[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 237 (Friday, December 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77034-77035]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-31314]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-09-01]


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

    National Sexually Transmitted Disease Morbidity Surveillance 
System--Extension--OMB No. 0920-0011 National Center for HIV, STD, and 
TB Prevention (NCHSTP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC). The reports used for this surveillance system provide ongoing 
surveillance data on national sexually transmitted disease morbidity. 
The data are used by health care planners at the national, state, and 
local (including selected metropolitan and territorial health 
departments) levels to develop and evaluate STD prevention and control 
programs. In addition, there are many other users of the data including 
scientists, researchers, educators, and the media. Sexually transmitted 
disease (STD) data gathered in these reports are used to produce 
national statistics published in the annual STD Surveillance Report, 
MMWR articles, and serve as a progress report to meet objectives in 
Healthy People 2000: Mid-course Review and 1995 Revisions. It is 
important to note that these reporting forms are in the process of 
being phased out and replaced by electronic, line-listed STD data 
collected in the National Electronic Telecommunications System for 
Surveillance (NETSS). The total number of burden hours is 644.

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                                                                                     Number of        Average
                              Forms                                  Number of      responses/      burden  (in
                                                                    respondents     respondent        hours)
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CDC 73.688*.....................................................              20               4               1
CDC 73.688**....................................................              21               4               1
CDC 73.998......................................................              30              12           35/60
CDC 73.2638.....................................................              30               3              3
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* State-level reporting: Respondents for the state-specific CDC 73.688 forms now include 26 state health
  departments (originally, respondents included 50 states, but 24 states have now discontinued hardcopy
  reporting and send all STD data as electronic line-listed records through NETSS), seven large city health
  departments and three outlying areas.
** City-level reporting: The health departments for the 26 states and one of the outlying regions (Puerto Rico)
  also prepare and submit reports for additional large cities within their jurisdictions.



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    Dated: December 4, 2000.
Chuck Gollmar,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning, and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 00-31314 Filed 12-7-00; 8:45 am]
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