[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 249 (Friday, December 27, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79105-79106]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-32657]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-03-26]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. 
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports 
Clearance Officer on (404) 498-1210.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology. Send comments to Anne O'Connor, CDC 
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, 
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Project: National Program of Cancer Registries--Cancer 
Surveillance System 0920-0469--Extension--National Center for Chronic 
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
    The American Cancer Society estimates that about 1.2 million 
Americans will be newly diagnosed with cancer and that about 8.2 
million Americans are currently alive with a history of cancer. The 
National Institutes of Health estimates the cost of cancer is about 
$172 billion including ($61 billion) direct costs to treat cancer and 
($111 billion) indirect costs in lost productivity due to illness and 
premature death.
    In 2000, CDC implemented the National Program of Cancer Registries 
(NPCR)--Cancer Surveillance System (CSS) to collect, evaluate and 
disseminate cancer incidence data collected by population-based cancer 
registries. In 2002, CDC published United States Cancer Statistics--
1999 Incidence which provided cancer statistics for 78% of the United 
States population from all cancer registries whose data met national 
data standards. Prior to this, at the national level, cancer incidence 
data were available for only 14% of the population of the United 
States.
    With this expanded coverage of the U.S. population, it will now be 
possible to better describe geographic variation in cancer incidence 
throughout the country and provide incidence data on minority 
populations and rare cancers to further plan and evaluate state and 
national cancer control and prevention efforts.
    Therefore, the CDC's NCCDPHP, Division of Cancer Prevention and 
Control, proposes to continue to aggregate existing cancer incidence 
data from states funded by the National Program of Cancer Registries 
into a national surveillance system.
    These data are already collected and aggregated at the state level. 
Thus the additional burden on the states is small. Funded states are 
asked to continue to report data to CDC on an annual basis twelve 
months after the close of a diagnosis year and again at twenty-four 
months to obtain more complete incidence data and vital status from 
mortality data. The estimated annualized cost to respondents is 
$885,000.

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                                                                      No. of      Average burden/
                   Respondents                        No. of        responses/      response (in   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent        hours)        (in hours)
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State, Territorial, and District of Columbia                  63               1               2             126
 Cancer Registries..............................
 
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    Dated: December 20, 2002.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-32657 Filed 12-26-02; 8:45 am]
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