[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 67 (Tuesday, April 8, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17044-17045]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8486]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-36-03]


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 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

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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 burden for this data 
collection is 126 hours.

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                                                                                   Number of     Average burden/
                         Respondents                              Number of        responses/      response (in
                                                                 respondents       respondent         hours)
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State, Territorial, and District of Columbia Cancer                        63                1                2
 Registries..................................................
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    Dated: March 31, 2003.
Thomas Bartenfeld,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-8486 Filed 4-7-03; 8:45 am]
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