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‘‘ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND PRACTICES RELATING TO EVD PREVENTION AND MEDICAL CARE
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Total burden
(in hrs.)

Form name

Household Members .........................

Information Collection Instrument—
Household.
Information Collection Instrument—
Leader.

5,120

128

30/60

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

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

5,184

Village or Neighborhood Leaders .....
Total ...........................................

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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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention

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 the proposed information
collection entitled The Green Housing
Pilot Study (New Orleans).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before July 6, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2015–
0027 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.

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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,
Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570;
Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

[60-Day 15–15AFJ; Docket No. CDC–2015–
0027]

SUMMARY:

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.
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.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES

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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
The Green Housing Pilot Study (New
Orleans)—New—National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) is seeking a new
three-year regular OMB approval for a
pilot study of additional components to
be tested in a single study site (New
Orleans) for the Green Housing Study
(OMB No. 0920–0906, Expiration Date
10/31/2017). The goal of the Green
Housing pilot study (New Orleans) is to
apply environmental sample collection
methods and novel approaches to study
exposures to various indoor pollutants
(both chemical and biological agents) in
children (0–12 yrs.).
The information collected will help
scientists better understand timeactivity patterns of young children (0–
12 years) that affect exposures to

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chemical and biological agents in their
residential environments. This
knowledge will improve estimates of
exposure for children. Results from this
pilot study will also inform future Green
Housing Study sites and will potentially
reduce participant time burden by
collecting some questionnaires
electronically.
This study directly supports the
Healthy People 2020 Healthy Homes’
health protection goal of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This investigation is also consistent
with CDC’s Health Protection Research
Agenda, which calls for research to
identify the major environmental causes
of disease and disability and related risk
factors.
In 2011, CDC funded the first two
study sites for the Green Housing Study;
one location was in Boston and the
other was in Cincinnati. In these two
cities, renovations sponsored by the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) had already been
scheduled. By selecting sites in which
renovations were already schedule to
occur, the CDC leveraged the
opportunity to collect survey and
biomarker data from residents and to
collect environmental measurements in
homes in order to evaluate associations
between green housing and health. The
biomarker measurements of the children
(such as those from urine, feces,
toenails) reflects exposures that are in
body, thus improving assessment of
how environmental exposures can
influence what enters the body.
The third study is in New Orleans.
With the New Orleans study site, CDC
and Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) investigators propose a pilot
study of other sampling and analysis
methodologies to improve exposure
assessment for future study sites.

exposures inside and outside of their
homes can occur during different life
stages of childhood, a critical period of
life when the immune system and other
organ systems are still developing.
The Pilot study will be implemented
by incorporating it into the Green
Housing study schedule for
approximately 12 months. Data
collection methods proposed for the
pilot include: (1) A questionnaire
regarding time-activity patterns of their
children which will be administered to
mothers/primary caregivers (i.e., the
respondents), (2) collection of air, soil,
dust samples from the respondent’s
home; and (3) collection of blood, urine,
toenails clippings, and feces from the
respondent’s eligible children. We
hypothesize that a better estimation of
exposure pathways will improve
exposure modeling for the current Green
Housing Study site (New Orleans),
future Green Housing Study sites, and
future research in environmental health.
Although children are considered
participants (by giving biological
samples and providing some clinical
measurements), the respondents to all
questionnaires are the mothers/primary
caregivers.
The number and type of respondents
that will complete the questionnaires
are 64 mothers/primary caregivers of
enrolled children. All health and
environmental exposure information
about children will be provided by their
mothers/primary caregivers (i.e., no
children will fill out questionnaires).
There is no cost to the respondents
other than their time to participate in
the study. The total estimated annual
burden hours for the pilot study in New
Orleans study site of the Green Housing
Study is 171 hrs.

Several objectives will be evaluated in
the EPA pilot study add-on to the third
study site:
(1) Identify and characterize factors
affecting children’s exposures to
chemical ingredients from consumer
products found in their everyday
environment in order to support the
data and modeling needs of the
exposure components of EPA’s national
research programs;
(2) Evaluate the pilot study data
metrics for incorporation in and
enhancement of CDC’s ability to
understand the relationship between
environmental exposures and asthma in
green versus traditional low-income
housing;
(3) Compare multimedia
measurements and survey data between
pre- and post-renovation time points in
green and traditional low-income
housing to assess exposure related
changes in the residence and
participants due to renovation activities.
This pilot study of additional
environmental exposure assessment
methodologies is only for the New
Orleans study site. Each study site only
has 64 households (32 green renovated
homes and 32 comparison homes) so
this will be the maximum number of
households in this pilot study. Like the
previous study sites, participants for the
New Orleans study site will continue to
include children with asthma, their
mothers/primary caregivers living in
HUD-subsidized housing that has either
received a green renovation or is a
comparison home (i.e., no renovation).
In addition, younger children (newborns
through age 12 years, with a focus on
newborns to age 3 years) will be
enrolled for the New Orleans study site.
Having a larger age range of children in
the pilot study will improve the
estimate of how environmental

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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of respondents

Form name

Number of
respondents

Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hrs.)

Mothers/Primary Caregivers of Enrolled Children.

Time/Activity Questionnaire .............

40/60

171

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

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

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

171

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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