[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 17 (Friday, January 26, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3851-3852]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-1195]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-07-0601]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    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) 371-5960 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974. 
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    The National Tobacco Control Program (NCTP) Chronicles Progress 
Reporting System--Revision--(OMB No. 0920-0601), National Center for 
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death and 
disease in the United States and most people begin using tobacco in 
early adolescence. Annually, causes more than 430,000 deaths in the 
nation, costing approximately $50-70 billion in medical expenses alone. 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking a 3 
year Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a revision of a 
reporting system called the Chronicle. The collection of this 
information is part of a federal reporting requirement for funds 
received by states from the CDC through the National Tobacco Control 
Program (NTCP).
    The Office on Smoking and Health currently has clearance for the 
NTCP Chronicle, OMB 0920-0601, a web-based program monitoring 
system. This Reporting system allows CDC increased ability to analyze 
program monitoring data received through state submission of bi-
annually progress reports, to provide national summaries of progress 
toward the objectives contained in Healthy People 2010 and, as well as 
CDC-specified goals and performance measures. The system also allows 
CDC to rapidly respond to outside inquiries concerning a specific 
tobacco control activity occurring in the state tobacco control 
programs. The revision to the existing web-based program monitoring 
data collection system serves to append the original quantitative and 
narrative format. This will result in increased quality of the content 
of the tobacco control data reported, and continues to provide for an 
electronic means for efficient collection and transmission to the CDC 
headquarters.
    In January 2004, the Office on Smoking and Health launched the NTCP 
Chronicle, an online program planning and reporting tool that assists 
states in developing comprehensive tobacco control program plans and in 
responding to federal reporting requirements. Using a standardized 
format based on OSH's program framework, the Chronicle enables grantees 
to describe their CDC-funded program activities and expected outcomes. 
By collecting and housing this information within a searchable 
database, OSH can effectively fulfill its cooperative agreement 
obligations, namely to monitor, evaluate and compare individual 
programs, provide technical assistance to increase the efficacy of 
state-driven initiatives, and to assess and report aggregate 
information regarding the overall effectiveness of the National Tobacco 
Control Program (NTCP). The NTCP Chronicle is complementary to the 
Grants.Gov electronic grant submission process by facilitating 
development of the key elements for inclusion in addressing federal 
cooperative agreement requirements, thus helping insure effective 
evidence- and science-based program planning and development efforts of 
state public health departments. This submission represents a request 
for a revision of a currently approved data collection. The revised 
content includes modifications to some of the Program Report assessment 
questions, a reduction in the number of fields a cooperative agreement 
recipient is required to respond to, and a recalculation to provide a 
more realistic burden estimate of the amount of time required to 
complete the Progress Report.
    There is no cost to the respondents other than their time. The 
total estimated annualized burden hours are 816.

Estimated Annualized Burden Hours

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                                                                                   Number of     Average  burden
                         Respondents                              Number of      responses per      respondent
                                                                 respondents       respondent       (in hours)
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States and District of Columbia..............................              51                2                8
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    Dated: January 22, 2007.
Joan F. Karr,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E7-1195 Filed 1-25-07; 8:45 am]
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