[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 126 (Thursday, July 1, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39940-39941]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-14934]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-57-04]


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 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected]. 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

    NCHS Application for Vital Statistics Training Form, OMB No. 0920-
0217--Extension--National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the United States, legal 
authority for the registration of vital events, i.e., births, deaths, 
marriages, divorces, fetal deaths, and induced terminations of 
pregnancy, resides individually with the States (as well as cities in 
the case of New York City and Washington, DC) and Puerto Rico, the 
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands. These governmental entities are the full 
legal proprietors of vital records and the information contained 
therein. As a result of this State authority, the collection of 
registration-based vital statistics at the national level, referred to 
as the U.S. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), depends on a 
cooperative relationship between the States and the Federal government. 
This data collection, authorized by 42 U.S.C. 242k, has been conducted 
by NCHS since it was created in 1960.
    NCHS assists in achieving the comparability needed for combining 
data from all States into national statistics, by conducting a training 
program for State and local vital

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statistics staff to assist in developing expertise in all aspects of 
vital registration and vital statistics. The training offered under 
this program includes courses for registration staff, statisticians, 
and coding specialists, all designed to bring about a high degree of 
uniformity and quality in the data provided by the States. This 
training program is authorized by 42 U.S.C. 242b, section 304(a). In 
order to offer the types of training that would be most useful to vital 
registration staff members, NCHS requests information from State and 
local vital registration officials about their projected needs for 
training. NCHS also asks individual candidates for training to submit 
an application form containing name, address, occupation, work 
experience, education, and previous training. These data enable NCHS to 
determine those individuals whose needs can best be met through the 
available training resources. There is no cost to respondents in 
providing these data. The estimated annualized burden is 44 hours.

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                                                                                                                                             Number of
                                                                      Number of       Number of    Average burden                Number of   responses
                           Respondents                               respondents    responses per   per response   Respondents  respondents     per
                                                                                     respondents     (in hours)                              responses
 
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State, local, and Territory Registration Officials...............              57               1           20/60
Training applicants..............................................             100               1           15/60
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    Dated: June 22, 2004.
Diane Allen,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-14934 Filed 6-30-04; 8:45 am]
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