[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 251 (Tuesday, December 31, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79696-79697]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-31290]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[60Day-14-14FA]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or
send comments to LeRoy Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology. Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
State Surveillance under the National Toxic Substance Incidents
Program (NTSIP)--NEW--Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR).
Background and Brief Description
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is
sponsoring the National Toxic Substance Incidents Program (NTSIP) to
gather information from many resources to protect people from harm
caused by spills and leaks of toxic substances. The NTSIP information
will be used to help prevent or reduce the harm caused by toxic
substance incidents. The NTSIP is modeled partially after the Hazardous
Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (HSEES) Program which ran from
1992 to 2012 [OMB number: 0923-0008; expiration date 01/31/2012], with
additions suggested by stakeholders to have a more complete program.
The NTSIP has three components: A national database, state
surveillance, and the response team. This information collection
request is focused on the state surveillance component.
The NTSIP is the only federal public health-based surveillance
system to coordinate the collection, collation, analysis, and
distribution of acute toxic substance incidents data to public health
and safety practitioners. Because thousands of acute spills occur
annually around the country, it is necessary to establish this
surveillance system to describe the public health impacts on the
population of the United States. The ATSDR is seeking a three-year
approval for the ongoing collection of information for the state
surveillance system.
The main objectives of this information collection are to:
1. describe toxic substance releases and the public health
consequences associated with such releases within the participating
states,
2. identify and prioritize vulnerabilities in industry,
transportation, and communities as they relate to toxic substance
releases, and
3. identify, develop, and promote strategies that could prevent
ongoing and future exposures and resultant health effects from toxic
substance releases.
The NTSIP surveillance system will be incident-driven and all acute
toxic substance incidents occurring within the participating states
will be included. Upon Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval,
participating states will include Alaska, California, Louisiana,
Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah,
and Wisconsin.
A standardized set of data will be collected by the NTSIP
coordinator for each incident. The NTSIP coordinator may be a federal
employee assigned to the state or an employee of the state health
department. State, but not federal, NTSIP coordinators will incur
recordkeeping burden during two phases.
During the first phase, the NTSIP coordinators will rapidly collect
and enter data from a variety of existing data sources. Examples of
existing data sources include, but are not limited to, reports from the
media, the National Response Center, the U.S. Department of
Transportation Hazardous Materials Information Reporting System, and
state environmental protection agencies. Approximately 65% of the
information is expected to be obtained from existing data sources.
The second phase of the information collection will require the
NTSIP coordinators to alert other entities of the incident when
appropriate and to request additional information to complete the
remaining unanswered data fields. Approximately 35% of the information
is expected to be obtained from calling, emailing, or faxing additional
types of respondents by the NTSIP coordinators.
These additional respondents will incur reporting burden and
include, but are not limited to, the on-scene commander of the
incident, emergency government services (e.g., state divisions of
emergency management, local emergency planning committees, fire or
Hazmat units, police, and emergency medical services), the responsible
party (i.e., the ``spiller''), other state and local government
agencies, hospitals and local poison control centers.
The NTSIP coordinator will enter data directly into an ATSDR
internet-based data system. NTSIP materials, including a public use
data set, annual report, and published articles will be made available
on the ATSDR NTSIP Web page at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ntsip/.
There are no costs to respondents besides their time. The total
burden hours requested is 1,821.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Avg. burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hrs.) (in hrs.)
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State NTSIP Coordinators...... NTSIP State Data 3 426 1 1,278
Collection Form.
On-scene commanders........... NTSIP State Data 110 1 30/60 55
Collection Form.
Emergency government services. NTSIP State Data 810 1 30/60 405
Collection Form.
Responsible party............. NTSIP State Data 15 1 30/60 8
Collection Form.
Other state and local NTSIP State Data 60 1 30/60 30
governments. Collection Form.
Hospitals..................... NTSIP State Data 10 1 30/60 5
Collection Form.
Poison Control Centers........ NTSIP State Data 80 1 30/60 40
Collection Form.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 1,821
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LeRoy 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. 2013-31290 Filed 12-30-13; 8:45 am]
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