[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 222 (Monday, November 18, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69092-69093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-27447]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-14-0728]


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 
(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

    National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) [0920-0728, 
Exp, Jan 31, 2014]--Revision--Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, 
and Laboratory Services (CSELS), Division of Health Informatics and 
Surveillance (DHIS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
    Background and Brief Description: The Public Health Services Act 
(42 U.S.C. 241) authorizes CDC to disseminate nationally notifiable 
condition information. The Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance 
System (NNDSS) is based on data collected at the state, territorial and 
local levels as a result of legislation and regulations in those 
jurisdictions that require health care providers, medical laboratories, 
and other entities to submit health-related data on reportable 
conditions to public health departments. These reportable conditions, 
which include infectious and non-infectious diseases, vary by 
jurisdiction depending upon each jurisdiction's health priorities and 
needs. Currently approximately 300 conditions are reportable in one or 
more of the states. Since infectious disease agents and environmental 
hazards often cross geographical boundaries, public health departments 
have to be able to share data on certain conditions across 
jurisdictions and coordinate program activities to prevent and control 
the conditions. Each year, the Council of State and Territorial Disease 
Epidemiologists (CSTE), supported by CDC, performs an assessment of 
conditions reported to state, territorial and local jurisdictions to 
determine which should be designated nationally notifiable conditions. 
For conditions that are nationally notifiable, case notifications are 
voluntarily submitted to CDC so that information can be shared across 
jurisdictional boundaries and both surveillance and prevention and 
control activities can be coordinated at regional and national levels.
    CDC requests a three year approval for a Revision of the National 
Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) information collection, 
[National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS, OMB Control 
No. 0920-0728, Expiration Date 01/31/2014]. This request has been 
developed in coordination with four other CDC applications to OMB for 
nationally notifiable diseases case notification: Control Numbers 0920-
0128, (Congenital Syphilis Surveillance), 0920-0819 (Nationally 
Notifiable Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Morbidity Surveillance) 
0920-0009 (National Disease Surveillance Program--I. Case Reports) and 
0920-0004 (National Disease Surveillance Program--II. Disease 
Summaries). This consolidation of information collection 0920-0128 and 
some parts of information collections 0920-0819, 0920-0009 and 0920-
0004, is an important step in implementing CDC's longer term strategy 
of developing a more coordinated and integrated infectious diseases 
surveillance system that reduces overlap and duplication; increases 
interoperability, integration and efficiency; and thereby reduces 
burden to state, territorial and local health departments that report 
infectious disease data to CDC. Due to the coordination, this NNDSS 
application includes 11 conditions and many additional data elements 
for the case notifications that were not previously included in NNDSS 
OMB application Control No. 0920-0728. For many conditions submitted to 
CDC, participating public health departments also submit data elements 
which are specific to each condition. With the coordination with other 
CDC programs conducting surveillance on notifiable conditions, this 
application includes disease-specific tables for 68 diseases. The 2010 
NNDSS OMB application included disease-specific data elements for only 
14 of those conditions.
    Because this information collection request includes case 
notifications that were not part of the 2010 NNDSS/NEDSS application, 
replaces one application and replaces parts of three other OMB 
applications, burden estimates have been adjusted to incorporate burden 
estimates from the other four applications. The estimates are adjusted 
for the increased number of conditions reported to NNDSS, the expansion 
of core data elements, and the inclusion of more disease-specific 
tables. These changes have increased the burden estimates in this 
application in comparison with the burden estimates in the 2010 NNDSS/
NEDSS OMB application (OMB Control No. 0920-0728). As CDC works with 
state, territorial and local health departments to develop and 
implement new information technologies to submit these data through 
NNDSS, burden will also increase as the public health departments 
commit resources to implementing the new technologies. However, over 
the next 3 years, as the new automated electronic systems are 
implemented, burden will be decreased. There are no costs to 
respondents other than their time. The estimated annual burden is 
28,340 hours.

                                      Estimates of Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
                           Respondents                              respondents    responses per   response  (in
                                                                                    respondent        hours)
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States..........................................................              50              52              10
Territories.....................................................               5              52               5
Cities..........................................................               2              52              10
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LeRoy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2013-27447 Filed 11-15-13; 8:45 am]
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