[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 217 (Tuesday, November 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69680-69681]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28473]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-16CP; Docket No. CDC-2015-0100]
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 request entitled ``Data Collection for
Community-based Tick Control for the Prevention of Rocky Mountain
Spotted Fever in Hermosillo, Mexico.'' This project will be carried out
in collaboration with the Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, National Center
for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the University of Sonora
School of Medicine (UNSOM) to assess the efficacy and impact of a
community based tick prevention project.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0100 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
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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
Community-based Tick Control for the Prevention of Rocky Mountain
Spotted Fever in Hermosillo, Mexico''--New--National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Rickettsial
Zoonoses Branch (RZB) requests approval of a public health intervention
assessment tool to demonstrate the efficacy and impact of public health
research related to the prevention of Rocky Mountain spotted fever
[RMSF] in Hermosillo, Mexico. These activities include monitoring
cases, conducting tick control interventions, and performing
participant surveys to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices
relating to tick control and prevention.
The information collection for which approval is sought is in
accordance with RZB's mission to reduce morbidity and mortality of
rickettsial diseases and decrease the burden of disease through control
and prevention methods. Authorizing Legislation comes from section 301
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241).
Approval for a three-year data collection will allow RZB to collect
information related to risk of RMSF to improve and inform prevention
activities. Successful execution of RZB's public health mission
requires use data collection activities in collaboration with multiple
local and international partners. RZB proposes the following use of
pre/posttests to evaluate the changes in knowledge, attitudes and
practices relating to tick control as well as perceived impact of the
intervention project. The project will also collect basic household
information to document their consent to participate. Data collection
will be conducted in-person. Data will be recorded on paper forms and
then entered into an electronic database.
RZB estimates involvement of 1,300 respondents and a maximum of 600
hours of burden for research activities each year. The collected
information will not impose a cost burden on the respondents beyond
that associated with their time to provide the required data.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in (in hours)
respondent hours)
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General Public................ Registration.... 500 1 20/60 167
General Public................ KAP survey (pre 800 2 20/60 533
and post
intervention).
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 700
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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. 2015-28473 Filed 11-9-15; 8:45 am]
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