Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 50097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24003]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30 DAY-25-99]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-7090. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    1. National Sexually Transmitted Disease Morbidity Surveillance 
System--Extension--(0920-0011)--The National Center for HIV, STD, and 
TB Prevention (NCHSTP)--The reports used for this surveillance system 
provide ongoing surveillance data on national sexually transmitted 
disease morbidity. The data are used by health care planners at the 
national, state, and local (including selected metropolitan and 
territorial health departments) levels to develop and evaluate STD 
prevention and control programs. In addition, there are many other 
users of the data including scientists, researchers, educators, and the 
media. STD data gathered in these reports are used to produce national 
statistics published in the annual STD Surveillance Report, MMWR 
articles, and serve as a progress report to meet objectives in Healthy 
People 2000: Midcourse Review and 1995 Revisions. It is important to 
note that these reporting forms are in the process of being phased out 
and replaced by electronic, line-listed STD data collected in the 
National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance (NETSS).
    Costs are covered by way of cooperative agreements to the project 
areas. The total annual burden hours are 828.

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                                                                                      No. of
                              Forms                                   No. of        responses/      Avg. burden
                                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)
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CDC 73.688*.....................................................              36               4          1
CDC 73.688**....................................................              27               4          1
CDC 73.998......................................................              36              12          0.5833
CDC 73.2638.....................................................              36               3          3
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* State-level reporting: Respondents for the state-specific CDC 73.688 forms now include 26 state health
  departments (Originally, respondents included 50 states, but 24 states have now discontinued hardcopy
  reporting and send all STD data as electronic line-listed records through NETSS), seven large city health
  departments and three outlying areas.
** City-level reporting: The health departments for the 26 states and one of the outlying regions (Puerto Rico)
  also prepare and submit reports for additional large cities within their jurisdictions.

    Dated: September 9, 1999.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-24003 Filed 9-14-99; 8:45 am]
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