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Background and Brief Description
Executive Order 12862 directs Federal
agencies that provide services directly
to the public to survey customers to
determine the kind and quality of
services they need and their level of
satisfaction with existing services.
CDC releases a number of new
products each year to its customers, a
diverse group that includes health care
providers, researchers, public health
practitioners, policy makers, and the
general public. The term product is
broadly defined to include publications,
Web pages, podcasts, e-cards, CD–
ROMs, and videos. At present, there is
no mechanism for evaluating whether
these products are meeting customer
needs.
CDC is requesting a 3-year generic
clearance in order to better evaluate its
products. Obtaining feedback from
customers on a regular, on-going basis
will help ensure that customers find
CDC products to be useful. This type of
evaluation will allow CDC to maximize
the impact of its products which will
ultimately benefit the public’s health.
The estimate of annual burden was
based on approximately 20 new
products being released by CDC/NCIPC
each year. This number is consistent
with the number of products released
annually over the last 5 years.
Approximately 2500 hard copies of each
product are distributed to customers
annually. Each product is disseminated
electronically (via e-mail) to 3000
customers each year. Finally, product
Web sites receive approximately 1800
hits a month or 21,600 hits a year.
There is no cost to the respondents
other than their time. The total
estimated burden hours are 90,333.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Types of respondents
Types of form
Public ....................................................................
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
50,000
60,000
432,000
1
1
1
10/60
10/60
10/60
Response cards ...................................................
E-mail Assessments .............................................
Web-Based Assessments ....................................
Dated: December 1, 2009.
Maryam Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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Number of
responses
per
respondent
In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–5960 or send
comments to Maryam Daneshvar, CDC
Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton
Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or
send an e-mail to omb@cdc.gov.
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
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proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality*, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (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. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
National Notifiable Condition
Messaging Support Strategy
Questionnaire—New—National Center
for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI),
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. CDC’s Morbidity
and Morality Weekly Report publishes
incidence and prevalence tables for
nationally notifiable conditions reported
through the National Electronic Disease
Surveillance System (NEDSS) and other
surveillance data sources to the National
Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
(NNDSS).
NEDSS (OMB 0920–0728) is an
internet-based infrastructure for public
health surveillance data exchange that
uses specific Public Health Information
Network (PHIN) and NEDSS electronic
data and information standards to
advance the development of efficient,
integrated, and interoperable
surveillance systems at federal, state
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and local levels. CDC’s NCPHI is
responsible for establishing and
managing the national reporting system
of epidemiologic data for notifiable
conditions (diseases) via NEDSS.
Case notification messaging for most
of the nationally notifiable conditions
(77 infectious conditions as of August
2009) will eventually be supported by
the standard Health Level 7 (HL7)
message format. The HL7 message
format requires a Message Mapping
Guide (MMG)—developed by the
NEDSS and NNDSS programs, in
collaboration with state and federal
subject matter experts—to implement
case notification to CDC via NEDSS. By
the close of 2009, MMGs are expected
to be published for seven nationally
notifiable conditions. Current NEDSS
resources support the development of
three new MMGs per year. A
jurisdiction’s implementation of a MMG
requires an average of three months per
MMG and largely requires NCPHI’s
programmatic and technical expertise
during this process.
The National Notifiable Condition
Messaging Support Strategy
Questionnaire has been developed by
the NEDSS program to gather
information needed for formulating a
technical and project management
support strategy for 57 reporting
jurisdictions (i.e., 50 states, 5 territories,
New York City, and Washington, DC) as
they implement NEDSS messaging using
Message Mapping Guides (MMG). A
jurisdiction’s response to the
questionnaire will be used by the
NEDSS implementation and
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management teams to assess the
jurisdiction’s IT system environment
and capacity and help determine the
project schedule and level of human
and technical support needed to
complete the jurisdiction’s
implementation of a nationally
notifiable condition message. NEDSS
infrastructure implementation support
includes, but is not limited to:
Implementing NEDSS Message
therefore, the maximum annual
frequency of responses per jurisdiction
is three. The NEDSS team will request
the jurisdiction to voluntarily complete
the questionnaire, but a response is not
a pre-requisite for support.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time to participate in the
survey.
Subscription Service (MSS) and NEDSS
Messaging Solution (NMS) software in
requesting jurisdictions; providing MSS
and NMS software training and ongoing
technical support; and distributing
funding via the CDC Epidemiology and
Laboratory Capacity cooperative
agreement.
Questionnaires will be distributed to
jurisdictions who initiate MMG
implementation for a condition;
ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Respondents
Average burden per response
(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
States ...............................................................................................................
Territories .........................................................................................................
Cities ................................................................................................................
50
5
2
3
3
3
40/60
40/60
40/60
100
10
4
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
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114
Dated: December 1, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–5960 and
send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar,
CDC Acting Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an e-mail to
omb@cdc.gov.
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)
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ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (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. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
Survey of Healthcare Workers’ Health
and Safety Practices—New—National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The mission of the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) is to promote safety and health
at work for all people through research
and prevention. Under Public Law 91–
596, Sections 20 and 22 (Section 20–22,
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970), NIOSH has the responsibility to
conduct research to advance the health
and safety of workers. In this capacity,
NIOSH will conduct a survey of
healthcare workers.
Healthcare workers represent over 8%
of the U.S. workforce with many
occupations projected to substantially
grow in the next ten years. Healthcare
workers experience higher rates of
illness and injury as compared to
workers in other industries and are at
increased risk for many of the types of
adverse health effects potentially caused
by exposure to hazardous chemical
agents. The proposed hazard
surveillance survey will provide
important information on work
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practices associated with the use of
important classes of hazardous chemical
agents including aerosolized
medications, antineoplastic agents,
chemical sterilants, high level
disinfectants, surgical smoke, and
anesthetic gases. This survey is the first
of its kind by the Federal government or
others. The data collected will describe
the prevalence and distribution of
health and safety practices and the use
of exposure controls and barriers to
their use for each of these chemical
agents, by occupation and by type and
by size of work setting. The study
population for this survey includes
members of professional organizations
who represent healthcare workers in
many occupations which use or are
exposed to these chemical agents.
NIOSH will use the data to guide
interventions and future research. The
participating professional organizations
indicated that the data will be useful for
benchmarking, identifying areas for
expanding guidelines and for health and
safety promotion.
The proposed survey is modular in
design and will be available only online. The survey includes separate
chemical hazard modules addressing
the previously mentioned hazardous
chemical agents, and a core module
which gathers information on a broad
range of health and safety issues
affecting healthcare workers, in addition
to demographic information. Members
of the participating professional
organizations will be recruited by email
which will be sent by each professional
organization to their members. All
respondents will complete a brief
screening questionnaire. If one or more
of the chemical agents under study was
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-10-10AK)
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call 404-639-5960 or
send comments to Maryam Daneshvar, CDC Reports Clearance Officer, 1600
Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail to
omb@cdc.gov.
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; and (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. Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
National Notifiable Condition Messaging Support Strategy
Questionnaire--New--National Center for Public Health Informatics
(NCPHI), 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. CDC's
Morbidity and Morality Weekly Report publishes incidence and prevalence
tables for nationally notifiable conditions reported through the
National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) and other
surveillance data sources to the National Notifiable Diseases
Surveillance System (NNDSS).
NEDSS (OMB 0920-0728) is an internet-based infrastructure for
public health surveillance data exchange that uses specific Public
Health Information Network (PHIN) and NEDSS electronic data and
information standards to advance the development of efficient,
integrated, and interoperable surveillance systems at federal, state
and local levels. CDC's NCPHI is responsible for establishing and
managing the national reporting system of epidemiologic data for
notifiable conditions (diseases) via NEDSS.
Case notification messaging for most of the nationally notifiable
conditions (77 infectious conditions as of August 2009) will eventually
be supported by the standard Health Level 7 (HL7) message format. The
HL7 message format requires a Message Mapping Guide (MMG)--developed by
the NEDSS and NNDSS programs, in collaboration with state and federal
subject matter experts--to implement case notification to CDC via
NEDSS. By the close of 2009, MMGs are expected to be published for
seven nationally notifiable conditions. Current NEDSS resources support
the development of three new MMGs per year. A jurisdiction's
implementation of a MMG requires an average of three months per MMG and
largely requires NCPHI's programmatic and technical expertise during
this process.
The National Notifiable Condition Messaging Support Strategy
Questionnaire has been developed by the NEDSS program to gather
information needed for formulating a technical and project management
support strategy for 57 reporting jurisdictions (i.e., 50 states, 5
territories, New York City, and Washington, DC) as they implement NEDSS
messaging using Message Mapping Guides (MMG). A jurisdiction's response
to the questionnaire will be used by the NEDSS implementation and
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management teams to assess the jurisdiction's IT system environment and
capacity and help determine the project schedule and level of human and
technical support needed to complete the jurisdiction's implementation
of a nationally notifiable condition message. NEDSS infrastructure
implementation support includes, but is not limited to: Implementing
NEDSS Message Subscription Service (MSS) and NEDSS Messaging Solution
(NMS) software in requesting jurisdictions; providing MSS and NMS
software training and ongoing technical support; and distributing
funding via the CDC Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity cooperative
agreement.
Questionnaires will be distributed to jurisdictions who initiate
MMG implementation for a condition; therefore, the maximum annual
frequency of responses per jurisdiction is three. The NEDSS team will
request the jurisdiction to voluntarily complete the questionnaire, but
a response is not a pre-requisite for support.
There is no cost to respondents other than their time to
participate in the survey.
Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Respondents Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) (in hours)
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States.......................................... 50 3 40/60 100
Territories..................................... 5 3 40/60 10
Cities.......................................... 2 3 40/60 4
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 114
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Dated: December 1, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E9-29107 Filed 12-4-09; 8:45 am]
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