[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 71 (Wednesday, April 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19773-19774]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9046]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-20-00]


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 Project

    CDC Application for Distance Learning Program, Laboratory Training, 
and other Training--Revision--The Public Health Practice Program Office 
(PHPPO) in conjunction with the Public Health Training Network (PHTN) 
and the National Laboratory Training Network (NLTN) at CDC includes the 
Distance Learning Program which offers self-study, computer-based 
training, satellite broadcast, video courses, instructor-led field 
courses, and lab courses related to public health professionals 
worldwide. Employees of hospitals, universities, medical centers, 
laboratories, state and federal agencies, and state and local health 
departments apply for training in an effort to learn up-to-date public 
health procedures. The ``Application for Training'' forms are the 
official applications used for all training activities conducted by the 
CDC. The Continuing Education (CE) Program, which includes CDC's 
accreditation to provide Continuing Medical Education (CME), Continuing 
Nurse Education (CNE), and Continuing Education Unit (CEU) for almost 
all training activities, requires a unique identifying number, 
preferably the respondent's Social Security Number (SSN), to positively 
identify and track individuals who have been awarded CE credit. It is 
often necessary to identify individuals currently enrolled in courses, 
or to retrieve historical information as to when a particular 
individual completed a course or several courses over a time period. 
This information provides the basis for producing a requested 
transcript or determining if a person is enrolled in more than one 
course. The use of the SSN is the only positive way of assigning a 
unique number to a unique individual for this purpose. However, the use 
of the SSN is voluntary; if a student chooses not to submit a SSN, CDC 
assigns a unique identifier. The reason the SSN, rather than an 
arbitrary assigned number, is preferred is because students are not 
likely to remember an arbitrary number. A student's participation in 
the curriculum of self-study courses sometimes spans a number of years. 
The SSN is necessary for eliminating duplicate enrollments, for 
properly crediting students with completed course work who have similar 
names or have changed addresses, or for generating transcripts of 
previous completed course work on a cumulative basis. Due to the volume 
of enrollments, CDC Form 36.5 has been previously approved and used for 
years as an optical mark scan form. Use of this form, along with the 
use of the SSN, greatly enhances CDC's capability to process a much 
greater volume of enrollments in less time with much greater accuracy. 
The total annual burden hours are 4584.

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                                                                      No. of      Avg. burden of
                   Respondents                        No. of        responses/     response  (in   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)        (in hours)
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Application for Training CDC--0.759A............           6,300               1            5/60             525
Application for Laboratory Training--CDC-32.1...          10,000               1            5/60             833
Application for Distance Learning Program--CDC            40,000               1           10/60           6,666
 36.5...........................................
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      Total.....................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           8,024
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    Dated: April 3, 2000.
Charles Gollmar,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 00-9046 Filed 4-11-00; 8:45 am]
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