[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 245 (Wednesday, December 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 80507-80508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-32078]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-11-11BF]


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 instrument, call 404-639-5960 and 
send comments to Carol E. Walker, Acting CDC Reports Clearance Officer, 
1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 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 a 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

    Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting Forms--New--National Center 
for Emerging, Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    CDC proposes to collect passenger-level, epidemiologic, 
demographic, and health status data from State/local Health Departments 
and maritime operators at the conclusion of contact investigations of 
individuals believed to have been exposed to a communicable disease 
during travel. The information requested by CDC would be obtained by 
the health departments or maritime operators while conducting the 
contact investigation according to their established policies and 
procedures, and would be reported to CDC on a voluntary basis. This 
information will assist CDC in fulfilling its regulatory responsibility 
to prevent the importation of communicable diseases from foreign 
countries (42 CFR part 71) and interstate control of communicable 
diseases in humans (42 CFR part 70). To perform these tasks in a 
streamlined manner and ensure that all relevant information is 
collected in the most efficient and timely manner possible, Quarantine 
Stations use a number of forms: Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting 
Forms: (1) Optional TB Air/Land Contact Investigation Outcome 
Reporting, (2) Optional Measles, Mumps, or Rubella Air/Land Contact 
Investigation Outcome Reporting, (3) Optional General Air/Land Contact 
Investigation Outcome Reporting Form, (4) Optional TB Maritime Contact 
Investigation Outcome Reporting Form, (5) Optional Measles, Mumps or 
Rubella Maritime Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting Form, (6) 
Optional General Maritime Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting Form.
    Section 361 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 USC 264) 
authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make and 
enforce regulations necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission 
or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the 
United States. The regulations that implement this law, 42 CFR parts 70 
and 71, require conveyances to report an ``ill person'' or any death 
onboard to authorized quarantine officers and other personnel to 
inspect and undertake necessary control measures with respect to 
conveyances (e.g., airplanes, cruise ships), persons, and shipments of 
animals and etiologic agents in order to protect the public health. The 
notification is made possible by contacting individuals who may have 
been exposed to a communicable disease during travel and their 
contacts, and investigating this exposure so that the necessary medical 
or public health interventions can be implemented.
    CDC provides state and local health departments and maritime 
conveyance operators with information to notify and contact individuals 
and further investigate this exposure by contacting others who may have 
been potentially exposed to disease. However, there currently is no 
standardized tool or form to collect pertinent information regarding 
the outcome of such investigations.
    To address the need to inform CDC of additional actions that may be 
needed to further protect public health based on the outcome of the 
contact investigations, CDC has developed six forms to assist health 
departments and maritime conveyance operators in reporting back to CDC. 
The forms are specific to the nature of the investigation; Tuberculosis 
(TB), Measles, Mumps, and Rubella or the General forms specific to 
other diseases of public health concern. The purpose of the forms is 
the same: To collect information to help CDC quarantine officials to 
fully understand the extent of disease spread and transmission during 
travel and to inform the development and or refinement of investigative 
protocols, aimed at reducing the spread of communicable disease.
    All six forms collect the following categories of information: 
Heath status of traveler, clinical history including diagnosis, and 
interventions related to exposure.
    Respondents are state and local health departments and maritime 
conveyance operators. Respondents will use these standardized forms to 
submit data to CDC for each individual contacted via a secure means of 
their choice, e.g., Web-based application, fax or e-mail.
    The estimated total burden on the public, included in the chart 
below, can vary a great deal depending on the number of flights and the 
number of individuals identified as contacts that are assigned to a 
given health jurisdiction in the U.S. There is no cost to respondents 
other than their time.

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                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of        burden/      Total burden
          Respondents                 Forms         respondents     responses/     response  (in       hours
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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State/Local health department   Optional TB Air/            2154               1            5/60             180
 staff.                          Land Contact
                                 Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form.
State/Local health department   Optional                     367               1            5/60              31
 staff.                          Measles, Mumps
                                 or Rubella Air/
                                 Land Contact
                                 Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form.
State/Local health department   Optional General             456               1            5/60              38
 staff.                          Air/Land
                                 Contact
                                 Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form.
Maritime Operators............  Optional TB                  190               1            5/60              16
                                 Maritime
                                 Contact
                                 Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form.
Maritime Operators............  Optional                     140               1            5/60              12
                                 Measles, Mumps
                                 or Rubella
                                 Maritime
                                 Contact
                                 Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form.
Maritime Operators............  Optional General              40               1            5/60               3
                                 Maritime
                                 Contact
                                 Maritime
                                 Operators
                                 Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             280
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    Dated: December 16, 2010.
Catina Conner,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-32078 Filed 12-21-10; 8:45 am]
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