[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 130 (Friday, July 7, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38647-38648]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-10620]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-06-05CI]


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 404-639-5960 
and 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

    CDC Oral Health Management Information System -New- National Center 
for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The CDC seeks to improve the oral health of the nation by targeting 
efforts to improve the infrastructure of state and territorial oral 
health departments, strengthen and enhance program capacity related to 
monitoring the population's oral health status and behaviors, develop 
effective programs to improve the oral health of children and adults, 
evaluate program accomplishments, and inform key stakeholders, 
including policy makers, of program results. Through a cooperative 
agreement program (Program Announcement 03022), CDC provides 
approximately $3 million per year over 5 years to 12 states and one 
territory to strengthen the states' core oral health infrastructure and 
capacity and reduce health disparities among high-risk groups. The CDC 
is authorized to do this under sections 301 and 317(k) of the Public 
Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 241 and 247b(k)].
    Information systems provide a central repository of information, 
such as the plans of the state or territorial oral health programs 
(their goals, objectives, performance milestones and indicators), as 
well as state and territorial oral health performance activities 
including programmatic and financial information. The management 
information system (MIS) will allow a CDC project officer to enter 
information related to technical assistance, consultative plans, 
communication and site visits. For state and territorial oral health 
programs, this MIS will provide a central location that will allow for 
the more efficient collection of information needed to meet reporting 
requirements. The system will allow state and territorial oral health 
programs immediate access to information and better equip them to 
respond to inquiries in a timely fashion and to make programmatic 
decisions in a more efficient, informed manner.
    The MIS will support CDC's broader mission of reducing oral health 
disparities by enabling CDC staff to more effectively identify the 
strengths and weaknesses of individual state and territorial oral 
health programs; to identify national progress toward reaching the 
goals of Healthy People 2010; and to disseminate information related to 
successful public health interventions implemented by state and 
territorial programs to prevent and control the burden of oral 
diseases. The CDC anticipates that the state burden of providing hard-
copy reports will be reduced with the introduction of the Web-based 
progress reporting system. It is assumed that states will experience a 
learning curve in using this application that burden will be reduced 
once they have familiarized themselves with it.
    There are no costs to respondents except their time to participate 
in the survey.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                      No. of      Average burden
                   Respondents                        No. of       responses per   per  response   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)        (hours)
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State Program Staff.............................              12               2               9             216
Territory Program Staff.........................               1               2               9              18
    Total.......................................              13               4              18             234
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    Dated: June 30, 2006.
Joan F. Karr,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E6-10620 Filed 7-6-06; 8:45 am]
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