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supplement which represents the fourth
and final year of awardee blood lead
surveillance data under this program
announcement.
Over the last three years, seven states
have adopted the HHLPSS and 13 are in
beta-testing. Since October 2014, CDC
has funded up to 40 state and local
blood lead surveillance programs. All of
these programs or their subcontractors
at the local level are submitting lead
surveillance data for an additional year.
The objectives for this surveillance
system remain two-fold. First, the
HHLPSS allows CDC to systematically
track how the state and local programs
conduct case management and followup of residents with housing-related
health outcomes. Second, the system
allows for identification and collection
of information on other housing-related
risk factors. Childhood and adult lead
poisoning is just one of many adverse
health conditions that are related to
common housing deficiencies. Multiple
hazards in housing (e.g., mold, vermin,
radon and the lack of safety devices)
continue to adversely affect the health
of residents. HHLPSS offers a
coordinated, comprehensive, and
systematic public health approach to
eliminate multiple housing-related
health hazards.
HHLPSS enables flexibility to
evaluate housing where the risk for lead
poisoning is high, regardless of whether
children less than 6 years of age
currently reside there. Thus, HHLPSS
supports CDC efforts for primary
prevention of childhood and adult lead
poisoning. Over the past several decades
there has been a remarkable reduction
in environmental sources of lead,
improved protection from occupational
lead exposure, and an overall decreasing
trend in the prevalence of elevated
blood lead levels (BLLs) in U.S. adults.
As a result, the U.S. national BLL
geometric mean among adults was 1.2
mg/dL during 2009–2010. Nonetheless,
lead exposures continue to occur at
unacceptable levels. Current research
continues to find that BLLs previously
considered harmless can have harmful
effects in adults, such as decreased renal
function and increased risk for
hypertension and essential tremor at
BLLs <10 mg/dL.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time. The total estimated time
burden hours is 640 hours. There are no
changes to the requested burden hours
or the data collection.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of respondents
Form name
Number of
respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
State, Local, and Territorial Health Departments.
Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance System (HHLPSS) Variables.
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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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–18–1050; Docket No. CDC–2018–
0023]
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, invite the
general public and other Federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a proposed and/or continuing
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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SUMMARY:
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This notice invites comment on
proposed information collection
projects under a mechanism titled
Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery. CDC currently collects agency
service delivery data under the
following Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) Control numbers:
• 0920–0940
• 0920–0953
• 0920–0974
• 0920–1009
• 0920–1027
• 0920–1050
• 0920–1071
The information collection activities
provide a means to garner qualitative
customer and stakeholder feedback in
an efficient, timely manner, in
accordance with the Federal
government’s commitment to improving
service delivery.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before May 22, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2018–
0023 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.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.
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Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
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 Leroy A.
Richardson, Information Collection
Review Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton
RoadC 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
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collection to the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
Generic Clearance for the Collection
of Qualitative Feedback on Agency
Service Delivery (OMB Control Number
0920–1050, expires 6/30/2019)—
Revision—Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
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Background and Brief Description
The information collection activities
provide a means to garner qualitative
customer and stakeholder feedback in
an efficient, timely manner, in
accordance with the Federal
government’s commitment to improving
service delivery. By qualitative feedback
we mean information that provides
useful insights on perceptions and
opinions, but are not statistical surveys
that yield quantitative results that can
be generalized to the population of
study.
This feedback will provide insights
into customer or stakeholder
perceptions, experiences and
expectations, provide an early warning
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of issues with service, or focus attention
on areas where communication, training
or changes in operations might improve
delivery of products or services. These
collections will allow for ongoing,
collaborative and actionable
communications between the Agency
and its customers and stakeholders. It
will also allow feedback to contribute
directly to the improvement of program
management.
The solicitation of feedback will target
areas such as: Timeliness,
appropriateness, accuracy of
information, courtesy, efficiency of
service delivery, and resolution of
issues with service delivery. Responses
will be assessed to plan and inform
efforts to improve or maintain the
quality of service offered to the public.
If this information is not collected, vital
feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the Agency’s services
will be unavailable.
CDC will only submit a collection for
approval under these generic clearances
if they meet the following conditions:
• The collections are voluntary;
• The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based) on considerations
of total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
Government;
• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of
concern to other Federal agencies;
• Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future;
• Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary and is not retained;
• Information gathered is intended to
be used only internally for general
service improvement and program
management purposes and is not
intended for release outside of the
agency (if released, the agency must
indicate the qualitative nature of the
information);
• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
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informing influential policy decisions;
and
• Information gathered will yield
qualitative information; the collections
will not be designed or expected to
yield statistically reliable results or used
as though the results are generalizable to
the population of study.
Feedback collected under CDC
generic clearances provides useful
information, but it does not yield data
that can be generalized to the overall
population. This type of generic
clearance for qualitative information
will not be used for quantitative
information collections that are
designed to yield reliably actionable
results, such as monitoring trends over
time or documenting program
performance. Such data uses require
more rigorous designs that address: the
target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior to
fielding the study. Depending on the
degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results.
As a general matter, information
collections will not result in any new
system of records containing privacy
information and will not ask questions
of a sensitive nature, such as sexual
behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs,
and other matters that are commonly
considered private. To streamline CDC’s
approvals for its service delivery and
customer feedback information
collection activities, the agency intends
to consolidate seven separate generic
information collection plans (OMB
Control Numbers listed above in the
Summary) into one plan. The revision of
this one plan will result in an annual
increases of 129,750 additional burden
hours and 231,200 responses.
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
expected
annual number
of activities
Type of respondents
Individuals and Households, Businesses
and Organizations, State, Local or
Tribal Government ................................
50
Total ..................................................
Annual
responses
Frequency of
response
(per request)
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
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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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Average
number of
respondents
per
activity
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
has submitted the information
collection request titled ‘‘Information on
Law Enforcement Officers’’ to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. CDC previously
published a ‘‘Proposed Data Collection
Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations’’ notice on March 16,
2017 to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies. CDC did
not receive comments related to the
previous notice. This notice serves to
allow an additional 30 days for public
and affected agency comments.
CDC will accept all comments for this
proposed information collection project.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
that:
(a) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
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6,000
300,000
(d) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including, through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and
(e) Assess information collection
costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Direct
written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the items contained in this
notice to the Attention: CDC Desk
Officer, Office of Management and
Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax
to (202) 395–5806. Provide written
comments within 30 days of notice
publication.
Proposed Project
Anthropometric Information on Law
Enforcement Officers—New—National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The mission of the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) is to promote safety and health
at work for all people through research
and prevention. The Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970, Public
Law 9–596 (Section 20) [a][1] authorizes
NIOSH to conduct research to advance
the health and safety of workers.
In 1975, the National Bureau of
Standards (NBS) released its manually
measured anthropometric data of law
enforcement officers (LEOs). The data
have largely become outdated due to
demographic changes in the LEO
workforce (e.g., gender and race/
ethnicity) that have occurred in the past
43 years. NIOSH has initiated a national
study on LEO anthropometry, using
both traditional and three-dimensional
(3D) scanning technologies to advance
the safety and health of approximately
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30/60
150,000
817,000 U.S. LEOs. Collecting
traditional anthropometry will ensure
easy comparison of data between this
and previous studies, while 3D scan
information (body contours and spatial
relations between body parts) will be
used for advanced anthropometric
analysis, computer simulation, and
human body modeling. Study results
will be used to enhance design and
standards for LEO vehicle configuration
and personal protective equipment
(PPE), such as cabins, seats, body
restraints, vehicle accesses, and body
armors.
The improved vehicle configurations
will help enhance safe operation (due to
improved driver visibility and control
operation) and increase post-crash
survivability (due to enhanced seats and
restraint system configurations). Body
armor, helmet, gloves, and boots are
important elements of an integrated LEO
personal protective system, especially
for handling violent acts. Poor
equipment fit may compromise the
protective capabilities of PPE and may
result in LEOs not wearing the PPE
because of discomfort.
By establishing an anthropometric
database for LEOs, the designers and
manufacturers of these types of
equipment will be able to produce
products that are more effective and
reduce the problems associated with
sizing and stocking these items. Data
collection will occur in 4 U.S.
geographic areas using traditional
anthropometric techniques for whole
body measurements, 3D scanning
techniques for head, foot, and whole
body measurements, and a 2D scanning
technique for hand measurements. An
anthropometer, a beam caliper
(rearranged pieces of the
anthropometer), tape measures, and an
electronic scale will be used to collect
the traditional anthropometry data in
the study. A hand scanner, head
scanner, foot scanner, and whole body
scanner, housed in a mobile trailer, are
used for 2D and 3D body shape
measurements.
The study population will be current
law enforcement officers employed by
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-18-1050; Docket No. CDC-2018-0023]
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, invite the general public and other
Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or
continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on proposed
information collection projects under a mechanism titled Generic
Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery. CDC currently collects agency service delivery data under the
following Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control numbers:
0920-0940
0920-0953
0920-0974
0920-1009
0920-1027
0920-1050
0920-1071
The information collection activities provide a means to garner
qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, timely
manner, in accordance with the Federal government's commitment to
improving service delivery.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before May 22, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2018-
0023 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments
to Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments 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 Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection
Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton
RoadC NE, MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email:
[email protected].
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
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collection to the OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, we
are publishing this notice of a proposed data collection as described
below.
The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submissions of responses.
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery (OMB Control Number 0920-1050, expires 6/30/
2019)--Revision--Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The information collection activities provide a means to garner
qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, timely
manner, in accordance with the Federal government's commitment to
improving service delivery. By qualitative feedback we mean information
that provides useful insights on perceptions and opinions, but are not
statistical surveys that yield quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insights into customer or stakeholder
perceptions, experiences and expectations, provide an early warning of
issues with service, or focus attention on areas where communication,
training or changes in operations might improve delivery of products or
services. These collections will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between the Agency and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
The solicitation of feedback will target areas such as: Timeliness,
appropriateness, accuracy of information, courtesy, efficiency of
service delivery, and resolution of issues with service delivery.
Responses will be assessed to plan and inform efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service offered to the public. If this
information is not collected, vital feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the Agency's services will be unavailable.
CDC will only submit a collection for approval under these generic
clearances if they meet the following conditions:
The collections are voluntary;
The collections are low-burden for respondents (based) on
considerations of total burden hours, total number of respondents, or
burden-hours per respondent) and are low-cost for both the respondents
and the Federal Government;
The collections are non-controversial and do not raise
issues of concern to other Federal agencies;
Any collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions
from respondents who have experience with the program or may have
experience with the program in the near future;
Personally identifiable information (PII) is collected
only to the extent necessary and is not retained;
Information gathered is intended to be used only
internally for general service improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for release outside of the agency (if
released, the agency must indicate the qualitative nature of the
information);
Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of
substantially informing influential policy decisions; and
Information gathered will yield qualitative information;
the collections will not be designed or expected to yield statistically
reliable results or used as though the results are generalizable to the
population of study.
Feedback collected under CDC generic clearances provides useful
information, but it does not yield data that can be generalized to the
overall population. This type of generic clearance for qualitative
information will not be used for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably actionable results, such as
monitoring trends over time or documenting program performance. Such
data uses require more rigorous designs that address: the target
population to which generalizations will be made, the sampling frame,
the sample design (including stratification and clustering), the
precision requirements or power calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate, methods for assessing
potential non-response bias, the protocols for data collection, and any
testing procedures that were or will be undertaken prior to fielding
the study. Depending on the degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be eligible for submission for
other generic mechanisms that are designed to yield quantitative
results.
As a general matter, information collections will not result in any
new system of records containing privacy information and will not ask
questions of a sensitive nature, such as sexual behavior and attitudes,
religious beliefs, and other matters that are commonly considered
private. To streamline CDC's approvals for its service delivery and
customer feedback information collection activities, the agency intends
to consolidate seven separate generic information collection plans (OMB
Control Numbers listed above in the Summary) into one plan. The
revision of this one plan will result in an annual increases of 129,750
additional burden hours and 231,200 responses.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
expected Average number Annual Frequency of Average burden Total burden
Type of respondents annual number of respondents responses response (per per response (in hours)
of activities per activity request) (in hours)
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Individuals and Households, Businesses and 50 6,000 300,000 1 30/60 150,000
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal Government.......
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Total............................................... ..............
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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