[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 250 (Thursday, December 30, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 73564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-33911]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request, the Framingham Study

Summary

    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 National Heart, Lung, and Blood 
Institute (NHLBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will publish 
periodic summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval.

Proposed Collection

    Title: The Framingham Study.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Revision 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:
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,865;
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 3,398;
    Average Burden Hours Per Response: 0.6321; and
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours Requested: 6,154.
    The annualized cost to respondents is estimated at $61,540, 
assuming respondents time at the rate of $10 per hour. There are no 
Capital Costs to report. There are no Operating or Maintenance Costs to 
report.


                         Estimate of Hour Burden
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                                           Frequency   Average   Annual
      Type of response         Number of       of     time per    hour
                              respondents   response  response   burden
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Framingham Original Cohort..         340       3,912    0.3496       465
Framingham Offspring Cohort.       1,267       5,642    0.7300     5,218
Physician, hospital, nursing         629         1.0    0.6700       421
 home staff 1...............
Framingham next-of-kin1.....         629         1.0    0.0800        50
    Total...................       2,865          --        --     6,154
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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.

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 function of the agency, including whether the 
information will 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.

For Further Information

    To request more information on the proposed project or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, contact Dr. Paul 
Sorlie, Project Officer, NIH, NHLBI, 6701 Rockledge Drive, MSC 7934, 
Bethesda, MD 20892-7934, or call non-toll-free number (301) 435-0456 or 
E-mail your request, including your address to: [email protected].

Comments Due Date

    Comments regarding this information collection are best assured of 
having their full effect if received on or before February 28, 2000.

    Dated: December 14, 1999.
Lawrence Friedman,
Director, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications.
[FR Doc. 99-33911 Filed 12-29-99; 8:45 am]
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