[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 9, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40953-40954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-17303]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-53-03]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    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 or by fax 
to (202) 395-6974. Written comments should be received within 30 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Project: Aggregate Reports for Tuberculosis Program 
Evaluation (OMB No. 0920-0457)--Reinstatement without change--National 
Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC is requesting OMB approval to 
reinstate without change the Aggregate Reports for Tuberculosis Program 
Evaluation. This request is for a three-year extension of clearance. 
There are no revisions to the report forms, data definitions, or 
reporting instructions.
    To ensure the elimination of tuberculosis in the United States, key 
program activities, such as finding tuberculosis infections in recent 
contacts of cases and in other persons likely to be infected and 
providing therapy for latent tuberculosis infection, must be monitored. 
In 2000, CDC implemented two program evaluation reports for annual 
submission: Aggregate report of follow-up for contacts of tuberculosis, 
and Aggregate report of screening and preventive therapy for 
tuberculosis infection (OMB No. 0920-0457). The respondents for these 
reports are the 68 state and local tuberculosis control programs 
receiving federal cooperative agreement funding through DTBE. These 
reports replaced two, twice-yearly program management reports in the 
Tuberculosis Statistics and Program Evaluation Activity (OMB 0920-
0026): Contact Follow-up (CDC 72.16) and Completion of Preventive 
Therapy (CDC 72.21). The replacement reports emphasized treatment 
outcomes, high-priority target populations vulnerable to tuberculosis, 
and programmed electronic report entry and submission through the 
Tuberculosis Information Management System (TIMS).
    No other Federal agency collects this type of national TB data, and 
the Aggregate report of follow-up for contacts of tuberculosis, and 
Aggregate report of screening and preventive therapy for tuberculosis 
infection are the only data source about latent tuberculosis infection 
for monitoring national progress toward tuberculosis elimination.
    In addition to providing ongoing assistance about the preparation 
and utilization of these reports at the local and state levels of 
public health jurisdiction, CDC held three national training workshops 
about the reports and will convene additional workshops when requested 
by the respondents. CDC also provides respondents with technical 
support for the TIMS software. The annual burden for this data 
collection is 204 hours.

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                                                Number of   Avg. burden/
          Respondents             Number of    responses/   response (in
                                 respondents   respondent      hours)
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State & Local TB Control                 68             1         90/60
 Programs.....................
State & Local TB Control                 68             1         90/60
 Programs.....................
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    Dated: July 2, 2003.
Thomas A. Bartenfeld,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-17303 Filed 7-8-03; 8:45 am]
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