Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations, 71430-71432 [2014-28232]

Download as PDF 71430 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 231 / Tuesday, December 2, 2014 / Notices stakeholders to support awareness and strengthen relationships between public health and clinical care. These activities will facilitate the quick and efficient identification of cases in future outbreaks and protect the health and safety of patients. This request corresponds with an initial ongoing data collection, State Health Department Access to Electronic Health Record Data during an Outbreak: A Retrospective Assessment, which involves interviews with four types of Health Department staff: Healthcareassociated infection coordinator, epidemiologist, legal counsel, and informatics director (OMB Control Number 0920–0879, approved on 04/24/ 2014). We anticipate that the Phase I data analysis will be completed in late 2014. For Phase II of this study, we will be requesting participation from hospital and clinic staff in their official capacities across the same 15 states included in the Phase I request. The states chosen for Phase I and Phase II data collections are: Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Data will be collected from 150 hospital and clinic staff in their official capacities using one 30-minute telephone interview per person and limiting interviews to two hospitals and two clinics per state. Hospital participants include: Infection preventionists, informatics directors, and others as referred. Clinic participants include: Clinic directors and others as referred. The focus of this OMB request is to conduct interviews with 150 healthcare facilities’ staff, hospitals and clinics, in their official capacities who have been asked by HDs to provide access to their EHRs during an HAI outbreak investigation. In hospitals, the evaluation team will be conducting interviews with staff members serving in one of three roles: Infection preventionist, informatics director, and other as referred (e.g. privacy officer, risk management, etc.). In clinics, the evaluation team will be conducting interviews with the clinic director, and other as referred (e.g. patient records manager, etc.) The maximum estimates for burden hours are derived from interview guide pilot testing and data collection with HDs during Phase I data collection, in which interviews took 27 minutes. The data to be collected do not involve questions of a personal or sensitive nature and should have no impact on the individual’s privacy. There are no costs to the respondents other than their time. ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Number of responses per respondent Number of respondents Type of respondent Average burden per response (in hours) Total burden hours Infection Preventionist ..................................................................................... Informatics Director .......................................................................................... Other as Referred ............................................................................................ Clinic Director .................................................................................................. Other as referred by Clinic Director ................................................................. 30 30 30 30 30 1 1 1 ........................ 1 ........................ ........................ 30/60 ........................ ........................ 15 15 15 15 15 Totals ........................................................................................................ 150 1 ........................ 75 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. [FR Doc. 2014–28236 Filed 12–1–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163–18–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [60Day–15–0821] rljohnson on DSK3VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 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 VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:30 Dec 01, 2014 Jkt 235001 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 PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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 Quarantine Station Illness Response Forms: Airline, Maritime, and Land/ Border Crossing (OMB Control No. 0920–0821, expiration 08/31/2015)— Revision—National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, E:\FR\FM\02DEN1.SGM 02DEN1 71431 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 231 / Tuesday, December 2, 2014 / Notices Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Background and Brief Description CDC is requesting a revision to a currently approved information collection, Quarantine Station Illness Response Forms: Airline, Maritime, and Land/Border Crossing. This revision seeks to incorporate the changes that resulted from activities undertaken during the response to Ebola. These changes include two major components, both of which have been given previous emergency clearance by OMB, with an expiration date of April 30, 2015. As a part of this revision, CDC is requesting the full three year approval and 12 months of burden for the following: The incorporation of a two public health screening forms that are currently used to assess risk for Ebola in travelers coming to the United States from countries experiencing widespread transmission of the disease. These forms are the United States Traveler Health Declaration and a completely revised Ebola Risk Assessment For Travelers From Ebola Outbreak-Affected Countries form, each given approval through Interactive Voice Response (IVR) phone system which asks travelers if they have developed a fever or any other symptoms potentially indicative of Ebola exposure (OMB Control No 0920–1034). This system is used to assist states in actively monitoring those travelers from Ebola affected countries for 21 days after arrival. The additional burden requested for the use of the IVR system is 91,350 hours. No revisions are requested to the Air Travel, Maritime Conveyance or Land Travel Illness and Death Investigation forms or burden associated with these information collections. The current burden associated with these forms is 314 hours. This revision incorporates the burden estimates provided for the emergency information collection 0920–1031 and 0920–1034. The total additional burden requested for this revision is 133,110 respondents and 108,335 burden hours. The estimated total burden for OMB Control Number 0920–0821 is 136,968 respondents and 108,654 burden hours. There is no burden to respondents other than their time. from OMB under OMB Control No 0920–1031. The additional burden requested for the electronic and hard copies of the English, hard copy French, and hard copy Arabic versions of the health declaration, and the English and French hard copy versions of the risk assessment form, is 16,965 hours. In this revision, CDC is maintaining the ability to use the Ebola Risk Assessment for Travelers from Outbreak-affected Countries form in the event that a traveler is identified as ill on a U.S.-bound flight prior to arrival. In the no material or non-substantive change to a currently approved collection granted by OMB on 9/18/ 2014, CDC requested 100 respondents and 5 hours of burden. Because the risk assessment form is more comprehensive, it requires more time for traveler to complete the assessment. CDC is requesting an additional 20 hours of burden for the purpose of assessing ill travelers, for a total of 25 hours of burden. No additional respondents are requested. CDC is also requesting the incorporation of a telephonic, automated survey administered either ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Number of respondents Respondent Form Traveler ............................................. Airline Travel Illness or Death Investigation Form. Maritime Conveyance Illness or Death Investigation Form. Land Travel Illness or Death Investigation Form. United States Travel Health Declaration (English: Hard Copy, fillable PDF, electronic portal). United States Travel Health Declaration (French hard copy). United States Travel Health Declaration (Arabic hard copy). Ebola Risk Assessment for Travelers from Outbreak-affected Countries (English hard copy). Ebola Risk Assessment for Travelers from Outbreak-affected Countries (French hard copy). Ebola Risk Assessment for Travelers from Outbreak-affected Countries (Arabic hard copy). Ebola Risk Assessment for Travelers from Outbreak-affected Countries (Ill traveler interview). IVR Active Monitoring Survey (English: Recorded). IVR Active Monitoring Survey (French: Recorded). Traveler ............................................. Traveler ............................................. Traveler ............................................. Traveler ............................................. Traveler ............................................. Traveler ............................................. Traveler ............................................. Traveler ............................................. Traveler ............................................. rljohnson on DSK3VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Traveler ............................................. Traveler ............................................. Total ........................................... VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:30 Dec 01, 2014 ........................................................... Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Number of responses per respondent Average burden per response (in minutes) Total burden hours 1626 1 5/60 136 1873 1 5/60 156 259 1 5/60 22 45,325 1 15/60 11,331 19,625 1 15/60 4906 300 1 15/60 75 1815 1 15/60 454 783 1 15/60 196 12 1 15/60 3 100 1 15/60 25 45,625 21 4/60 63,875 19,625 21 4/60 27,475 136,968 ........................ ........................ 108,654 E:\FR\FM\02DEN1.SGM 02DEN1 71432 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 231 / Tuesday, December 2, 2014 / Notices 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. [FR Doc. 2014–28232 Filed 12–1–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163–18–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [30Day–15–0214] Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations rljohnson on DSK3VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 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 30 days of this notice. Proposed Project National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) (OMB No. 0920–0214, expires 03/31/2016)—Revision—National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Background and Brief Description Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, shall collect data on the extent and nature of illness and disability of the population of the United States. The annual National Health Interview Survey is a major source of general statistics on the health of the U.S. population and has been in the field continuously since 1957. Clearance is sought for three years, to collect data for 2015, 2016, and 2017. This voluntary and confidential household-based survey collects demographic and health-related information on a nationally representative sample of persons and households throughout the country. Personal identification information is requested from survey respondents to facilitate linkage of survey data with health-related administrative and other records. Each year we collect information from approximately 55,000 households, which contain about 137,500 individuals. Information is collected using computer assisted personal interviews (CAPI). A core set of data is collected each year that remains largely unchanged while sponsored supplements vary from year to year. The core set includes socio-demographic characteristics, health status, health care services, and health behaviors. For 2015, supplemental questions will be cycled in pertaining to cancer control, epilepsy, and inflammatory bowel disease and occupational health. Supplemental topics that continue or are enhanced from 2014 will be related to food security, heart disease and stroke, children’s mental health, disability and functioning, sexual orientation, smokeless tobacco and ecigarettes, immunizations, and computer use. Questions on the Affordable Care Act from 2014 have been reduced in number in 2015. In addition, a follow-back survey will be conducted on previous NHIS respondents. The follow-back survey will focus on topics related to the Affordable Care Act including health care access and use, and health insurance coverage and will include multiple modes of contacting respondents. To improve the analytic utility of NHIS data, minority populations are oversampled annually. In 2015, sample augmentation procedures used in previous years will continue to increase the number of African American, Hispanic, and Asian American persons. In accordance with the 1995 initiative to increase the integration of surveys within the DHHS, respondents to the NHIS serve as the sampling frame for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The NHIS has long been used by government, academic, and private researchers to evaluate both general health and specific issues, such as cancer, diabetes, and access to health care. It is a leading source of data for the Congressionally mandated ‘‘Health US’’ and related publications, as well as the single most important source of statistics to track progress toward the National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives, ‘‘Healthy People 2020.’’ The total annualized burden hours have increased by 3,333 hours to 48,833 hours. There is no cost to the respondents other than their time. ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Number of respondents Type of respondent Form name Adult Family Member ...................................... Screener Questionnaire ................................. VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:30 Dec 01, 2014 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 10,000 E:\FR\FM\02DEN1.SGM 02DEN1 Number of responses per respondent 1 Average burden per response (in hours) 5/60

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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 231 (Tuesday, December 2, 2014)]
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[Pages 71430-71432]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-15-0821]


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

    Quarantine Station Illness Response Forms: Airline, Maritime, and 
Land/Border Crossing (OMB Control No. 0920-0821, expiration 08/31/
2015)--Revision--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious 
Diseases,

[[Page 71431]]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    CDC is requesting a revision to a currently approved information 
collection, Quarantine Station Illness Response Forms: Airline, 
Maritime, and Land/Border Crossing. This revision seeks to incorporate 
the changes that resulted from activities undertaken during the 
response to Ebola. These changes include two major components, both of 
which have been given previous emergency clearance by OMB, with an 
expiration date of April 30, 2015. As a part of this revision, CDC is 
requesting the full three year approval and 12 months of burden for the 
following:
    The incorporation of a two public health screening forms that are 
currently used to assess risk for Ebola in travelers coming to the 
United States from countries experiencing widespread transmission of 
the disease. These forms are the United States Traveler Health 
Declaration and a completely revised Ebola Risk Assessment For 
Travelers From Ebola Outbreak-Affected Countries form, each given 
approval from OMB under OMB Control No 0920-1031. The additional burden 
requested for the electronic and hard copies of the English, hard copy 
French, and hard copy Arabic versions of the health declaration, and 
the English and French hard copy versions of the risk assessment form, 
is 16,965 hours.
    In this revision, CDC is maintaining the ability to use the Ebola 
Risk Assessment for Travelers from Outbreak-affected Countries form in 
the event that a traveler is identified as ill on a U.S.-bound flight 
prior to arrival. In the no material or non-substantive change to a 
currently approved collection granted by OMB on 9/18/2014, CDC 
requested 100 respondents and 5 hours of burden. Because the risk 
assessment form is more comprehensive, it requires more time for 
traveler to complete the assessment. CDC is requesting an additional 20 
hours of burden for the purpose of assessing ill travelers, for a total 
of 25 hours of burden. No additional respondents are requested.
    CDC is also requesting the incorporation of a telephonic, automated 
survey administered either through Interactive Voice Response (IVR) 
phone system which asks travelers if they have developed a fever or any 
other symptoms potentially indicative of Ebola exposure (OMB Control No 
0920-1034). This system is used to assist states in actively monitoring 
those travelers from Ebola affected countries for 21 days after 
arrival. The additional burden requested for the use of the IVR system 
is 91,350 hours.
    No revisions are requested to the Air Travel, Maritime Conveyance 
or Land Travel Illness and Death Investigation forms or burden 
associated with these information collections. The current burden 
associated with these forms is 314 hours.
    This revision incorporates the burden estimates provided for the 
emergency information collection 0920-1031 and 0920-1034. The total 
additional burden requested for this revision is 133,110 respondents 
and 108,335 burden hours. The estimated total burden for OMB Control 
Number 0920-0821 is 136,968 respondents and 108,654 burden hours. There 
is no burden to respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Respondent                  Form           Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent     (in minutes)        hours
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Traveler......................  Airline Travel              1626               1            5/60             136
                                 Illness or
                                 Death
                                 Investigation
                                 Form.
Traveler......................  Maritime                    1873               1            5/60             156
                                 Conveyance
                                 Illness or
                                 Death
                                 Investigation
                                 Form.
Traveler......................  Land Travel                  259               1            5/60              22
                                 Illness or
                                 Death
                                 Investigation
                                 Form.
Traveler......................  United States             45,325               1           15/60          11,331
                                 Travel Health
                                 Declaration
                                 (English: Hard
                                 Copy, fillable
                                 PDF, electronic
                                 portal).
Traveler......................  United States             19,625               1           15/60            4906
                                 Travel Health
                                 Declaration
                                 (French hard
                                 copy).
Traveler......................  United States                300               1           15/60              75
                                 Travel Health
                                 Declaration
                                 (Arabic hard
                                 copy).
Traveler......................  Ebola Risk                  1815               1           15/60             454
                                 Assessment for
                                 Travelers from
                                 Outbreak-
                                 affected
                                 Countries
                                 (English hard
                                 copy).
Traveler......................  Ebola Risk                   783               1           15/60             196
                                 Assessment for
                                 Travelers from
                                 Outbreak-
                                 affected
                                 Countries
                                 (French hard
                                 copy).
Traveler......................  Ebola Risk                    12               1           15/60               3
                                 Assessment for
                                 Travelers from
                                 Outbreak-
                                 affected
                                 Countries
                                 (Arabic hard
                                 copy).
Traveler......................  Ebola Risk                   100               1           15/60              25
                                 Assessment for
                                 Travelers from
                                 Outbreak-
                                 affected
                                 Countries (Ill
                                 traveler
                                 interview).
Traveler......................  IVR Active                45,625              21            4/60          63,875
                                 Monitoring
                                 Survey
                                 (English:
                                 Recorded).
Traveler......................  IVR Active                19,625              21            4/60          27,475
                                 Monitoring
                                 Survey (French:
                                 Recorded).
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.....................  ................         136,968  ..............  ..............         108,654
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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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