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assessment activities is required for
awardees and partner organizations.
Participation in the Health Center Youth

Survey is voluntary for youth and will
not involve the collection of identifiable

personal information. There are no costs
to respondents other than their time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Respondents

Form name

Awardee ..................................................

YSO Staff ................................................

Training and Technical Assistance Tool
Quarterly Performance Measure Reporting Tool.
Annual Performance Measure Reporting
Tool.
Quarterly Performance Measure Reporting Tool.
Annual Performance Measure Reporting
Tool.
Health Center Organizational Assessment.
Health Center Provider Survey ..............
Health Center Youth Survey ..................
Quarterly Performance Measure Reporting Tool.
Annual Performance Measure Reporting
Tool.
Youth Serving Organization (YSO) Organizational Assessment.
YSO Staff Survey ...................................

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

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

Health Center Project Coordinator ..........

Health Center Providers ..........................
Youth .......................................................
YSO Project Coordinator ........................

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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–16–0980; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0018]

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

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SUMMARY:

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Number of
responses per
respondent

3
3

12
3

2
2

72
18

3

1

6

18

35

3

2

210

35

1

4

140

35

1

2

70

175
1,750
30

1
1
3

30/60
15/60
1

88
438
90

30

1

75/60

38

30

1

1

30

450

1

30/60

225

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

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

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

1,437

Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on the proposed revision of
the information collection project
entitled National Environmental
Assessment Reporting System (NEARS),
formerly known as the National
Voluntary Environmental Assessment
Information System (NVEAIS). The
NEARS collects data on foodborne
illness outbreaks and environmental
assessments routinely conducted by
food safety programs during outbreak
investigations.
Written comments must be
received on or before April 5, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0018 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.
DATES:

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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,
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
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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
National Environmental Assessment
Reporting System (NEARS), formerly
the National Voluntary Environmental
Assessment Information System
(NVEAIS; OMB Control No. 0920–0980;
expiration date 08/31/2016)—
Revision—National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).

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Background and Brief Description
Since 2014, environmental factor data
associated with foodborne outbreaks
have been reported to the National
Voluntary Environmental Assessment
Information System (NVEAIS). CDC
intends to seek a three-year Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval to revise the NVEAIS, hereafter
referred to as the National
Environmental Assessment Reporting
System (NEARS). In 2015, it was

recommended that NVEAIS be renamed
as NEARS. This name change will be an
enhancement of the current surveillance
system and was recommended by CDC
leadership, and other food safety
partners who desired to simplify and
improve the name.
The goal of NEARS remains to collect
data on foodborne illness outbreaks and
environmental assessments routinely
conducted by local, state, federal,
territorial, or tribal food safety programs
during outbreak investigations. The data
reported through this surveillance
system provides timely data on the
causes of outbreaks, including
environmental factors associated with
outbreaks, which are essential to
environmental public health regulators’
efforts to respond more effectively to
outbreaks and prevent future, similar
outbreaks.
NEARS was developed by the
Environmental Health Specialists
Network (EHS–Net), a collaborative
network of CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), and
local, state, territorial, and tribal food
safety programs. NEARS is designed to
link to CDC’s National Outbreak
Reporting System (NORS, under the
National Disease Surveillance Program
II—Disease Summaries; OMB Control
No. 0920–0004; expiration date 10/31/
2017), a disease outbreak surveillance
system for enteric diseases transmitted
by food.
When linked, NEARS and NORS data
provide opportunities to strengthen the
robustness of outbreak data reported to
CDC. The foodborne outbreak
environmental assessment data reported
to NEARS will be used to characterize
data on food vehicles and monitor
trends; identify contributing factors and
their environmental antecedents;
generate hypotheses, guide planning,
and implementation; evaluate food
safety programs, and ultimately assist to
prevent future outbreaks. Collectively,
these data play a vital role in improving
the food safety system, strengthening
the robustness of outbreak data reported
to CDC.
The first type of NEARS respondent is
food safety program officials. Although
not a requirement, food safety program
personnel participating in NEARS will
be encouraged to take two trainings:

NEARS food safety program personnel
training and NEARS e-learning. The
former will train food safety personnel
on identifying environmental factors,
logging in and entering data into the
web-based NEARS data entry system,
and troubleshooting problems. The
latter is an e-Learning course on how to
use a systems approach in foodborne
illness outbreak environmental
assessments. It is suggested that
respondents take this training one time,
for a total of 10 hours.
Next, for each outbreak, one official
from each participating program will
spend about one hour to make
establishment observations, 30 minutes
to record environmental assessment
data and 30 minutes to report
environmental assessment data into the
NEARS web-based system. Officials will
not report on their programs or
personnel. Food safety programs are
typically located in public health or
agriculture agencies. There are
approximately 3,000 such agencies in
the United States.
It is not possible to determine exactly
how many outbreaks will occur in the
future, nor where they will occur.
However, based on existing data, we
estimate a maximum of 1,400 foodborne
illness outbreaks will occur annually.
Only programs in the jurisdictions in
which these outbreaks occur would
voluntarily report to NEARS. Thus, not
every program will respond every year.
We assume each outbreak will occur in
a different jurisdiction.
The second type of NEARS
respondent is managers of retail
establishments. The manager interview
will be conducted at each establishment
associated with an outbreak. Most
outbreaks are associated with only one
establishment. We estimate that a
maximum average of four managers at
each establishment will be interviewed
per outbreak. Each interview will take
about 20 minutes.
The total estimated annual burden is
20,067 hours, an increase of 14,000
hours over the previously approved
6,067. This increase in requested burden
hours is due to the addition of the
NEARS e-learning training opportunity.
There is no cost to the respondents
other than their time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of respondents

Form name

Food safety program personnel ........

NEARS Food Safety Program Training ..
NEARS e-Learning (screenshots) ...........

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1,400

1
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burden per
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2
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Total
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Number of
responses per
respondent

Retail food personnel ........................

NEARS Data Recording (paper form) .....
NEARS Data Reporting (web entry) .......
NEARS Manager Interview .....................

1,400
1,400
5,600

1
1
1

30/60
30/60
20/60

700
700
1,867

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

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

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

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

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

20,067

Form name

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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–16–0106; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0017]

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 a proposed revision of the
information collection project entitled
‘‘Preventive Health and Health Services
Block Grant’’.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before April 5, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0017 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.
SUMMARY:

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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
Please note: All public comment should be generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
submitted through the Federal eRulemaking
portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the agency. This includes the time needed
address listed above.
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
and systems for the purpose of
request more information on the
collecting, validating and verifying
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
information, processing and
the information collection plan and
maintaining information, and disclosing
instruments, contact the Information
and providing information; to train
Collection Review Office, Centers for
personnel and to be able to respond to
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
a collection of information, to search
Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta,
data sources, to complete and review
Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570;
the collection of information; and to
Email: [email protected].
transmit or otherwise disclose the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
information.
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies Proposed Project
must obtain approval from the Office of
Preventive Health and Health Services
Management and Budget (OMB) for each Block Grant (OMB Control No. 0920–
collection of information they conduct
0106, exp. 8/31/2016)—Revision—
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
Office for State, Tribal, Local and
requires Federal agencies to provide a
Territorial Support (OSTLTS), Centers
60-day notice in the Federal Register
for Disease Control and Prevention
concerning each proposed collection of
(CDC).
information, including each new
Background and Brief Description
proposed collection, each proposed
The management of the Preventive
extension of existing collection of
Health and Health Services (PHHS)
information, and each reinstatement of
Block Grant program has transitioned
previously approved information
from the National Center for Chronic
collection before submitting the
Disease Prevention and Health
collection to OMB for approval. To
Promotion to the Office for State, Tribal,
comply with this requirement, we are
Local and Territorial Support (OSTLTS).
publishing this notice of a proposed
The Program continues to provide
data collection as described below.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether awardees with a source of flexible
funding for health promotion and
the proposed collection of information
disease prevention programs. Currently,
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including 61 awardees (50 states, the District of
Columbia, two American Indian Tribes,
whether the information shall have
and eight U.S. territories) receive Block
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
Grants to address locally-defined public
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
health needs in innovative ways. Block
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and Grants allow awardees to prioritize the
use of funds and to fill funding gaps in
clarity of the information to be
programs that deal with the leading
collected; (d) ways to minimize the
causes of death and disability. Block
burden of the collection of information
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.

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