Request for Change (3rd Quarter)

Non-substantive Change Request to OMB Control # 0920-1011
Emergency Epidemic Investigation Data Collections
Quarter: April 1, 2020 – June 30, 2020

This is a non-substantive change request for the Emergency Epidemic Investigations (EEI) Generic ICR, (OMB Control No. 0920-1011, Expiration 02/24/2020). 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 April 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020.

The actual burden for the one investigation completed during this quarter was 805,759 respondents and 402,874 burden hours. This is more than the 3,200 respondents and 1,600 burden hours that were projected in the GenIC requests for this investigation.

Table 1. Burden from April 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020

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	805,759	30/60	402,874
Total	402,874

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. April 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020 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
2020002-XXX	1/25/2020	2019-nCoV Case Report Form	200	100	228,409	114,205
2020002-XXX	1/25/2020	2019 nCoV Patient Under Investigation Form	1000	500	39,859	19,923
2020002-XXX	1/25/2020	Combined CRF and PUI form	2000	1000	536,537	268,269
2020002-XXX	1/25/2020	2019 nCoV Household/Close Contact Investigation Form	0	0	318	159
2020002-XXX	1/25/2020	2019 nCoV Household Questionnaire	0	0	106	53
2020002-XXX	1/25/2020	2019 nCoV Household member symptom diary	0	0	318	159
2020002-XXX	1/25/2020	2019 nCoV Household animal questionnaire	0	0	106	53
2020002-XXX	1/25/2020	2019 nCoV Household close out form	0	0	106	53
		Total	3,200	1,600	805,759	402,874

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