[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 8, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27065-27066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-11096]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-12-0828]
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) 639-7570 or send an email to
omb@cdc.gov. 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
National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS)--Reinstatement with Changes--
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
(NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the
Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Background and Brief Description
Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of disease and
death in the United States, resulting in approximately 440,000 deaths
annually. Smokers die an average of 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.
Moreover, cigarette smoking costs more than $193 billion; $97 billion
in lost productivity plus $96 billion in health care expenditures.
With passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control
Act (Tobacco Control Act) in 2009, the FDA is legally mandated to
regulate tobacco products for the protection of public health. Such
authority involves considering whether the marketing of tobacco
products might encourage people who don't use tobacco products to begin
using them, to encourage people who might otherwise quit to continue
using tobacco, or to encourage former users to relapse.
In order to ensure that FDA is in compliance with the Tobacco
Control Act's mandate to protect the public health, annual data
collection is needed at least initially to monitor the benefits and
potential adverse consequences of FDA's regulatory actions, as the
regulatory framework is being established. As novel tobacco products
are introduced onto the market, the FDA must regularly monitor patterns
of all tobacco product usage--not just cigarettes--to identify changes
in susceptibility and rates of tobacco use initiation, perceptions
regarding tobacco use, and rates of tobacco use cessation.
Rather than develop a completely new system to monitor measures
critical to FDA, and thereby increasing burden to the population, FDA
has partnered with CDC to leverage the existing NATS system. While NATS
has been re-designed to meet the critical data needs of the FDA, many
of the measures are relevant to CDC's National Tobacco Control Program
(NTCP), and CDC also will use the NATS data to evaluate the NTCP. Many
of the NATS questions reflect CDC's key outcome indicators for
evaluating tobacco control programs.
CDC proposes to conduct three annual cycles of the NATS to collect
data necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of FDA's initial
regulatory actions. The NATS will be a stratified, random-digit dialed
telephone survey of non-institutionalized adults 18 years of age and
older. To yield results that are representative nationally, information
will be collected from 56,250 landline respondents and 18,750 cell
phone respondents who do not have a landline to include the growing
population of households that exclusively use cell phones and would be
missed in a survey relying only on land-lines. To obtain the target
number of completed telephone interviews, approximately 166,000
respondents will be contacted for initial eligibility screening and
consent.
The burden per response for the proposed NATS remains the same by
design as the 2009/2010 NATS. However, the number of respondents is
smaller because the current NATS seeks to develop national estimates,
whereas the 2009/2010 NATS sought to develop state-level estimates.
Therefore, the total respondent burden for the new NATS cycle is
substantially lower than the prior NATS. The 2009/2010 NATS involved a
total respondent burden of 38,303 hours. The revised 2012/2013 NATS
involves a total respondent burden of 29,850 hours, which amounts to
8,453 fewer hours, or 22.1% fewer hours, than the 2009/2010 NATS.
Results will have significant implications for the development and
periodic adjustment of policies and programs aimed at preventing and
reducing tobacco use in the United States.
Participation in the NATS is voluntary. There are no costs to
respondents except their time. The total estimated annualized burden
hours are 29,850.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per
Type of respondent Form name respondents responses per response (in
respondent hours)
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Adults ages 18 or older............ Screener for land-line 125,000 1 2/60
users (pp. 3-8 of the
NATS).
Screener for cell phone 41,000 1 1/60
users (pp. 9-11 of the
NATS).
National Adult Tobacco 56,250 1 20/60
Survey for landline users
(pp. 12-end of the NATS).
National Adult Tobacco 18,750 1 20/60
Survey for cell phone
users (pp. 12-end of the
NATS).
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Kimberly S. Lane,
Deputy Director, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2012-11096 Filed 5-7-12; 8:45 am]
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