[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 214 (Monday, November 5, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66468-66469]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-26898]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-13-12RI]


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) 639-7570 or send an email to 
[email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-
5806. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this 
notice.

Proposed Project

    Information Collection on foreign-born, migrant, refugee and other 
mobile populations with current or future ties to the United States--
New--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases 
(NCEZID), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National 
Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division 
of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), requests approval of a new 
``generic clearance'' to better understand the health status, risk 
factors for disease and other health outcomes among foreign-born, 
migrant, refugee and other mobile populations with current or future 
ties to the United States. Insights gained from information collections 
will assist in the planning, implementation and improvement of disease 
prevention and control activities.
    The information collection for which approval is sought is in 
accordance with DGMQ's mission to reduce morbidity and mortality among 
immigrants, refugees, travelers, expatriates, and other globally mobile 
populations, and to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread 
of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States. 
This mission is supported by delegated legal authorities.
    Section 361 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 264) 
authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make and 
enforce regulations necessary to prevent the introduction, 
transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries 
or possessions into the United States and from one state or possession 
into any other state or possession. These regulations are codified in 
42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 70 and 71.
    The Secretary of Health and Human Services also has the legal 
authority to establish regulations outlining the requirements for the 
medical examination of aliens before they may be admitted into the 
United States. This authority is provided under Section 212(a)(1)(A) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(1)(A)) and 
Section 325 of the Public Health Service Act. These regulations are 
codified in 42 CFR Part 34, which establish requirements that determine 
whether aliens can be admitted into the United States.
    Successful implementation of DGMQ's regulatory authority and public 
health mission requires a variety of information collections with 
foreign-born, migrant and other mobile populations with current or 
future ties to the United States. These include but are not limited to: 
immigrants, international travelers, asylees and refugees, expatriates, 
border region residents, temporary migrants, and permanent alien 
residents.
    The purpose of the new ``generic clearance'' is to better 
understand the health status, risk factors for disease and other health 
outcomes among foreign-born, migrant, refugee and other mobile 
populations with current or future ties to the United States. Numerous 
types of information will be collected under the auspices of this 
generic OMB clearance. These include, but are not limited to, 
knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behavioral intentions, practices, 
behaviors, skills, self-efficacy, and health information needs and 
sources.
    The proposed generic clearance is needed for DGMQ to fulfill its 
regulatory authority and public health mission, and will allow DGMQ to 
quickly collect important health-related information from the 
aforementioned hard-to-reach populations in order to improve routine 
and emergency public health programs and activities. Prior to each 
proposed information collection,

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DGMQ staff will search the literature and available data sources to 
ensure that the information of interest has not already been collected 
or is in the process of being collected. DGMQ will make all reasonable 
efforts to ensure that the information collection does not overlap with 
other data collection on immigrant health, such as those authorized 
under OMB control numbers 1405-0113, 0920-0006, 1615-0029, and 1615-
0033.
    DGMQ staff proposes that data collection methods for this package 
will include but are not limited to: Interviews, focus groups, group 
discussions, and surveys. Depending on the specific purpose, data 
collection methods may be conducted either in-person, by telephone, on 
paper, or online. Data may be collected in quantitative and/or 
qualitative forms. Each proposed information collection will submit the 
tools used for data collection, including screenshots of web-based 
surveys, in the statement provided to OMB.
    DGMQ estimates that 18,720 respondents will be screened in order 
for 9485 respondents to be involved in information collection 
activities each year. We anticipate that the information collections 
undertaken within this generic will use some combination of 15 surveys, 
35 focus groups, and 125 interviews, with some information collections 
making use of more than one method per collection. It is estimated that 
information collection activities will total 10,598 burden hours per 
year.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
          Type of respondent                    Form name           respondents    responses per   response  (in
                                                                                    respondent        hours)
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Foreign-born, migrant, refugee and      Screeners for Surveys,            18,720               1           10/60
 other mobile populations.               Focus Groups,
                                         Interviews.
Foreign-born, migrant, refugee and      Surveys (Approximately             9,000               1           45/60
 other mobile populations.               15 surveys/year).
Foreign-born, migrant, refugee and      Focus Groups                         360               1             1.5
 other mobile populations.               (Approximately 35 focus
                                         groups/year).
Foreign-born, migrant, refugee and      Interviews                           125               1             1.5
 other mobile populations.               (Approximately 125
                                         interviews/year).
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    Dated: October 30, 2012.
Ron A. Otten,
Director, Office of Scientific Integrity (OSI), Office of the Associate 
Director for Science (OADS), Office of the Director, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2012-26898 Filed 11-2-12; 8:45 am]
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