[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 19, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3146-3147]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-1038]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; The Atherosclerosis 
Risk in Communities Study (ARIC)

    Summary: Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood 
Institute (NHLBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has 
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for 
review and approval the information collection listed below. This 
proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal 
Register on October 12, 2010, page 62544, and allowed 60 days for 
public comment. No 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: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities 
Study (ARIC). Type of Information Collection Request: Revision of a 
currently approved collection (OMB NO. 0925-0281). Need and Use of 
Information Collection: ARIC will conduct a clinical examination of the 
cohort over a 24-month period (May 2011 to April 2013). In addition, 
this project involves biennual follow-up by telephone of participants 
in the ARIC study, review of their medical records, and interviews with 
doctors and family to identify disease occurrence. Interviewers will 
contact doctors and hospitals to ascertain participants' cardiovascular 
events. Information gathered will be used to further describe the risk 
factors, occurrence rates, and consequences of cardiovascular disease 
in middle aged and older men and women. Frequency of Response: The 
participants will be contacted bi-annually for follow-up. A subset of 
the cohort may choose to volunteer for the clinical examination; these 
individually will be contacted once in a 3 year period. Affected 
Public: Individuals or households; Businesses or other for profit; 
Small businesses or organizations. Type of Respondents: Individuals or 
households; doctors and staff of hospitals and nursing homes. The 
annual reporting burden is as follows: Estimated Number of Respondents: 
12,673; Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 2.7; Average 
Burden Hours per Response: 0.5916; and Estimated Total Annual Burden 
Hours Requested: 20,434. The annualized cost to respondents is 
estimated at $355,882, assuming respondent's time at the rate of $17.00 
per hour and physician time at the rate of $75.00 per hour. There are 
no Capital Costs to report. There are no Operating or Maintenance Costs 
to report.

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                                            Estimates of Hour Burden
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                                      Estimated     Estimated number   Average burden
       Type of respondents            number of     of responses per      hours per      Estimated total annual
                                     respondents       respondent         response       burden hours requested
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Participants....................            10,933                 3            0.6165  20,220.6
Physician (or coroner) (for CHD)               420                 1            0.1667  70
Physician (for heart failure)...               920                 1            0.0833  76.6
Participants' next of kin.......               400                 1            0.1667  66.7
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    Totals......................            12,673  ................  ................  20,433.9 or 20,434
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(Note: reported and calculated numbers differ slightly due to rounding.)

    Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies should address one or more of the 
following points: (1) Evaluate 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) Evaluate 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) Enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 
(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who 
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, [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974, 
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. Hanyu Ni, NIH, NHLBI, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 
MSC 7934, Bethesda, MD 20892-7934, or call non-toll-free number (301) 
435-0448 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.

Suzanne Freeman,
NHLBI Project Clearance Liaison, National Institutes of Health.
Michael Lauer,
Director, DCVS, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 2011-1038 Filed 1-18-11; 8:45 am]
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