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This notice includes specific details about the questions that would be asked in the fifth round (Round 5) of the RSS and serves to allow 30 days for public and PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 43401 affected agency comments, consistent with OMB’s terms of clearance. 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 agencies 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; (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. Comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/ do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or by using the search function. Direct written comments and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395–5806. Provide written comments within 30 days of notice publication. Proposed Project Rapid Surveys System (RSS) Round 5 (OMB Control No. 0920–1408)— 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.), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through NCHS, collect data about the health of the population of the United States. The Rapid Surveys E:\FR\FM\17MYN1.SGM 17MYN1 43402 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 97 / Friday, May 17, 2024 / Notices System (RSS) (OMB Control No. 0920– 1408) collects data on emerging public health topics, attitudes, and behaviors using cross-sectional samples from two commercially available, national probability-based online panels. The RSS then combines these data to form estimates that approximate national representation in ways that many data collection approaches cannot. The RSS collects data in contexts in which decision makers’ need for time-sensitive data of known quality about emerging and priority health concerns is a higher priority than their need for statistically unbiased estimates. The RSS complements NCHS’s current household survey systems. As quicker turnaround surveys that require less accuracy and precision than CDC’s more rigorous population representative surveys, the RSS incorporates multiple mechanisms to carefully evaluate the resulting survey data for their appropriateness for use in public health surveillance and research (e.g., hypothesis generating) and facilitates continuous quality improvement by supplementing these panels with intensive efforts to understand how well the estimates reflect populations at most risk. The RSS data dissemination strategy communicates the strengths and limitations of data collected through online probability panels as compared to more robust data collection methods. The RSS has three major goals: (1) to provide CDC and other partners with time-sensitive data of known quality about emerging and priority health concerns; (2) to use these data collections to continue NCHS’s evaluation of the quality of public health estimates generated from commercial online panels; and (3) to improve methods to communicate the appropriateness of public health estimates generated from commercial online panels. The RSS is designed to have four rounds of data collection each year with data being collected by two contractors with probability panels. A crosssectional nationally representative sample will be drawn from the online probability panel maintained by each of the contractors. As part of the base (minimum sample size), each round of data collection will collect 2,000 responses per quarter. The RSS can be expanded by increasing the number of completed responses per round or the number of rounds per year as needed up to a maximum of 28,000 responses per year per contractor or 56,000 total responses per year. Additionally, each data collection may include up to 2,000 additional responses per quarter (8,000 for the year) to improve representativeness. This increases the maximum burden by up to 16,000 responses per year. The RSS may also target individual surveys to collect data only from specific subgroups within existing survey panels and may supplement data collection for such groups with additional respondents from other probability or nonprobability samples. An additional 12,000 responses per year may be used for these developmental activities. Each round’s questionnaire will consist of four main components: (1) basic demographic information on respondents to be used as covariates in analyses; (2) new, emerging, or supplemental content proposed by NCHS, other CDC Centers, Institute, and Offices, and other HHS agencies; (3) questions used for calibrating the survey weights; and (4) additional content selected by NCHS to evaluate against relevant benchmarks. NCHS will use questions from Components 1 and 2 provide relevant, timely data on new, emerging, and priority health topics to be used for decision making. NCHS will use questions from Components 3 and 4 to weight and evaluate the quality of the estimates coming from questions in Components 1 and 2. NCHS submits a 30-day Federal Register Notice with information on the contents of each round of data collection. NCHS calibrates survey weights from the RSS to gold standard surveys. Questions used for calibration in this round of RSS will include chronic conditions, social and work limitation, civic engagement, language used at home and in other settings and marital status. All of these questions have been on the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) in prior years allowing calibration to these data. Finally, all RSS rounds will include several questions that were previously on NHIS or other NCHS surveys, or other suitable federal surveys for benchmarking to evaluate data quality. Panelists in the RSS will be asked about health status, chronic conditions, developmental delay and disability, anxiety and depression, injury, COVID, healthcare access and utilization, health insurance, stressful life events for the selected child and social determinates including ability to pay medical bill, SNAP participation, and food insecurity at a family or household level. Round 5 will include content on positive childhood experiences and childhood vaccinations. Both topics are in support of the CDC’s 2023–2024 Collaborative Initiative of Supporting Young Families. The questions in Round 5 will be answered by panelists who are a parent/guardian of one randomly sampled child in the household. Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding this information collection, including ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the Round 5 content on positive childhood experience and childhood vaccinations. The NCHS RSS Round 5 data collection is based on 8,000 complete surveys and is estimated to be 2,687 hours. There are no costs to respondents other than their time. khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Type of respondents Form name Adults 18+ .................................... Adult 18+ ...................................... Survey: NCHS RSS Round 5 ........................................... Cognitive Interviews ......................................................... 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The charter was issued on August 3, 2001, renewed at appropriate intervals, and rechartered under Executive Order 14109 on September 29, 2023. Unless continued by the President the Board will terminate on September 30, 2025, consistent with E.O. 14109 of September 29, 2023. The Director, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining to announcements of meetings and other committee management activities, for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Kalwant Smagh, Director, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 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Key functions of the Advisory Board include providing advice on the development of probability of causation guidelines that have been promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a final rule, advice on methods of dose reconstruction which have also been promulgated by HHS as a final rule, advice on the scientific validity and quality of dose estimation and reconstruction efforts being performed for purposes of the compensation program, and advice on petitions to add classes of workers to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC). In December 2000, the President delegated responsibility for funding, staffing, and operating the Advisory Board to HHS, which subsequently delegated this authority to the CDC. NIOSH implements this responsibility for CDC. The charter was issued on August 3, 2001, renewed at appropriate intervals, and rechartered under Executive Order 14109 on September 29, 2023. Unless continued by the President the Board will terminate on September 30, 2025, consistent with E.O. 14109 of September 29, 2023. The Director, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining to announcements of meetings and other committee management activities, for both the Centers for Disease Control and E:\FR\FM\17MYN1.SGM 17MYN1

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-24-1408]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received approval from the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct the National Center 
for Health Statistics (NCHS) Rapid Surveys System (RSS) (OMB Control 
No. 0920-1408), which includes fielding four surveys per year. Round 1 
Survey was approved in June 2023. A second, third, and fourth round of 
the RSS were additionally approved. In accordance with the Terms of 
Clearance, NCHS will publish a 30-day Federal Register Notice 
announcing each new survey so that public comments can be received 
about the specific content of each survey. This notice includes 
specific details about the questions that would be asked in the fifth 
round (Round 5) of the RSS and serves to allow 30 days for public and 
affected agency comments, consistent with OMB's terms of clearance.
    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 agencies 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;
    (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. Comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. Direct 
written comments and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in 
this notice to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management 
and Budget, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 
395-5806. Provide written comments within 30 days of notice 
publication.

Proposed Project

    Rapid Surveys System (RSS) Round 5 (OMB Control No. 0920-1408)--
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.), as 
amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
(HHS), acting through NCHS, collect data about the health of the 
population of the United States. The Rapid Surveys

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System (RSS) (OMB Control No. 0920-1408) collects data on emerging 
public health topics, attitudes, and behaviors using cross-sectional 
samples from two commercially available, national probability-based 
online panels. The RSS then combines these data to form estimates that 
approximate national representation in ways that many data collection 
approaches cannot. The RSS collects data in contexts in which decision 
makers' need for time-sensitive data of known quality about emerging 
and priority health concerns is a higher priority than their need for 
statistically unbiased estimates.
    The RSS complements NCHS's current household survey systems. As 
quicker turnaround surveys that require less accuracy and precision 
than CDC's more rigorous population representative surveys, the RSS 
incorporates multiple mechanisms to carefully evaluate the resulting 
survey data for their appropriateness for use in public health 
surveillance and research (e.g., hypothesis generating) and facilitates 
continuous quality improvement by supplementing these panels with 
intensive efforts to understand how well the estimates reflect 
populations at most risk. The RSS data dissemination strategy 
communicates the strengths and limitations of data collected through 
online probability panels as compared to more robust data collection 
methods. The RSS has three major goals: (1) to provide CDC and other 
partners with time-sensitive data of known quality about emerging and 
priority health concerns; (2) to use these data collections to continue 
NCHS's evaluation of the quality of public health estimates generated 
from commercial online panels; and (3) to improve methods to 
communicate the appropriateness of public health estimates generated 
from commercial online panels.
    The RSS is designed to have four rounds of data collection each 
year with data being collected by two contractors with probability 
panels. A cross-sectional nationally representative sample will be 
drawn from the online probability panel maintained by each of the 
contractors. As part of the base (minimum sample size), each round of 
data collection will collect 2,000 responses per quarter. The RSS can 
be expanded by increasing the number of completed responses per round 
or the number of rounds per year as needed up to a maximum of 28,000 
responses per year per contractor or 56,000 total responses per year. 
Additionally, each data collection may include up to 2,000 additional 
responses per quarter (8,000 for the year) to improve 
representativeness. This increases the maximum burden by up to 16,000 
responses per year. The RSS may also target individual surveys to 
collect data only from specific subgroups within existing survey panels 
and may supplement data collection for such groups with additional 
respondents from other probability or nonprobability samples. An 
additional 12,000 responses per year may be used for these 
developmental activities.
    Each round's questionnaire will consist of four main components: 
(1) basic demographic information on respondents to be used as 
covariates in analyses; (2) new, emerging, or supplemental content 
proposed by NCHS, other CDC Centers, Institute, and Offices, and other 
HHS agencies; (3) questions used for calibrating the survey weights; 
and (4) additional content selected by NCHS to evaluate against 
relevant benchmarks. NCHS will use questions from Components 1 and 2 
provide relevant, timely data on new, emerging, and priority health 
topics to be used for decision making. NCHS will use questions from 
Components 3 and 4 to weight and evaluate the quality of the estimates 
coming from questions in Components 1 and 2. NCHS submits a 30-day 
Federal Register Notice with information on the contents of each round 
of data collection.
    NCHS calibrates survey weights from the RSS to gold standard 
surveys. Questions used for calibration in this round of RSS will 
include chronic conditions, social and work limitation, civic 
engagement, language used at home and in other settings and marital 
status. All of these questions have been on the National Health 
Interview Survey (NHIS) in prior years allowing calibration to these 
data.
    Finally, all RSS rounds will include several questions that were 
previously on NHIS or other NCHS surveys, or other suitable federal 
surveys for benchmarking to evaluate data quality. Panelists in the RSS 
will be asked about health status, chronic conditions, developmental 
delay and disability, anxiety and depression, injury, COVID, healthcare 
access and utilization, health insurance, stressful life events for the 
selected child and social determinates including ability to pay medical 
bill, SNAP participation, and food insecurity at a family or household 
level.
    Round 5 will include content on positive childhood experiences and 
childhood vaccinations. Both topics are in support of the CDC's 2023-
2024 Collaborative Initiative of Supporting Young Families. The 
questions in Round 5 will be answered by panelists who are a parent/
guardian of one randomly sampled child in the household. Interested 
persons are invited to send comments regarding this information 
collection, including ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the Round 5 content on positive childhood experience and childhood 
vaccinations.
    The NCHS RSS Round 5 data collection is based on 8,000 complete 
surveys and is estimated to be 2,687 hours. There are no costs to 
respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Type of respondents                   Form name            Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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Adults 18+............................  Survey: NCHS RSS Round 5           8,000               1           20/60
Adult 18+.............................  Cognitive Interviews....              20               1               1
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Public Health 
Ethics and Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2024-10877 Filed 5-16-24; 8:45 am]
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