[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 98 (Friday, May 20, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29243-29245]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-12469]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-11-11BF]


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 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. 
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

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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 U.S.C. 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. The total estimated annual burden hours are 280.

                                        Estimate Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of        burden/
                           Respondents                              respondents     responses/     response (in
                                                                                    respondent        hours)
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State/Local health department staff.............................            2154               1            5/60
State/Local health department staff.............................             367               1            5/60
State/Local health department staff.............................             456               1            5/60
Maritime Operators..............................................             190               1            5/60
Maritime Operators..............................................             140               1            5/60
Maritime Operators..............................................              40               1            5/60
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    Dated: May 13, 2011.
Daniel Holcomb,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-12469 Filed 5-19-11; 8:45 am]
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