[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 46 (Thursday, March 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11982-11983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-4679]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-05-0134]


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 404-371-5976 or 
send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC Assistant Reports Clearance 
Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected].
    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. Written comments should be received 
within 60 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Foreign Quarantine Regulations, OMB No. 0920-0134--Revision--
National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC). Section 361 of the Public Health Service 
(PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 264) authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services (DHHS) to make and enforce regulations necessary to prevent 
the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from 
foreign countries into the United States.
    Legislation and the existing regulations governing foreign 
quarantine activities (42 CFR part 71) authorize quarantine officers 
and other personnel to inspect and undertake necessary control measures 
with respect to conveyances, persons, and shipments of animals and 
etiologic agents entering the United States from foreign ports in order 
to protect the public health.
    Under foreign quarantine regulations, the master of a ship or 
captain of an airplane entering the United States from a foreign port 
is required by public health law to report certain illnesses among 
passengers (42 CFR 71.21)(b). In this revision, CDC proposes adding two 
additional reporting requirements. First, in addition to the 
aforementioned list of required illnesses to be reported, CDC is asking 
that reports be made for the following conditions, which may indicate a 
reportable illness: (1) Hemorrhagic fever syndrome (persistent fever 
accompanied by abnormal bleeding from any site); or (2) acute 
respiratory syndrome (severe cough or severe respiratory disease of 
less than 3 weeks in duration); or (3) acute onset of fever and severe 
headache, accompanied by stiff neck or change in level of 
consciousness. CDC has the authority to collect personal health 
information to protect the health of the public under the authority of 
section 301 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.).
    Second, CDC proposes adding the Passenger Locator Form currently 
under OMB control number 0920-0664 to OMB control number 0920-0134. The 
Passenger Locator Form is used to collect reliable information that 
assists quarantine officers in locating in a timely manner those 
passengers and crew who are exposed to communicable diseases of public 
health importance

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while traveling on a conveyance. Additional burden hours for the 
voluntary reporting of additional certain illnesses and the Passenger 
Locator Form are reflected in the burden hour table below.
    DHHS delegates authority to CDC to conduct quarantine control 
measures. Currently, with the exception of rodent inspections and the 
cruise ship sanitation program, inspections are performed only on those 
vessels and aircraft which report illness prior to arrival or when 
illness is discovered upon arrival. Other inspection agencies assist 
quarantine officers in public health screening of persons, pets, and 
other importations of public health significance and make referrals to 
PHS when indicated. These practices and procedures assure protection 
against the introduction and spread of communicable diseases into the 
United States with a minimum of recordkeeping and reporting as well as 
a minimum of interference with trade and travel.
    Respondents include airplane pilots, ships' captains, importers, 
and travelers. The nature of the quarantine response would dictate 
which forms are completed by whom. There is no cost to respondents 
except for their time.
    Annualized Burden Table:

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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                   Respondents                       Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)         hours
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Radio reporting of death/illness................            1700               1            2/60              57
Report by persons held in isolation/Surveillance              11               1           30/60               6
Report of death or Illness on carrier during                   5               1           30/60            2.50
 stay in port...................................
Passenger locator form:
    --Used in an outbreak of public health             2,700,000               1            5/60         225,000
     significance...............................
    --Used for reportingof an ill passengers....             800               1            5/60              67
Requirements for admission of dogs and cats:
    Sec. 72.51(1)...............................               5               1            3/60             .25
    Sec. 72.51(2)...............................           1,200               1           15/60             300
Application for permits to import turtles.......              10               1           30/60               5
Requirements for registered importers of
 nonhuman primates:
    Sec. 71.53(1)...............................  ..............               1           10/60               7
    Sec. 71.53(2)...............................  ..............               4           30/60              60
        Total...................................  ..............  ..............  ..............         225,505
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    Dated: February 25, 2005.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Science Officer, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05-4679 Filed 3-9-05; 8:45 am]
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