[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13205-13206]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-7250]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health


Proposed Data Collection Available for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
requires that Federal agencies provide a 60-day notice in the Federal 
Register concerning each proposed collection of information. The 
National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) of the National Institutes 
of Health is publishing this notice to solicit public comment on a 
proposed data collection: 1996-1997 National Survey of the Oral Health 
of U.S. School Children (OHSC III).
    Comments are invited on: (a) The need for the information (b) its 
practical utility, (c) the accuracy of the agency's burden estimate, 
and (d) ways to minimize burden on respondents. Send comments to Dr. 
Thomas F. Drury,

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Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Branch, DEODP, NIDR, NIH, 
Natcher Building, Room 3AN-44A, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 
20892. Written comments must be received by May 28, 1996. To request a 
copy of the data collection plan and instrument, call Dr. Drury on 
(301) 594-4916 (not a toll-free number).

Proposed Project

    1996-1997 National Survey of the Oral Health of U.S. School 
Children (OHSC III)--New--This project is for the design and 
implementation of a nationwide oral epidemiologic survey of U.S. 
schoolchildren, grades K through 12. The survey will provide the 
database for a historical analysis of trends in dental caries and other 
oral health characteristics of U.S. schoolchildren. It will provide for 
the first time statistically reliable estimates of the oral health of 
Black and Hispanic schoolchildren in the United States. The objectives 
of this survey are to: (1) Assess the relative frequency and 
sociodemographic distribution of certain oral diseases and disorders in 
U.S. schoolchildren, (2) oversample selected minority schoolchildren to 
provide statistically reliable baseline, national estimates of oral 
health for Black nonHispanic and Hispanic schoolchildren, and (3) 
provide the database for the late nineties, needed to evaluate shorter- 
and longer-term trends in coronal caries and certain other oral 
diseases and disorders. Burden estimates are as follows:

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                                                                                      No. of        Avg/burden/ 
                                                                      No. of       responses per     response   
                                                                    respondents     respondent        (hours)   
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Parents.........................................................          32,410            1.00           .2505
Children........................................................          32,410            2.06           .2910
School Principals...............................................             586            1.00           .2505
School Administrators...........................................             165            1.00           .1002
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    Dated: March 20, 1996.
Yvonne H. du Buy,
Executive Officer, NIDR.
[FR Doc. 96-7250 Filed 3-25-96; 8:45 am]
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