CDC MIS Response

Catina,

Please see below our response to the comments from OMB Washington.

If you have any questions, please call me.

Thanks.

Bob

From: Lowrey, Mary E. (CDC/CCHP/NCCDPHP)
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:34 AM
To: Lieb, Robert E. (CDC/CCHP/NCCDPHP)
Subject: RE: 0920-0479 draft 1
Importance: High

We are offering the following information in response to your concerns about increased burden the Agency has proposed with 0920-0479.

“The package indicates that information will be collected in real time - to what extent does ongoing collection contribute to the increase in burden the Agency has proposed and did CDC consider alternative options for information submission e.g. would quarterly reporting provide the Agency with the necessary information? additionally what is the incremental benefit of collecting the information ongoing relative to a quarterly or less frequent collection?  would this reduce burden on respondents?”

 

The increase in estimated-burden hours reflected in 12A is primarilly based on the fact that grantees now enter their source information and data directly into the MIS.  In the currently approved collection, the estimated-burden hours was based on only the time required for grantees' to actually utilize the MIS to produce a printed report; collection, and documentation of source information and data was not included since it was done outside the MIS.  It is CDC's and the grantees' opinion that by entering information directly into the MIS on a real time basis improves the efficiency of the data collection.  

 

According to the paper work reduction act, CDC only requires one annual report from all funded grantees.