[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 65 (Thursday, April 3, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18286-18287]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-6894]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30 Day-08-07BO]


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 e-mail 
to [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-
6974. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this 
notice.

Proposed Project

    State of Pennsylvania Fire and Life Safety Public Education 
Survey--New--

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Division of Unintentional Injury, National Center for Injury Prevention 
and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    This project will involve conducting a statewide survey of 
Pennsylvania fire departments to identify current fire and life safety 
education programs, resources, and training needs. Survey findings will 
be used to develop an inventory of programs and resources, and to 
inform Pennsylvania's fire and life safety educators during future 
training programs. In the United States each year, there are 
approximately 400,000 residential fires, with 14,000 non-fatal and 
3,000 fatal civilian injuries. The National Center of Injury Prevention 
and Control (NCIPC), in line with Healthy People 2010 objectives, work 
to reduce and eliminate non-fatal and fatal injuries from residential 
fires.
    The survey will be conducted with fire departments in Pennsylvania. 
The 2007 National Directory of Fire Chiefs & EMS Administrators lists 
all fire departments in Pennsylvania along with their contact 
information. A stratified random sampling strategy will be used to 
generate a study sample that includes all career and combination 
(career/volunteer) fire departments and a proportion of all volunteer 
fire departments. An initial mailing will be sent to the current postal 
addresses and existing e-mail addresses of selected fire departments' 
Fire Chiefs. This mailing will include a brief description of the study 
and instructions on how to submit the survey. Fire departments will be 
asked to participate in a 35-item survey. Completed surveys will be 
returned either on-line, through the mail, or by fax. Non-responding 
fire departments will be telephoned to confirm receipt of the survey 
and to encourage participation. The telephone script for this group is 
approximately 3 minutes. It is estimated that 260 out of the 654 
initially contacted fire departments will complete the 30 minute 
survey, which is designed to collect information on the scope and 
content of educational programs and activities, training needs, and 
barriers to fire and life safety education.
    There are no costs to respondents except for their time to 
participate in the surveys.
    The total estimated annualized burden hours are 163.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
              Respondents                       Form name            Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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Pennsylvania Fire Chiefs..............  Telephone Script/ Follow-            654               1            3/60
                                         up.
                                        Pennsylvania Fire and                260               1           30/60
                                         Life Safety Education
                                         Survey.
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    Dated: March 28, 2008.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
 [FR Doc. E8-6894 Filed 4-2-08; 8:45 am]
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