[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 97 (Monday, May 20, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35549-35550]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-12512]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-29-02]


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) 498-1210. 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 Public Health Performance Standards 
Program State Public Health System Assessment--New--Public Health 
Practice Program Office (PHPPO), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).
    Since 1998, the CDC National Public Health Performance Standards 
Program has convened workgroups with the National Association of County 
and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the Association of State and 
Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the National Association of Local 
Boards of Health NALBOH), the American Public Health Association 
(APHA), and the Public Health Foundation (PHF) to develop performance 
standards for public health systems based on the essential services of 
public health. In the fall of 2000, CDC conducted field tests with the 
state public health survey instruments in Hawaii, Minnesota, and 
Mississippi.
    CDC is now proposing to implement a formal, voluntary data 
collection, based on the lessons learned during field testing, to 
assess the capacity of state public health systems to deliver the 
Essential Services of Public Health. Electronic data submission will be 
the method of choice when state and

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territorial health departments complete the public health assessment.
    An estimated 33 percent of the 59 state and territorial health 
departments are expected to participate in the National Performance 
Standards Program during the first year. In year two, an additional 25 
percent and in year three, 22 percent. The total burden hours are 
estimated to be 720.

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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                     Data collection period                          Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)
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Year 1..........................................................              20               1              15
Year 2..........................................................              15               1              15
Year 3..........................................................              13               1              15
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    Dated: May 10, 2002.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-12512 Filed 5-17-02; 8:45 am]
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