[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 157 (Friday, August 14, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48861-48863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19992]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-15-15BBT; Docket No. CDC-2015-0068]
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 a proposed
information collection entitled National Unintentional Drug Overdose
Reporting System (NUDORS). CDC will use the information collected to
perform fatal unintentional drug overdose surveillance in a quickly and
comprehensive way.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 13, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0068 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
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
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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
National Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (NUDORS)--New
-- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
In 2013, in the United States, there were nearly 44,000 drug
overdose deaths, including nearly 36,000 unintentional drug overdose
deaths. More people are now dying of drug overdose than automobile
crashes in the United States. A major driver of the problem are
overdoses related to opioids, both opioid pain relievers (OPRs) and
illicit forms such as heroin. In order to address this public health
problem, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has
made addressing the opioid abuse problem a high priority.
In order to support targeting of drug overdose prevention efforts,
detect new trends in fatal unintentional drug overdoses, and assess the
progress of HHS's initiative to reduce opioid abuse and overdoses, the
National Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (NUDORS) plans to
generate public health surveillance information at the national, state,
and local levels that is more detailed, useful, and timely than is
currently available.
The goal of the proposed information collection is to generate
public health surveillance information on unintentional fatal drug
overdoses at the national, state, and local levels that is more
detailed, useful, and timely than is currently available. This
information will help develop, inform, and assess the progress of drug
overdose prevention strategies at both the state and national levels.
NUDORS will collect information that is currently not collected on
death certificates such as whether the drug(s) causing the overdoses
were injected or taken orally, a toxicology report on the decedent, if
available, and risk factors for fatal drug overdoses including previous
drug overdoses, decedent's mental health, and whether the decedent
recently exiting a treatment program. Without this information, drug
overdose efforts are often based on limited information available in
the death certificate and anecdotal evidence.
OMB approval is requested for three years. Participation is based
on secondary data and is dependent on separate data collection efforts
in each state managed by the state health departments or their bona
fide agent. There are no costs to respondents. CDC estimates the
information collection burden hours for the 16 participating state
health agencies that will retrieve and refile records for this
collection are 5,704.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Total number Average
Number of of responses burden per Total burden
Type of respondent Form name respondents per response (in hours (in
respondent hours) hours)
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Public Agencies............... Retrieving and 16 713 30/60 5,704
refile records.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 5,704
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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.
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