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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 A. 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
school related measures, including
school closures, to slow transmission
during an influenza pandemic.
School closures were considered an
important measure during the earliest
stage of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic,
because a pandemic vaccine was not
available until October (6 months later),
and sufficient stocks to immunize all
school-age children were not available
until December. However, retrospective
review of the U.S. government response
to the pandemic identified a limited
evidence-base regarding the
effectiveness, acceptability, and
feasibility of various school related
measures during mild or moderately
severe pandemics. Guidance updates
will require an evidence-based rationale
for determining the appropriate triggers,
timing, and duration of school related
measures, including school closures,
during a pandemic.
CDC staff proposes that the
information collection for this package
will target adult and child populations
in three school districts in
Pennsylvania. CDC will collect reports
of individual student symptoms,
vaccination status, recent travel, recent
exposure to people with influenza
symptoms and duration of illness; this
will be accomplished through
telephone, in-person interviews, and a
web-based survey. This information will
be used to estimate baseline school
absenteeism due to influenza as well as
to evaluate the use of absentee recording
systems in predicting community-wide
influenza transmission.
Findings obtained from this
information collection will be used to
inform the update CDC’s Pre-pandemic
Guidance on the implementation of
school related measures to prevent the
spread of influenza, especially school
closures. This Guidance is used as an
important planning and reference tool
for both State and local health
departments in the United States.
CDC estimates that 2,860 participants
could be recruited by information
collections covered by this information
collection. It is estimated that
information collection activities will
total 1,109 burden hours per year.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time.
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
Information Collection on CauseSpecific Absenteeism in Schools
(Pittsburgh Location)—New—National
Center for Emerging and Zoonotic
Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division
of Global Migration and Quarantine
(DGMQ), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global
Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ),
requests approval of a new information
collection to better understand the
triggers, timing and duration of the use
of school related measures for
preventing and controlling the spread of
influenza during the next pandemic.
The information collection for which
approval is sought is in accordance with
DGMQ/CDC’s mission to reduce
morbidity and mortality in mobile
populations, and to prevent the
introduction, transmission, or spread of
communicable diseases within the
United States. Insights gained from this
information collection will assist in the
planning and implementation of CDC
Pre-Pandemic Guidance on the use of
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Number of
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Type of respondent
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Number of
respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Type of respondent
Form name
Sentinel Family Cohort .....................
Sentinel Family Cohort .....................
Cohort Intake ....................................
Cohort Weekly Illness Reporting .....
360
360
1
12
10/60
3/60
60
216
Total ...........................................
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1,109
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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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 and
send comments to Leroy A. 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
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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
Medical Monitoring Project (MMP)—
(OMB No. 0920–0740, Expiration: 5/31/
2015)—Revision—National Center for
HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Division of HIV/AIDS
Prevention (DHAP) requests a revision
of the currently approved Information
Collection Request: ‘‘Medical
Monitoring Project’’ expiring May 31,
2015. This data collection addresses the
need for national estimates of access to
and utilization of HIV-related medical
care and services, the quality of HIVrelated ambulatory care, and HIVrelated behaviors and clinical outcomes.
For the proposed project, the same
data collection methods will be used as
for the currently approved project. Data
would be collected from a probability
sample of HIV-diagnosed adults in the
U.S. who consent to an interview and
abstraction of their medical records. As
for the currently approved project, deidentified information would also be
extracted from HIV case surveillance
records for a dataset, referred to as the
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minimum dataset, which is used to
assess non-response bias, for quality
control, to improve the ability of MMP
to monitor ongoing care and treatment
of HIV-infected persons, and to make
inferences from the MMP sample to
HIV-diagnosed persons nationally. No
other Federal agency collects such
nationally representative populationbased information from HIV-diagnosed
adults. The data are expected to have
significant implications for policy,
program development, and resource
allocation at the state/local and national
levels.
The changes proposed in this request
update the data collection system to
meet prevailing information needs and
enhance the value of MMP data, while
remaining within the scope of the
currently approved project purpose. The
result is a 16% reduction in burden, or
a reduction of 1,397 total burden hours
annually.
A change in sampling methods
accounts for the net reduction in
burden. Specifically, sampling from the
existing HIV case surveillance database,
the National HIV Surveillance System
(NHSS, OMB Control No. 0920–0573,
Exp. 2/29/2016) would replace the
current health care-facility-based
sampling. This change in sampling
methods would broaden participation in
MMP to all HIV-infected persons who
have been diagnosed and reported to the
NHSS, a population that is more
representative of persons living with
HIV than are persons receiving HIV
medical care. Sampling from NHSS will
allow MMP to address key information
gaps related to increasing access to care,
one of three strategic areas of national
focus of the National HIV/AIDS
Strategy.
The change in project sampling
methods reduces the amount of time
health care facility staff will spend on
project activities, substantially reducing
burden hours and offsetting increases in
burden from other changes, listed
below.
Restoration of the original sample of
26 geographic primary sampling units is
proposed in this request, for more
complete coverage of the population of
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-14-14AYK]
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 A. 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
Information Collection on Cause-Specific Absenteeism in Schools
(Pittsburgh Location)--New--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic
Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global Migration and
Quarantine (DGMQ), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National
Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division
of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), requests approval of a new
information collection to better understand the triggers, timing and
duration of the use of school related measures for preventing and
controlling the spread of influenza during the next pandemic.
The information collection for which approval is sought is in
accordance with DGMQ/CDC's mission to reduce morbidity and mortality in
mobile populations, and to prevent the introduction, transmission, or
spread of communicable diseases within the United States. Insights
gained from this information collection will assist in the planning and
implementation of CDC Pre-Pandemic Guidance on the use of school
related measures, including school closures, to slow transmission
during an influenza pandemic.
School closures were considered an important measure during the
earliest stage of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, because a pandemic vaccine
was not available until October (6 months later), and sufficient stocks
to immunize all school-age children were not available until December.
However, retrospective review of the U.S. government response to the
pandemic identified a limited evidence-base regarding the
effectiveness, acceptability, and feasibility of various school related
measures during mild or moderately severe pandemics. Guidance updates
will require an evidence-based rationale for determining the
appropriate triggers, timing, and duration of school related measures,
including school closures, during a pandemic.
CDC staff proposes that the information collection for this package
will target adult and child populations in three school districts in
Pennsylvania. CDC will collect reports of individual student symptoms,
vaccination status, recent travel, recent exposure to people with
influenza symptoms and duration of illness; this will be accomplished
through telephone, in-person interviews, and a web-based survey. This
information will be used to estimate baseline school absenteeism due to
influenza as well as to evaluate the use of absentee recording systems
in predicting community-wide influenza transmission.
Findings obtained from this information collection will be used to
inform the update CDC's Pre-pandemic Guidance on the implementation of
school related measures to prevent the spread of influenza, especially
school closures. This Guidance is used as an important planning and
reference tool for both State and local health departments in the
United States.
CDC estimates that 2,860 participants could be recruited by
information collections covered by this information collection. It is
estimated that information collection activities will total 1,109
burden hours per year.
There is no cost to respondents other than their time.
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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Parents of children/ School Absentee 2,500 4 5/60 833
adolescents attending schools. Reporting.
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Sentinel Family Cohort........ Cohort Intake... 360 1 10/60 60
Sentinel Family Cohort........ Cohort Weekly 360 12 3/60 216
Illness
Reporting.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 1,109
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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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