NonSubstantive Change Request Justification

Non-substantive Change Request

OMB Control Number 0920-1447

Generic Clearance for the Collection of Minimal Data Necessary for Case Data During an Emergency Response

Date Submitted: 03/19/2025

Summary of request: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology is requesting a change request to revise questions to align with EO 14168 Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.

Description of Changes Requested: This request updates sex questions used in Generic Clearance for the Collection of the Minimum Data Necessary for Case Data During an Emergency Response (0920-1447) to be in accordance with EO 14168. Please check the boxes below if your request includes:

X Revision of an existing question(s)

X Deletion of an existing question(s)

Description of Changes to Burden (if applicable):

There is no change in Burden Hours associated with the modifications made to comply with EO 14168.

Table A: Description of Changes (optional, helpful if multiple changes to multiple forms):	Type of Change	Question/Item	Requested Change
List of MDN for Case Data (Link)	Question Revision	Sex (Description: Documentation of a specific instance of sex and/or gender information, from any data source)	Change data element description to “Person’s sex.” Change value set from Male/Female/Non-binary/Unknown (PHVS_Sex_NNDSS) to Male/Female/Unknown (PHVS_Sex_MFU) to remove the concept of ‘Non-binary’. Justification: This value set of Male/Female/Unknown is the same as the value set that is used for the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), OMB # 0920-0728. For both data collections (NNDSS and MDN) CDC is a secondary data collector. The program would like to leave the third option (Unknown) because further changes would require informing state partners about the change and making multiple system updates across both CDC and STLTs. [Unknown is used to indicate no response was provided.  The term gender (or other versions of gender) is not used.]
List of MDN for Case Data (Link)	Question Deletion	Gender Identity (Description: Person-identified gender identity (i.e., an individual's personal sense of being a man, woman, or another gender, regardless of the sex that person was assigned at birth))	Remove data element.
List of MDN for Case Data (Link)	Question Deletion	Other Gender Identity Text (Description: If "Other" specified for gender identity, specify value here.)	Remove data element.