83 FR 34590 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

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

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 140 (July 20, 2018)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled ``Surveillance of Nonfatal Injuries Among On-Duty Law Enforcement Officers.'' The purpose of this project is to collect follow-back telephone interview data from injured and exposed law enforcement officers treated in emergency departments (EDs) and produce a descriptive summary of these injuries and exposures.

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 140 (Friday, July 20, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34590-34591]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-15530]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-2018-18APJ; Docket No. CDC-2018-0062]


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 effort to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, invites the general public and other 
Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or 
continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed 
information collection project titled ``Surveillance of Nonfatal 
Injuries Among On-Duty Law Enforcement Officers.'' The purpose of this 
project is to collect follow-back telephone interview data from injured 
and exposed law enforcement officers treated in emergency departments 
(EDs) and produce a descriptive summary of these injuries and 
exposures.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before September 18, 
2018.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2018-
0062 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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments 
to Regulations.gov.
    Please note: Submit all Federal comments 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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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

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collection to the OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, we 
are publishing this notice of a proposed data collection as described 
below.
    The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:
    1. 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;
    2. 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;
    3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and
    4. 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 
submissions of responses.
    5. Assess information collection costs.

Proposed Project

    Surveillance of Nonfatal Injuries Among On-Duty Law Enforcement 
Officers--New--National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Law enforcement officers have high rates of non-fatal injuries 
compared to the general worker population. As law enforcement officers 
undertake many critical public safety activities and are tasked with 
protecting the safety and health of the public, it follows that 
understanding and preventing injuries among law enforcement officers 
will have a benefit reaching beyond the workers to the general public.
    As mandated in the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Pub. 
L. 91-596), the mission of NIOSH is to conduct research and 
investigations on occupational safety and health. Related to this 
mission, the purpose of this project is to conduct research that will 
provide a detailed description of non-fatal occupational injuries and 
exposures incurred by law enforcement officers. This information will 
offer detailed insight into events that lead to the largest number of 
nonfatal injuries and exposures among law enforcement officers. The 
project will use two related data sources. The first source is data 
abstracted from medical records of law enforcement officers treated in 
a nationally stratified sample of emergency departments. These data are 
routinely collected through the occupational supplement to the National 
Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS-Work). The second data 
source, for which NIOSH is seeking OMB approval for three years, is 
responses to telephone interview surveys of the injured and exposed law 
enforcement officers identified within NEISS-Work.
    The proposed telephone interview surveys will supplement NEISS-Work 
data with an extensive description of law enforcement officers injuries 
and exposures, including worker characteristics, injury types, injury 
circumstances, and injury outcomes. Previous reports describing 
occupational injuries to law enforcement officers provide limited 
details on specific regions or sub-segments of the population. As 
compared to these earlier studies, the scope of the telephone interview 
data will be broader as it includes sampled cases nationwide. Results 
from the telephone interviews will be weighted and reported as national 
estimates.
    The sample size for the telephone interview survey is estimated to 
be approximately 900 law enforcement officers annually for the proposed 
three year duration of the study. This is based on the number of law 
enforcement officers identified in previous years of NEISS-Work data 
and a 30% response rate that is comparable to the rate of previously 
conducted National Electronic Injury Surveillance System telephone 
interview studies. Each telephone interview will take approximately 30 
minutes to complete, resulting in an annualized burden estimate of 150 
hours. Using the routine NEISS-Work data, an analysis of all identified 
EMS workers will be performed to determine if there are differences 
between the telephone interview responder and non-responder groups.
    The Division of Safety Research (DSR) within NIOSH is conducting 
this project. DSR has a strong interest in improving surveillance of 
law enforcement officer injuries and exposures to provide the 
information necessary for effectively targeting and implementing 
prevention efforts and, consequently, reducing occupational injuries to 
law enforcement officers. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) 
will also contribute to this project, as they are responsible for 
coordinating the collection of all NEISS-Work data and for overseeing 
the collection of all telephone interview data. The total estimated 
burden is 450 hours. There is no cost to respondents other than their 
time.

                                        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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Law enforcement officers......  Follow-back                  900               1           30/60             450
                                 survey.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             450
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
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.
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