[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 143 (Monday, July 27, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44355-44357]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-18301]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-15-15AWV; Docket No. CDC-2015-0060]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, 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. This notice invites comment on an information
collection pertaining to the collection of tuberculosis-related
information from United States Panel Physicians.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before September 25,
2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0060 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
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Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
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.
Proposed Project
Information Collection for Tuberculosis Data from Panel
Physicians--An Existing Collection in Use Without an OMB Control
Number--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infections Diseases
(NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC), National
Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division
of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), Immigrant, Refugee, and
Migrant Health Branch (IRMH), requests approval for a new information
collection to request quarterly reports on certain tuberculosis data
from U.S. panel physicians.
The respondents are panel physicians. More than 760 panel
physicians perform overseas pre-departure medical examinations in
accordance with requirements, referred to as technical instructions,
provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division
of Global Migration and Quarantine, Quality Assessment Program (QAP).
The role of QAP is to assist and guide panel physicians in the
implementation of the Technical Instructions; evaluate the quality of
the overseas medical examination for U.S.-bound immigrants and
refugees; assess potential panel physician sites; and provide
recommendations to the U.S. Department of State in matters of immigrant
medical screening.
To achieve DGMQ's mission, the Immigrant, Refugee and Migrant
Health branch (IRMH) works with domestic and international programs to
improve the health of U.S.-bound immigrants and refugees to protect the
U.S. public by preventing the importation of infectious disease. These
goals are accomplished through IRMH's oversight of medical exams
required for all U.S.-bound immigrants and refugees who seek permanent
residence in the U.S. IRMH is responsible for assisting and training
the international panel physicians with the implementation of medical
exam Technical Instructions (TI). Technical Instructions are detailed
requirements and national policies regarding the medical screening and
treatment of all U.S.-bound immigrants and refugees.
Screening for tuberculosis (TB) is a particularly important
component of the immigration medical exam and allows panel physicians
to diagnose active TB disease prior to arrival in the United States. As
part of the Technical Instructions requirements, panel physicians
perform chest x-rays and laboratory tests that aid in the
identification of tuberculosis infection (Class B1 applicants) and
diagnosis of active tuberculosis disease (Class A, inadmissible
applicants). CDC uses these classifications to report new immigrant and
refugee arrivals with a higher risk of developing TB disease to U.S.
state and local health departments for further follow-up. Some
information that panel physicians collect as part of the medical exam
is not reported on the standard Department of State forms (DS-forms),
thereby preventing CDC from evaluating TB trends in globally mobile
populations and monitoring program effectiveness.
Currently, CDC is requesting this data to be sent by panel
physicians once per year. The consequences of reducing this frequency
would be the loss of monitoring program impact and TB burdens in mobile
populations and immigrants and refugees coming to the United States on
an annual basis. There is no cost to the respondents other than their
time.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden per
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per response (in Total burden hours
respondents respondent hours)
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International Panel Physicians (All sites) TB Indicators Excel 353 1 7.5 2,648
Spreadsheet.
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TOTAL................................. ............................ .................. .................. .................. 2,648
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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. 2015-18301 Filed 7-24-15; 8:45 am]
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