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Dated: October 27, 2010.
Carol Walker,
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
[30-Day–11–0307]

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of
information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35). To request a copy of these
requests, call 404–639–4604 or send
comments to Carol Walker, CDC Acting
Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton
Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or
send an e-mail to [email protected]. Send
written comments to CDC Desk Officer,
Office of Management and Budget,

Proposed Project
Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance
Project (GISP), (OMB No. 0920–0307)—
Extension—National Center for HIV/
AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC is requesting a 3-year extension
without change for this project. The
objectives of GISP are to monitor trends
in antimicrobial susceptibility of
Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains in the
U.S. and to characterize resistant
isolates. Monitoring antibiotic
susceptibility is critical since Neisseria
gonorrhoeae has demonstrated the
consistent ability to gain antibiotic
resistance. GISP provides critical
surveillance for antimicrobial
resistance, allowing for informed
treatment recommendations.
This project involves 5 regional
laboratories and 30 sexually transmitted
disease (STD) clinics operated by the
local health departments around the
country. The STD clinics submit up to

25 gonococcal isolates per month to the
Regional laboratories to measure
susceptibility to a panel of antibiotics.
Limited demographic and clinical
information corresponding to the
isolates are submitted directly by the
STD clinics to CDC.
During 1986–2009, GISP has
demonstrated the ability to effectively
achieve its objectives. The emergence of
resistance in the United States to
penicillin, tetracyclines, and
fluoroquinolones among N. gonorrhoeae
isolates was identified through GISP.
Increased prevalence of
fluoroquinolone-resistant N.
gonorrhoeae (QRNG), as documented by
GISP data, prompted CDC to update the
treatment recommendations for
gonorrhea in CDC’s Sexually
Transmitted Diseases Treatment
Guidelines, 2006 and to release an
MMWR article stating that CDC no
longer recommended fluoroquinolones
for treatment of gonococcal infections.
There are no costs to respondents other
than their time. Respondents receive
Federal funds to participate in this
project. The total annual burden is
estimated to be 8,568 hours.
Number of
responses per
respondent

Number of
respondents

Average burden
per response
(in hours)

Type of respondent

Form name

Clinic .........................................................
Laboratory .................................................

Form 1 ......................................................
Form 2 ......................................................
Form 3 ......................................................

30
5
5

240
1,440
48

11/60
1
12/60

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

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

40

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

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Dated: October 27, 2010.
Carol Walker,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
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Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395–
5806. Written comments should be
received within 30 days of this notice.

Comments on this notice must be
received by December 2, 2010.

DATES:

Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed

SUMMARY:

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information collection project: ‘‘AHRQ
Grants Reporting System (GRS).’’ In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on August 31st, 2010 and
allowed 60 days for public comment. No
comments were received. The purpose
of this notice is to allow an additional
30 days for public comment.

Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by email at [email protected]
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer).
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden

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can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
e-mail at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
AHRQ Grants Reporting System (GRS)
AHRQ seeks to renew the Agency’s
Grants Reporting System (GRS), a
systematic method for its grantees to
report project progress and important
preliminary findings for grants funded
by the Agency. This system was first
approved by OMB on November 10,
2004 (OMB Control Number 0935–
0122). The system addressed the
shortfalls in the previous reporting
process and established a consistent and
comprehensive grants reporting solution
for AHRQ. The GRS provides a
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progress and additional information that
can be used to support initiatives within
the Agency. This includes future
research planning and support to
administration activities such as
performance monitoring, budgeting,
knowledge transfer as well as strategic
planning.
The overall intent of the GRS project
is to establish and document a
systematic process that provides
grantees with the ability to submit
critical information in a timely manner
throughout the lifecycle of a grant. In
addition, the GRS project includes an
infrastructure that is scalable and
flexible to support information
exchange throughout the Agency.
The GRS is based on a review of the
previous processes that supported the
solicitation and submission of data
associated with patient safety grants.
Following this review, a recommended
process was prepared and presented to
AHRQ stakeholders. The project team
developed an initial system that
addresses the immediate needs of the
stakeholder community.
The project team, in conjunction with
the stakeholder community will
establish follow-on activities which will
expand the capabilities of the initial
system to meet the longer term goals of
the project as directed by the executive
management team of the agency. The
specific activities that were
accomplished in the short term and
those established for the longer term are
outlined below.

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common reporting system for research
related activities by:
• Enhancing the initial system as
necessary to accommodate features not
addressed by the short-term solution.
• Modifying the short-term solution
to address new requirements and refine
existing functionality for use across the
agency for other programs and
mechanisms.
• Expanding the deployment of the
system to accommodate additional
grants programs and other agency
information exchange mechanisms.

Short-Term Objectives
The following initial objectives for the
GRS project have been:
• Establish and document a
systematic process which supports the
voluntary reporting of project progress
and important preliminary findings
associated with patient safety research
grants
• Collect, document, and prioritize
the long-term objectives of the GRS
• Establish an infrastructure that
satisfies the short-term objectives of the
project and can be leveraged to meet the
long-term objectives and anticipated
expansion
• Establish an automated userfriendly resource that will be used by
grantees, regardless of mechanism, for
reporting to AHRQ
• Establish an automated userfriendly resource that will be utilized by
Agency staff for preparing, distributing,
and reviewing reporting requests to
patient safety grantees
• Ensure that the necessary security
requirements are established and
implemented in order to maintain the
intellectual property or publication
rights of grantees
• Establish a solution that is
consistent with the AHRQ enterprise
architecture model and aligned with
AHRQ systems development standards.

Method of Collection
Grantees are required to enter data
related to the progress of their grant
funded research quarterly through a
secure online interface which requires a
user id and password.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents. It will take grantees an
estimated 10 minutes to enter the
necessary data into the Grant Reporting
System (GRS) and reporting will occur
four times annually. The total
annualized burden hours are estimated
to be 333 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden for the
respondents. The total estimated cost
burden for respondents is $11,159.

Long-Term Objectives
The AHRQ project team will continue
to enhance the GRS to establish a single,

EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Form name

Number of
responses per
respondent

Hours per
response

Total burden

Data entry into GRS ............................................................................................

500

4 ....................

10/60 ...........

333

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

500

na ..................

na ................

333

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents

Form name

Total
burden
hours

Average
hourly
wage rate *

Total cost
burden

Data entry into GRS ..................................................................................................

500

333 ............

$33.51 ......

$11,159

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

500

333 ............

na .............

11,159

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* Based upon the average wages for Healthcare Practitioner and Technical Occupations (29–0000), ‘‘National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2009,’’ U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
The annual cost to the government is
$100,000 for licensing, support and
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited
Paperwork Reduction Act legislation,
comments on AHRQs information
collection are requested with regard to
any of the following: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is

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necessary for the proper performance of
AHRQ healthcare research and
healthcare information dissemination
functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
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the proposed collection(s) of
information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information upon the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: October 19, 2010.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project: ‘‘The
Agency for Health Care Research and
Quality (AHRQ) Health Care
Innovations Exchange Innovator
Interview and Innovator E-mail
Submission Guidelines.’’ In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44
U.S.C. 3501–3520, AHRQ invites the
public to comment on this proposed
information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by January 3, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by
e-mail at
[email protected].
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
e-mail at
[email protected].

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Proposed Project
The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) Health Care
Innovations Exchange Innovator
Interview and Innovator E-mail
Submission Guidelines
This request for Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) review is for renewal
of the existing collection that is
currently approved under OMB Control
No. 0935–0147, AHRQ Health Care
Innovations Exchange Innovator
Interview and AHRQ Health Care
Innovations Exchange Innovator E-mail
Submission Guidelines, which expires
on March 31, 2011.
The Health Care Innovations
Exchange provides a national-level
information hub to foster the
implementation and adaptation of
innovative strategies that improve
health care quality and reduce
disparities in the care received by
different populations. The Innovations
Exchange’s target audiences, broadly
defined, are current and potential
change agents in the U.S. health care
system, including clinicians (e.g.,
physicians, nurses, and other
providers), health system
administrators, health plan managers,
health service purchasers, regulators,
and policymakers from relevant Federal
and state agencies.
To develop the target of 150 profiles
per year, a purposively selected group of
approximately 167 health care
innovations will be selected annually
for potential consideration. These 167
innovations will be selected to ensure
that innovations included in the
Innovations Exchange cover a broad
range of health care settings, care
processes, priority populations, and
clinical conditions.
The goals of the Health Care
Innovations Exchange are to:
(1) Identify health care service
delivery innovations and provide a
national level repository of searchable
innovations and Quality Tools that
enables health care decisionmakers to
quickly identify ideas and tools that
meet their needs. These innovations
come from many care settings including
inpatient facilities, outpatient facilities,
long term care organizations, health
plans and community care settings.
They also represent many patient
populations, disease conditions, and
processes of care such as preventive,
acute, and chronic care;
(2) Foster the implementation and
adoption of health care service delivery
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quality and reduce disparities in the
care received by different populations.
This data collection is being
conducted by AHRQ through its
contractor, Westat, pursuant to AHRQ’s
statutory authority to conduct and
support research on healthcare and on
systems for the delivery of such care,
including activities (1) With respect to
the quality, effectiveness, efficiency,
appropriateness and value of healthcare
services, 42 U.S.C. 299a(a), and (2) to
promote innovation in evidence-based
health care practices and technologies.
42 U.S.C. 299b–5.
Method of Collection
To achieve the first goal of the
Innovations Exchange the following
data collections will be implemented:
(1) E-mail submission—Based on
experience during the current approval
period, approximately 10% of the 167
health care innovations considered for
inclusion annually, and their associated
innovators, will submit their
innovations via e-mail to the
Innovations Exchange without prior
contact (about 17 annually). Innovators
who submit their innovations for
possible publication through the e-mail
submission guidelines process will be
considered as will innovations
identified by project staff through an
array of sources that include: published
literature, conference proceedings, news
items, list servs, Federal agencies and
other government programs and
resources, health care foundations, and
health care associations.
(2) Health care innovator interview—
To collect and verify the information
required for the innovation profiles,
health care innovators will be
interviewed by telephone about the
following aspects of their innovation:
health care problem addressed, impetus
for the innovation, goals of the
innovation, description of the
innovation, sources of funding,
evaluation results for the innovation,
setting for the innovation, history of
planning and implementation for the
innovation, and lessons learned
concerning the implementation of the
innovation. Interviews will be
conducted with innovators identified by
project staff and those identified
through e-mail submission.
(3) Annual follow-up reviews—After
the innovation profile is published, on
a yearly basis, innovators will be
contacted by e-mail to review and
update their profiles.
The second goal of the Innovations
Exchange is achieved by serving as a
‘‘one-stop shop’’ that provides:

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