[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 58517]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-24181]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-0920-0792]


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.

Proposed Project

    Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-NET) Program, OMB 
0920-0792, expiration 10/31/2011--Revision--National Center for 
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The CDC is requesting OMB approval for three additional years to 
use this generic clearance for a research program focused on 
identifying the environmental causes of foodborne illness. This 
revision will provide OMB clearance for EHS-Net data collections 
conducted in 2011 through 2014 (a maximum of 3 annually). The program 
is revising the generic information collection request (ICR) to reduce 
the number of respondent groups, reduce the number of studies conducted 
and the estimated burden, and collect more generalizable data.
    Reducing foodborne illness first requires identification and 
understanding of the environmental factors that cause these illnesses. 
We need to know how and why food becomes contaminated with foodborne 
illness pathogens. This information can then be used to determine 
effective food safety prevention methods. The purpose of this food 
safety research program is to identify and understand environmental 
factors associated with foodborne illness and outbreaks. This program 
will continue to involve up to 3 data collections a year. This program 
is conducted by the Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net), 
a collaborative project of CDC, FDA, USDA, and six state/local sites 
(CA, NYC, NY, MN, RI, and TN).
    Environmental factors associated with foodborne illness include 
both food safety practices (e.g., inadequate cleaning practices) and 
the factors in the environment associated with those practices (e.g., 
worker and retail food establishment characteristics). To understand 
these factors, we need to continue to collect data from those who 
prepare food (i.e., food workers) and on the environments in which the 
food is prepared (i.e., retail food establishment kitchens). Thus, our 
respondents will be retail food establishment food workers.
    For each data collection, we will collect data in approximately 480 
retail food establishments. For each data collection, we will collect 
data from a maximum 1,440 workers. Each respondent will respond only 
once and the average burden per response will be approximately 30 
minutes. We will conduct up to 3 data collections a year. The maximum 
annual interview/survey burden for all 3 data collections will be 2,160 
hours.
    We expect a worker response rate of approximately 70 percent. Thus, 
for each data collection, we will need to conduct a recruiting screener 
with approximately 2,057 worker respondents to obtain the needed number 
of respondents. Each respondent will respond only once and the average 
burden per response will be 3 minutes. As we plan to conduct up to 3 
data collections annually, the maximum annual recruiting screener 
burden will be 309 hours. The total maximum annual burden will be 2,469 
hours. There is no cost to the respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                  Number of      Average burden
        Type of respondents                Form name            Number of       responses per   per response (in
                                                               respondents       respondent          hours)
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Retail food workers................  Interview/survey.....             4,320                 1             30/60
Retail food workers................  Recruiting screener..             6,171                 1              3/60
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    Dated: September 15, 2011.
Daniel Holcomb,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-24181 Filed 9-20-11; 8:45 am]
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