[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 3 (Monday, January 6, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 564-565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-147]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-16-03]


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 Disease Surveillance Program--I. Case 
Reports (0920-0009)--Extension--National Center for Infectious Disease 
(NCID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Formal 
surveillance of 20 separate reportable diseases has been ongoing to 
meet the public demand and scientific interest for accurate, 
consistent, epidemiologic data. These ongoing diseases include: 
bacterial meningitis and bacteremia, dengue, hantavirus, HIV/AIDS, 
Idiopathic CD4+T-lymphocytopenia, Kawasaki syndrome, Legionellosis, 
leprosy, lyme disease, malaria, Mycobacterium avium Complex Disease, 
plague, Q Fever, Reye Syndrome, tick-borne Rickettsial Disease, toxic 
shock syndrome, toxocariasis, trichinosis, typhoid fever, and viral 
hepatitis. Case report forms enable CDC to collect demographic, 
clinical, and laboratory characteristics of cases of these diseases. 
This information is used to direct epidemiologic investigations, to 
identify and monitor trends in reemerging infectious diseases or 
emerging modes of transmission, to search for possible causes or 
sources of the diseases, and to develop guidelines for the prevention 
of treatment. It is also used to recommend target areas in most need of 
vaccinations for certain diseases and to determine development of drug 
resistance.
    Because of the distinct nature of each of the diseases, the number 
of cases reported annually is different for each. The total estimated 
annualized burden is 34,097 hours.

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                                                                                   Number of     Average  burden/
                         Respondents                              Number of        responses/       respondent
                                                                 respondents       respondent       (in hours)
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Health Care Workers..........................................              55           111.10             5.58
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    Dated: December 30, 2002.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-147 Filed 1-3-03; 8:45 am]
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