[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 20 (Wednesday, January 31, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4520-4521]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-406]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; California Health 
Interview Survey 2007

    Summary: Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), 
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve the 
information collection listed below. This proposed information 
collection was previously published in the Federal Register on Sept. 
11, 2006, p. 53456 and allowed 60-days for public comment. No public 
comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an 
additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes of 
Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required 
to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, 
revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.

Proposed collection

    Title: California Health Interview Survey 2007.
    Type of Information Collection Request: NEW.
    Need and use of Information Collection: The NCI has sponsored three 
Cancer Control Modules in the California Health Interview Survey 
(CHIS), and will be sponsoring a fourth to be administered in 2007. 
Other federal government agencies have co-sponsored previous cycles of 
the survey.
    The CHIS is a telephone survey designed to provide population-
based, standardized health-related data to assess California's progress 
in meeting Healthy People 2010 objectives for the nation and the state. 
The CHIS samples designed to provide statisticically reliable estimates 
statewide, for California counties, and for California's ethnically and 
racially diverse population. Initiated by the UCLA Center for Health 
Policy Research, the California Department of Health Services, and the 
California Public Health Institute, the survey is funded by a number of 
public and private sources. It was first administered in 2001 to 55,428 
adults, 5,801 adolescents, and 12,802 children; subsequently in 2003 to 
42,043 adults, 4,010 adolescents, and 8,502 children; and in 2005 to 
43,020 adults, 4,029 adolescents, and 11,358 children. These 
individuals are a representative sample of California's non-
institutionalized population living in households.
    CHIS 2007, is the fourth bi-annual survey, is planned for 
administration to 48,000 adult Californians and 4,000 adolescents. The 
cancer control module, which is similar to that administered in CHIS 
2001, CHIS 2003, and CHIS 2005, will allow NCI and other Federal 
agencies to examine various health- and disease-related topics. 
Examples include patterns and (when fielded in multiple years) trends 
in breast cancer screening, diet, physical activity, obesity, tobacco 
control and other disease risk factors, disease outcomes, 
discrimination, and neighborhood cohesion.
    Because California is the most populous and the most racially and 
ethnically diverse state in the nation, the CHIS 2007 sample will yield 
adequate numbers of respondents in key ethnic and racial groups, 
including African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and American Indian/
Alaska Natives. The Latino group will include large numbers of 
respondents in the Mexican, Central American, South American, and other 
Latino subgroups; the Asian group will include large numbers of 
respondents in the Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean 
subgroups. NCI and other Federal agencies will use the California and 
National Health Interview Survey (CHIS, NHIS) data to conduct 
comparative analyses and better estimate cancer risk factors and 
screening among racial/ethnic minority populations. The CHIS sample 
size also permits NCI and other federal agencies to obtain estimates 
for ethnic subdomains of the population for which NHIS has insufficient 
numbers for analysis.
    Frequency of Response: One-time.
    Affected public: Individuals or households.
    Types of Respondents: U.S. adults (persons 18 years of age and 
older) and adolescents (persons of age 12-17 for whom the adult 
respondent is the parent or legal guardian of the adolescent residing 
in the household).
    The annual reporting burden is as follows:
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 48,000 Adults and 4,000 
Adolescents.
    Estimated Number of Response per Respondent: 1.
    Average Burden Hours per Response: .1202 for Adults and .0134 for 
Adolescents.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours Requested: 5,778 for Adults and 53.8 
for Adolescents. The annualized cost to respondents is estimated at 
$98,629.451. There are no Capital Costs to report. There are no 
Operating or Maintenance Costs to report.

                       Table A.--Annualized Burden Estimates for CHIS 2007 Data Collection
 
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                                                                     Estimated
                                                     Estimated       number or        Average        Estimated
               Type of respondent                    number of     responses per    burden hour    total annual
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response    burden hours
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Adult Pilot.....................................             150               1           .1200            18.0
Adult Survey....................................          48,000               1           .1200          5760.0
Adolescent Pilot................................              15               1           .0134              .2
Adolescent Survey...............................           4,000               1           .0134            53.6
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............          5831.8
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    Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the 
following points: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the function of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) The 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology 
and assumptions used; (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 
clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) Ways to minimize 
the burden of the collection of information on those who

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are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated electronic, 
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms 
of information technology.
    Direct Comments to OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions 
regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding 
the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be 
directed to the Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory 
Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503, Attention: Desk Officer for NIH. To request more information on 
the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans 
and instruments, contact: Dr. Nancy Breen, Ph.D., Project Officer, 
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population 
Sciences NCI, NIH, EPN 4005, 6130 Executive Boulevard MSC 7344. 
Bethesda, Maryland 20852-7344, or call the non-toll-free number 301-
696-8500 or E-mail your request, including your address to 
[email protected].
    Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection 
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days 
of the date of this publication.

    Dated: January 23, 2007.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
NCI Project Clearance Liaison, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 07-406 Filed 1-30-07; 8:45 am]
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