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development of an interconnected
electronic laboratory platform designed
at GMI with technical support from the
CDC Central American Regional Office,
to provide real time laboratory results to
health authorities.
As a result of the collaboration
between ASPR and GMI, over 5,000
public health and medical professionals
from more than 10 countries in the
region were trained between 2006 and
2013. Training topics included
laboratory biosafety, pathogen
biosecurity, rapid testing methods,
qualitative detection of ricin toxin, and
safe shipping of infectious material.
Using advanced technologies, laboratory
professionals in the region can
accomplish viral subtyping and
molecular characterization of different
influenza viruses which contribute to
global situational awareness for
pandemic threats. In 2011, ASPR
supported GMI to enhance their BSL–3
virology suite for detecting and
diagnosing emerging influenza and
other infectious disease threats,
including biological threat agents and
novel influenza viruses. These efforts
were achieved in collaboration with
CDC’s Laboratory Response Network. As
part of this effort, ASPR and GMI hosted
the first-ever Latin-American Regional
Planning Meeting of Experts aimed at
establishing a regional bio-safety
association for biological risk
management with participants from 11
countries. Lastly, ASPR and GMI
collaborated to advance IHR (2005)
implementation and establishment of
the IHR National Focal Point, known as
the National Operations Center (Centro
Nacional de Enlace [CNE]), in May
2013. CNE monitors all possible events
that may require immediate
intervention, response, or the need for
international notification on a 24 hour/
7 days a week basis.
Supporting IHR (2005)
implementation and strengthening
regional and global health security,
including pandemic influenza
preparedness efforts, to protect the
health of the American population is a
priority for the United States, as
evidenced by the recent launch of the
Global Health Security Agenda. After
careful and thorough consideration,
ASPR determined GMI is the only
partner with proven capabilities to
support the proposed program and meet
HHS’ needs of advancing IHR (2005)
implementation and strengthening
pandemic influenza and infectious
disease preparedness in Panama.
Collaboration efforts will also support
infectious disease preparedness in
neighboring countries, which facilitate
early detection of diseases and
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potentially prevent regional and global
spread. For the aforementioned reasons,
GMI is uniquely qualified and the only
appropriate partner to facilitate and
support successful completion of the
proposed project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Please submit an inquiry via the ASPR–
OPP Division of International Health
Security—IHR Program Contact Form
located at https://www.phe.gov/
Preparedness/international/ihr/Pages/
IHRInquiry.aspx.
Dated: July 18, 2014.
Nicole Lurie,
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and
Response.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce public
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To
request more information on the below
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send
comments to Leroy Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. 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; (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; and (e) estimates of capital
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or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
Surveillance of Health-Related
Workplace Absenteeism—New—
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
There is currently a high global
human health risk from emerging novel
influenza, coronavirus and similar
evolving pathogens, which is prompting
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) to enhance situational
awareness capacity for emergency
preparedness and response.
During the 2009 influenza A (H1N1)
virus pandemic, NIOSH/CDC conducted
a pilot study to test the feasibility of
using national surveillance of workplace
absenteeism to assess the pandemic’s
impact on the workplace to plan for
preparedness and continuity of
operations and to contribute to health
awareness during the emergency
response. As part of this emergency
effort, CDC contracted with the
American College of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine (ACOEM),
which has access to a large network of
affiliated medical directors and
corporate health units that routinely
compile absenteeism data, to conduct
enhanced passive surveillance of
absenteeism using weekly data from a
convenience sample of sentinel
worksites.
Due to the emergency situation at that
time, OMB approval was not requested,
erroneously, for the data collection
activities associated with the pilot
study. The pilot was conducted without
approval under the Paperwork
Reduction Act. The current request
seeks to build off of the data collected
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from the pilot and accounts for the
burden involving all of the participants.
From September 28, 2009, through
March 31, 2010, 79 sentinel worksites
representing 16 different employers
participated in the pilot study. Each
week, ACOEM collected reports of
aggregated absenteeism data from the
medical directors of the participating
companies using an emailed,
standardized form. ACOEM replaced
company names with coded unique
identifiers, and sent the aggregated data
to CDC/NIOSH for analysis.
The major strengths of the sentinel
worksite approach to absenteeism
surveillance were the use of existing,
routinely collected data and timeliness.
The use of existing, routinely collected
data made the burden on participating
companies negligible. Data were
routinely compiled and thus could be
collected and analyzed in near real time,
making this approach useful, in
principle, for providing current
situational awareness and actionable
intelligence that could be used to
inform, prioritize, and evaluate
intervention efforts during the
pandemic. On the other hand, there
were several limitations to the sentinel
their daily absenteeism numbers into an
Excel file which can be emailed to
ACOEM on a weekly or monthly basis.
The Excel file will be pre-populated
with company name, site and dates to
ease the reporting burden on companies.
ACOEM will transmit de-identified
information on a weekly or monthly
basis to NIOSH/CDC who will in turn
conduct analysis on an aggregate basis.
Data will be compiled by state and
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) region, as well as
nationally to allow for trend analysis.
The initial 16 respondents in the
2009/10 study will be asked to
participate and an additional 12
companies have indicated an interest in
participating in the data collection
activity. The employee population
among these 28 companies is
approximately 293,000.
The annualized estimated burden of
time is 607 hours for the 28 respondents
in the study. Respondents will complete
the form daily; no more than 5 minutes
per day/per respondent. This results in
an annualized burden of 607 hours per
year.
There are no costs to participants
other than the time.
worksite surveillance done in 2009–
2010, and the activity was not
maintained after the H1N1 pandemic
ended.
At present, two new emerging
infectious diseases, novel H7N9
influenza virus and a coronavirus
circulating in the Middle East, have
demonstrated the need to build
additional capacity for national
surveillance for health-related
workplace absenteeism so that it can be
used to monitor the impact of these or
any other disease that might reach
pandemic potential and spread to the
U.S.
NIOSH/CDC requests permission to
collect company absenteeism data, to be
able to assess the impact of disease on
a company and to identify trends in the
spread of influenza or other novel
disease states. This will provide an
additional monitoring system to CDC.
The proposed project builds on the
2009/10 initiative and modifies the
reporting format to collect information
on a daily versus weekly basis.
The companies in the program will be
those that routinely collect absenteeism
data thus the burden will be minimal.
We will be asking companies to record
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response (in
hours)
Total burden
hours
Type of respondent
Form name
Private ...............................................
companies .........................................
EXCEL data template ......................
28
260
5/60
607
Total ...........................................
...........................................................
........................
........................
........................
607
Leroy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
Title: Rescue & Restore Regional
Program Project Data.
OMB No.: 0970—NEW.
Description: The Trafficking Victims
Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), as
amended, authorizes the Secretary of
Health and Human Services (Secretary)
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to expand benefits and services to
victims of severe forms of trafficking in
persons in the United States, without
regard to the immigration status of such
victims. Such benefits and services may
include services to assist potential
victims of trafficking in achieving
certification (Section 107(b)(1)(B) of the
TVPA, 22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(1)(B)). It also
authorizes the President, acting through
the Secretary and the heads of other
Federal departments, to establish and
carry out programs to increase public
awareness, particularly among potential
victims of trafficking, of the dangers of
trafficking and the protections that are
available for victims of trafficking
(Section 106(b) of the TVPA, 22 U.S.C.
7104(b)).
The Secretary delegated authority to
carry out these responsibilities to the
Assistant Secretary for Children and
Families who further delegated the
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authority to the Director of the Office of
Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
The intent of the Rescue & Restore
Victims of Human Trafficking
campaign, launched in 2004, is to
increase the identification of trafficking
victims in the United States and to help
those victims receive the benefits and
services they need to restore their lives.
The purpose of the Rescue & Restore
Victims of Trafficking Regional Program
(Rescue & Restore Program) is to
increase the identification and
protection of foreign victims of human
trafficking in the United States and to
promote local capacity to prevent
human trafficking and protect human
trafficking victims. The Rescue &
Restore Program also seeks to remove
barriers to prevention and protection
specific to foreign human trafficking
victims who live in the United States.
The Rescue & Restore Program has the
following objectives:
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-14-14APM]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the
below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information
collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to
Leroy Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send
an email to omb@cdc.gov.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval. 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; (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; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Surveillance of Health-Related Workplace Absenteeism--New--National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
There is currently a high global human health risk from emerging
novel influenza, coronavirus and similar evolving pathogens, which is
prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to
enhance situational awareness capacity for emergency preparedness and
response.
During the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus pandemic, NIOSH/CDC
conducted a pilot study to test the feasibility of using national
surveillance of workplace absenteeism to assess the pandemic's impact
on the workplace to plan for preparedness and continuity of operations
and to contribute to health awareness during the emergency response. As
part of this emergency effort, CDC contracted with the American College
of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), which has access to
a large network of affiliated medical directors and corporate health
units that routinely compile absenteeism data, to conduct enhanced
passive surveillance of absenteeism using weekly data from a
convenience sample of sentinel worksites.
Due to the emergency situation at that time, OMB approval was not
requested, erroneously, for the data collection activities associated
with the pilot study. The pilot was conducted without approval under
the Paperwork Reduction Act. The current request seeks to build off of
the data collected
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from the pilot and accounts for the burden involving all of the
participants.
From September 28, 2009, through March 31, 2010, 79 sentinel
worksites representing 16 different employers participated in the pilot
study. Each week, ACOEM collected reports of aggregated absenteeism
data from the medical directors of the participating companies using an
emailed, standardized form. ACOEM replaced company names with coded
unique identifiers, and sent the aggregated data to CDC/NIOSH for
analysis.
The major strengths of the sentinel worksite approach to
absenteeism surveillance were the use of existing, routinely collected
data and timeliness. The use of existing, routinely collected data made
the burden on participating companies negligible. Data were routinely
compiled and thus could be collected and analyzed in near real time,
making this approach useful, in principle, for providing current
situational awareness and actionable intelligence that could be used to
inform, prioritize, and evaluate intervention efforts during the
pandemic. On the other hand, there were several limitations to the
sentinel worksite surveillance done in 2009-2010, and the activity was
not maintained after the H1N1 pandemic ended.
At present, two new emerging infectious diseases, novel H7N9
influenza virus and a coronavirus circulating in the Middle East, have
demonstrated the need to build additional capacity for national
surveillance for health-related workplace absenteeism so that it can be
used to monitor the impact of these or any other disease that might
reach pandemic potential and spread to the U.S.
NIOSH/CDC requests permission to collect company absenteeism data,
to be able to assess the impact of disease on a company and to identify
trends in the spread of influenza or other novel disease states. This
will provide an additional monitoring system to CDC. The proposed
project builds on the 2009/10 initiative and modifies the reporting
format to collect information on a daily versus weekly basis.
The companies in the program will be those that routinely collect
absenteeism data thus the burden will be minimal. We will be asking
companies to record their daily absenteeism numbers into an Excel file
which can be emailed to ACOEM on a weekly or monthly basis. The Excel
file will be pre-populated with company name, site and dates to ease
the reporting burden on companies.
ACOEM will transmit de-identified information on a weekly or
monthly basis to NIOSH/CDC who will in turn conduct analysis on an
aggregate basis. Data will be compiled by state and Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) region, as well as nationally to allow
for trend analysis.
The initial 16 respondents in the 2009/10 study will be asked to
participate and an additional 12 companies have indicated an interest
in participating in the data collection activity. The employee
population among these 28 companies is approximately 293,000.
The annualized estimated burden of time is 607 hours for the 28
respondents in the study. Respondents will complete the form daily; no
more than 5 minutes per day/per respondent. This results in an
annualized burden of 607 hours per year.
There are no costs to participants other than the time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondent Form name respondents responses per response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Private....................... EXCEL data 28 260 5/60 607
companies..................... template.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 607
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Leroy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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