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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES

Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570;
Email: [email protected].

Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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0010]

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:

The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing efforts to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, 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. This notice invites
comment on newly proposed
information collection activities for
enhanced surveillance of
Coccidioidomycosis in low- and nonendemic states.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before May 26, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2015–
0010 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. All relevant comments
received will be posted without change
to Regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. For
access to the docket to read background
documents or comments received, go to
Regulations.gov.
SUMMARY:

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Please note: All public comment should be
submitted through the Federal eRulemaking
portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.

To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact the Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta,

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires Federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
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.
Proposed Project
Enhanced Surveillance of
Coccidioidomycosis in Low- and NonEndemic States—New—National Center
for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease
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Background and Brief Description
Coccidioidomycosis, also called
‘‘Valley fever,’’ is a nationally notifiable
fungal infection caused by inhalation of
soil-dwelling Coccidioides spp. In the
United States, coccidioidomycosis is
known to be endemic in the
southwestern states, but new evidence
suggests that the true endemic areas
may be broader than previously
recognized. Approximately 10,000
coccidioidomycosis cases are reported
in the U.S. each year to the National
Notifiable Disease Surveillance System
(NNDSS), but this system captures
limited clinical and epidemiological
information about reported cases. Most
cases occur in Arizona or California, so
the epidemiology of this disease has
been well-described for these states, but
little is known about the features of
cases in other states.
Enhanced surveillance in low- and
non-endemic states will help determine
which information is most important to
collect during routine surveillance and
will help assess the suitability of the
Council of State and Territorial
Epidemiologists (CSTE) case definition
for coccidioidomycosis in these areas.
Primary prevention strategies for
coccidioidomycosis have not yet been
proven to be effective, so public health
efforts may be best aimed at promoting
awareness of coccidioidomycosis among
healthcare providers and the general
public. Improved surveillance data are
essential for identifying such
opportunities to promote awareness
about this disease and for determining
its true public health burden.
For a period of one year, state health
department personnel in participating
low- and non-endemic states (Louisiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Utah, and Wyoming) will conduct
telephone interviews with reported
coccidioidomycosis cases that meet the
CSTE case definition and will record
responses on a standardized form.
Information collected on the form will
include demographics, underlying
medical conditions, travel history,
symptom type and duration, healthcareseeking behaviors, diagnosis, treatment,
and outcomes.
This interview activity is consistent
with the state’s existing authority to
investigate reports of notifiable diseases
for routine surveillance purposes;
therefore, formal consent to participate
in the surveillance is not required.
However, cases may choose not to
participate and may choose not to
answer any question they do not wish
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It will take state health department
personnel 20 minutes to administer the
questionnaire and 10 minutes to retrieve
and record the diagnostic information

from their state reportable disease
database.
Participation is voluntary. There are
no costs to the respondents other than

their time. The total burden hours are 73
hours.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of respondents

State Health Department Personnel

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

145

1

30/60

73

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Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has submitted the
following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for
the proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your
comments should address any of the
following: (a) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) Minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,

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Total burden
(in hrs.)

Case Report Form for Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) Enhanced Surveillance.

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.

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electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and (e) Assess information
collection costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to [email protected]. Written
comments and/or suggestions regarding
the items contained in this notice
should be directed to the Attention:
CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management
and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or
by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Emergency Self Escape for Coal
Miners—New—National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention’s (CDC) mission is to
promote health and quality of life by
preventing and controlling disease,
injury, and disability. The National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) provides national and
world leadership to prevent workrelated illness, injury, disability, and
death by gathering information,
conducting scientific research, and
translating knowledge gained into
products and services. NIOSH’s mission
is critical to the health and safety of
every American worker. The Office of
Mine Safety and Health Research
(OMSHR), one of the preeminent mining
research laboratories in the world, is
focused on occupational health and
safety research for mine workers.
Recent research by the National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) has called
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mine self-escape (National Research
Council, 2013). Such an analysis should
identify the knowledge, skills, abilities,
and other attributes (KSAOs) needed by
mine personnel in the event of a mine
disaster to successfully complete an
emergency self-escape. This analysis
will identify gaps between worker
demands and capabilities, and propose
recommendations to either minimize
those gaps or enhance existing systems
(e.g., communications, training,
technology).
The purpose of the project is to
enhance the ability of miners to escape
from underground coal mines in the
event of a fire, explosion, collapse of the
mine structure, or flooding of the area
by toxic gas or water. To escape, miners
need to perform a set of tasks that apply
specific knowledge and skills in moving
through the mine, avoiding dangers, and
using protective equipment. The project
will identify the tasks, knowledge and
skills, procedures, equipment,
communications, and physical
requirements of self-escape. The results
are expected to lead to
recommendations for improvements to
task requirements and procedures,
equipment, training and communication
processes.
NIOSH proposes this two-year study
to better understand the requirements of
emergency self-escape and to answer the
following questions:
• What tasks (and critical tasks) do
miners perform during self-escape?
• What knowledge beyond that
needed to perform normal, routine
mining tasks do miners require to
facilitate successful self-escape?
• What are the cognitive requirements
(such as reasoning, or weighing and
deciding among alternatives,
recognizing when a course of action is
not producing the intended results)
beyond that needed to perform normal,
routine mining tasks?

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