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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
National Outbreak Reporting System
(NORS)—New—National Center for

Prevention. CDC analyzes outbreak data
to determine trends and develop and
refine recommendations for prevention
and control of foodborne, waterborne,
and enteric disease outbreaks. NORS
was previously approved as part of
OMB Control No. 0920–0004, and is
being pulled into its own information
collection request to allow for more
timely updates to information collection
instruments, as necessary for public
health surveillance.
CDC requests approval for an
estimated 747 annualized burden hours.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time.

Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Disease (NCEZID), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The National Outbreak Reporting
System (NORS) is a web-based platform
that is used by local, state, and
territorial health departments in the
United States to report all waterborne
and foodborne disease outbreaks and
enteric disease outbreaks transmitted by
contact with environmental sources,
infected persons or animals, or
unknown modes of transmission to the
Centers for Disease Control and

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses
per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

Epidemiologist ...............

NORS Foodborne Disease Transmission, Person-to-Person Disease Transmission, Animal
Contact, Environmental Contamination, Unknown Transmission Mode, Form 52.13.
NORS Waterborne Disease Transmission, Form
52.12.
National Outbreak Reporting System, Data Dictionary.

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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
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0010]

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

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the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This notice invites comment on a
proposed information collection project
titled Shigella Hypothesis Generating
Questionnaire (SHGQ). The
development of a Shigella Hypothesis
Generating Questionnaire will support
shigellosis cluster and outbreak
investigations. CDC will collect state
and local health department furnished
shigellosis case data.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before April 27, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2020–
0010 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
(regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.

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To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact Jeffrey M. Zirger, of
the 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].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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:

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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
Shigella Hypothesis Generating
Questionnaire—New—National Center
for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Shigella are a family of bacteria that
cause the diarrheal disease shigellosis. It
is estimated that Shigella causes about
500,000 cases of diarrhea in the United
States annually. From 2007 through
2017, there have been 1,046 outbreaks of
shigellosis in the United States, with
most of these outbreaks attributed to
person to person spread. Outbreaks of
shigellosis have been reported in a range
of settings such as community-wide,
daycares, schools, restaurants, and

and to identify modes or settings of
importance by collecting the following
information. This information will not
only help inform routine cluster and
outbreak investigation activities but also
guide awareness efforts and appropriate
prevention strategies. To meet these
needs the Shigella Hypothesis
Generating Questionnaire (SHGQ) was
developed.
The SHGQ will be administered by
state and local public health officials via
telephone interviews with cases of
shigellosis or their proxy who are part
of a shigellosis cluster or outbreak. The
SHGQ will collect information on
demographics characteristics,
household information and family
member event and activity attendance,
clinical signs and symptoms, medical
care and treatment information, travel
history, contact with international
travelers or other ill individuals, event
and activity attendance, limited food
and water exposure, work, visit, and
volunteer locations, childcare and
school attendance, and recent sexual
partner(s) and activity.
This interview activity is consistent
with the state’s existing authority to
investigate reports of notifiable diseases
for routine surveillance purposes;
therefore, formal consent to participate
in the activity is not required. However,
cases may choose not to participate and
may choose not to answer any question
they do not wish to answer. It will take
health department personnel
approximately 45 minutes to administer
the questionnaire to an estimated 1500
patient respondents. This results in an
estimated annual burden to the public
of 1,125 hours.

retirement homes. Outbreaks of
shigellosis have impacted a range of
populations such as children, men who
have sex with men, people experiencing
homelessness, tight knit religious
communities, international travelers,
and refugees/displaced persons. Finally,
outbreaks of shigellosis have been
attributed to a range of transmission
modes including person-to-person/no
common source, sexual person-toperson contact, contaminated food, and
contaminated water. As part of Shigella
outbreak investigations, it is common
for state and local health departments to
conduct comprehensive interviews with
cases and contacts to identify how
individuals became sick with
shigellosis, to identify individuals who
could have come into contact with an
individual sick with shigellosis, and to
identify strategies to control the cluster
or outbreak. As person-to-person contact
is the most common mode of
transmission for shigellosis, and
shigellosis is highly contagious, it can
be challenging to identify how
individuals could have become ill. As a
result, comprehensive hypothesis
generating questionnaires focused on a
range of settings, activities, and
potential modes of transmission are
needed to guide prevention and control
activities.
There is currently no national,
standardized hypothesis generating
interview data collection instrument for
use during single or multistate
shigellosis cluster or outbreak
investigations. More detailed data about
shigellosis cases involved in single or
multistate clusters or outbreaks are
needed to better characterize the
epidemiology of clusters and outbreaks

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of respondents

Number of
respondents

Form name

Shigellosis case patients identified
as part of outbreak or cluster investigations.
Total ...........................................

Shigella Hypothesis
Questionnaire.

Number of
responses per
respondent

1,500

1

45/60

1,125

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