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related to the prevention research
projects, products resulting from those
projects, trainings related to those
projects, and partnerships.
CDC will request OMB approval to
continue collecting progress and
performance information from PRCs for
three years, with changes. The current
IS will be phased out and replaced with
two restructured information
collections. The first information
collection will be conducted utilizing a
simplified, more user-friendly Webbased survey system. The second
information collection will consist of
telephone interview involving a key
contact person for each PRC grantee.
CDC proposes to amend the title of the

identify training and technical
assistance needs, respond to requests for
information from Congress and other
sources, monitor grantees’ compliance
with cooperative agreement
requirements, evaluate progress made in
achieving goals and objectives, and
describe the impact and effectiveness of
the PRC program.
PRCs will report the required
information to CDC once per year.
Although the number of respondent
PRCs will increase to 35, the overall
estimated burden is expected to
decrease due to a reduction in the
estimated burden per respondent. There
are no costs to respondents other than
their time.

OMB approval to reflect the change in
data collection methodology.
In the next approval period,
information collection will be
restructured around a revised set of
performance indicators that are based
on a review of fiscal year 2007 data and
input from the PRCs from 2008–2009.
During that time, the CDC PRC Program
office and grantees concluded that
performance could be adequately
monitored using a subset of the
previously approved questions,
implementing minor changes to some
questions, instituting a brief telephone
interview, and reducing the frequency
of data collection.
CDC will continue to use the
information reported by PRCs to

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

PRC Program ....................................

Survey ..............................................
Telephone Interview .........................

35
35

1
1

6
1

210
35

Total ...........................................

...........................................................

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245

Dated: January 20, 2010.
Maryam Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–10–09AM]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations

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Number of
respondents

Type of respondent

In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects.
Alternatively, to obtain a copy of the
data collection plans and instrument,
call 404–639–5960 and send comments
to Maryam I. Daneshvar, CDC Reports
Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road
NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30333;
comments may also be sent by e-mail to
[email protected].
Comments are invited on (a) whether
the proposed collection of information

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is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have a
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarify of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of information technology. Written
comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Prevalence Survey of Healthcare
Associated Infections (HAIs) and
Antimicrobial Use in U.S. Acute Care
Hospitals—New—National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID) (proposed), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC is requesting OMB approval to
conduct two surveys to obtain national
estimates of Healthcare Associated
Infections (HAIs) prevalence and
antimicrobial use in the United States.
Preventing HAIs is a CDC priority, and
an essential step in reducing the
occurrence of HAIs is to accurately
estimate the burden of these infections
in U.S. hospitals and to describe the
types of HAIs and their causative

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organisms, including antimicrobialresistant pathogens.
The scope and magnitude of HAIs in
the U.S. were last directly estimated in
the 1970s and 1980s by CDC’s Study on
the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection
Control (SENIC), in which
comprehensive data were collected from
a sample of 338 hospitals; 5% of
hospitalized patients acquired an
infection not present at the time of
admission. CDC’s current HAI
surveillance system, the National
Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
(OMB Control No. 0920–0666,
expiration date 9/30/2012), focuses
instead on device-associated and
procedure-associated infections in a
variety of patient locations, and does
not receive data on all types of HAIs to
make hospital-wide burden estimates.
The purpose of this information
collection request is to assess the
magnitude and types of HAIs and
antimicrobial use occurring in all
patient populations within acute care
hospitals in order to inform decisions
made by local and national policy
makers and hospital infection control
personnel regarding appropriate targets
and strategies for preventing HAIs and
the emergence of antimicrobialresistant pathogens and encouraging
appropriate antimicrobial use. Such
assessments can be obtained in periodic
national prevalence studies, such as

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those that have been conducted in
several European countries.
CDC proposes to conduct two surveys
to collect this data. The first survey will
be a limited roll-out survey and will be
conducted in 30 facilities across 10
States in collaboration with State public
health authorities and CDC’s Emerging
Infections Program (EIP). The survey
will be conducted on a single day in
participating facilities. Infection Control
Practitioners in participating facilities,
such as infection control personnel, will
collect limited demographic and clinical
information on a sample of eligible

organisms, and nature of and rationale
for antimicrobial use.
This proposed project supports CDC’s
Strategic Goal of ‘‘Healthy Healthcare
Settings,’’ specifically the objectives to
‘‘Promote compliance with evidencebased guidelines for preventing,
identifying, and managing disease in
healthcare settings’’ and ‘‘Prevent
adverse events in patients and
healthcare workers in healthcare
settings.’’ There are no costs to
respondents, other than their time to
complete the survey.

inpatients and, on the same day, EIP site
personnel will collect information on
HAIs and antimicrobial use for surveyed
patients who are on antimicrobial
therapy at the time of the survey. The
second survey will involve 500 facilities
across the same 10 States and use the
same methodology. As with the first
survey, CDC will collaborate with State
public health authorities and EIP sites.
CDC will use the data provided to
estimate the prevalence of HAIs and
antimicrobial use across this sample of
U.S. hospitals as well as to estimate the
distribution of infection types, causative

ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Respondents

Infection Control Practitioners—Survey #1 ......................................................
EIP personnel—Survey #1 ..............................................................................
Infection Control Practitioners—Survey #2 ......................................................
EIP personnel—Survey #2 ..............................................................................

Number of
responses per
respondent

30
10
500
10

83
99
83
1650

Total ..........................................................................................................

Dated: January 22, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request

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Periodically, the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) will publish a summary of
information collection requests under
OMB review, in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
documents, call the SAMHSA Reports
Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243.
Project: Addiction Technology Transfer
Centers (ATTC) Network Program
Monitoring (OMB No. 0930–0216)—
Revision
The Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration’s
(SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment (CSAT) will continue to
monitor program performance of its
Addiction Technology Transfer Centers
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Total burden
(in hours)
208
248
3,458
4,125
8,039

the National Institute on Drug Abuse,
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism, National Institute of Mental
Health, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, National Institute of
Justice, and other sources, as well as
other SAMHSA programs. To
accomplish this, the ATTCs develop
and update state-of-the-art, researchbased curricula and professional
development training.
Each of the forms is described below.
SAMHSA/CSAT is proposing to revise
the Event Description and Post-Event
forms currently used by the ATTCs. The
Follow-Up forms will not be changed.
The Pre-Events forms currently in use
will be eliminated.
Sixty percent of the forms are
administered in person to participants
at educational and training events, who
complete the forms by paper and pencil.
Ten percent of the training courses are
online, and thus, those forms are
administered online. The remaining
thirty percent is made up of 30-day
follow-up forms that are distributed to
consenting participants via electronic
mail using an online survey tool.
(1) The Event Description Form will
be revised. The form collects event
information. It includes questions
regarding the SAMHSA priority areas
and cross-cutting principles covered by
the content of the event. SAMHSA’s
priority areas and cross-cutting
principles have been revised since this
form was approved, so the form will be
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and principles. In addition, the Event
Description Form asks which of
SAMHSA’s Technical Assistance
Publications (TAPs) and Treatment
Improvement Protocols (TIPs) were used
during the event. New TIPs and TAPs
have been published since the form was
approved. Those new TIPs and TAPs
will be added to the form.
(2) The Pre-Event Form for meetings,
technical assistance events, and training
events will be eliminated. The
demographic information that was
collected on this form will be added to
the Post-Event Forms. By incorporating
this demographic information on the
Post-Event Forms, the Pre-Event Form
can be eliminated, thereby reducing the
response burden for participants.
(3) The Post-Event Form for all events
will be revised. The five current
demographic questions will be revised
to reflect a more current understanding
of the field, and five additional
demographic questions will be
included.
(4) The Follow-Up Form for all events
will remain the same as the ones
currently in use by the ATTCs.
Event Description: The event
description form asks approximately 10
questions of the ATTC faculty/staff for
each of the ATTC events. The approved
form asks the event focus, format, and
publications to be used in the event. As
noted above, it will be revised to reflect
updates to SAMHSA’s priority areas and
cross-cutting principles and the
publication of new TIPs and TAPs.

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