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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection; Public
Comment Request
Office of the Secretary, HHS.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In compliance with section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the
Secretary (OS), Department of Health
and Human Services, announces plans
to submit a new Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting that ICR to
OMB, OS seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate,
below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
DATES: Comments on the ICR must be
received on or before October 24, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
Information.CollectionClearance@
hhs.gov or by calling (202) 690–6162.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Information Collection Clearance staff,
Information.CollectionClearance@
hhs.gov or (202) 690–6162.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
SUMMARY:
information, please include the
document identifier HHS–OS–0990–
New–60D for reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Data Element Survey for the Title X
Family Planning Annual Report (FPAR)
2.0
Abstract: The Office of Population
Affairs (OPA) within the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH),
Office of Family Planning (OFP), and
this office is requesting Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval on a new data collection form
(data element survey). This survey is
intended to collect feedback from the
Title X network regarding feasibility,
alignment, and potential workflow
issues related to encounter-level data
collection and the proposed new FPAR
2.0 data elements (the data dictionary).
This voluntary form will occur annually
and allow the Title X network to offer
feedback and guidance that will inform
OPA’s development of FPAR 2.0. OPA
will solicit feedback from Title X
agencies to better inform the 2.0 data
dictionary, and proposes to make this
data collection form available for up to
3 years so that OPA can accept feedback
from the network regarding any version
changes that might be made to the
dictionary.
Likely Respondents: Title X Grantees,
Sub recipients, and Service Sites
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN—HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Data Element Survey .......................................................................................
818
1
30/60
409
Total ..........................................................................................................
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30/60
409
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OS specifically requests comments on
(1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Darius Taylor,
Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry
[60Day–14–14ATA]
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
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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
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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
Biomonitoring of Great Lakes
Populations Program II—New—Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry (ATSDR), Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS).
Background and Brief Description
The Great Lakes Basin has suffered
decades of pollution and ecosystem
damage. Many chemicals persist in
Great Lakes sediments, as well as in
wildlife and humans. These chemicals
can build up in the aquatic food chain.
Eating contaminated fish is a known
route of human exposure.
In 2009, the Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative (GLRI) was enacted by Public
subpopulations are: (1) Burmese and
Bhutanese refugees who are known to
eat a substantial amount of fish from
Onondaga Lake (300 people); (2) an
urban population who rely on fish from
Onondaga Lake as a source of food (100
people). NYSDOH study staff will work
closely with local refugee and citizen
support organizations to get people to
take part in the study. Formative
research will be conducted to determine
the best method for recruiting these
populations in Syracuse eating fish from
Onondaga Lake.
All respondents who consent will
give blood and urine specimens. Their
blood will be tested for polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs), mercury, lead,
cadmium, polybrominated diphenyl
ethers (PBDEs), perfluorinated
compounds (PFCs), toxaphene,
chlordane, oxychlordane and transnonachlor, dieldrin, dechlorane plus,
omega-3 fatty acids, blood lipids, and
pesticides. Pesticides will include
mirex, hexachlorobenzene,
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)
and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene
(DDE). Their urine will be tested for
creatinine.
Respondents will also be interviewed.
They will be asked about demographic
and lifestyle factors, hobbies, and types
of jobs which can contribute to chemical
exposure. Some diet questions will be
asked, too, with a focus on eating Great
Lakes fish. There is no cost to
respondents other than their time spent
in the study.
The ATSDR is requesting a two-year
approval from OMB and is authorized to
conduct this program under the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended by
the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA).
Law 111–88. The GLRI FY2010–FY2014
Action Plan makes Great Lakes
restoration a national priority for 12
Federal Agencies. The GLRI is led by
the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (US EPA). Under a 2013
interagency agreement with the US EPA,
the Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced a
funding opportunity called the
‘‘Biomonitoring of Great Lakes
Populations Program’’ (CDC–RFA–
TS13–1302).
This applied public health program
aims to measure Great Lakes chemicals
in human blood and urine. These
measures will be a baseline for current
and future restoration activities. The
measures will be compared to available
national estimates. This program also
aims to take these measures from people
who may be at higher risk of harm from
chemical exposures.
This project will provide additional
public health information to
supplement the CDC–RFA–TS10–1001
cooperative agreement program
‘‘Biomonitoring of Great Lakes
Populations’’ (thereafter referred as
‘‘Program I’’) initiated in FY2010 (OMB
Control Number 0923–0044). The
purpose of the current announcement is
to evaluate body burden levels of
priority contaminants in Great Lakes
residents, particularly those who are at
highest exposure risk, in an area and
susceptible populations that were not
previously addressed in the Program I.
The New York State Department of
Health (NYSDOH) received funding for
the current program. NYSDOH will look
at two subpopulations of adults living in
Syracuse, NY who are known to eat fish
from Onondaga Lake. Onondaga Lake is
a highly polluted Great Lakes Basin
water body in Central New York located
northwest of Syracuse. The target
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Form name
Refugees from Burma and Bhutan
living in Syracuse, NY.
Eligibility Screening Survey ..............
250
1
5/60
21
Informed Consent .............................
Interview Questionnaire ...................
Network Size Questions for Respondent Driven Sampling.
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Type of respondent
150
150
150
1
1
1
1/60
45/60
5/60
3
113
13
Eligibility Screening Survey ..............
92
1
5/60
8
Informed Consent .............................
Interview Questionnaire ...................
Network Size Questions for Respondent Driven Sampling.
50
50
50
1
1
1
1/60
30/60
5/60
1
25
4
...........................................................
........................
........................
........................
188
Urban subsistence anglers living in
Syracuse, NY.
Total ...........................................
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Leroy A. 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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Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has submitted the
following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for
the proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your
comments should address any of the
following: (a) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) Minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and (e) Assess information
collection costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written
comments and/or suggestions regarding
the items contained in this notice
should be directed to the Attention:
CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management
and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or
by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written
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comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Assessing School-centered HIV/STD
Prevention Efforts in a Local Education
Agency—New—Division of Adolescent
and School Health (DASH), National
Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis,
STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
(HIV) infections remain high among
young men who have sex with men. The
estimated number of new HIV infections
increased between 2008 and 2010 both
overall and among Men who have Sex
with Men (MSM) ages 13 to 24.
Furthermore, sexual risk behaviors
associated with HIV, other sexually
transmitted disease (STD), and
pregnancy often emerge in adolescence.
For example, 2011 Youth Risk Behavior
Surveillance System (YRBSS) data
revealed 47.4% of U.S. high school
students reported having had sex, and
among those who had sex in the
previous three months, 39.8% reported
having not used a condom during last
sexual intercourse. In addition, 2001–
2009 YRBSS data revealed high school
students identifying as gay, lesbian, and
bisexual and those reporting sexual
contact with both males and females
were more likely to engage in sexual
risk-taking behaviors than heterosexual
students.
Given the disproportionate risk for
HIV among Young Men who have Sex
with Men (YMSM) ages 13–24, it is
important to find ways to reach the
younger youth (i.e., ages 13–19) in this
range to decrease sexual risk behaviors
and increase health-promoting
behaviors such as routine HIV testing.
Schools provide one opportunity for
this. Because schools enroll more than
22 million teens (ages 14–19) and often
have existing health and social services
infrastructure, schools and their staff
members are well-positioned to connect
youth to a wide range of needed
services, including housing assistance,
support groups, and sexual health
services such as HIV testing. As a result,
CDC’s DASH has focused a number of
HIV and STD prevention efforts on
strategies that can be implemented in or
centered around schools.
CDC requests a three-year OMB
approval to conduct a new information
collection entitled, ‘‘Assessing SchoolCentered HIV/STD Prevention Efforts in
a Local Education Agency’’. The
information collection uses a selfadministered paper-pencil
questionnaire (Youth Health and School
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Climate Questionnaire) to conduct an
in-depth assessment of HIV and STD
prevention efforts that are taking place
in one CDC-funded local education
agency (LEA).
This data collection will provide data
and reports for the LEA, and will allow
the LEA to identify areas of the program
that are working well and other areas
that require improvement. In addition,
the findings will allow CDC to
determine the potential impact of
currently recommended strategies and
make changes to those
recommendations if necessary.
The questionnaire will include
questions on the following topics:
Demographic information; HIV and STD
risk behaviors; use of HIV and STD
health services; experiences at school,
including school connectedness,
harassment and bullying, homophobia,
support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender, and Queer students;
sexual orientation; receipt of referral for
HIV and STD prevention health
services; and health education.
The questionnaire will be
administered in 2014 and 2016 to
16,500 students from seven high schools
(grades 9–12) that are participating in
the HIV/STD prevention project.
Although some students may take the
questionnaire in multiple years, this is
not a longitudinal design and students’
responses will not be tracked across the
years. No personally identifiable
information will be collected.
All students’ parents will receive
parental consent forms that provide
them with an opportunity to opt their
children out of the study. In addition,
each student will be given an assent
form that explains he or she may choose
not to take the questionnaire or may
skip any questions in the questionnaire
with no penalty. Participation is
completely voluntary.
The estimated burden per response
ranges from 35–45 minutes. This
variation in burden is due to the slight
variability in skip patterns that may
occur with certain responses and
variations in the reading speed of
students. The burden estimates
presented here are based on the
assumption of a 40-minute response
time per response. Students in the 12th
grade in fall 2014 will complete the
questionnaire only once. It is estimated
that students in the 9th, 10th, and 11th
grade will complete the questionnaire in
fall of 2014 and again in the spring of
2016 when they will be 10th, 11th, and
12th grade students. In addition,
students who are in the 9th grade in
spring of 2016 will also complete the
questionnaire.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[60Day-14-14ATA]
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
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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
Biomonitoring of Great Lakes Populations Program II--New--Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS).
Background and Brief Description
The Great Lakes Basin has suffered decades of pollution and
ecosystem damage. Many chemicals persist in Great Lakes sediments, as
well as in wildlife and humans. These chemicals can build up in the
aquatic food chain. Eating contaminated fish is a known route of human
exposure.
In 2009, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) was enacted
by Public Law 111-88. The GLRI FY2010-FY2014 Action Plan makes Great
Lakes restoration a national priority for 12 Federal Agencies. The GLRI
is led by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). Under a
2013 interagency agreement with the US EPA, the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced a funding opportunity
called the ``Biomonitoring of Great Lakes Populations Program'' (CDC-
RFA-TS13-1302).
This applied public health program aims to measure Great Lakes
chemicals in human blood and urine. These measures will be a baseline
for current and future restoration activities. The measures will be
compared to available national estimates. This program also aims to
take these measures from people who may be at higher risk of harm from
chemical exposures.
This project will provide additional public health information to
supplement the CDC-RFA-TS10-1001 cooperative agreement program
``Biomonitoring of Great Lakes Populations'' (thereafter referred as
``Program I'') initiated in FY2010 (OMB Control Number 0923-0044). The
purpose of the current announcement is to evaluate body burden levels
of priority contaminants in Great Lakes residents, particularly those
who are at highest exposure risk, in an area and susceptible
populations that were not previously addressed in the Program I.
The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) received funding
for the current program. NYSDOH will look at two subpopulations of
adults living in Syracuse, NY who are known to eat fish from Onondaga
Lake. Onondaga Lake is a highly polluted Great Lakes Basin water body
in Central New York located northwest of Syracuse. The target
subpopulations are: (1) Burmese and Bhutanese refugees who are known to
eat a substantial amount of fish from Onondaga Lake (300 people); (2)
an urban population who rely on fish from Onondaga Lake as a source of
food (100 people). NYSDOH study staff will work closely with local
refugee and citizen support organizations to get people to take part in
the study. Formative research will be conducted to determine the best
method for recruiting these populations in Syracuse eating fish from
Onondaga Lake.
All respondents who consent will give blood and urine specimens.
Their blood will be tested for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
mercury, lead, cadmium, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs),
perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), toxaphene, chlordane, oxychlordane and
trans-nonachlor, dieldrin, dechlorane plus, omega-3 fatty acids, blood
lipids, and pesticides. Pesticides will include mirex,
hexachlorobenzene, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and
dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE). Their urine will be tested for
creatinine.
Respondents will also be interviewed. They will be asked about
demographic and lifestyle factors, hobbies, and types of jobs which can
contribute to chemical exposure. Some diet questions will be asked,
too, with a focus on eating Great Lakes fish. There is no cost to
respondents other than their time spent in the study.
The ATSDR is requesting a two-year approval from OMB and is
authorized to conduct this program under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
(CERCLA), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization
Act of 1986 (SARA).
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) hours
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Refugees from Burma and Bhutan Eligibility 250 1 5/60 21
living in Syracuse, NY. Screening
Survey.
Informed Consent 150 1 1/60 3
Interview 150 1 45/60 113
Questionnaire.
Network Size 150 1 5/60 13
Questions for
Respondent
Driven Sampling.
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Urban subsistence anglers Eligibility 92 1 5/60 8
living in Syracuse, NY. Screening
Survey.
Informed Consent 50 1 1/60 1
Interview 50 1 30/60 25
Questionnaire.
Network Size 50 1 5/60 4
Questions for
Respondent
Driven Sampling.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 188
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Leroy A. 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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