[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14157-14158]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7376]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health


National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; The Framingham Study

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 
(NHLBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve 
the information collection listed below. This proposed information 
collection was previously published in the Federal Register on August 
23, 1996, page 43557 and allowed 60-days for public comment. No public 
comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an 
additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes of 
Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required 
to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, 
revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.

PROPOSED COLLECTION: Title: The Framingham Study. Type of Information 
Collection Request: Extension of a currently approved collection (OMB 
No. 0925-0216). Need and Use of Information Collection: This project 
involves physical examination and testing of the surviving members of 
the original Framingham Study cohort and the surviving members of the 
offspring cohort. Investigators will contact doctors, hospitals, and 
nursing homes to ascertain participants' cardiovascular events 
occurring outside the study clinic. Information gathered will be used 
to further describe the risk factors, occurrence rates, and 
consequences of cardiovascular disease in middle aged and older men and 
women. Frequency of Response: The cohort participants respond every two 
years; the offspring participants respond every four years. Affected 
Public: Individuals or households; Businesses or other for profit; 
Small businesses or organizations. Type of Respondents: Middle aged and 
elderly adults; doctors and staff of hospitals and nursing homes. The 
annual reporting burden is as follows:

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                                                                                                      Estimated 
                                                                            Estimated     Average       total   
                                                               Estimated    number of      burden       annual  
                     Type of respondents                       number of    responses    hours per      burden  
                                                              respondents      per        response      hours   
                                                                            respondent                requested 
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Original cohort.............................................          490          1.0         1.54          641
Offspring cohort............................................        1,400          1.0          4.0        5,600
Event information \1\.......................................        1,258          1.0         0.38          472
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      Total.................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........        6,713
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\1\ Annual burden is placed on doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and respondent relatives/informants through   
  requests for information which will help in the compilation of the number and nature of new fatal and nonfatal
  events occurring outside the Framingham examining clinic.                                                     

    The cost to the respondents consists of their time and travel; time 
is estimated using a rate of $10.00 per hour and travel is estimated 
using a cost of $0.35 per mile. The annualized cost to original and 
offspring cohort respondents is estimated at: $56,640. The annualized 
cost for event information is $23,173. The Capital Costs are $229,000. 
The Operating and Maintenance Costs are $2,692,000.

REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the 
following points: (1) 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; (2) The 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology 
and assumptions used; (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 
clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) Ways to minimize 
the burden of the collection of information on those who are to 
respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, 
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms 
of information technology.

DIRECT COMMENTS TO OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions regarding 
the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding the 
estimated public burden and associated response time, should be 
directed to the: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory 
Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503, Attention: Desk Officer for NIH. To request more information on 
the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans 
and instruments, contact: Ms. Suzanne Anthony, Project Clearance 
Liaison, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Building 31, 
Room 5A-10, MSC 2490, 31 Center Dr., Bethesda, MD 20892-2490 or call 
non-toll free number (301) 496-9737, or E-mail your request, including 
your address, to: [email protected].

COMMENTS DUE DATE: Comments regarding this information collect are best 
assured of having their full effect if received by April 24, 1997.


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    Dated: March 18, 1997.
Sheila E. Merritt,
Executive Officer, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
[FR Doc. 97-7376 Filed 3-24-97; 8:45 am]
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