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conduct pretests of the questionnaire
before it is administered in the study.
We expect that 1,000 invitations, each
taking 2 minutes (0.033 hours), will
need to be sent to adult members of an
online consumer panel to have 150 of
them complete a 15-minute (0.25 hours)
pretest. The total for the pretest
activities is 71 hours (33 hours + 38
hours). For the survey, we estimate that
40,000 invitations, each taking 2
minutes (0.033 hours), will need to be
sent to adult members of an online
consumer panel to have 10,000 of them
complete a 15-minute (0.25 hours)
questionnaire. The total for the survey
activities is 3,820 hours (1,320 hours +
2,500 hours). Thus, the total estimated
burden is 3,906 hours.
FDA estimates the burden of this
collection of information as follows:
TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN 1
Number of
respondents
Activity
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
Total annual
responses
Total hours
Cognitive interview screener ....................................
Cognitive interview ...................................................
Pretest invitation ......................................................
Pretest ......................................................................
Survey invitation .......................................................
Survey ......................................................................
72
9
1,000
150
40,000
10,000
1
1
1
1
1
1
72
9
1,000
150
40,000
10,000
0.083 (5 min.) ............
1 ................................
0.033 (2 min.) ............
0.25 (15 min.) ............
0.033 (2 min.) ............
0.25 (15 min.) ............
6
9
33
38
1,320
2,500
Total ..................................................................
........................
........................
........................
....................................
3,906
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are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information.
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through Friday. (FDA has verified the
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responsible for any subsequent changes
to the Web sites after this document
publishes in the Federal Register.)
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Dated: May 23, 2012.
Leslie Kux,
Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA–2011–N–0345]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for Office of
Management and Budget Review;
Comment Request; Experimental
Study on Consumer Responses to
Nutrition Facts Labels With Various
Footnote Formats and Declaration of
Amount of Added Sugars; Withdrawal
AGENCY:
Food and Drug Administration,
HHS.
ACTION:
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This document withdraws a
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
notice that published in the Federal
Register of December 29, 2011 (76 FR
81948).
SUMMARY:
This notice is withdrawn on May
31, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Domini Bean, Office of Information
Management, Food and Drug
Administration, 1350 Piccard Dr., PI50–
400T, Rockville, MD 20850, domini.
bean@fda.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FDA
published a notice in the Federal
Register of December 29, 2011,
informing interested parties that the
proposed collection of information
entitled ‘‘Experimental Study on
Consumer Responses to Nutrition Facts
Labels With Various Footnote Formats
and Declaration of Amount of Added
Sugars’’ had been submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance under
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
and inviting the public to submit
comments on the proposed study to
OMB. The notice also announced FDA’s
plans to change the study by examining
consumer reactions to the declaration of
added sugars instead of the declaration
of vitamins and minerals by weight.
OMB received requests for an extension
of time to comment on this change to
the study. In response to these requests,
FDA is providing an opportunity for
comment on the current design of the
study, including the added sugars
component, by publishing a new 60-day
notice, elsewhere in this issue of the
Federal Register, describing the study
as currently envisioned and inviting the
public to submit comments to the
DATES:
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Agency’s docket. After considering any
comments received, the Agency will
resubmit the proposed collection of
information to OMB. Thus, FDA is
withdrawing the proposed collection of
information published on December 29,
2011, at this time.
Dated: May 22, 2012.
Leslie Kux,
Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
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[Docket No. FDA–2012–N–0145]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for Office of
Management and Budget Review;
Comment Request; Improving Food
Safety and Defense Capacity of the
State and Local Level: Review of State
and Local Capacities
AGENCY:
Food and Drug Administration,
HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
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 July 2,
2012.
SUMMARY:
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:
202–395–7285, or emailed to oira_
submission@omb.eop.gov. All
comments should be identified with the
OMB control number 0910–NEW and
title ‘‘Improving Food Safety and
Defense Capacity of the State and Local
Level: Review of State and Local
Capacities.’’ Also include the FDA
docket number found in brackets in the
heading of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ila
S. Mizrachi, Office of Information
Management, Food and Drug
Administration, 1350 Piccard Dr., PI50–
400B, Rockville, MD 20850, 301–796–
7726, Ila.Mizrachi@fda.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA
has submitted the following proposed
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collection of information to OMB for
review and clearance.
Improving Food Safety and Defense
Capacity of the State and Local Level:
Review of State and Local Capacities—
(OMB Control Number 0910–New)
The Food Safety Modernization Act
(FSMA) (Pub. L. 111–353) states in
section 205(c)2 that a review must be
conducted to assess the State and local
government capacities to show needs for
enhancement in the areas of staffing
levels, laboratory capacities, and
information technology systems. This
mandate is referenced again in FSMA
section 110, stating that a review of
current food safety and food defense
capabilities must be presented to
Congress no later than 2 years after the
date of enactment (enactment date
January 4, 2011). In order to facilitate
this review, a survey will be distributed
to State and local health and agriculture
agencies. Results of the survey will be
used to analyze the gaps and trends in
capacity that occurs at the State and
local government levels. Results of the
analyses will enable FSMA partners to
develop strategies to enhance food
safety and food defense capacity. In
developing these strategies, FDA will be
able to work with other Federal, State
and local Agencies to improve and
expand food safety and defense to
ultimately reach a state of an integrated
food safety system.
The survey will be conducted
electronically, which allows FDA to
conduct streamlined analysis while
creating a low-burden, user-friendly
environment for respondents to
complete the survey. Once the results
have been tabulated, a report will be
generated and given to the FSMA
section 110 work group to present to
Congress as well as the FSMA section
205(c)1 work group to develop strategies
to leverage and enhance current State
and local capacities.
In the Federal Register of February
24, 2012 (77 FR 11132), FDA published
a 60-day notice requesting public
comment on the proposed collection of
information. The Agency received six
comments. The comments, and the
Agency’s responses, are discussed in the
following paragraphs.
(Comment 1) FDA conducted a review
of existing surveys.
(Response) Although helpful, these
surveys did not fully address factors
such as laboratory capacity and
information technology in State and
local agencies. Therefore, this survey
will be used to fill the gaps of various
other surveys so that FDA can meet its
objective as congressionally mandated
in FSMA.
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(Comment 2) The proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper performance of FDA’s
functions.
(Response) FDA believes that this
comment does not address the proposed
information collection.
(Comment 3) The National
Association of County and City Health
Officials (NACCHO) recommends FDA
builds upon information gathered from
existing food safety and defense
assessments and surveys.
(Response) Prior to developing this
survey, FDA conducted a systematic
review of current and past surveys
conducted by Federal, State, and local
Agencies, academia, industry, and
associations such as the Association of
Food and Drug Officials (AFDO), the
Association of State and Territorial
Health Officials, and NACCHO’s 2008
survey regarding budget cuts and
reductions of State and local agencies.
This review revealed that the current
and past surveys did not contain
sufficient information for FDA to
establish and analyze possible gaps in
the areas of food safety, food defense,
laboratories, and information
technology. The results of the review of
current and past surveys were conveyed
to an FDA working group focused on
drafting a report to Congress that is
specified by FSMA section 110. Under
section 110, FDA has a congressionally
mandated deadline to conduct a more
extensive review by January 4, 2013,
which will require the support of
section 205(c)2. FDA was aware that
NACCHO was conducting a survey but
due to time restrictions, FDA could not
wait for NACCHO’s survey to be made
public prior to developing the current
survey. Also, FDA did not know the
content of NACCHO’s survey and how
it would address the needs of obtaining
information to support FSMA section
205(c)2.
(Comment 4) FDA should survey
1,400 State and local agencies at
minimum instead of focusing on 1,400
State and local employees.
(Response) FDA is proposing to
survey 1,400 State and local agencies.
The involvement of single or multiple
individuals from a single agency will be
left to the discretion of the responding
entity.
(Comment 5) NACCHO recommends
that the assessment be designed to allow
multiple employees within an agency
access to the survey on multiple
occasions to fully and accurately
complete the survey.
(Response) FDA has an arrangement
with AFDO, through a cooperative
agreement, to deliver the survey, but at
this time, the exact mechanism for
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0345]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office
of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Experimental Study on
Consumer Responses to Nutrition Facts Labels With Various Footnote
Formats and Declaration of Amount of Added Sugars; Withdrawal
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Withdrawal of notice.
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SUMMARY: This document withdraws a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
notice that published in the Federal Register of December 29, 2011 (76
FR 81948).
DATES: This notice is withdrawn on May 31, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Domini Bean, Office of Information
Management, Food and Drug Administration, 1350 Piccard Dr., PI50-400T,
Rockville, MD 20850, domini.bean@fda.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FDA published a notice in the Federal
Register of December 29, 2011, informing interested parties that the
proposed collection of information entitled ``Experimental Study on
Consumer Responses to Nutrition Facts Labels With Various Footnote
Formats and Declaration of Amount of Added Sugars'' had been submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and inviting the public to
submit comments on the proposed study to OMB. The notice also announced
FDA's plans to change the study by examining consumer reactions to the
declaration of added sugars instead of the declaration of vitamins and
minerals by weight. OMB received requests for an extension of time to
comment on this change to the study. In response to these requests, FDA
is providing an opportunity for comment on the current design of the
study, including the added sugars component, by publishing a new 60-day
notice, elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, describing the
study as currently envisioned and inviting the public to submit
comments to the
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Agency's docket. After considering any comments received, the Agency
will resubmit the proposed collection of information to OMB. Thus, FDA
is withdrawing the proposed collection of information published on
December 29, 2011, at this time.
Dated: May 22, 2012.
Leslie Kux,
Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
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