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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 93 / Wednesday, May 14, 2014 / Notices
LeRoy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014–11039 Filed 5–13–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–14–14YK]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce public
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To
request more information on the below
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send
comments to LeRoy Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. Comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have 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 clarity of the
information to be collected;(d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including

through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
Information Collection on CauseSpecific Absenteeism in Schools—
New—National Center for Emerging and
Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID),
Division of Global Migration and
Quarantine (DGMQ), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global
Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ),
requests approval of a new information
collection to better understand the
triggers, timing and duration of the use
of school related measures for
preventing and controlling the spread of
influenza during the next pandemic.
The information collection for which
approval is sought is in accordance with
DGMQ/CDC’s mission to reduce
morbidity and mortality in mobile
populations, and to prevent the

introduction, transmission, or spread of
communicable diseases within the
United States. Insights gained from this
information collection will assist in the
planning and implementation of CDC
Pre-Pandemic Guidance on the use of
school related measures, including
school closures, to slow transmission
during an influenza pandemic.
School closures were considered an
important measure during the earliest
stage of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic,
because a pandemic vaccine was not
available until October (6 months later),
and sufficient stocks to immunize all
school-age children were not available
until December. However, retrospective
review of the U.S. government response
to the pandemic identified a limited
evidence-base regarding the
effectiveness, acceptability, and
feasibility of various school related
measures during mild or moderately
severe pandemics. Guidance updates
will require an evidence-based rationale
for determining the appropriate triggers,
timing, and duration of school related
measures, including school closures,
during a pandemic.
CDC staff proposes that the
information collection for this package
will target adult and child populations
in a school district in Wisconsin. CDC
will collect reports of individual student
symptoms, vaccination status, recent
travel, recent exposure to people with
influenza symptoms and duration of
illness; this will be accomplished
through telephone and in-person
interviews.
Findings obtained from this
information collection will be used to
inform the update CDC’s Pre-pandemic
Guidance on the implementation of
school related measures to prevent the
spread of influenza, especially school
closures. This Guidance is used as an
important planning and reference tool
for both State and local health
departments in the United States.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time.

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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Number of
responses
per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
hours

Type of respondent

Form name

Parents of children/adolescents attending schools (Wisconsin).
Parents of children/adolescents attending schools (Wisconsin).

Screening Form ................................

1,500

4

5/60

500

Acute Respiratory Infection and Influenza Surveillance Form.

1,500

4

30/60

3,000

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

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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 93 / Wednesday, May 14, 2014 / Notices

LeRoy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014–11040 Filed 5–13–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4163–18–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–14–0900]

emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with NOTICES

Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce public
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To
request more information on the below
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send
comments to LeRoy Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. Comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have 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 clarity of the
information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal

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agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
Contact Investigation Outcome
Reporting Forms—Revision—(0920–
0900, expiration date: September 30,
2014)—National Center for Emerging
and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
(NCEZID), Division of Global Migration
and Quarantine (DGMQ), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Division of Global
Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ)
requests a revision of the currently
approved Information Collection
Request: ‘‘Contact Investigation
Outcome Reporting Forms,’’ expiring
September 30, 2014. CDC has conducted
a thorough review of the data collection
tools approved in this information
collection request. To streamline the
data collected, ease the completion of
each data collection tool, and to target
information collected to be more
specific to the individual illness of
public health concern, several changes
to the data collection tools have been
proposed. The result is a 12% reduction
in burden, or a reduction of 32 total
burden hours. A summary of changes is
as follows:
• Data pertaining to contact
investigations for measles, mumps and
rubella will no longer be collected using
one form for either the air or maritime
environments.
• Data collection for measles contact
investigations will be collected either by
using the Measles Contact Investigation
Reporting Form—Air, or the Measles
Contact Investigation Reporting Form—
Maritime.
• CDC will no longer collect
information pertaining to cases of
mumps occurring during air travel.
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mumps occurring onboard maritime
conveyances will still be evaluated,
using the General Contact Investigation
Outcome Form—Maritime.
• Data collection for rubella contact
investigations will be collected either by
using the Rubella Contact Investigation
Reporting Form—Air, or the Rubella
Contact Investigation Reporting Form—
Maritime. Data collection fields
pertaining to pregnant women have
been added to assist in recommending
the appropriate prophylaxis of those
exposed.
• Data pertaining to contact
investigations occurring in the air and
land-border crossing environments will
no longer be collected using the same
form. Factors affecting the disease
transmission in these environments is
very different, thus, CDC has created
separate data collection tools and fields.
Data collection for contact
investigations of illnesses of public
health concern occurring in a landborder crossing environment will be
collected by using the General Contact
Investigation Reporting Form—Land.
Data collection for illnesses of public
health concern occurring in an air
environment will be collected using
tools specific to each disease.
• In response to a request from
maritime operators (cruise ship
physicians/cargo ship managers), CDC
has added the option for contact
investigation outcome reporting to be
completed in either a MS Word or MS
Excel format. The excel format allows
reporting for multiple patients
simultaneously without completing
separate documents for each ill traveler.
The information collected on each of the
data collection tools is the same. Data
collection for contact investigations for
diseases of public health concern
occurring in a maritime environment
will be collected using tools specific to
each of the diseases listed above.
This data collection supports the need
for CDC staff to evaluate cases of
communicable diseases of public health
concern during travel and conduct
investigative contact tracing for those
that may have been exposed. The
proposed data collection tools facilitate
the collection of data pertaining to these
contact investigations.
CDC is requesting a total of 248
burden hours in this revision. There are
no costs to respondents other than their
time.

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