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consent order that requires them to
make the deal along with a handful of
other changes. But that is not our role.
There is no legal authority for the
proposition that the Commission can
prophylactically impose remedies
without an underlying violation of the
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of such authority, the appropriate
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apparently does the Commission, that
the three-way transaction does not
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is no competitive harm to correct and
any remedy is unnecessary and
unwarranted.5 Entering into consents is
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Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
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its continuing efforts to reduce public
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government information, invites the
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5 The Commission points to the HSR Act as
providing the legal basis for the FTC to enter into
consent orders ‘‘to ensure that any competitive
issues with a proposed transaction are addressed
effectively.’’ Statement of the Federal Trade
Commission, supra note 1, at 4 n.7. When a
proposed transaction or set of transactions would
not substantially lessen competition, as is the case
with the three way transaction originally proposed
here, there are no competitive issues with the
proposed transaction to be addressed, and the belief
that a consent order may even further mitigate
concerns regarding the transfer of assets is not
material to our analysis under the Clayton Act. The
HSR Act is not in conflict with the Clayton Act and
does not change this result.
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continuing information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on the proposed revision of
the National Quitline Data Warehouse
(NQDW) information collection. The
NQDW is a repository of information
about callers who have received services
from state quitlines and a quarterly
summary of services provided by each
quitline.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before August 7, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2015–
0041 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. All relevant comments
received will be posted without change
to Regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. For
access to the docket to read background
documents or comments received, go to
Regulations.gov.
To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact the Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570;
Email: omb@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires Federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
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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.
Proposed Project
National Quitline Data Warehouse
(NQDW) (OMB No. 0920–0856, exp. 10/
31/2015)—Revision—National Center
for Chronic Disease and Health
Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Despite the high level of public
knowledge about the adverse effects of
smoking, tobacco use remains the
leading preventable cause of disease and
death in the United States. Smoking
results in approximately 480,000 deaths
annually (USDHHS, 2014). This total
includes approximately 41,000 annual
deaths in nonsmoking U.S. adults
caused by secondhand smoke exposure
(USDHHS, 2014). Although the
prevalence of current smoking among
adults has been decreasing, substantial
disparities in smoking prevalence
continue to exist among individuals of
low socioeconomic status, persons with
mental health and substance abuse
conditions, and certain racial/ethnic
populations, among other groups.
Quitlines are telephone-based tobacco
cessation services that help tobacco
users quit through a variety of services,
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including counseling, medications,
information and self-help materials
(NAQC, 2009). Quitlines are effective,
population-based interventions that
increase successful quitting. Tobacco
cessation quitlines overcome many of
the barriers to in-person tobacco
cessation individual and group
counseling because they are free,
available at the caller’s convenience,
and do not require transportation or
child care. They are also efficient and
cost-effective, in part because they offer
multiple services centrally that often are
unavailable locally. CDC has directly
supported state quitlines since 2004
when CDC and the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) created the National
Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines
Initiative to provide greater access to
counseling for tobacco cessation to U.S.
tobacco users. Also, as part of the
Initiative, NCI established a toll-free
national portal number at 1–800–QUIT–
NOW. This portal number automatically
transfers callers to their state quitline.
Quitlines now exist in all U.S. states,
the District of Columbia, Guam, and
Puerto Rico. CDC currently supports the
maintenance and enhancement of state
quitlines as part of the National Tobacco
Control Program, a cooperative
agreement program with the states, and
additional funding designated for
ensuring quitline capacity. One of CDC’s
current goals is to expand quitline
capacity so that all callers to the quitline
during a federal media campaign are
offered at least one coaching call, either
immediately upon calling or by being
re-contacted within two to three days. A
secondary purpose is to continue to
expand the capacity of state tobacco
control programs to implement
evidence-based cessation interventions
and to provide interventions that are
culturally and linguistically appropriate
for populations that experience
disparities.
In 2010, with funding provided by the
American Reinvestment and Recovery
Act (ARRA) of 2009, CDC’s Office on
Smoking and Health (OSH) obtained
approval to collect information through
the National Quitline Data Warehouse
(NQDW; OMB No. 0920–0856). The
NQDW information collection
continued from 2012–2014 using funds
from the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (ACA) and CDC’s
Prevention and Public Health Fund
(PPHF). During its five years in
existence, the NQDW has collected a
quarterly services summary report from
50 states, the District of Columbia,
Guam and Puerto Rico. NQDW has also
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collected de-identified, individual-level
data about tobacco users who have
received services from state quitlines
including caller demographics, tobacco
use behaviors of callers, reasons for
calling the quitline, how callers
reported hearing about the quitline,
what services callers have received from
the quitline, and whether or not callers
were able to make successful quit
attempts after using state quitline
programs.
Information collected by the NQDW
has demonstrated an increase in the
demand for quitline services over time.
Unfortunately, quitlines remain underfunded and under-promoted. According
to CDC’s Best Practices for
Comprehensive Tobacco Control
Programs, currently about 1 percent of
tobacco users receive services from state
quitlines each year, however
approximately 6 to 8 percent of tobacco
users could potentially be reached by
state quitlines if quitlines were
sufficiently funded and promoted.
CDC uses the information collected by
the NQDW for ongoing monitoring and
evaluation related to state quitlines. The
NQDW collects important information
used to monitor and evaluate the impact
of funding for tobacco control programs
and state quitlines as well as other
tobacco programs, policies and
interventions. In addition, data
collected by the NQDW serves an
important role in helping CDC assess
the effectiveness of the Tips From
Former Smokers media campaign. The
‘‘Tips’’ campaign was initiated in 2012
to increase public awareness of the
immediate health damage caused by
smoking and to encourage adult
smokers to quit (www.cdc.gov/tips).
CDC plans to request OMB approval
to continue the NQDW information
collection for three years. All 50 states,
the District of Columbia, Guam, and
Puerto Rico will continue to participate.
Changes to be implemented include:
(1) The Asian Smokers’ Quitline
(ASQ) will participate in the NQDW.
The ASQ will be administered and
operated by a single, national quitline
service provider. This change will allow
CDC to assess state quitline efforts to
expand quitline capacity and service
provision to the tobacco users who
speak Asian languages. The total
number of programs reporting through
the NQDW will increase from 53 to 54.
(2) Five questions will be added to the
NQDW Intake Questionnaire concerning
pregnancy, insurance status, type of
health insurance, mental health, and
language of service. This information
will help CDC and the states tailor
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quitline services to the needs of callers.
In 2014, CDC inquired with states as to
whether their state quitlines are already
collecting information on pregnancy
status, insurance status, and mental
health status and learned that most state
quitlines already collect this
information. However, these questions
are not included in the current NQDW
Intake Questionnaire. Adding these
items to the NQDW Intake
Questionnaire will impose minimal
additional burden on states but will
substantially improve the utility of the
NQDW data to identify use of state
quitlines by key tobacco use
populations. Finally, CDC proposes to
add a question about the language in
which quitline services are provided.
This question would not be a question
posed to callers, but would be recorded
by the quitline service provider.
(3) In 2012, CDC discontinued data
collection for the NQDW Seven-Month
Follow-up Survey. During the three year
period of this Revision request, the
NQDW Seven-Month Follow-up
Questionnaire will be collected, but
only for callers who receive services
through the Asian Smokers’ Quitline.
Should the need arise in the future to
resume collecting seven-month followup data from all callers, an additional
Revision request will be submitted to
OMB.
Participation in the caller intake and
follow-up interviews is voluntary for
quitline callers. The estimated burden is
10 minutes for a complete intake call
conducted with an individual who calls
on their own behalf. The estimated
burden is one minute for a caller who
requests information for someone else,
as these callers complete only a subset
of questions on the intake questionnaire.
The estimated burden per response for
the Seven-Month Follow-Up
Questionnaire is seven minutes.
As a condition of funding, the 54
cooperative agreement awardees are
required to submit a quarterly services
survey. CDC recognizes that awardees
incur additional burden for preparing
and transmitting summary files with
their de-identified caller intake and
follow-up data. This burden is
acknowledged in the instructions for
transmitting the electronic data files.
There is a net decrease in burden,
primarily due to discontinuation of the
Seven-Month Follow-Up Questionnaire
for the majority of callers.
All information will be submitted to
CDC electronically. There are no costs to
respondents other than their time.
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Number of
responses
per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hrs.)
Total
burden
(in hrs.)
NQDW Intake Questionnaire (complete) ..............
509,742
1
10/60
84,957
NQDW Intake Questionnaire (subset) ..................
26,902
1
1/60
448
NQDW 7-Month Follow-Up Questionnaire ............
659
1
7/60
77
Instructions for Submitting NQDW Intake Questionnaire Electronic Data File to CDC.
Instructions for Submitting NQDW 7-Month Follow-up Electronic Data File to CDC.
NQDW Quitline Services Survey ..........................
54
1
4
1
1
1
216
1
54
4
20/60
72
................................................................................
....................
....................
....................
85,771
Type of respondents
Form name
Quitline callers who contact the
quitline for help themselves.
Caller who contacts the quitline on
behalf of someone else.
Quitline caller who received a quitline
service from the Asian Smokers’
quitline.
Tobacco Control Manager or Their
Designee.
Total ............................................
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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Prevention
Office for State, Tribal, Local and
Territorial Support
In accordance with Presidential
Executive Order No. 13175, November
6, 2000, and the Presidential
Memorandum of November 5, 2009, and
September 23, 2004, Consultation and
Coordination with Indian Tribal
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Name: Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC)
Meeting and 13th Biannual Tribal
Consultation Session.
Times and Dates: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.,
August 4, 2015 (TAC Meeting); 8:00 a.m.–
5:00 p.m., August 5, 2015 (13th Biannual
Tribal Consultation Session).
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Consultation Session will be held at the
Northern Quest, 100 North Hayford Road,
Airway Heights, Washington 99001.
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CDC/ATSDR in-person only and are open to
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for and collaboration with tribes, and to
improve the health of tribes through,
including but not limited to, assisting in
eliminating the health disparities faced by
Indian tribes, ensuring that access to critical
health and human services and public health
services is maximized to advance or enhance
the social, physical, and economic status of
American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN)
people; and promoting health equity for all
AI/AN people and communities. To advance
these goals, CDC/ATSDR conducts
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with elected tribal officials or their
authorized representatives. Consultation is
an enhanced form of communication that
emphasizes trust, respect, and shared
responsibility. It is an open and free
exchange of information and opinion among
parties that leads to mutual understanding
and comprehension.
Matters for Discussion: The TAC and CDC
leaders will discuss the following public
health topics: Chronic disease prevention
and health promotion in Indian Country,
CDC’s budget, and CDC’s communication and
engagement with tribes; however, discussion
is not limited to these topics.
During the 13th Biannual Tribal
Consultation Session, tribes and CDC leaders
will engage in a listening session with CDC’s
director and have roundtable discussions
with CDC senior leaders. Tribes will also
have an opportunity to present testimony on
tribal health issues.
Tribal leaders are encouraged to submit
written testimony by July 17, 2015, by mail
to Annabelle Allison, Deputy Associate
Director, Tribal Support Unit, Office for
State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support
(OSTLTS), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE., MS
E–70, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, or by email to
TribalSupport@cdc.gov.
Depending on the time available, it might
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The agenda is subject to change as
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-15-0856; Docket No. CDC-2015-0041]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, 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. This notice invites comment on the proposed
revision of the National Quitline Data Warehouse (NQDW) information
collection. The NQDW is a repository of information about callers who
have received services from state quitlines and a quarterly summary of
services provided by each quitline.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before August 7, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0041 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
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.
Proposed Project
National Quitline Data Warehouse (NQDW) (OMB No. 0920-0856, exp.
10/31/2015)--Revision--National Center for Chronic Disease and Health
Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Despite the high level of public knowledge about the adverse
effects of smoking, tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause
of disease and death in the United States. Smoking results in
approximately 480,000 deaths annually (USDHHS, 2014). This total
includes approximately 41,000 annual deaths in nonsmoking U.S. adults
caused by secondhand smoke exposure (USDHHS, 2014). Although the
prevalence of current smoking among adults has been decreasing,
substantial disparities in smoking prevalence continue to exist among
individuals of low socioeconomic status, persons with mental health and
substance abuse conditions, and certain racial/ethnic populations,
among other groups.
Quitlines are telephone-based tobacco cessation services that help
tobacco users quit through a variety of services,
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including counseling, medications, information and self-help materials
(NAQC, 2009). Quitlines are effective, population-based interventions
that increase successful quitting. Tobacco cessation quitlines overcome
many of the barriers to in-person tobacco cessation individual and
group counseling because they are free, available at the caller's
convenience, and do not require transportation or child care. They are
also efficient and cost-effective, in part because they offer multiple
services centrally that often are unavailable locally. CDC has directly
supported state quitlines since 2004 when CDC and the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) created the National Network of Tobacco Cessation
Quitlines Initiative to provide greater access to counseling for
tobacco cessation to U.S. tobacco users. Also, as part of the
Initiative, NCI established a toll-free national portal number at 1-
800-QUIT-NOW. This portal number automatically transfers callers to
their state quitline.
Quitlines now exist in all U.S. states, the District of Columbia,
Guam, and Puerto Rico. CDC currently supports the maintenance and
enhancement of state quitlines as part of the National Tobacco Control
Program, a cooperative agreement program with the states, and
additional funding designated for ensuring quitline capacity. One of
CDC's current goals is to expand quitline capacity so that all callers
to the quitline during a federal media campaign are offered at least
one coaching call, either immediately upon calling or by being re-
contacted within two to three days. A secondary purpose is to continue
to expand the capacity of state tobacco control programs to implement
evidence-based cessation interventions and to provide interventions
that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for populations that
experience disparities.
In 2010, with funding provided by the American Reinvestment and
Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009, CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH)
obtained approval to collect information through the National Quitline
Data Warehouse (NQDW; OMB No. 0920-0856). The NQDW information
collection continued from 2012-2014 using funds from the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and CDC's Prevention and
Public Health Fund (PPHF). During its five years in existence, the NQDW
has collected a quarterly services summary report from 50 states, the
District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico. NQDW has also collected de-
identified, individual-level data about tobacco users who have received
services from state quitlines including caller demographics, tobacco
use behaviors of callers, reasons for calling the quitline, how callers
reported hearing about the quitline, what services callers have
received from the quitline, and whether or not callers were able to
make successful quit attempts after using state quitline programs.
Information collected by the NQDW has demonstrated an increase in
the demand for quitline services over time. Unfortunately, quitlines
remain under-funded and under-promoted. According to CDC's Best
Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs, currently about 1
percent of tobacco users receive services from state quitlines each
year, however approximately 6 to 8 percent of tobacco users could
potentially be reached by state quitlines if quitlines were
sufficiently funded and promoted.
CDC uses the information collected by the NQDW for ongoing
monitoring and evaluation related to state quitlines. The NQDW collects
important information used to monitor and evaluate the impact of
funding for tobacco control programs and state quitlines as well as
other tobacco programs, policies and interventions. In addition, data
collected by the NQDW serves an important role in helping CDC assess
the effectiveness of the Tips From Former Smokers media campaign. The
``Tips'' campaign was initiated in 2012 to increase public awareness of
the immediate health damage caused by smoking and to encourage adult
smokers to quit (www.cdc.gov/tips).
CDC plans to request OMB approval to continue the NQDW information
collection for three years. All 50 states, the District of Columbia,
Guam, and Puerto Rico will continue to participate. Changes to be
implemented include:
(1) The Asian Smokers' Quitline (ASQ) will participate in the NQDW.
The ASQ will be administered and operated by a single, national
quitline service provider. This change will allow CDC to assess state
quitline efforts to expand quitline capacity and service provision to
the tobacco users who speak Asian languages. The total number of
programs reporting through the NQDW will increase from 53 to 54.
(2) Five questions will be added to the NQDW Intake Questionnaire
concerning pregnancy, insurance status, type of health insurance,
mental health, and language of service. This information will help CDC
and the states tailor quitline services to the needs of callers. In
2014, CDC inquired with states as to whether their state quitlines are
already collecting information on pregnancy status, insurance status,
and mental health status and learned that most state quitlines already
collect this information. However, these questions are not included in
the current NQDW Intake Questionnaire. Adding these items to the NQDW
Intake Questionnaire will impose minimal additional burden on states
but will substantially improve the utility of the NQDW data to identify
use of state quitlines by key tobacco use populations. Finally, CDC
proposes to add a question about the language in which quitline
services are provided. This question would not be a question posed to
callers, but would be recorded by the quitline service provider.
(3) In 2012, CDC discontinued data collection for the NQDW Seven-
Month Follow-up Survey. During the three year period of this Revision
request, the NQDW Seven-Month Follow-up Questionnaire will be
collected, but only for callers who receive services through the Asian
Smokers' Quitline. Should the need arise in the future to resume
collecting seven-month follow-up data from all callers, an additional
Revision request will be submitted to OMB.
Participation in the caller intake and follow-up interviews is
voluntary for quitline callers. The estimated burden is 10 minutes for
a complete intake call conducted with an individual who calls on their
own behalf. The estimated burden is one minute for a caller who
requests information for someone else, as these callers complete only a
subset of questions on the intake questionnaire. The estimated burden
per response for the Seven-Month Follow-Up Questionnaire is seven
minutes.
As a condition of funding, the 54 cooperative agreement awardees
are required to submit a quarterly services survey. CDC recognizes that
awardees incur additional burden for preparing and transmitting summary
files with their de-identified caller intake and follow-up data. This
burden is acknowledged in the instructions for transmitting the
electronic data files. There is a net decrease in burden, primarily due
to discontinuation of the Seven-Month Follow-Up Questionnaire for the
majority of callers.
All information will be submitted to CDC electronically. There are
no costs to respondents other than their time.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average Total
Number of responses burden per burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents per response (in
respondent (in hrs.) hrs.)
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Quitline callers who contact the NQDW Intake Questionnaire 509,742 1 10/60 84,957
quitline for help themselves. (complete).
Caller who contacts the quitline on NQDW Intake Questionnaire 26,902 1 1/60 448
behalf of someone else. (subset).
Quitline caller who received a NQDW 7-Month Follow-Up 659 1 7/60 77
quitline service from the Asian Questionnaire.
Smokers' quitline.
Tobacco Control Manager or Their Instructions for 54 4 1 216
Designee. Submitting NQDW Intake 1 1 1 1
Questionnaire Electronic
Data File to CDC.
Instructions for
Submitting NQDW 7-Month
Follow-up Electronic Data
File to CDC.
NQDW Quitline Services 54 4 20/60 72
Survey.
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Total.......................... .......................... ........... ........... ........... 85,771
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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.
[FR Doc. 2015-13849 Filed 6-5-15; 8:45 am]
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