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was a successful collaboration between
California Department of Public Health,
the Mariposa County Health
Department, and CDC, which helped
characterize the impacts of drought in
Mariposa County as well as actions
households have taken. These results
were useful in allocating resources for
response to the drought and in
strengthening the emergency
preparedness capacity of Mariposa
County. The 2016 West Virginia Flood
CASPERs assessed household disaster
preparedness, access to health care,
health impacts due to flood damage,

health information sources, and stage of
disaster recovery. Approval of this
revised generic information collection
plan will allow CDC to continue to
provide low-cost, household-based
information about a community’s needs
and health status in a simple, easy-tounderstand format for decision makers
during public health emergencies.
Based on the experience of the past
three years, NCEH requests changes to
this generic information collection plan
to reduce the number of CASPERs
conducted annually, reduce the number
of referral forms completed, and update

respondent costs to reflect wage data
from 2015. The revised estimated
burden is based on conducting 6
emergency CASPERs per year,
interviewing 210 households (the
respondents) per CASPER, and
completing 24 referral forms per year.
The total burden requested for this
generic information collection plan is
631 hours from 1,284 respondents (see
table below). This is a reduction in
burden of 946 hours from the previously
approved generic information collection
plan. There is no cost to respondents
other than their time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Households in the selected geographic area
to be assessed.
Households in the selected geographic area
to be assessed.

CASPER Questionnaire .................................

1,260

1

30/60

Referral Form .................................................

24

1

2/60

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HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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0102]

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 effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a proposed and/or continuing
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This notice invites comment on a
proposed information collection project
titled ‘‘Rapid Response Suicide
Investigation Data Collection.’’ CDC will

SUMMARY:

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burden per
response
(in hours)

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
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Number of
respondents

Number of
responses
per
respondent

Type of
respondents

use information collected to respond to
urgent requests for CDC assistance.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before January 8, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0102 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. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
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

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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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
5. Assess information collection costs.

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Proposed Project
Rapid Response Suicide Investigation
Data Collection—New—National Center
for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC is frequently called upon to
respond to urgent requests from one or
more external partners (e.g., local, state,
territory, and tribal health authorities;
other federal agencies; local and state
leaders; schools; or other partner
organizations) to conduct investigations
of suicide. Supporting rapid
investigations to inform the
implementation of effective suicide
prevention strategies is one of the most
important ways CDC can serve to
protect and promote the health of the
public. Prior to this information
collection request, CDC had collected
data for a suicide investigation via the
OMB-approved Emergency Epidemic
Investigations (EEI) generic information
collection plan (OMB Control Number
0920–1011; expiration date 3/31/2020),
which supported data collections for
Epi-Aid investigations. However, this
mechanism is no longer available for
rapid suicide responses due to the
narrowing in scope of that generic. CDC
requests a three-year approval of a
generic information collection plan that
allows for rapid response to urgent CDC
assistance requests to investigate an
apparent and unexplained potential
cluster or increase in suicidal behavior.

the unique circumstances of the Rapid
Response Suicide Investigation Data
Collections.
Requests for assistance may include a
state, county, community, or vulnerable
population. Suicide rates are increasing
across age-groups and vulnerable
populations, include, but are not limited
to, youth, middle-aged adults, active
duty service personnel, veterans, and
American Indian/Alaska Native
communities. Investigations likely will
often require collection of information
from 10 or more respondents. The data
analytic approach for the Rapid
Response Suicide Investigation Data
Collection will vary and depend on the
objectives and methods of the
investigation.
Multiple analytical strategies are
likely to be employed in a single
investigation. This may include
descriptive analyses, logistic regression,
and temporal and spatial cluster
analyses. The goal of the analyses is to
inform suicide prevention strategies by
understanding (a) significant increases
in fatal or nonfatal suicidal behavior; (b)
the risk factors associated with trends of
fatal or nonfatal suicidal behavior; (c)
the groups most affected (e.g., gender,
age, location in community or state);
and (d) current risk and protective
factors and prevention opportunities.
The total estimated annualized burden
for this collection is 1,000 hours. The
only cost to respondents will be time
spent responding to the surveys.

CDC designed the Rapid Response
Suicide Investigation Data Collections
specifically to inform the
implementation of prevention strategies
in a state, county, community, or
vulnerable population where a possible
suicide cluster or increasing trend has
been observed. CDC will not use this
generic information collection plan to
conduct research studies or to collect
data designed to draw conclusions
about the United States or areas beyond
the defined geographic location or
vulnerable population that is the focus
of the investigation.
These public health data are used by
external partners (e.g., local, state,
territory, and tribal health authorities;
other federal agencies; local and state
leaders; schools; or other partner
organizations) to identify, prioritize, and
implement strategies to prevent suicidal
behavior and suicide.
Rapid Response Suicide Investigation
Data Collections methods will vary and
depend on the unique circumstances of
the urgent and rapid response and
objectives determined by CDC.
Investigations may use descriptive and/
or cohort- or case-control designs. Data
collection modes may include: (a)
Archival record abstraction; (b) face-toface interview; (c) telephone interview;
(d) web-based questionnaire; (e) selfadministered questionnaire; and (f)
focus groups. CDC will likely employ
multiple data collection designs and
modes in a single investigation. The
subpopulation will vary and depend on

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Number of
responses per
respondent

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

Rapid Response Suicide Investigation Data Collection Participants.

Rapid Response Suicide Investigation Data Collection Instruments.

2,000

1

30/60

1,000

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

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

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

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

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

1,000

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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In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
has submitted the information
collection request titled ‘‘Childhood
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Surveillance (ABLES)’’ to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. CDC previously
published a ‘‘Proposed Data Collection
Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations’’ notice on April 6,
2017 to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies. CDC did
not receive comments related to the
previous notice. This notice serves to
allow an additional 30 days for public
and affected agency comments.
CDC will accept all comments for this
proposed information collection project.
The Office of Management and Budget

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