[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 55 (Monday, March 23, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13859-13860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7413]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[INFO-98-14]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. 
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports 
Clearance Officer on (404) 639-7090.
    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; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques for other 
forms of information technology. Send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC 
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, 
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.

Proposed Projects

    1. 1999 and 2001 National School-Based Youth Risk Behavior 
Surveys--The purpose of this request is to renew OMB clearance for a 
biennial, national, youth risk behavior survey. This ongoing biennial 
survey is administered to students attending regular public, private, 
and Catholic schools in grades 9-12. The survey addresses priority 
health risk behaviors related to the major preventable causes of 
mortality, morbidity, and social problems among both youth and adults 
in the U.S. Previous OMB clearance for these surveys expired in October 
of 1997 (OMB No. 1920-0258, expiration 10/97). OMB clearance for a 
similar survey conducted among alternative school students will expire 
in December of 1998 (OMB No. 0920-0416, expiration 12/31/98). Data on 
the health risk behaviors of adolescents is the focus of at least 26 
national health objectives in Healthy People 2000: Midcourse Review and 
1995 Revisions. This survey will provide end-of-decade data to help 
measure these objectives as well as baseline data to measure many new 
national health objectives proposed for 2010. No other national source 
of data exists for most of the proposed 2010 objectives that address 
behaviors of adolescents. The data also will have significant 
implications for policy and program development for school health 
programs nationwide. The total estimated cost to respondents is $47,250 
assuming a minimum wage of $5.25 for the 1997-1998 school year.

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                                                                  Number of     Average burden/                 
                 Respondents                     Number of        responses/     response  (in     Total burden 
                                                respondents       respondent         hrs.)          (in hrs.)   
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Alternative school students.................          12,000                1             0.75            9,000 
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    2. Multistate Case-Control Study of Childhood Brain Cancers--New--
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is 
mandated pursuant to the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and its 1986 Amendments, the 
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), to prevent or 
mitigate adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life 
resulting from exposure to hazardous substances in the environment. 
Scientific knowledge is lacking concerning the reasons for the apparent 
rise in childhood brain cancer incidence during the last two decades in 
the U.S. and for explanations of childhood brain cancer in general. To 
date, most epidemiologic studies exploring the causes of childhood 
brain cancer have suffered from lack of statistical power due to the 
small numbers of cases available for the study. By combining recent 
childhood brain cancer data from multiple states, this study will help 
to better understand what environmental factors may be associated with 
childhood brain cancer, and therefore to possibly develop well-focused 
prevention measures.
    This study will examine the association between environmental 
exposures and risk of childhood brain cancers, by employing a 
population based case-control study of childhood brain cancer. 
Information to be collected includes proximity of parental residence to 
hazardous waste sites and other known or suspected risk factors. Other 
known or purported risk factors identified from the literature will 
include both environmental and host factors during the prenatal as well 
as postnatal periods: parental occupation, parents' and child's dietary 
habits, parental history of smoking and drinking, mother's and child's 
exposure to radiation through medical care, residential use of 
pesticides or herbicides, mother's and child's history of viral 
infection, and family history of cancer and neurological disorders. 
This request is for a 3-year OMB approval.

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                                                                     Number of    Average burden/               
                   Respondents                       Number of      responses/     response (in    Total burden 
                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)         (in hrs.)  
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Parent/Child questionnaire......................            1200               1            0.75             900
Blood sample collection.........................             200               1            0.5              100
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............            1000
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Charles Gollmar,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 98-7413 Filed 3-20-98; 8:45 am]
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