[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 222 (Monday, November 18, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69092-69093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-27447]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-14-0728]
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
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to [email protected]. Send written comments
to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC
20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received
within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) [0920-0728,
Exp, Jan 31, 2014]--Revision--Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology,
and Laboratory Services (CSELS), Division of Health Informatics and
Surveillance (DHIS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description: The Public Health Services Act
(42 U.S.C. 241) authorizes CDC to disseminate nationally notifiable
condition information. The Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance
System (NNDSS) is based on data collected at the state, territorial and
local levels as a result of legislation and regulations in those
jurisdictions that require health care providers, medical laboratories,
and other entities to submit health-related data on reportable
conditions to public health departments. These reportable conditions,
which include infectious and non-infectious diseases, vary by
jurisdiction depending upon each jurisdiction's health priorities and
needs. Currently approximately 300 conditions are reportable in one or
more of the states. Since infectious disease agents and environmental
hazards often cross geographical boundaries, public health departments
have to be able to share data on certain conditions across
jurisdictions and coordinate program activities to prevent and control
the conditions. Each year, the Council of State and Territorial Disease
Epidemiologists (CSTE), supported by CDC, performs an assessment of
conditions reported to state, territorial and local jurisdictions to
determine which should be designated nationally notifiable conditions.
For conditions that are nationally notifiable, case notifications are
voluntarily submitted to CDC so that information can be shared across
jurisdictional boundaries and both surveillance and prevention and
control activities can be coordinated at regional and national levels.
CDC requests a three year approval for a Revision of the National
Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) information collection,
[National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS, OMB Control
No. 0920-0728, Expiration Date 01/31/2014]. This request has been
developed in coordination with four other CDC applications to OMB for
nationally notifiable diseases case notification: Control Numbers 0920-
0128, (Congenital Syphilis Surveillance), 0920-0819 (Nationally
Notifiable Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Morbidity Surveillance)
0920-0009 (National Disease Surveillance Program--I. Case Reports) and
0920-0004 (National Disease Surveillance Program--II. Disease
Summaries). This consolidation of information collection 0920-0128 and
some parts of information collections 0920-0819, 0920-0009 and 0920-
0004, is an important step in implementing CDC's longer term strategy
of developing a more coordinated and integrated infectious diseases
surveillance system that reduces overlap and duplication; increases
interoperability, integration and efficiency; and thereby reduces
burden to state, territorial and local health departments that report
infectious disease data to CDC. Due to the coordination, this NNDSS
application includes 11 conditions and many additional data elements
for the case notifications that were not previously included in NNDSS
OMB application Control No. 0920-0728. For many conditions submitted to
CDC, participating public health departments also submit data elements
which are specific to each condition. With the coordination with other
CDC programs conducting surveillance on notifiable conditions, this
application includes disease-specific tables for 68 diseases. The 2010
NNDSS OMB application included disease-specific data elements for only
14 of those conditions.
Because this information collection request includes case
notifications that were not part of the 2010 NNDSS/NEDSS application,
replaces one application and replaces parts of three other OMB
applications, burden estimates have been adjusted to incorporate burden
estimates from the other four applications. The estimates are adjusted
for the increased number of conditions reported to NNDSS, the expansion
of core data elements, and the inclusion of more disease-specific
tables. These changes have increased the burden estimates in this
application in comparison with the burden estimates in the 2010 NNDSS/
NEDSS OMB application (OMB Control No. 0920-0728). As CDC works with
state, territorial and local health departments to develop and
implement new information technologies to submit these data through
NNDSS, burden will also increase as the public health departments
commit resources to implementing the new technologies. However, over
the next 3 years, as the new automated electronic systems are
implemented, burden will be decreased. There are no costs to
respondents other than their time. The estimated annual burden is
28,340 hours.
Estimates of Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per
Respondents respondents responses per response (in
respondent hours)
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States.......................................................... 50 52 10
Territories..................................................... 5 52 5
Cities.......................................................... 2 52 10
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LeRoy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2013-27447 Filed 11-15-13; 8:45 am]
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