[NCZEID] Traveler Risk Assessment and Management Activities During Disease Outbreaks
New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)
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Regular
Disapproved
02/19/2026
12/11/2025
Generics are generally voluntary, low-burden (based on a consideration of total burden, total respondents, or burden per respondent), and uncontroversial, thus the collections proposed do not seem appropriate for a generic clearance. CDC is welcome to continue to seek emergency clearance as needed during disease outbreaks.
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During a disease outbreak overseas with risk of case importation to the United States, CDC may screen airline passengers who have recently been in the outbreak area for signs, symptoms, or exposures to the outbreak disease. In such situations, CDC relies on its federal partners in the DHS to assist in the risk assessment and entry screening process because of their presence at the ports of entry. As needed, DHS will refer travelers into public health entry screening and risk assessment process. The public health entry screening typically consists of an initial health and exposure questionnaire to determine if a more in-depth public health risk assessment of a traveler is necessary. CDC develops the tools and training to facilitate this public health entry screening and works to ensure that any individual who is identified by DHS as being from the outbreak area is screened and further evaluated if compatible symptoms or potential exposures are identified. For those who are symptomatic or potentially exposed, additional public health measures may involve transport to a healthcare facility for medical evaluation if a traveler is identified as being ill; quarantine for those with high-risk exposures but with no evidence of illness or infection; and/or communication with CDC or health departments facilitate timely detection and management if potentially exposed travelers develop symptoms after arrival.
This information collection concerns CDCâs statutory and regulatory authority related to conducting public health screening of travelers upon arrival to the United States and assessing individual travelers for public health risk following a report of illness from a conveyance or other notification at a U.S. port of entry. As part of this responsibility, DGMH has implemented traveler management activities that collect contact information and share the information with health departments so that the travelers can be assessed for exposure risk, monitored for signs or symptoms of disease, and isolated and medically examined if needed. CDC anticipates the future need for these activities to prevent the introduction or spread of communicable diseases into the United States that threaten the publicâs health.
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US Code: 42 USC 71.20 Name of Law: Public health prevention measures to detect communicable disease
US Code: 42 USC 264 Name of Law: Public Health Service (PHS) Act
The total annual burden requested for this new collection is 54,757 respondents (54,750 travelers arriving on commercial flights and 70 health departments) with approximately 10,559 burden hours for three year of approval.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
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