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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Acting Lead, Information Collection Review
Office, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office
of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–19–0853; Docket No. CDC–2018–
0105]

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 ‘‘Asthma Information Reporting
System (AIRS)’’ (OMB Control No.
0920–0853, expiration date 6/30/2019).
The purpose of AIRS to collect
performance measure and surveillance
data spreadsheets designed to increase
the efficiency and effectiveness of state
asthma programs and to monitor the
impact of the state and national
programs.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before February 4,
2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2018–
0105 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. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
through the Federal eRulemaking portal

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(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 Jeffrey M. Zirger,
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 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.
Proposed Project
Asthma Information and Reporting
System (AIRS)—Revision—National
Center for Environmental Health
(NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
In 1999, the CDC began its National
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public health approach to address the
burden of asthma. The program
supports the goals and objectives of
‘‘Healthy People 2020’’ for asthma, and
is based on the public health principles
of surveillance, partnerships,
interventions, and evaluation. The CDC
requests a 12-month approval to revise
the ‘‘Asthma Information Reporting
System (AIRS)’’ (OMB Control No.
0920–0853; expiration date 6/30/2019).
Specifically, CDC seeks to make the
following changes:
• Increase the number of awardees
from 23 to 25.
• Increase the requested burden hours
from 82 to 89.
• Increase the number of optional
performance measures (PMs) and
decrease the number of required PMs,
while still maintaining a total of 18
PMs.
• Update the instructions for the data
collection instruments to reflect the
optional status of 5 of the 18 PMs and
to clarify instructions that were
commonly misinterpreted.
• Update the Emergency Department
Data and Hospital Discharge Data
reporting forms to include example data
submission templates for each awardee.
Add a tab labeled ‘‘Technical Notes’’
within the Excel reporting form to
collect clarifying information about the
data from each awardee.
• Add examples of Emergency
Department Data and Hospital Discharge
Data reporting forms to provide clarity
on how data should be reported within
the forms.
• Update respondent costs to reflect
current wage data from 2017.
The 12-month approval will allow
CDC to continue to monitor states’
program planning and delivery of public
health activities and the programs’
collaboration with health care systems
for the remainder of the fifth and final
year of cooperative agreement EH14–
1404 (program period: September 2014–
August 2019), and the third and final
year of cooperative agreement EH16–
1606 (program period: September 2016–
August 2019).
The goal of this data collection is to
provide NCEH with routine information
about the activities and performance of
the state and territorial awardees funded
under the NACP through an annual
reporting system. NACP requires
awardees to report activities related to
partnerships, infrastructure, evaluation
and interventions to monitor the state
programs’ performance in reducing the
burden of asthma. AIRS also includes
two forms to collect aggregate ED and
HD data from awardees.
AIRS was first approved by OMB in
2010 to collect data in a web-based

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system to monitor and guide
participating state health departments.
Since implementation in 2010, AIRS
and the technical assistance provided by
CDC staff have provided states with
uniform data reporting methods and
linkages to other states’ asthma program
information and resources. Thus, AIRS
has saved state resources and staff time
when asthma programs embark on
asthma activities similar to those done
elsewhere.
In the past three years, AIRS data
were used to:

burden, age groups, geographic areas
and other variables of interest.
• Provide feedback to the grantees
about their performance relative to
others through the distribution of two
written reports and several
presentations (webinar and in-person)
summarizing the results.
• Customize and provide technical
assistance and support materials to
address implementation challenges.
There will be no cost to respondents
other than their time to complete the
three AIRS spreadsheets annually. The
estimated annualized burden hours are
89.

• Serve as a resource to NCEH when
addressing congressional, departmental
and institutional inquiries.
• Help the branch align its current
interventions with CDC goals and
allowed the monitoring of progress
toward these goals.
• Allow the NACP and the state
asthma programs to make more
informed decisions about activities to
achieve objectives.
• Facilitate communication about
interventions across states, and enable
inquiries regarding interventions by
populations with a disproportionate

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Form name

State Asthma Program Awardees ....

AIRS Performance Measures Reporting Spreadsheets.
AIRS Emergency Department Visits
Reporting Form.
AIRS Hospital Discharge Reporting
Forms.

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

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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Acting Lead, Information Collection Review
Office, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office
of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2018–26352 Filed 12–4–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–19–19DO; Docket No. CDC–2018–
0108]

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

SUMMARY:

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25

1

30/60

13

25

1

30/60

13

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89

You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2018–
0108 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Acting Lead,
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

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(in hours)

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ADDRESSES:

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burden per
response
(in hours)

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proposed information collection project
titled National Surveillance of
Community Water Systems and
Corresponding Populations with the
Recommended Fluoridation Level. This
surveillance collects the fluoridation
status of the nation’s approximately
52,000 community water systems (CWS)
which serve the 50 states and the
District of Columbia. It also collects
fluoride level testing data for those CWS
which adjust naturally occurring
fluoride levels. The data are analyzed
and published to inform the public and
to support state and local governments’
efforts to monitor community water
fluoridation levels relative to the US
Public Health Service recommended
level to prevent tooth decay.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before February 4,
2019.

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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 Jeffrey M. Zirger,
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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are

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