[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 99 (Thursday, May 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28026-28027]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13430]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30DAY-10-97]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
the CDC Reports Clearance Office on (404) 639-7090. Send written
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
1. AIDS Prevention and Surveillance Project Reports, (0920-0208)--
Extension--CDC funds cooperative agreements for 65 HIV Prevention
Projects (50 states, 6 cities, 7 territories, Washington, D.C., and
Puerto Rico). The cooperative agreements support counseling, testing,
referral, and partner notification programs conducted by official
public health agencies of states, territories, and localities (project
areas). HIV counseling and testing in STD clinics, Women's Health
Centers, Drug Treatment Centers, and other health agencies has been
described as a primary prevention strategy of the national HIV
Prevention Program. These project areas have increased HIV counseling
and testing activities to specifically reach more minorities and women
of child bearing age.
CDC is responsible for monitoring and evaluating HIV prevention
activities conducted under the cooperative agreement. Counseling and
testing programs are a major component of the HIV Prevention Program.
Without data to measure the impact of counseling and testing programs,
priorities cannot be assessed and redirected to prevent further spread
of the virus in the general population. CDC needs information from all
project areas on the number of at-risk persons tested and the number
positive for HIV. The HIV Counseling and Testing Report Form provides a
simple yet complete means to collect this information. We are
requesting a three year extension for this study. The total annual
burden hours are 219.
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Average
No. of No. of burden/ Total
Respondents respondents responses/ response (in burden (in
respondent hrs.) hrs.)
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Manual Form Project Areas.................................. 22 4 2 176
Scan Form Project Areas.................................... 43 4 0.25 43
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2. Employee Vital Status Letter (0920-0035)--Extension--The
employee vital status letter is an update of a letter originally
approved by OMB in 1977 and last approved in 1994. The vital status
letter is used for a type of study known as ``retrospective
mortality.'' The retrospective mortality study involves the
identification of a study population of present and former workers who
were exposed to a toxic substance in the workplace that is suspected of
causing a long term adverse health effect to the exposed workers. The
adverse health effects may be identified by observing the cause
specific mortality in the study population and comparing that to the
expected mortality. The study populations are identified through
employment records of past and present workers in given industries
where the suspected toxins are found. In order to identify these
deaths, it is necessary to determine the vital status (i.e., whether
the individual is alive or deceased) of all members of the study
population as of a given cut-off date and then obtain the medical
certification of cause of death on all deceased members.
This letter is sent to study cohort members as a last resort. If
the vital status of an individual cannot be determined from a number of
available data sources (such as the National Death Index and the Social
Security Administration), the letter is sent to determine if the
respondent is deceased or alive--if deceased, the data and place of
death is requested from next of kin. The total annual burden hours are
42.
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No. of Avg. burden/
Respondents No. of responses/ response (in Total burden
respondents respondent hrs.) (in hrs.)
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Workers................................................. 252 1 .166 42
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Dated: May 16, 1997.
Wilma G. Johnson,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning And Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-13430 Filed 5-21-97; 8:45 am]
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