[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 84 (Monday, May 1, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25338-25339]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10793]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request: The Framingham Study

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 
(NHLBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval 
of the information collection listed below. This proposed information 
collection was previously published in the Federal Register on December 
30, 1999, page 73564 and allowed 60-days for public comment. No public 
comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an 
additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes of 
Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required 
to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, 
revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.

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 $80,485 assuming respondents time at the rate of $10 per hour and 
physician/medical staff time at the rate of $55 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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                                                                     Estimated                       Estimated
                                                     Estimated       number of        Average      total annual
               Type of respondents                   number of     responses per   burden hours    burden hours
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response      requested
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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 home staff.........             629           1.000          0.6700             421
Framingham next-of-kin..........................             629           1.000          0.0800              50
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    Total.......................................           2,865           3.398          0.6321           6,154
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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 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.

Direct Comments to OMB

    Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) contained 
in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public burden and 
associated response time, should be directed to the: Office of 
Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory Affairs, New Executive 
Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk 
Officer for NIH. 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-

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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 it received on or before June 30, 2000.

    Dated: April 20, 2000.
Peter Savage,
Acting Director, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, 
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
[FR Doc. 00-10793 Filed 4-28-00; 8:45 am]
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