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Proposed Project The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)—[OMB# 0920–0607, exp.01/31/2010]—Revision—National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Background and Brief Description Violence is an important public health problem. In the United States, homicide and suicide are the second and third leading causes of death, respectively, in the 1–34-year-old age group. Unfortunately, public health agencies do not know much more about the problem than the numbers and the sex, race, and age of the victims, all information obtainable from the standard death certificate. Death certificates, however, carry no information about key facts necessary for prevention such as the relationship of the victim and suspect and the circumstances of the deaths, thereby making it impossible to discern anything but the gross contours of the problem. Furthermore, death certificates are typically available 20 months after the completion of a single calendar year. Official publications of national violent death rates, e.g. those in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use data that is less than two years old. Public health interventions aimed at a moving target last seen two years ago may well miss the mark. Local and Federal criminal justice agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provide slightly more information about homicides, but they do not routinely collect standardized data about suicides, which are in fact much more common than homicides. The FBI’s Supplemental Homicide Report system (SHRs) does collect basic information about the victim-suspect relationship and circumstances, like death certificates, it does not link violent deaths that are part of one incident such as homicide-suicides. It also is a voluntary system in which 47255 some 10–20 percent of police departments nationwide do not participate. The FBI’s National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) addresses some of these deficiencies, but it covers less of the country than SHRs, still includes only homicides, and collects only police information. Also, the Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports do not use data that is less than two years old. CDC therefore proposes to continue a state-based surveillance system for violent deaths that will provide more detailed and timely information. It taps into the case records held by medical examiners/coroners, police, and crime labs. Data is collected centrally by each state in the system, stripped of identifiers, and then sent to the CDC. Information is collected from these records about the characteristics of the victims and suspects, the circumstances of the deaths, and the weapons involved. States use standardized data elements and software designed by CDC. Ultimately, this information will guide states in designing programs that reduce multiple forms of violence. Neither victim families nor suspects are contacted to collect this information. It all comes from existing records and is collected by state health department staff or their subcontractors. Health departments incur an average of 2.0 hours per death in identifying the deaths from death certificates, contacting the police and medical examiners to get copies of or to view the relevant records, abstracting all the records, various data processing tasks, various administrative tasks, data utilization, training, communications, etc. Public agencies working with NVDRS states incur an average of 0.5 hours per death to retrieve and then refile records. This revision is a request to allow 10 new state health departments to be added to the currently funded 17 if funding becomes available. This may bring the total to 27 by the year 2012. There are no costs to respondents other than their time. The total estimated annual burden hours are 67,500. sroberts on DSKD5P82C1PROD with NOTICES ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Number of respondents Type of respondents State Health Departments ......................................................................................................... Public Agencies ......................................................................................................................... VerDate Nov<24>2008 19:12 Sep 14, 2009 Jkt 217001 PO 00000 Frm 00071 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\15SEN1.SGM Number of responses per respondent 27 27 15SEN1 1,000 1,000 Average burden per response (in hours) 2.0 30/60 47256 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 177 / Tuesday, September 15, 2009 / Notices Dated: September 9, 2009. Maryam I. Daneshvar, Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [FR Doc. E9–22141 Filed 9–14–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163–18–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. FDA–2008–N–0487] Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Food Safety Survey AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. DATES: Fax written comments on the collection of information by October 15, 2009. ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on the information collection are received, OMB recommends that written comments be faxed to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: FDA Desk Officer, FAX: 202–395–6974, or e-mailed to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. All comments should be identified with the OMB control number 0910–0345. Also include the FDA docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonna Capezzuto, Office of Information Management (HFA–710), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301–796–3794, JonnaLynn.Capezzuto@fda.hhs.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA has submitted the following proposed collection of information to OMB for review and clearance. Food Safety Survey—(OMB Control Number 0910–0345—Reinstatement) Under section 903(b)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 393(b)(2)), FDA is authorized to conduct research relating to foods and to conduct educational and public information programs relating to the safety of the nation’s food supply. The Food Safety Survey is a nationally representative survey of consumers’ knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about food safety. Previous versions of the survey were collected in 1988, 1993, 1998, 2001, and 2006. Data from the previous surveys are being used to evaluate two Healthy People 2010 objectives: (1) Increase the proportion of consumers who follow key food safety practices (Objective 10–5), and (2) reduce severe allergic reactions to food among adults (Objective 10–4b). Additionally, data are used to measure trends in consumer food safety habits including hand and cutting board washing, cooking practices, and use of food thermometers. Finally, data are used to evaluate educational messages and to inform policymakers about consumer attitudes about novel technologies such as food irradiation and biotechnology. Since 2006, there have been several high profile recalls of FDA-regulated food due to contamination. Information about food recalls does not always reach the intended audience (Refs. 1, 2, and 3). The Food Safety Survey planned for 2009 will look specifically at reasons why consumers do not always heed food recall alerts. A new food recall module will be added that contains new questions to learn about how recent food recalls have affected consumer confidence in the food supply and what effect, if any, they have on consumers’ home food safety behaviors. This information will help FDA develop strategies to more effectively communicate food recall information to the public. The methods for the 2009 version of the Food Safety Survey will be the same as for the previous Food Safety Surveys. A nationally representative sample of 4,000 adults in households with telephones will be selected at random and interviewed by telephone. This survey will include an oversample of Hispanics with a minimum of 500 Hispanics sampled. Additionally, 200 initial nonrespondents will be asked to participate in a short version of the survey to conduct a nonresponse analysis. Participation will be voluntary. Cognitive interviews and a pretest will be conducted prior to fielding the survey. In the Federal Register of September 17, 2008 (73 FR 53878), FDA published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the proposed collection of information. The agency received one comment that was not responsive to the comment request on the information collection provisions. FDA estimates the burden of this collection of information as follows: The total estimated burden imposed by this collection of information is 1,541 hours (table 1 of this document). TABLE 1.—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN1 Activity No. of Respondents Annual Frequency per Response Total Annual Responses Hours per Response Total Hours Cognitive Interview 20 1 20 1 20 Pretest 27 1 27 0.5 14 10,000 1 10,000 4,000 1 4,000 .33 1,320 200 1 200 .10 20 Screener Survey sroberts on DSKD5P82C1PROD with NOTICES Nonresponse .0167 Total 1 There 167 1,541 are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information. Prior to finalizing the survey, FDA will conduct 20 cognitive interviews each requiring an average of 1 hour per VerDate Nov<24>2008 19:12 Sep 14, 2009 Jkt 217001 respondent for a total of 20 hours. Before the survey is fielded, a small pretest of 27 individuals, each lasting PO 00000 Frm 00072 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 half an hour (0.5 hour), will be conducted. The survey screener is estimated to take 1 minute or less per E:\FR\FM\15SEN1.SGM 15SEN1

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-09-0607]


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) 639-5960 or send an e-mail 
to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974. 
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)--[OMB 
0920-0607, exp.01/31/2010]--Revision--National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Violence is an important public health problem. In the United 
States, homicide and suicide are the second and third leading causes of 
death, respectively, in the 1-34-year-old age group. Unfortunately, 
public health agencies do not know much more about the problem than the 
numbers and the sex, race, and age of the victims, all information 
obtainable from the standard death certificate. Death certificates, 
however, carry no information about key facts necessary for prevention 
such as the relationship of the victim and suspect and the 
circumstances of the deaths, thereby making it impossible to discern 
anything but the gross contours of the problem. Furthermore, death 
certificates are typically available 20 months after the completion of 
a single calendar year. Official publications of national violent death 
rates, e.g. those in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use 
data that is less than two years old. Public health interventions aimed 
at a moving target last seen two years ago may well miss the mark.
    Local and Federal criminal justice agencies such as the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provide slightly more information about 
homicides, but they do not routinely collect standardized data about 
suicides, which are in fact much more common than homicides. The FBI's 
Supplemental Homicide Report system (SHRs) does collect basic 
information about the victim-suspect relationship and circumstances, 
like death certificates, it does not link violent deaths that are part 
of one incident such as homicide-suicides. It also is a voluntary 
system in which some 10-20 percent of police departments nationwide do 
not participate. The FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System 
(NIBRS) addresses some of these deficiencies, but it covers less of the 
country than SHRs, still includes only homicides, and collects only 
police information. Also, the Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports do 
not use data that is less than two years old.
    CDC therefore proposes to continue a state-based surveillance 
system for violent deaths that will provide more detailed and timely 
information. It taps into the case records held by medical examiners/
coroners, police, and crime labs. Data is collected centrally by each 
state in the system, stripped of identifiers, and then sent to the CDC. 
Information is collected from these records about the characteristics 
of the victims and suspects, the circumstances of the deaths, and the 
weapons involved. States use standardized data elements and software 
designed by CDC. Ultimately, this information will guide states in 
designing programs that reduce multiple forms of violence.
    Neither victim families nor suspects are contacted to collect this 
information. It all comes from existing records and is collected by 
state health department staff or their subcontractors. Health 
departments incur an average of 2.0 hours per death in identifying the 
deaths from death certificates, contacting the police and medical 
examiners to get copies of or to view the relevant records, abstracting 
all the records, various data processing tasks, various administrative 
tasks, data utilization, training, communications, etc. Public agencies 
working with NVDRS states incur an average of 0.5 hours per death to 
retrieve and then refile records.
    This revision is a request to allow 10 new state health departments 
to be added to the currently funded 17 if funding becomes available. 
This may bring the total to 27 by the year 2012. There are no costs to 
respondents other than their time. The total estimated annual burden 
hours are 67,500.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                    Number of    Average  burden
                      Type of respondents                           Number of     responses per   per  response
                                                                   respondents     respondent       (in hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
State Health Departments.......................................              27           1,000              2.0
Public Agencies................................................              27           1,000          30/60
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    Dated: September 9, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E9-22141 Filed 9-14-09; 8:45 am]
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