[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29320-29321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13739]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30DAY-13-99]


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 Officer at (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 Projects

    1. Evaluation of NCIPC Recommendations on Bicycle Helmet Use--
Reinstatement--The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's 
(NCIPC), Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention (DUIP) intends to 
continue to conduct a survey of 1,100 persons from its mailing lists 
and lists of recipients of recommendations on the use of bicycle 
helmets in preventing head injuries. These recommendations were 
published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of February 17, 
1995.
    The purpose of this survey is to determine:
    I. The penetration of the recommendations distribution,
    II. The usefulness of the bicycle helmet recommendations,
    III. How to improve the recommendations' content and format,
    IV. Potential future DUIP bicycle helmet promotional activities,
    V. Information needs and access points of DUIP's ``customers''.
    Results from this research will be used to (1) assist DUIP in 
producing an updated version of the helmet recommendations; (2) 
identify new helmet promotion programmatic directions; and (3) develop 
future materials that meet the needs of DUIP ``customers.'' The study 
will be a telephone survey. The total annual burden hours are 311.

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                                                                                     Number of     Avg. burden/
                              Forms                                  Number of      responses/     response  (in
                                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)
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Section A.......................................................           1,100               1          .01666
Sections B, C...................................................             550               1          .01333
Sections D, E, F................................................             550               1          .01333
Sections G, H, I................................................           1,100               1          .01333
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    2. Children's Longitudinal Development Study--New--Since 1991, 
surveillance of children aged three to ten years who have one or more 
select developmental disabilities (cerebral palsy, mental retardation, 
hearing impairment, and vision impairment) has been conducted in the 
five-county Atlanta metropolitan area through the Metropolitan Atlanta 
Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program (MADDSP). Children have 
been identified primarily through the special education programs of the 
public schools in those five counties. Recently, surveillance has been 
expanded to identify children with cerebral palsy at younger ages 
through a broader array of medical facilities where diagnostic 
evaluations are performed, and to include autism as one of the 
developmental disabilities routinely under surveillance. An ongoing 
case-control study is proposed to yearly (1) contact parents of all 
children with any of the five developmental disabilities who are newly 
identified in the surveillance data base and who were born in the metro 
Atlanta area (approximately 675 children per year) and contact parents 
of 250 children used as controls in order to request access to both 
maternal prenatal and labor and delivery hospital records and infant 
hospital records prior to newborn discharge (all accessed medical 
records will be reviewed to obtain detailed information on pre- and 
perinatal risk factors for developmental disabilities; this type of 
information typically is lacking or incomplete in school records or 
childhood medical records) and (2) conduct telephone interviews with 
mothers of approximately 250 children with cerebral palsy or severe 
mental retardation selected from the larger pool of approximately 675 
children, plus interview mothers of the 250 control children. The 
interviews will supply additional risk factor information relating to 
the mothers' medical and reproductive histories, prenatal behaviors and 
exposures, and family histories of developmental problems. Initially, 
to be cases, children in the interview sample would be under seven 
years of age at the time they were diagnosed as having cerebral palsy 
or severe mental retardation. A sample of Atlanta-born children of 
similar age and birth weight to the interview case children would be 
randomly identified from vital records and used as controls. 
Additionally, photographs and head circumference measurements of case 
and control mothers and children included in the interview sample will 
be taken either in the home or at a centralized location. The total 
annual burden hours are 1,141.

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                                                                                     Number of     Avg. burden/
                           Respondents                               Number of      responses/     response  (in
                                                                    respondents     respondents        hrs.)
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Mothers:
    Contact Calls*--Cases.......................................             675               1           .333
    Contact Calls*--Controls....................................             250               1           .333
    Scheduling Call**...........................................             500               1           .166
    Telephone Interview.........................................             500               1          1.5
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* To obtain consent to participate in the study if there is no response to the letter of invitation.
** To schedule telephone interview.


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    3. Defining Gulf War Illness--New--National Center for 
Environmental Health (NCEH)--This study will characterize and compare 
alternative classifications for symptoms and functional disability 
which remain medically unexplained in Gulf War veterans. This will be 
accomplished in three phases. Phase I will assess persistence and 
stability of symptoms over time, as well as compare the performance of 
data-driven case definitions derived from two samples: (1) The New 
Jersey Center for Environmental Hazards Research sample of Gulf War 
veterans participating in the Department of Veterans Affairs Gulf War 
Registry; and (2) a cohort of Air Force members from a previous CDC 
study of Gulf War veterans and Gulf War-era controls from Pennsylvania 
and Florida. In addition to assessing data-driven case definitions for 
illness among Gulf War veterans, existing definitions for medically 
unexplained symptoms, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple 
chemical sensitivity, and fibromyalgia will be evaluated. Phase II will 
attempt to assess the generalizability of both derived and existing 
case definitions in a random sample of deployed and non-deployed Gulf 
War era veterans. Phase III will consist of a standardized telephone 
interview for the assessment of psychiatric conditions. This will be 
administered to a sample of Phase I and Phase II participants who are 
identified through their responses to paper-and-pencil questionnaires 
as having high levels of psychologic distress. The total annual burden 
hours are 4,761.

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                                                                                     Number of     Avg. burden/
                           Respondents                               Number of      responses/     response  (in
                                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)
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Initial Address Confirmation....................................              50               1           .0333
Introductory Script.............................................           7,000               1           .05
Main Questionnaire..............................................           5,361               1           .75
Mail Survey.....................................................             387               1           .05
Refusal Conversion..............................................             150               1           .0333
Address Confirmation............................................             200               1           .0333
Third-Party Contact.............................................              25               1           .0333
Recontact Script................................................              25               1           .0333
Follow-up Letter................................................             500               1           .083
Follow-up Care..................................................             804               1           .10
Request for Medical Records (letter)............................           1,340               1           .05
Request for Medical Records Follow-up Call......................             750               1           .0333
Medical Care Providers:
    Request for Medical Records (letter)........................             140               1          1
    Request for Medical Records Follow-up Call..................              42               1          0.0333
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    Dated: May 24, 1999.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-13739 Filed 5-28-99; 8:45 am]
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