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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Acting Chief, Information Collection Review
Office, Health Scientist, 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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–16–16AXB; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0076]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
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 Information Collection on
Feasibility of Social Distancing
Measures in K–12 Schools in the United
States, which is being conducted to
determine if the implementation of
social distancing strategies other than
school closures can be accomplished
without causing major detrimental
effects to ongoing education activities.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0076 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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.
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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
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data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Proposed Project
Feasibility of Social Distancing
Measures in K–12 Schools in the United
States—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 identify social distancing
strategies to reduce person-to-person
contact among students and staff in
K–12 schools that are implementable
without causing major detrimental
effects to ongoing education activities.
CDC is requesting a one-year approval to
collect information.
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 Community Mitigation
Guidance on the use of school-based
measures to slow transmission during
an influenza pandemic.
School-aged children are often the
main introducers and an important
transmission source of influenza and
other respiratory viruses in their
families, and school-based outbreaks
frequently pre-date wide-spread
influenza transmission in the
surrounding communities. Therefore,
infection control measures undertaken
to reduce virus transmission among
children at schools may also help
prevent or postpone influenza outbreaks
in communities. In respiratory
transmission of influenza, proximity to
the person with influenza plays a
significant role. Strategies that increase
physical distance between students and/
or reduce the duration of person to
person contact in school settings may,
theoretically, be effective in slowing
influenza transmission. There have been
no evaluations to date of feasibility of
implementing social distancing
measures other than school closures.
Therefore, there is a need to research
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alternative social distancing strategies
that can help reduce influenza
transmission in schools while
minimizing social and economic
burdens on the community.
CDC staff proposes that the
information collection for this package
will target senior educators in each of
the 10 HHS regions. CDC will collect
qualitative data on current knowledge,
attitudes, and practices with regard to
organizing and delivering K–12
instruction in ways that help increase
space between students and/or reduce
daily duration of in-person instruction,
while preserving the normal education
process; this will be accomplished
through focus group discussions.
Findings obtained from this
information collection will be used to
inform the update CDC’s Pre-pandemic
Community Mitigation Guidance on the
implementation of school related
measures to prevent the spread of
influenza. This Guidance is used as an
important planning and reference tool
for both State and local health
departments in the United States.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time. The estimated
annualized burden hours for this data
collection are 1,400 hours.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
Type of respondents
Form name
Senior educators (e.g. school principals, superintendents, teachers, senior leaders from state
agencies, etc.).
Social Distancing Questionnaire Form.
700
1
2
1,400
Total ...............................................................
.......................................
........................
........................
........................
1,400
Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Health Scientist, Acting 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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–16–16AWJ; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0082]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
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 ‘‘Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS) Asthma
Call-back Survey (ACBS).’’ The ACBS is
an in-depth asthma survey conducted
on a subset of BRFSS respondents with
an asthma diagnosis. The goal of this
survey is to strengthen the existing body
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of asthma data and to address critical
questions surrounding the health and
experiences of persons with asthma.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0082 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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
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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
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-16AXB; Docket No. CDC-2016-0076]
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.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Information
Collection on Feasibility of Social Distancing Measures in K-12 Schools
in the United States, which is being conducted to determine if the
implementation of social distancing strategies other than school
closures can be accomplished without causing major detrimental effects
to ongoing education activities.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0076 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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
Feasibility of Social Distancing Measures in K-12 Schools in the
United States--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 identify social distancing strategies to
reduce person-to-person contact among students and staff in K-12
schools that are implementable without causing major detrimental
effects to ongoing education activities. CDC is requesting a one-year
approval to collect information.
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 Community Mitigation Guidance on the
use of school-based measures to slow transmission during an influenza
pandemic.
School-aged children are often the main introducers and an
important transmission source of influenza and other respiratory
viruses in their families, and school-based outbreaks frequently pre-
date wide-spread influenza transmission in the surrounding communities.
Therefore, infection control measures undertaken to reduce virus
transmission among children at schools may also help prevent or
postpone influenza outbreaks in communities. In respiratory
transmission of influenza, proximity to the person with influenza plays
a significant role. Strategies that increase physical distance between
students and/or reduce the duration of person to person contact in
school settings may, theoretically, be effective in slowing influenza
transmission. There have been no evaluations to date of feasibility of
implementing social distancing measures other than school closures.
Therefore, there is a need to research
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alternative social distancing strategies that can help reduce influenza
transmission in schools while minimizing social and economic burdens on
the community.
CDC staff proposes that the information collection for this package
will target senior educators in each of the 10 HHS regions. CDC will
collect qualitative data on current knowledge, attitudes, and practices
with regard to organizing and delivering K-12 instruction in ways that
help increase space between students and/or reduce daily duration of
in-person instruction, while preserving the normal education process;
this will be accomplished through focus group discussions.
Findings obtained from this information collection will be used to
inform the update CDC's Pre-pandemic Community Mitigation Guidance on
the implementation of school related measures to prevent the spread of
influenza. This Guidance is used as an important planning and reference
tool for both State and local health departments in the United States.
There is no cost to respondents other than their time. The
estimated annualized burden hours for this data collection are 1,400
hours.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) (in hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Senior educators (e.g. school Social 700 1 2 1,400
principals, superintendents, Distancing
teachers, senior leaders from Questionnaire
state agencies, etc.). Form.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 1,400
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Health Scientist, Acting 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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