[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 182 (Monday, September 21, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56995-56997]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-23567]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-15-15BFD; Docket No, CDC-2015-0082]
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 the proposed
collection Active Monitoring of Travelers Coming from Ebola-affected
Countries and Their Contacts Currently Residing in State, Territorial,
and Local Jurisdictions.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before November 20,
2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0082 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 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,
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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
Active Monitoring of Travelers Coming from Ebola-affected Countries
and Their Contacts Currently Residing in State, Territorial, and Local
Jurisdictions--New--Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response
(OPHPR); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) clearance for 3 years to allow
the agency to effectively complement its ongoing international and
travel-related efforts for rapid case identification, contact tracing,
and infection control of Ebola virus disease (EVD) now within the
United States.
CDC is requesting an approval to receive daily and weekly active
monitoring reports from any, or as many as, 62 state and local health
departments (SLHDs) involved in active monitoring of EVD in their
jurisdictions. This information collection is currently approved via an
emergency review under OMB Approval number 0920-1066, which expires on
11/30/2015. These 62 health departments are all awardees of CDC's
Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement (CDC-
RFA-TP12-1201). This information collection is authorized under Section
319C-1 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241), as amended by
the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013
(PAHPRA, Public Law 113-5).
Travelers coming from Ebola-affected countries are screened by U.S.
Quarantine Stations upon entry into the United States, and are
classified into one of four risk categories according to the CDC's
``Interim Guidance for Monitoring and Movement of Persons with
Potential Ebola Virus Exposure.'' These risk categories are ``high
risk'', ``some risk'', ``low (but not zero) risk'' and ``no
identifiable risk.'' The travelers' risk classification information is
transmitted by the U.S. Quarantine Stations to the state, territorial,
or local jurisdictions which the travelers declare as their final
destination. At this point, the state and local health departments
(SLHDs) begin active monitoring of these travelers and their contacts
for the development of EVD for 21 days.
For those persons who are identified during entry screening as
being at ``high risk'', ``some risk,'' or who are returning healthcare
workers at ``low, but not zero, risk,'' SLHDs are responsible for
ensuring that a public health authority (or delegate for healthcare
workers) conducts direct active monitoring (DAM) by directly observing
each person at least once daily to review the presence of symptoms
consistent with EVD; and discussing plans to work, travel, take public
conveyances, or be present in congregate locations.
For non-healthcare workers assessed as being at ``low, but not
zero, risk'', SLHDs are responsible for conducting active monitoring
(AM) by receiving daily reports of temperature monitoring and symptoms
from these persons.
The CDC will provide the reporting forms which will require a
minimum number of data fields to be updated daily or weekly until
active monitoring is no longer necessary. The respondents are reporting
this information as part of their official duties as CDC cooperative
agreement awardees. There are no costs to respondents other that their
time. The total estimated annualized burden hours are 2,359.
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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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State and Local Health Departments............. Daily Direct Active Monitoring (DAM) 25 365 5/60 760
Recording and CDC Reporting Form
(Excel).
Daily Direct Active Monitoring (DAM) 12 365 4/60 292
Recording and CDC Reporting (email).
Daily Direct Active Monitoring (DAM) 25 365 4/60 608
Recording and CDC Reporting Form (Web).
Weekly Active Monitoring (AM) CDC 62 52 13/60 699
Reporting Form (Web).
Total...................................... ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 2,359
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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. 2015-23567 Filed 9-18-15; 8:45 am]
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