[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 58517]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-24181]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-0920-0792]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-5960 or send an e-mail
to [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington DC or by fax to (202) 395-5806.
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-NET) Program, OMB
0920-0792, expiration 10/31/2011--Revision--National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The CDC is requesting OMB approval for three additional years to
use this generic clearance for a research program focused on
identifying the environmental causes of foodborne illness. This
revision will provide OMB clearance for EHS-Net data collections
conducted in 2011 through 2014 (a maximum of 3 annually). The program
is revising the generic information collection request (ICR) to reduce
the number of respondent groups, reduce the number of studies conducted
and the estimated burden, and collect more generalizable data.
Reducing foodborne illness first requires identification and
understanding of the environmental factors that cause these illnesses.
We need to know how and why food becomes contaminated with foodborne
illness pathogens. This information can then be used to determine
effective food safety prevention methods. The purpose of this food
safety research program is to identify and understand environmental
factors associated with foodborne illness and outbreaks. This program
will continue to involve up to 3 data collections a year. This program
is conducted by the Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net),
a collaborative project of CDC, FDA, USDA, and six state/local sites
(CA, NYC, NY, MN, RI, and TN).
Environmental factors associated with foodborne illness include
both food safety practices (e.g., inadequate cleaning practices) and
the factors in the environment associated with those practices (e.g.,
worker and retail food establishment characteristics). To understand
these factors, we need to continue to collect data from those who
prepare food (i.e., food workers) and on the environments in which the
food is prepared (i.e., retail food establishment kitchens). Thus, our
respondents will be retail food establishment food workers.
For each data collection, we will collect data in approximately 480
retail food establishments. For each data collection, we will collect
data from a maximum 1,440 workers. Each respondent will respond only
once and the average burden per response will be approximately 30
minutes. We will conduct up to 3 data collections a year. The maximum
annual interview/survey burden for all 3 data collections will be 2,160
hours.
We expect a worker response rate of approximately 70 percent. Thus,
for each data collection, we will need to conduct a recruiting screener
with approximately 2,057 worker respondents to obtain the needed number
of respondents. Each respondent will respond only once and the average
burden per response will be 3 minutes. As we plan to conduct up to 3
data collections annually, the maximum annual recruiting screener
burden will be 309 hours. The total maximum annual burden will be 2,469
hours. There is no cost to the respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response (in
respondents respondent hours)
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Retail food workers................ Interview/survey..... 4,320 1 30/60
Retail food workers................ Recruiting screener.. 6,171 1 3/60
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Dated: September 15, 2011.
Daniel Holcomb,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-24181 Filed 9-20-11; 8:45 am]
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