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alternative social distancing strategies
that can help reduce influenza
transmission in schools while
minimizing social and economic
burdens on the community.
CDC staff proposes that the
information collection for this package
will target senior educators in each of
the 10 HHS regions. CDC will collect
qualitative data on current knowledge,
attitudes, and practices with regard to

organizing and delivering K–12
instruction in ways that help increase
space between students and/or reduce
daily duration of in-person instruction,
while preserving the normal education
process; this will be accomplished
through focus group discussions.
Findings obtained from this
information collection will be used to
inform the update CDC’s Pre-pandemic
Community Mitigation Guidance on the

implementation of school related
measures to prevent the spread of
influenza. 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. The estimated
annualized burden hours for this data
collection are 1,400 hours.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

Senior educators (e.g. school principals, superintendents, teachers, senior leaders from state
agencies, etc.).

Social Distancing Questionnaire Form.

700

1

2

1,400

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

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

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

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

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

1,400

Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Health Scientist, Acting 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–16–16AWJ; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0082]

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 ‘‘Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS) Asthma
Call-back Survey (ACBS).’’ The ACBS is
an in-depth asthma survey conducted
on a subset of BRFSS respondents with
an asthma diagnosis. The goal of this
survey is to strengthen the existing body

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of asthma data and to address critical
questions surrounding the health and
experiences of persons with asthma.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0082 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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)
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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
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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
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System (BRFSS) Asthma Call-back
Survey (ACBS)—Existing Collection in
Use without an OMB Control Number—
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 requesting a threeyear Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
clearance to conduct information
collection under ‘‘The Behavioral Risk
Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Asthma Call-back Survey (ACBS).’’ The
ACBS is an existing collection in use
without an OMB Control Number.
BRFSS (OMB Control No. 0920–1061,
expiration date 3/31/2018) is a
nationwide system of customized, crosssectional telephone health surveys
sponsored by CDC’s National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion (NCCDPHP) Division of
Population Health. The BRFSS
information collection is conducted in a
continuous, three-part telephone
interview process: Screening,
participation in a common BRFSS core
survey, and participation in optional
question modules that states use to
customize survey content.

their children ever diagnosed with
asthma. If both the BRFSS adult
respondent and the selected child in the
household have asthma, then only one
or the other is eligible for the ACBS.
The ACBS adds considerable statelevel depth to the existing body of
asthma data. It addresses critical
questions surrounding the health and
experiences of persons with asthma.
Health data include symptoms,
environmental factors, and medication
use among persons with asthma. Data
on their experiences include activity
limitation, health system use, and selfmanagement education. These asthma
data are needed to direct and evaluate
interventions undertaken by asthma
control programs located in state health
departments. Federal agencies and other
entities also rely on this critical
information for planning and evaluating
efforts and to reduce the burden from
this disease.
The CDC makes annual ACBS datasets
available for public use and provides
guidance on statistically appropriate
uses of the data. Participation in the
ACBS is voluntary and there are no
costs to respondents other than their
time. The burden table reflects the
landline and cell phone data collection
methods used in 2013 and later years.
Additionally, the burden table accounts
for reporting burden incurred by the
states for the monthly or quarterly data
submission to CDC. The burden hour
estimates represent the 2013 data
collection which is the most recent data
released.
There is no cost to the respondents
other than their time. The total
estimated annualized burden hours for
all respondents are 6,029 hours.

The ACBS is not an optional state
module, but rather, is a follow-up
survey to the regular BRFSS efforts. It is
funded by the National Asthma Control
Program (NACP) in the Air Pollution
and Respiratory Health Branch (APRHB)
of the National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH). The
ACBS is administered by NCCDPHP on
behalf of NCEH using its existing BRFSS
sampling frame. BRFSS coordinators in
the health departments in U.S. states,
territories, and the District of Columbia
(collectively referred to as states) are
responsible for survey administration.
Currently CDC provides its 40
participating states with technical and
methodological assistance.
The purpose of ACBS is to gather
state-level asthma data and to make
them available to track the burden of the
disease, to monitor adherence to asthma
guidelines, and to direct and evaluate
interventions undertaken by asthma
control programs located in state health
departments. Beyond asthma prevalence
estimates, for most states, the ACBS
provides the only sources of adult and
child asthma data on the state and local
level.
As a follow-up, the ACBS is
conducted within two weeks after the
BRFSS survey. Data collection for ACBS
involves screening, obtaining
permission, consenting and telephone
interviewing on a subset of the BRFSS
respondents from participating states.
The ACBS eligible respondents are
BRFSS adults, 18 years and older, who
report ever being diagnosed with
asthma. In addition, some states include
children, below 18 years of age, who are
randomly selected subjects in the
BRFSS household. Parents or guardians
serve as ACBS proxy respondents for

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hrs)

Total burden
(in hrs)

Form name

BRFSS Adults ...................................

21,424
8,976
4,245
2,238
19,954

1
1
1
1
1

1/60
1/60
1/60
1/60
10/60

357
150
71
37
3,326

ACBS Parents or Guardians of Children.
State BRFSS Coordinators ...............

ACBS Landline Screener—Adult .....
ACBS Cell Phone Screener—Adult
ACBS Landline Screener—Child .....
ACBS Cell Phone Screener—Child
ACBS Adult Consent and Survey—
2013.
ACBS Child Consent and Survey—
2013.
ACBS Data Submission Layout .......

3,887

1

10/60

648

40

12

3

1,440

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

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

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

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

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

6,029

BRFSS Parents or Guardians of
Children.
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Health Scientist, Acting 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–16–16AWE: Docket No. CDC–2016–
0078]

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 Information Collection
for Tuberculosis Data from Referring
Entities to CureTB. CureTB is intended
to provide continuity of care for
individuals affected by TB who enter
US jurisdictions from foreign nations
who or who leave US jurisdictions
bound for foreign nations.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0078 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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.
Please note: All public comment
should be submitted through the

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Federal eRulemaking portal
(Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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 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
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transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Proposed Project
Information Collection for Tuberculosis
Data From Referring Entities to
CureTB—New—National Center for
Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
Background and Brief Description
CDC is assuming the administration of
the CureTB program from the San Diego
Public Health Department. CureTB
works with domestic and international
programs to protect the U.S. public by
preventing the global development of
drug resistance and reducing disease
transmission and importation of
infectious TB. These goals are
accomplished through CureTB referral
and continuity of care services for
mobile TB patients.
CDC is seeking OMB clearance for
three years of information collection.
Lack of treatment adherence and
inappropriate selection of medications
are prime reasons for the continued
emergence and spread of resistant
strains. To combat this, CureTB assures
patients understand how to remain
adherent despite moving between
nations and provides information to the
health care team that will be continuing
care about each patient’s TB strain and
tailored medication regimen. CureTB
gathers demographic and clinical
information for each patient, and
connects that individual to care through
provision of accurate information about
how to locate the correct downstream
provider and assurance that real-time
information is given directly to medical
providers and public health authorities
in receiving nations.
The respondents are entities within
the United States and other countries
who provide diagnostic and treatment
services to individuals affected by TB.
The entities are primarily state and local
health departments, but include
immigration centers, correctional
facilities, and national TB programs. All
50 US states and territories may refer TB
patients to the CureTB program. To
date, CureTB has also received referrals
from Mexico and Guatemala.
Respondents are generally public
health field nurses and will submit
CureTB referral forms as they request
referral services. The number of referrals
varies widely between respondents. The
average time to complete and send a
CureTB referral form is estimated at 30
minutes. CureTB currently receives
approximately 600 referrals per year. An
estimated 100 respondents send
referrals, with a range from 1–20 per

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