[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 14, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27618-27619]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-11041]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-14-0900]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment 
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the 
below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information 
collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to 
LeRoy Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send 
an email to [email protected].
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) approval. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of 
the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall 
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of 
the burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) ways to 
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents, including through the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) 
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, 
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden 
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information 
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60 
days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting Forms--Revision--(0920-
0900, expiration date: September 30, 2014)--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), Division of 
Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ) requests a revision of the 
currently approved Information Collection Request: ``Contact 
Investigation Outcome Reporting Forms,'' expiring September 30, 2014. 
CDC has conducted a thorough review of the data collection tools 
approved in this information collection request. To streamline the data 
collected, ease the completion of each data collection tool, and to 
target information collected to be more specific to the individual 
illness of public health concern, several changes to the data 
collection tools have been proposed. The result is a 12% reduction in 
burden, or a reduction of 32 total burden hours. A summary of changes 
is as follows:
     Data pertaining to contact investigations for measles, 
mumps and rubella will no longer be collected using one form for either 
the air or maritime environments.
     Data collection for measles contact investigations will be 
collected either by using the Measles Contact Investigation Reporting 
Form--Air, or the Measles Contact Investigation Reporting Form--
Maritime.
     CDC will no longer collect information pertaining to cases 
of mumps occurring during air travel. Contact investigations for cases 
of mumps occurring onboard maritime conveyances will still be 
evaluated, using the General Contact Investigation Outcome Form--
Maritime.
     Data collection for rubella contact investigations will be 
collected either by using the Rubella Contact Investigation Reporting 
Form--Air, or the Rubella Contact Investigation Reporting Form--
Maritime. Data collection fields pertaining to pregnant women have been 
added to assist in recommending the appropriate prophylaxis of those 
exposed.
     Data pertaining to contact investigations occurring in the 
air and land-border crossing environments will no longer be collected 
using the same form. Factors affecting the disease transmission in 
these environments is very different, thus, CDC has created separate 
data collection tools and fields. Data collection for contact 
investigations of illnesses of public health concern occurring in a 
land-border crossing environment will be collected by using the General 
Contact Investigation Reporting Form--Land. Data collection for 
illnesses of public health concern occurring in an air environment will 
be collected using tools specific to each disease.
     In response to a request from maritime operators (cruise 
ship physicians/cargo ship managers), CDC has added the option for 
contact investigation outcome reporting to be completed in either a MS 
Word or MS Excel format. The excel format allows reporting for multiple 
patients simultaneously without completing separate documents for each 
ill traveler. The information collected on each of the data collection 
tools is the same. Data collection for contact investigations for 
diseases of public health concern occurring in a maritime environment 
will be collected using tools specific to each of the diseases listed 
above.
    This data collection supports the need for CDC staff to evaluate 
cases of communicable diseases of public health concern during travel 
and conduct investigative contact tracing for those that may have been 
exposed. The proposed data collection tools facilitate the collection 
of data pertaining to these contact investigations.
    CDC is requesting a total of 248 burden hours in this revision. 
There are no costs to respondents other than their time.

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                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden
      Type of  respondent           Form name       respondents    responses per   response (in        hours
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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State/local health department   General Contact               12               1            5/60               1
 staff.                          Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Air).
Cruise Ship Physicians/Cargo    General Contact              100               1            5/60               8
 Ship Managers.                  Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Maritime--word
                                 version).
Cruise Ship Physicians/Cargo    General Contact              100               1            5/60               8
 Ship Managers.                  Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Maritime--Exce
                                 l version).
State/local health department   General Contact               12               1            5/60               1
 staff.                          Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Land).
State/local health department   TB Contact                 1,244               1            5/60             104
 staff.                          Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Air).
Cruise Ship Physicians/Cargo    TB Contact                   150               1            5/60              13
 Ship Managers.                  Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Maritime--word
                                 version).
Cruise Ship Physicians/Cargo    TB Contact                   150               1            5/60              13
 Ship Managers.                  Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Maritime--Exce
                                 l version).
State/local health department   Measles Contact              964               1            5/60              80
 staff.                          Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Air).
Cruise Ship Physicians/Cargo    Measles Contact               63               1            5/60               5
 Ship Managers.                  Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Maritime--word
                                 version).
Cruise Ship Physicians/Cargo    Measles Contact               63               1            5/60               5
 Ship Managers.                  Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Maritime--exce
                                 l version).
State/local health department   Rubella Contact               95               1            5/60               8
 staff.                          Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Air).
Cruise Ship Physicians/Cargo    Rubella Contact               12               1            5/60               1
 Ship Managers.                  Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Maritime--word
                                 version).
Cruise Ship Physicians/Cargo    Rubella Contact               12               1            5/60               1
 Ship Managers.                  Investigation
                                 Outcome
                                 Reporting Form
                                 (Maritime--exce
                                 l version).
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             248
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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. 2014-11041 Filed 5-13-14; 8:45 am]
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