Change Request Justification - Quarterly Inventory 01OCT2018 - 31DEC2018

Non-substantive Change Request to OMB Control # 0920-1011
Emergency Epidemic Investigation Data Collections
Quarter: October 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018

This is a non-substantive change request for the Emergency Epidemic Investigations (EEI) Generic ICR, (OMB Control No. 0920-1011, Expiration 1/31/2020). This allows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue to conduct EEIs in response to acute public health emergencies resulting from outbreaks or events with undetermined agents, undetermined sources, undetermined modes of transmission, or undetermined risk factors. CDC frequently is called upon to conduct EEIs at the request of one or more external partners (e.g., local, state, tribal, military, port, other federal agency, or international health authorities, or other partner organizations) seeking support to respond to urgent public health problems. In response to external partner requests, CDC readily provides necessary epidemiologic support to facilitate appropriate engagement in epidemiological investigations. Such investigations often are dependent on rapid and flexible data collection that evolves during the investigation period.

This non-substantive change request is submitted to comply with the stated procedures in the approved EEI Generic ICR package (as specified in point 5 under Special Circumstances Relating to the Guidelines of 5 CFR 1320.5), “CDC maintains a library of data collection instruments that includes all final data collection instruments conducted under this generic ICR. This library and the updated burden numbers based on data collected via the “Burden Memo” are submitted to OMB quarterly as a non-substantive change to the generic ICR.” This non-substantive change request includes the following: Burden Memos (Appendix 1) and final data collection forms (Appendix 2) for the investigations conducted under 0920-1011 for which data collection was completed from October 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018.

The actual burden for the two investigations completed during this quarter was 124 respondents and 41 burden hours. This is less than the 505 respondents and 170 burden hours that were projected in the GenIC requests for these investigations.

Table 1. Burden from October 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018

Type of Respondents	Form Name	No. of Respondents	Avg. Burden per Response (in hrs.)	Total Burden (in hrs.)
Emergency Epidemic Investigation Participants	Emergency Epidemic Investigation Data Collection Instruments	124	30/60	41
Total	41

Table 2 below summarizes the data collection form name and projected and actual burden for each approved GenIC. A projected burden of 0 indicates the data collection form was developed in the field.

Table 2. October 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018 Data Collection Forms and Projected and Actual Burden, By GenIC

			Projected Burden		Actual Burden
GenIC No. (OMB)	Date Approved	Form Name	No. Respondents	Hours	No. Respondents	Hours
2018001-XXX	7/23/2018	Patient Screening Questionnaire	250	42	22	4
2018001-XXX	7/23/2018	Neurological Exam Form	125	84	9	6
2018002-XXX	8/29/2018	Survey Questionnaire	130	44	93	31
		Total	505	170	124	41

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