[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 50 (Monday, March 15, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12154-12155]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-5728]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-04-31]


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 Seleda Perryman, CDC 
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-E11, 
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Project--Brownsville-Matamoros Sister City Project (BMSCP) 
for Women's Health--New--National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention 
and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC). The Brownsville-Matamoros Sister City Project for 
Women's Health is a proposed pilot project in which a standardized 
approach to surveillance will be established in selected hospitals that 
provide obstetric services in Brownsville and Harlingen, Texas, U.S., 
and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
    During 2003 and 2004, CDC provided funds to support staff from CDC, 
NCDDPHP, the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost 
College, the University of Texas--Houston School of Public Health, and 
Helix, Inc. These funds were used to disseminate information or inform 
health practitioners and public health officials at the local, state 
and national level about the BMSCP, implement development of the 
methodology and data collection instruments for the pilot phase of data 
collection described herein, conduct discussion groups (currently 
ongoing) to determine the appropriate language for interviews, and to 
determine the acceptability of topic areas to be covered in the 
interviews, and the appropriateness of the proposed methodology.
    The purpose of the proposed data collection is to test a 
standardized approach for hospital-based surveillance of women's health 
and chronic disease issues in the US-Mexico border communities of 
Brownsville and Harlingen, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. 
The primary method of data collection will be in-person interviews with 
women who give birth to live infants; which may be supplemented by 
abstracting additional data from the medical records of respondents and 
birth certificates of their infants. The majority of interviews will 
take place after delivery but prior to hospital discharge.
    Women who are selected for the pilot project but discharged prior 
to interview will be interviewed at the clinic they attend for 
postnatal care. The questionnaire will include questions to help 
monitor the occurrence of and risk factors for adolescent pregnancy, 
infant mortality, and gestational diabetes, as well as questions about 
physical activity and dietary practices, cervical cancer screening 
history, and knowledge of HIV transmission and prevention. These issues 
have been established as priorities by the U.S.-Mexico Binational 
Health Commission (USMBHC) and are included in the Healthy Border 2010 
objectives of the USMBHC. This approach to surveillance through which 
data will be collected using a standardized and uniform methodology on 
the U.S. and Mexican sides of the US-Mexico border is needed.
    Most data collection systems currently in place have been designed 
to collect information from either U.S. or Mexican residents, and the 
methodology of such systems is not comparable. Persons living along the 
US-Mexico border frequently cross the border in both directions for 
healthcare, work, and social reasons, they represent a unique 
population with respect to public health needs and public health

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program access. This pilot project will be conducted during fiscal year 
2005. If successful, this surveillance system may serve as a model for 
surveillance in other border communities. There will be no cost to 
respondents.

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                                                                            Number of     Average
                                                              Number of     responses    burden per     Total
                       Respondents                           respondents       per        response   burden  (in
                                                                            respondent   (in hours)     hours)
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U.S......................................................             400            1        30/60          200
Mexico...................................................             400            1        30/60          200
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    Total................................................  ..............  ...........  ...........          400
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    Dated: March 5, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-5728 Filed 3-12-04; 8:45 am]
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