[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 103 (Friday, May 26, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34188-34189]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13244]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-34-00]


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 Projects

    1. Public Health Infrastructure Surveillance and Performance 
Monitoring Network--New--The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC) proposes to establish a sentinel network of 320 local health 
departments to provide ongoing public health system infrastructure and 
capacity data. As the nation's prevention agency, CDC is working to 
support the U.S. public health mission of rapidly detecting disease and 
health risks, rapidly communicating and strengthening the capacity to 
respond. Towards this goal, CDC proposes to assess and strengthen the 
nation's public health infrastructure by developing a network of local 
health departments that will provide ongoing information to public 
health leaders, policy makers, program managers and others to identify 
needs, target resources, and assist in overall preparedness. Data 
gathered by survey from the sentinel network will also lead to 
improvement of the public health communications systems and reinforced 
training and credentialing for core workforce skills, and will help in 
developing standards for improved organizational performance.
    The purpose of this Sentinel System is to: (1) Provide data to 
assist with monitoring and measuring local public health systems; (2) 
assess the public health infrastructure including data and information 
systems, public health workforce, and effective public health 
organizations that enable the performance of the essential public 
health services in every community; and (3) evaluate the use of these 
data in developing strategies to strengthen the infrastructure of 
public health. This data will allow CDC and the public health community 
to improve infrastructure quality and capacity. Examples of cross-
cutting infrastructure issues that may be identified by this data 
include the extent of under-funding of public health, the need for 
effective local leadership and for integrated electronic information 
systems, and the emerging role of measurable standards for local health 
departments.
    The main respondents to the survey will be local health officers. 
The annual burden hours are estimated to be 1,920.

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                                                                            Number of   Avg. burden/    Total
                         Respondents                           Number of    responses/    response   burden  (in
                                                              respondents   respondent   (in hrs.)      hrs.)
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Local public health systems.................................          320            1            6        1,920
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    Total...................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........        1,920
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    Dated: May 19, 2000.
Charles W. Gollmar,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 00-13244 Filed 5-25-00; 8:45 am]
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