Attachment 5. Summary of Public Comments

Attachment 5. Comments Received and Response to Federal Register Notice

Comment #1 (No response)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 8:31 AM
To: OMB-Comments (CDC); [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: PUBLIC COMMENT ON FEDERAL REGISTER OF 1/19/07 VOL 72 #12 PG 2529
DHS CDC 60 DAY 07 07ag DATA COLLECTION ON HIV CONDUCT
THIS AGENCY HAS DATA COLLECTED UP THE WAZOO FOR THE LAST TWENTY TO THIRTY
YEARS ON THIS ILLNESS AND ON THE BEHAVIOR THAT LEADS TO IT. WE DONT NEED
ANYMORE. STOP REINVENTING THE WHEEL AND WASTING US TAX DOLLARS ON THIS EFFORT.
YOU CAN USE THE MONEY SAVED FROM THIS ON HELPING THOSE WHO HAVE THE ILLNESS
INSTEAD. THIS STUPID SPENDING PLAN IN COLLECTING DATA OVER AND OVER AND OVER
AGAIN IS NOT A GOOD USE OF TAX DOLLARS.
WE HAV EMANY OTHER DISEASES WHICH CAN USE TAX DOLLARS. REINVENTING THE WHEEL
ON THIS DATA COLLECTION IS ABSOLUTELY STUPID USE OF TAX DOLLARS.
I NOTE THIS IS A NEW PROGRAM. THROW THESE PLANS IN THE WASTEBASKET.
B. SACHAU
15 ELM ST
FLORHAM PARK NJ 07932

Comment #2
From: Jackson, Terry [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:44 PM
To: Karr, Joan F. (CDC/OD/OCSO)
Subject: Proposed Data Collection - National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System (NHBS)
Good afternoon. This is Terry Jackson with the NYS Office of Alcoholism and
Substance Abuse Services. Can
you confirm for me that the NYC SMA and the Nassau/Suffolk SMA are part of
the proposed study as
described in the Federal Register Notice below?....Thank you very much.
[Federal Register: January 19, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 12)]
[Notices]
[Page 2529-2530]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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Response to Comment #2
At this time we cannot confirm the inclusion of any specific geographic area for NHBS. We will not know
for sure which areas are included until the funding announcement for NHBS is published in the Federal
Register. It is likely that the notice will be published this coming summer.