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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Form name

State, Territorial, or Tribal government staff or delegate.
Local/County/City government staff
or delegate.

Web, telephone, in-person, focus
group.
Web, telephone, in-person, focus
group.

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

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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–17–1039; Docket No. CDC–2017–
0040]

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).

AGENCY:

ACTION:

Notice with comment period.

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 to the
information collection project titled
‘‘Information Collection on CauseSpecific Absenteeism in Schools.’’
Changes include a revised title. The
proposed title is ‘‘Information
Collection on Cause-Specific
Absenteeism in Schools and Evaluation
of Influenza Transmission within
Student Households.’’ The project will
continue to address the original aim of
improving our understanding of the role
of influenza-like illness (ILI)—specific
absenteeism in schools in predicting
community-wide influenza
transmission.

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Number of
responses per
respondent

Number of
respondents

Type of respondents

30

1

24,000

3,000

10

1

30,000

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

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54,000

Written comments must be
received on or before June 26, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0040 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
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

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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
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Proposed Project
Information Collection on CauseSpecific Absenteeism in Schools and
Evaluation of Influenza Transmission
within Student Households (OMB
Control Number 0920–1039; expires 12/
31/2017)—Revision—National Center
for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Background and Brief Description
The CDC’s Division of Global
Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ),
requests approval of an information
collection project that will allow for
improved understanding of the role of
influenza-like illness (ILI)-specific
absenteeism in schools in predicting
community-wide influenza
transmission. The collection will also
allow for within-household influenza
transmission where students have been
absent from school due to ILI. CDC is
seeking three-year clearance to collect
this data.
Since receiving Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) approval in
December 2014, CDC enrolled 651
students in the study. Of them, 58%
were positive for at least one respiratory
pathogen included in the Polymerase
chain reaction (PCR) panel that tests for
presence of 17 common respiratory
viruses, and 27% of the students were
found to be positive for influenza. It was
demonstrated that absenteeism due to
ILI in school children was highly
correlated with PCR-confirmed
influenza in enrolled school children
and with medically-attended influenza
in the surrounding community
suggesting that ILI-specific school
absenteeism can be considered a useful
tool for predicting influenza outbreaks
in the surrounding community.
However, more observations during
influenza seasons caused by other

in a school district in Wisconsin. CDC
will continue collecting reports from
students absent from school due to ILI
including information on individual
student symptoms, vaccination status,
recent travel, recent exposure to people
with influenza symptoms, and duration
of illness. The proposed revision will
include collecting data from household
members of students absent from school
due to ILI. Household members will
provide information on household
composition, individual influenza
vaccination status, presence of ILI
symptoms, severity of illness, related
healthcare visits, diagnosis and
treatment, and missed work or school.
This will be accomplished through
telephone and in-person interviews.
Findings obtained from this
information collection will be used to
inform and update CDC’s Pre-pandemic
Guidance on the implementation of
school related measures to prevent the
spread of influenza, especially school
closures. The 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 number of burden hours are
365.
Authorizing legislation includes
Section 361 of the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 264) and Section 301 of
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
241).

influenza strains are needed to make
these findings more robust.
The information collection for which
approval is sought is in accordance with
CDC’s and DGMQ’s missions to reduce
morbidity and mortality in mobile
populations, and to prevent the
introduction, transmission, or spread of
communicable diseases within the
United States. Insights gained from this
information collection will assist in the
planning and implementation of CDC
Pre-Pandemic Guidance on the use of
school related measures, including
school closures, to slow transmission
during an influenza pandemic.
School closures were considered an
important measure during the earliest
stage of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic,
because a pandemic vaccine was not
available until October (6 months later),
and sufficient stocks to immunize all
school-age children were not available
until December. However, retrospective
review of the U.S. government response
to the pandemic identified a limited
evidence-base regarding the
effectiveness, acceptability, and
feasibility of various school related
measures during mild or moderately
severe pandemics. Guidance updates
will require an evidence-based rationale
for determining the appropriate triggers,
timing, and duration of school related
measures, including school closures,
during a pandemic.
CDC staff proposes that the revised
information collection for this package
will target adult and child populations

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
hours

Form name

Parents ..............................................

Screening Form ................................
Acute Respiratory Infection and Influenza Surveillance Form.
Biospecimen collection .....................
Household Study Form Part 1 (Day
0).
Household Study Form Part 2 (Day
7).

300
300

1
1

5/60
15/60

25
75

300
720

1
1

5/60
10/60

25
120

720

1

10/60

120

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365

Students ............................................
Household members .........................

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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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