[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 215 (Thursday, November 6, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65969-65970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26355]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-15-0931]


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 A. 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

    Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance System (HHLPSS) (OMB 
No. 0920-0931, expires 04/30/2015)--Extension--National Center for 
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The overarching goal of the Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning 
Surveillance System (HHLPSS) is to support healthy homes surveillance 
activities at the state and national levels. CDC is requesting a three-
year extension of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for up 
to 40 state and local Healthy Homes Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention 
Programs (CLPPP) and the state-based Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and 
Surveillance (ABLES) programs. The programs will report information 
(e.g., presence of lead paint, age of housing, occupation of adults and 
type of housing) to the CDC. They will use the system as designed.
    Over the last three years, 7 states have adopted the HHLPPS and 13 
are in beta-testing. In October 2014, CDC began funding 40 state and 
local blood lead surveillance programs. Many of these programs and 
their subcontractors at the local level will come on line with HHLPSS 
in the next year.

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    The objectives for this surveillance system are two-fold. First, 
the HHLPSS allows CDC to systematically track how the state and local 
programs conduct case management and follow-up of residents with 
housing-related health outcomes. Second, the system allows for 
identification and collection of information on other housing-related 
risk factors. Childhood and adult lead poisoning is just one of many 
adverse health conditions that are related to common housing 
deficiencies. Multiple hazards in housing (e.g., mold, vermin, radon 
and the lack of safety devices) continue to adversely affect the health 
of residents. HHLPSS offers a coordinated, comprehensive, and 
systematic public health approach to eliminate multiple housing-related 
health hazards.
    HHLPSS enables flexibility to evaluate housing where the risk for 
lead poisoning is high, regardless of whether children less than 6 
years of age currently reside there. Thus HHLPSS supports CDC efforts 
for primary prevention of childhood and adult lead poisoning. Over the 
past several decades there has been a remarkable reduction in 
environmental sources of lead, improved protection from occupational 
lead exposure, and an overall decreasing trend in the prevalence of 
elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) in U.S. adults. As a result, the U.S. 
national BLL geometric mean among adults was 1.2 [mu]g/dL during 2009-
2010. Nonetheless, lead exposures continue to occur at unacceptable 
levels. Current research continues to find that BLLs previously 
considered harmless can have harmful effects in adults, such as 
decreased renal function and increased risk for hypertension and 
essential tremor at BLLs <10 [mu]g/dL.
    There is no cost to respondents other than their time. The total 
estimated annual burden hours is 640.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondent            Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)         hours
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State, Local, and Territorial   Healthy Homes                 40               4               4             640
 Health Departments.             and Lead
                                 Poisoning
                                 Surveillance
                                 System (HHLPSS)
                                 Variables.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             640
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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. 2014-26355 Filed 11-5-14; 8:45 am]
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