Change request memo - Y2Q4

Non-substantive Change Request to OMB Control # 0920-1011
Emergency Epidemic Investigation Data Collections
Year 2, Quarter 4 (Date Submitted: April 20, 2016)

This is a non-substantive change request for the Emergency Epidemic Investigations (EEI) Generic ICR, (OMB Control No. 0920-1011, Expiration 3/31/17). This allows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue to conduct EEIs in response to acute public health emergencies resulting from outbreaks or events with undetermined agents, undetermined sources, undetermined modes of transmission, or undetermined risk factors. CDC frequently is called upon to conduct EEIs at the request of one or more external partners (e.g., local, state, tribal, military, port, other federal agency, or international health authorities, or other partner organizations) seeking support to respond to urgent public health problems. In response to external partner requests, CDC readily provides necessary epidemiologic support to facilitate appropriate engagement in epidemiological investigations. Such investigations often are dependent on rapid and flexible data collection that evolves during the investigation period.

This non-substantive change request is submitted to comply with the stated procedures in the approved EEI Generic ICR package (as specified in point 5 under Special Circumstances Relating to the Guidelines of 5 CFR 1320.5), “CDC maintains a library of data collection instruments that includes all final data collection instruments conducted under this generic ICR. This library and the updated burden numbers based on data collected via the “Burden Memo” are submitted to OMB quarterly as a non-substantive change to the generic ICR.” This non-substantive change request includes the following: Burden Memos (Appendix 1) and final data collection forms (Appendix 2) for the four investigations conducted under 0920-1011 for which data collection was completed during Y2Q4 (January 1, 2016 to March 31, 2016).

The actual burden for the three investigations completed during Y2Q4 was 344 respondents and 133 burden hours. This is less than the 575 respondents and 273 burden hours that was projected in the GenIC requests for these investigations.

Table 1. Burden in Y2Q4

Type of Respondents	Form Name	No. of Respondents	Avg. Burden per Response (in hrs.)	Total Burden (in hrs.)
Federal employees	Emergency Epidemic Investigation Data Collection Instruments	5	0/60	0
Emergency Epidemic Investigation Participants	Emergency Epidemic Investigation Data Collection Instruments	339	30/60	133
Total	133

Table 2 below summarizes the data collection form name and projected and actual burden for each approved GenIC. A projected burden of 0 indicates the data collection form was developed in the field.

Table 2. Y2Q3 Data Collection Forms and Projected and Actual Burden, By GenIC

			Projected Burden		Actual Burden
GenIC No. (OMB)	Date Approved	Form Name	No. Respondents	Hours	No. Respondents	Hours
2016002-XXX	11/2/2015	Community Survey KAP	150	25	108	18
2016002-XXX	11/2/2015	Medical Providers Interview Survey	10	10	9	9
2016002-XXX	11/2/2015	Rabies Official Interview Survey	10	10	10	10
2016002-XXX	11/2/2015	Public Health Official Interview Survey	10	10	7	7
2016005-XXX	11/7/2015	Community Risk Assessment	150	25	38	10
2016005-XXX	11/7/2015	Healthcare Worker Assessment	100	25	39	10
2016006-XXX	12/9/2015	Data Abstraction Form	5	75	5	0
2016006-XXX	12/9/2015	Interview Form	50	13	0	0
2016007-XXX	1/13/2016	Case Control Questionnaire	80	20	126	32
		TOTAL	575	273	344	133

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