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quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insights into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences and expectations, provide
an early warning of issues with service,
or focus attention on areas where
communication, training, or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. These collections
will allow for ongoing, collaborative,
and actionable communications
between the Agency and its customers
and stakeholders. It will also allow
feedback to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance will provide useful
information, but it will not yield data
that can be generalized to the overall
population. This type of generic

clearance for qualitative information
will not be used for quantitative
information collections that are
designed to yield reliably actionable
results, such as monitoring trends over
time or documenting program
performance. Such data uses require
more rigorous designs that address: the
target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior
fielding the study. Depending on the
degree of influence the results are likely

to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results.
This is a revision to the previously
approved collection to reduce the
burden hours from 12,400 to 9,690
hours as a result of the previous usage
and anticipated future usage of this
Generic Information Collection.
Respondents will be screened and
selected from Individuals and
Households, Businesses, Organizations,
and/or State, Local or Tribal
Government. Below we provide CDC’s
projected annualized estimate for the
next three years. There is no cost to
respondents other than their time. The
estimated annualized burden hours for
this data collection activity are 9,690.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Type of collection
Online surveys .............................................................................................................................
Discussion Groups .......................................................................................................................
Focus groups ...............................................................................................................................
Website/app usability testing .......................................................................................................
Interviews .....................................................................................................................................

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
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0036]

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.
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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

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continuing information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on ‘‘Backyard Integrated Tick
Management Project’’ which will
evaluate the effectiveness of specific
tick control methods used on single
versus multiple adjacent properties to
suppress host-seeking ticks infected
with Lyme disease spirochetes and to
reduce human tick bites, and help the
CDC better understand human
landscape use patterns and tick
exposure locations.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before July 31, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0036 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.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

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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 Leroy Richardson,
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

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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
Backyard Integrated Tick Management
Project—Existing Collection in Use
Without an OMB Control Number—
National Center for Emerging and
Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
Background and Brief Description
The combined number of confirmed
and probable Lyme disease cases have
exceeded 30,000 in all years since 2008,
and recent estimates suggest that the
true number of Lyme disease cases may
be 10-fold higher. There is no Lyme

Information will be collected by
WCSU and URI researchers from
inhabitants (adults and children) of
participating residential properties
(freestanding homes with tick habitat on
the property) located in Connecticut and
Rhode Island. Consenting participants
will complete one introductory survey
by telephone, projected to last no more
than 15 minutes. In May–August of
Years 1–4, participants will also
complete an emailed monthly tick
encounter survey about the number of
ticks found on each member of the
household and each household
member’s tick-borne disease status,
projected to take no more than 10
minutes per month to complete. An
end-of-season survey will also be
administered in March/April each year,
projected to take no more than 10
minutes to complete.
In addition, participants will be asked
to record location of daily activity on
behalf of themselves and household
members each day over the first week of
June in a single year via emailed daily
surveys, projected to take 70 minutes
over the week of participation. Lastly,
an end-of-study survey will be
administered in September 2020,
projected to take no more than 15
minutes. In total, we expect
approximately two hours or less of total
time spent on surveys by consented
participants in each year of the study.
All survey instruments have been
approved by the IRBs at WCSU and URI.
The collection of information is
conducted by WCSU, and its
subcontractor, URI, as part of a
Cooperative Agreement with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) (1U01CK0004912–01). The
Cooperative Agreement was established
based on WCSU competing successfully
for CDC RFA–CK–16–002 (Spatially
Scalable Integrated Tick Vector/Rodent
Reservoir Management to Reduce
Human Risk of Exposure to Ixodes
scapularis Ticks Infected with Lyme
Disease Spirochetes).
This study is authorized by Section
301 of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 241).
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time to participate.

disease vaccine for use in humans and
prevention of infection is therefore
completely reliant on personal
protective measures (avoiding tick
habitat, use of repellent, tick checks or
prompt tick removal, etc.) and methods
to suppress vector ticks in the
environment.
The primary goal of this project is to
evaluate the effectiveness of specific
tick/pathogen control methods used on
single versus multiple adjacent
properties on the risk of human
exposure to ticks. The secondary goal is
to better understand human landscape
use patterns and tick exposure
locations. The project was initiated in
direct response to knowledge gaps,
identified by CDC Subject Matter
Experts (SMEs), for the use of integrated
tick vector/rodent reservoir management
to reduce human risk of exposure to
Ixodes scapularis ticks, the sole vector
of Lyme disease in the Northeast.
Resulting data is intended to be used
to provide suggestions for improving
tick/pathogen control methods used in
the environment.
Information will be collected, under
protocols approved by the institutional
review boards (IRBs) at Western
Connecticut State University (WCSU)
and the University of Rhode Island
(URI), from inhabitants of residential
properties to (i) compare the
effectiveness of an integrated tick
management approach at single-treated
residential properties vs. contiguouslytreated residential properties to reduce
human tick bites and (ii) increase the
understanding of where people
encounter ticks, both near their homes
and in other outdoor settings.
Another potential positive outcome of
the information collection is more
effective targeting of tick control efforts
to high risk areas, minimizing pesticide
use. Not collecting the information
would lead to inadequate evaluation of
the implemented integrated tick
management program (solely focusing
on host-seeking ticks collected from the
vegetation) as well as the unacceptable
status quo for detailed knowledge of
where people encounter ticks within
their residential properties and on the
residential properties versus elsewhere.

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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Type of respondents

Form name

Households or Individuals .................

Eligibility Survey ...............................
Introductory Survey (including Consent Form).
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Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

500
230

1
1

15/60
30/60

125
115

230

4

10/60

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Type of respondents

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

230
230
230

7
1
1

10/60
15/60
15/60

269
58
58

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–17–17AHW; Docket No. CDC–2017–
0052]

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 an information collection
titled ‘‘Zika Virus Enhanced
Surveillance of Selected Populations.’’
This information collection will help
state health departments better define
the public health burden and clinical
characteristics of Zika virus disease.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before July 31, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0052 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and

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Total burden
(in hours)

Daily Surveys ...................................
Annual End of Year Survey .............
Final Survey .....................................

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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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 Leroy A.
Richardson, 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)

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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
Zika Virus Enhanced Surveillance of
Selected Populations—Emergency ICR—
National Center for Emerging and
Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
Background and Brief Description
Zika virus is a mosquito-borne
flavivirus primarily transmitted to
humans by Aedes mosquitoes. Zika
virus infections can also be transmitted
congenitally, at the time of birth from a
viremic mother to her newborn,
sexually, through blood transfusion, and
through inadvertent laboratory
exposure. Most Zika virus infections are
asymptomatic. Clinical illness, when it
occurs, is generally mild and
characterized by acute onset of fever,
maculopapular rash, arthralgia, and/or
nonpurulent conjunctivitis. As routine
surveillance data have been reported to
CDC, it has become apparent that the

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