[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 179 (Tuesday, September 16, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55495-55496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-22009]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-14-14AYK]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the
below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information
collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to
Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or
send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval. 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;(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; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Information Collection on Cause-Specific Absenteeism in Schools
(Pittsburgh Location)--New--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic
Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global Migration and
Quarantine (DGMQ), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National
Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division
of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), requests approval of a new
information collection to better understand the triggers, timing and
duration of the use of school related measures for preventing and
controlling the spread of influenza during the next pandemic.
The information collection for which approval is sought is in
accordance with DGMQ/CDC's mission to reduce morbidity and mortality in
mobile populations, and to prevent the introduction, transmission, or
spread of communicable diseases within the United States. Insights
gained from this information collection will assist in the planning and
implementation of CDC Pre-Pandemic Guidance on the use of school
related measures, including school closures, to slow transmission
during an influenza pandemic.
School closures were considered an important measure during the
earliest stage of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, because a pandemic vaccine
was not available until October (6 months later), and sufficient stocks
to immunize all school-age children were not available until December.
However, retrospective review of the U.S. government response to the
pandemic identified a limited evidence-base regarding the
effectiveness, acceptability, and feasibility of various school related
measures during mild or moderately severe pandemics. Guidance updates
will require an evidence-based rationale for determining the
appropriate triggers, timing, and duration of school related measures,
including school closures, during a pandemic.
CDC staff proposes that the information collection for this package
will target adult and child populations in three school districts in
Pennsylvania. CDC will collect reports of individual student symptoms,
vaccination status, recent travel, recent exposure to people with
influenza symptoms and duration of illness; this will be accomplished
through telephone, in-person interviews, and a web-based survey. This
information will be used to estimate baseline school absenteeism due to
influenza as well as to evaluate the use of absentee recording systems
in predicting community-wide influenza transmission.
Findings obtained from this information collection will be used to
inform the update CDC's Pre-pandemic Guidance on the implementation of
school related measures to prevent the spread of influenza, especially
school closures. This Guidance is used as an important planning and
reference tool for both State and local health departments in the
United States.
CDC estimates that 2,860 participants could be recruited by
information collections covered by this information collection. It is
estimated that information collection activities will total 1,109
burden hours per year.
There is no cost to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) hours
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Parents of children/ School Absentee 2,500 4 5/60 833
adolescents attending schools. Reporting.
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Sentinel Family Cohort........ Cohort Intake... 360 1 10/60 60
Sentinel Family Cohort........ Cohort Weekly 360 12 3/60 216
Illness
Reporting.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 1,109
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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. 2014-22009 Filed 9-15-14; 8:45 am]
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