Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations, 43285-43286 [2012-17982]
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105–
1521:
1. Phoenix Bancorp, Inc., Minersville,
Pennsylvania; to acquire at least 9
percent of the voting shares of Union
Bancorp, Inc., and thereby indirectly
acquire voting shares of Union Bank &
Trust Company, both in Pottsville,
Pennsylvania.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (E.
Ann Worthy, Vice President) 2200
North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201–
2272:
1. A.N.B. Holding Company, Ltd.,
Terrell, Texas, to acquire additional
voting shares, for a total of 34 percent
of the voting shares of The ANB
Corporation, and thereby indirectly
acquire additional voting shares of The
American National Bank of Texas, both
in Terrell, Texas; and Lakeside
Bancshares, Inc., and its subsidiary
Lakeside National Bank, both in
Rockwall, Texas.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, July 19, 2012.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
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A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
(Adam M. Drimer, Assistant Vice
President) 701 East Byrd Street,
Richmond, Virginia 23261–4528:
1. Park Sterling Corporation,
Charlotte, North Carolina; to acquire 100
percent of the voting shares of Citizens
South Banking Corporation, and
indirectly acquire Citizens South Bank,
both in Gastonia, North Carolina, and
thereby engage in operating a federal
savings bank, pursuant to section
225.28(b)(4)(ii).
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, July 19, 2012.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
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Notice of Proposals To Engage in or
To Acquire Companies Engaged in
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The companies listed in this notice
have given notice under section 4 of the
Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C.
1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y, (12
CFR part 225) to engage de novo, or to
acquire or control voting securities or
assets of a company, including the
companies listed below, that engages
either directly or through a subsidiary or
other company, in a nonbanking activity
that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation Y
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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 404–639–7570 and
send comments to Kimberly S. Lane,
1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an email 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.
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Proposed Project
Using the Standardized National
Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire
during Multistate Investigations of
Foodborne Disease Clusters and
Outbreaks—New—National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Each year, it is estimated that roughly
1 in 6 Americans become ill with a
foodborne disease. Unfortunately, of
these Americans, approximately
128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die
as a result of foodborne diseases. CDC
and partners ensure rapid and
coordinated surveillance, detection, and
response to multistate foodborne disease
outbreaks to limit the number of
illnesses and to learn how to prevent
similar outbreaks from happening in the
future.
Conducting interviews during the
initial hypothesis-generating phase of
multistate foodborne disease outbreaks
presents numerous challenges. In the
U.S., there is not a standard, national
form or data collection system for
illnesses caused by many enteric
pathogens. Data elements for hypothesis
generation must be developed and
agreed upon for each investigation. This
process can take several days to weeks,
and may cause interviews to occur long
after a person’s illness.
CDC requests OMB approval to collect
standardized information from
individuals who have become ill during
a multistate foodborne disease event.
The questionnaire is designed to be
administered by public health officials
as part of multistate hypothesisgenerating interview activities and is
not expected to entail significant burden
to respondents.
The Standardized National
Hypothesis-Generating Core Elements
Project was established with the goal to
define a core set of data elements to be
used for hypothesis generation during
multistate foodborne investigations.
These elements represent the minimum
set of information that should be
available for all outbreak-associated
cases identified during hypothesis
generation. The Standardized National
Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire
(SNHGQ) is a data collection tool for the
core elements.
The core elements and use of the
SNHGQ would ensure that exposures of
importance for investigating multistate
outbreaks of various enteric disease
pathogens would be ascertained
similarly across many jurisdictions.
This will allow for rapid pooling of data
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to improve the timeliness of hypothesisgenerating analyses and reducing the
time it takes to pinpoint how and where
contamination events occur.
Both the content of the questionnaire
(the core elements) and the format were
developed through a series of working
groups comprised of local, state, and
federal public health partners. The
questionnaire is designed to be
administered over the phone by public
health officials to collect core elements
data from case-patients or their proxies.
It is designed to be used when a
multistate cluster of enteric disease
infections is identified. Data collected
during a multistate investigation of an
enteric disease cluster will be pooled
and analyzed at the CDC in order to
develop hypotheses about potential
sources of infection.
The total estimated annualized
burden for the Standardized National
Generating Questionnaire is 3,000 hours
(approximately 4,000 individuals
identified during the hypothesisgenerating phase of outbreak
investigations x 45 minutes/response).
There are no costs to respondents other
than their time.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
Type of respondents
Form name
Individuals ......................
Standardized National Hypothesis Generating
Questionnaire (Core Elements).
4,000
1
45/60
3,000
Total ........................
..............................................................................
........................
........................
........................
3,000
Kimberly S. Lane,
Deputy Director, Office of Science Integrity,
Office of the Associate Director for Science,
Office of the Director, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR) 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
(404) 639–7570 or send an email to
omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments
to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington,
DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395–5806.
Written comments should be received
within 30 days of this notice.
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Proposed Project
NCEH/ATSDR Exposure
Investigations (EIs) [OMB NO: 0923–
0040, Expiration Date 11/30/
2012]¥Revision¥The National Center
for Environmental Health (NCEH), and
the Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR), and the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
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Background and Brief Description
EIs are an approach developed by
ATSDR that employs targeted biologic
(e.g., urine, blood, hair samples) and
environmental (e.g., air, water, soil, or
food) sampling to determine whether
people are or have been exposed to
unusual levels of pollutants at specific
locations (e.g., where people live, spend
leisure time, or anywhere they might
come into contact with contaminants
under investigation). After a chemical
release or suspected release into the
environment, ATSDR’s EIs are used by
public health professionals,
environmental risk managers, and other
decision makers to determine if current
conditions warrant intervention
strategies to minimize or eliminate
human exposure. EIs are usually
requested by officials of a state health
agency, county health departments, the
Environmental Protection Agency, the
general public, and ATSDR staff.
ATSDR has been conducting EIs since
1995 throughout the United States. All
of ATSDR’s biomedical assessments and
some of the environmental
investigations involve participants.
Participation is completely voluntary.
To assist in interpreting the sampling
results, a survey questionnaire
appropriate to the specific contaminant
is administered to participants. ATSDR
collects contact information (e.g., name,
address, phone number) to provide the
participant with their individual results.
Name and address information are
broken into nine separate questions
(data fields) for computer entry. General
information, which includes height,
weight, age, race, gender, etc., is also
collected primarily on biomedical
investigations to assist with results
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interpretation. General information can
account for approximately 20 questions
per investigation. Some of this
information is investigation-specific; not
all of these data are collected for every
investigation. ATSDR is seeking a
revision of our approval for use of a set
of 61 general information questions.
ATSDR also collects information on
other possible confounding sources of
chemical(s) exposure such as medicines
taken, foods eaten, hobbies, jobs, etc. In
addition, ATSDR asks questions on
recreational or occupational activities
that could increase a participant’s
exposure potential. That information
represents an individual’s exposure
history. To cover those broad categories,
ATSDR is also seeking a revision to our
approval for the use of sets of topical
questions. Of these, we use
approximately 12–20 questions about
the pertinent environmental exposures
per investigation. This number can vary
depending on the number of chemicals
being investigated the route of exposure
(e.g., breathing, eating, touching), and
number of other sources of the
chemical(s) (e.g., products used, jobs).
Typically, the number of participants
in an individual EI ranges from 10 to
100. Questionnaires are generally
needed in less than half of the EIs
(approximately 7 per year).
The subject matter for the complete
set of topical questions includes the
following:
(1) Media specific which includes: Air
(indoor/outdoor); water (water source
and plumbing); soil, and food
gardening, fish, game, domestic animals
(e.g., chickens).
(2) Other sources such as:
occupations; hobbies; household
chemical uses and house construction
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[FR Doc No: 2012-17982]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-12-12PK]
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 404-639-7570
and send comments to Kimberly S. Lane, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74,
Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an email 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
Using the Standardized National Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire
during Multistate Investigations of Foodborne Disease Clusters and
Outbreaks--New--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Each year, it is estimated that roughly 1 in 6 Americans become ill
with a foodborne disease. Unfortunately, of these Americans,
approximately 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die as a result of
foodborne diseases. CDC and partners ensure rapid and coordinated
surveillance, detection, and response to multistate foodborne disease
outbreaks to limit the number of illnesses and to learn how to prevent
similar outbreaks from happening in the future.
Conducting interviews during the initial hypothesis-generating
phase of multistate foodborne disease outbreaks presents numerous
challenges. In the U.S., there is not a standard, national form or data
collection system for illnesses caused by many enteric pathogens. Data
elements for hypothesis generation must be developed and agreed upon
for each investigation. This process can take several days to weeks,
and may cause interviews to occur long after a person's illness.
CDC requests OMB approval to collect standardized information from
individuals who have become ill during a multistate foodborne disease
event. The questionnaire is designed to be administered by public
health officials as part of multistate hypothesis-generating interview
activities and is not expected to entail significant burden to
respondents.
The Standardized National Hypothesis-Generating Core Elements
Project was established with the goal to define a core set of data
elements to be used for hypothesis generation during multistate
foodborne investigations. These elements represent the minimum set of
information that should be available for all outbreak-associated cases
identified during hypothesis generation. The Standardized National
Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire (SNHGQ) is a data collection tool
for the core elements.
The core elements and use of the SNHGQ would ensure that exposures
of importance for investigating multistate outbreaks of various enteric
disease pathogens would be ascertained similarly across many
jurisdictions. This will allow for rapid pooling of data
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to improve the timeliness of hypothesis-generating analyses and
reducing the time it takes to pinpoint how and where contamination
events occur.
Both the content of the questionnaire (the core elements) and the
format were developed through a series of working groups comprised of
local, state, and federal public health partners. The questionnaire is
designed to be administered over the phone by public health officials
to collect core elements data from case-patients or their proxies. It
is designed to be used when a multistate cluster of enteric disease
infections is identified. Data collected during a multistate
investigation of an enteric disease cluster will be pooled and analyzed
at the CDC in order to develop hypotheses about potential sources of
infection.
The total estimated annualized burden for the Standardized National
Generating Questionnaire is 3,000 hours (approximately 4,000
individuals identified during the hypothesis-generating phase of
outbreak investigations x 45 minutes/response). There are no costs 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)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Individuals.................................... Standardized National Hypothesis 4,000 1 45/60 3,000
Generating Questionnaire (Core
Elements).
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Total...................................... ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 3,000
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Kimberly S. Lane,
Deputy Director, Office of Science Integrity, Office of the Associate
Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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