of the notice to the Attention: CDC Desk
Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System agency’s estimate of the burden of the Officer, Office of Management and
to the Office of Management and Budget proposed collection of information, Budget, 725 17th Street NW.,
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Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) Epidemiologists (CSTE), supported by case notification data for Acute Flaccid
395–5806. Provide written comments CDC, determines which reportable Myelitis (AFM) which is now under
within 30 days of notice publication. conditions should be designated standardized surveillance; and (7) case
nationally notifiable or under notification data for all enteric
Proposed Project
standardized surveillance and Escherichia coli infections should any
National Notifiable Diseases voluntarily submitted to CDC so that of them become nationally notifiable or
Surveillance System (0920–0728, information can be shared across be placed under standardized
January 31, 2019)—Revision—Center for jurisdictional boundaries and surveillance. CDC already has approval
Surveillance, Epidemiology and surveillance and prevention and control to receive case notification data for
Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for activities can be coordinated at regional STEC, which is nationally notifiable.
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). and national levels. The burden estimates include the
CDC requests a three-year approval for number of hours that the public health
Background and Brief Description
this Revision, which includes requests department uses to process and send
The Public Health Services Act (42 to receive: (1) Case notification data case notification data from their
U.S.C. 241) authorizes CDC to from the Federated States of Micronesia, jurisdiction to CDC. Specifically, the
disseminate nationally notifiable the Republic of the Marshall Islands, burden estimates include separate
condition information. The National and the Republic of Palau (independent burden hours incurred for automated
Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System nations that operate under a Compact of and non-automated transmissions,
(NNDSS) is based on data collected at Free Association with the United States separate weekly burden hours incurred
the state, territorial and local levels as of America that are commonly referred for modernizing surveillance systems as
a result of legislation and regulations in to as ‘‘freely associated states’’); (2) new part of NNDSS Modernization Initiative
those jurisdictions that require health laboratory data elements for all (NMI) implementation, separate burden
care providers, medical laboratories, conditions; (3) new data elements for all hours incurred for annual data
and other entities to submit health- vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs); (4) reconciliation and submission, and
related data on reportable conditions to new data elements for the following separate one-time burden hours
public health departments. These conditions that are already approved: incurred for the addition of new
reportable conditions, which include Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS), diseases and data elements. These
infectious and non-infectious diseases, Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, estimates are based on information from
vary by jurisdiction depending upon Campylobacteriosis, Shiga toxin- CDC employees that manage the NMI
each jurisdiction’s health priorities and producing Escherichia coli (STEC), effort and conduct site visits to provide
needs. Infectious disease agents and Hepatitis, and Hantavirus Pulmonary technical assistance to help the public
environmental hazards often cross Syndrome (HPS); (5) case notification health departments modernize their
geographical boundaries. Each year, the data for histoplasmosis which is now surveillance systems. The estimated
Council of State and Territorial Disease under standardized surveillance; (6) annual burden is 18,529 hours.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
Number of
Number of burden per
Type of respondents Form name responses per
respondents response
respondent (in hours)
States ............................................ Weekly (Automated) ......................................................... 50 52 20/60
States ............................................ Weekly (Non-automated) .................................................. 10 52 2
States ............................................ Weekly (NMI Implementation) .......................................... 50 52 4
States ............................................ Annual ............................................................................... 50 1 75
States ............................................ One-time Addition of Diseases and Data Elements ........ 50 1 8
Territories ...................................... Weekly (Automated) ......................................................... 1 52 20/60
Territories ...................................... Weekly, Quarterly (Non-automated) ................................. 5 56 20/60
Territories ...................................... Weekly (NMI Implementation) .......................................... 5 52 4
Territories ...................................... Annual ............................................................................... 5 1 5
Territories ...................................... One-time Addition of Diseases and Data Elements ........ 1 1 10/60
Freely Associated States .............. Weekly, Quarterly (Non-automated) ................................. 3 56 20/60
Freely Associated States .............. Annual ............................................................................... 3 1 5
Cities ............................................. Weekly (Automated) ......................................................... 2 52 20/60
Cities ............................................. Weekly (Non-automated) .................................................. 2 52 2
Cities ............................................. Weekly (NMI Implementation) .......................................... 2 52 4
Cities ............................................. Annual ............................................................................... 2 1 75
Cities ............................................. One-time Addition of Diseases and Data Elements ........ 2 1 8
Leroy A. Richardson,
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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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