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One important and effective means to
promote and support the initiation and
maintenance of breastfeeding is through
the health care system. While the few
studies on breastfeeding practices at
intra-partum care facilities in individual
states and facilities show significant
variation in practices, it is not currently
possible to assess and monitor
breastfeeding-related practices and
policies in hospitals and free-standing
childbirth centers across the United
States with data currently available.
CDC plans to conduct an assessment
of breastfeeding-related maternity care
practices in intra-partum care facilities
in the United States and Territories to
provide information to individual
facilities, state health departments, and
CDC on the extent to which facilities are
providing effective breastfeeding-related
maternity care. The assessment will
provide detailed information on general
facility characteristics related to
maternity care such as facility policies
related to breastfeeding-related
maternity care practices, practices

related to the training of health care staff
on breastfeeding instruction,
management and support, rooming-in,
infant supplementation, and discharge
from facility. CDC will provide facilityspecific information based on the
assessment to the individual facilities
and state-specific information to state
health departments. The information
from the survey can be used by facilities
to evaluate and modify breastfeedingrelated maternity care practices, and by
states and CDC to inform and target
programs and policies to improve
breastfeeding-related maternity care
practices at intra-partum care facilities.
Approximately 4,375 facilities
providing maternity care in the United
States and Territories will be mailed a
survey every other year in this study.
The survey will be administered for the
first time in 2007 and for the second
time in 2009. Survey content will be
similar in each of the administrations to
examine changes in practices and
policies over time. It is expected that
approximately 3,700 facilities will

complete the thirty-minute
questionnaire in each administration.
The facilities will be identified from the
American Hospital Association’s
Annual Survey of Hospitals (AHA) and
the National Association of
Childbearing Centers (NACC). A fiveminute screening telephone call will be
made prior to survey administrations to
all facilities identified as providing
maternity care in AHA and NACC to
ensure they are currently providing
maternity care, to identify possible
satellite clinics providing maternity
care, and to identify survey respondent
in each of the facilities. The respondents
will have the option of either
responding by mail or through a Webbased system. The survey will provide
detailed information about
breastfeeding-related maternity care
practices and policies at hospitals and
free-standing birth centers. There are no
costs to respondents other than their
time. The approximate annualized
burden hours are 1,484 hours.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Questionnaire/respondents

Screening call to facilities that have at least one
Mail survey/ facilities providing maternity care in
Screening call to facilities that have at least one
Mail survey/ facilities providing maternity care in

registered maternity bed (2006) ....................
the past calendar year (2006) .......................
registered maternity bed (2008) ....................
the past calendar year (2008) .......................

Dated: January 31, 2007.
Joan F. Karr,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E7–2070 Filed 2–7–07; 8:45 am]

Management and Budget, Washington,
DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.

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Proposed Project
Determining Stakeholder Awareness
and the Use and Impact of Products
Developed by the Evaluation of
Genomic Applications in Practice and
Prevention (EGAPP) Model Project—
New—National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion/National Office of Public
Health Genomics (NOPHG), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
More than 1,000 genetic tests are
currently available in clinical practice.
Most are used for diagnosis of rare
genetic diseases, but a growing number
have population-based applications, and
the potential for broad public health
impact.
A number of issues have been raised
about the current status of genetic
testing implementation, including the
need to develop evidence to establish

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validity and utility of genetic tests
before tests are commercialized.
Advisory panels, professional
organizations, and clinical experts have
produced recommendations on the
development and clinical
implementation of safe and effective
genetic tests. In response to the need for
a coordinated approach for effectively
integrating genomic tests into clinical
practice and health policy, CDC’s
National Office of Public Health
Genomics (NOPHG) initiated the
(Evaluation of Genomic Applications in
Practice and Prevention) EGAPP model
project in 2004 to establish a systematic,
evidence-based process for assessing
genetic tests in transition from research
to practice. To support this goal, an
independent, non-federal,
multidisciplinary EGAPP Working
Group was established to identify,
prioritize, and select genetic tests to be
reviewed; establish review methods and
processes; monitor progress of the
reviews; and develop conclusions and
recommendations based on the
evidence.

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