[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 52 (Monday, March 17, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 14256]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-5261]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30dy-08-07BH]


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) 639-5960 or send an email 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

    Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-NET) Program--New--
National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The purpose of this project is to conduct research focused on 
identifying the environmental causes of food and waterborne illness and 
improving environmental public health practice. This research program 
is conducted by the Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net), 
a collaborative project of CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 
(FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), and nine states 
(California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, New York, Minnesota, Oregon, 
Rhode Island, and Tennessee). The network consists of environmental 
health professionals, epidemiologists, and laboratorians.
    EHS-Net plans to conduct a maximum of 35 applied research projects 
per year. These research projects will focus on identifying and 
understanding environmental factors associated with food and waterborne 
illness, such as poor food and water handling practices. These projects 
will also focus on evaluation of food and water safety regulatory 
programs. Data collection for these projects may involve: (1) Surveys, 
(2) observations, and (3) food, water, and environmental sampling. Data 
may be collected from: (1) Retail food establishments, where the 
majority of foodborne illness outbreaks originate, (2) public and non-
public water systems, representing possible sources of waterborne 
illness, and (3) environmental public health program regulators (food 
and water), who are responsible for food and water safety.
    There will be up to 3,900 respondents for retail food service 
workers; 2,200 respondents for water system operators; and 4,275 
respondents for environmental public health program (food and water) 
regulators. Each respondent will respond only once and the average 
burden per response will be approximately 90 minutes. The maximum total 
annual burden for all EHS-Net projects is expected to be approximately 
20,625 hours.
    There is no cost to the respondents other than their time.

                                           Estimated Annualized Burden
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                           Respondents                               Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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Retail food service workers--pretest for data collection........             300               1             1.5
Retail food service workers--data collection....................           3,600               1             1.5
Water system operators--pretest for data collection.............             200               1             1.5
Water system operators--data collection.........................           2,000               1             1.5
Environmental public health program (food and water) regulators--            375               1             1.5
 pretest for data collection....................................
Environmental public health program (food and water) regulators--          3,900               1             1.5
 data collection................................................
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    Dated: March 11, 2008.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8-5261 Filed 3-14-08; 8:45 am]
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