[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 231 (Tuesday, December 2, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71430-71432]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-28232]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-15-0821]


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

    Quarantine Station Illness Response Forms: Airline, Maritime, and 
Land/Border Crossing (OMB Control No. 0920-0821, expiration 08/31/
2015)--Revision--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious 
Diseases,

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    CDC is requesting a revision to a currently approved information 
collection, Quarantine Station Illness Response Forms: Airline, 
Maritime, and Land/Border Crossing. This revision seeks to incorporate 
the changes that resulted from activities undertaken during the 
response to Ebola. These changes include two major components, both of 
which have been given previous emergency clearance by OMB, with an 
expiration date of April 30, 2015. As a part of this revision, CDC is 
requesting the full three year approval and 12 months of burden for the 
following:
    The incorporation of a two public health screening forms that are 
currently used to assess risk for Ebola in travelers coming to the 
United States from countries experiencing widespread transmission of 
the disease. These forms are the United States Traveler Health 
Declaration and a completely revised Ebola Risk Assessment For 
Travelers From Ebola Outbreak-Affected Countries form, each given 
approval from OMB under OMB Control No 0920-1031. The additional burden 
requested for the electronic and hard copies of the English, hard copy 
French, and hard copy Arabic versions of the health declaration, and 
the English and French hard copy versions of the risk assessment form, 
is 16,965 hours.
    In this revision, CDC is maintaining the ability to use the Ebola 
Risk Assessment for Travelers from Outbreak-affected Countries form in 
the event that a traveler is identified as ill on a U.S.-bound flight 
prior to arrival. In the no material or non-substantive change to a 
currently approved collection granted by OMB on 9/18/2014, CDC 
requested 100 respondents and 5 hours of burden. Because the risk 
assessment form is more comprehensive, it requires more time for 
traveler to complete the assessment. CDC is requesting an additional 20 
hours of burden for the purpose of assessing ill travelers, for a total 
of 25 hours of burden. No additional respondents are requested.
    CDC is also requesting the incorporation of a telephonic, automated 
survey administered either through Interactive Voice Response (IVR) 
phone system which asks travelers if they have developed a fever or any 
other symptoms potentially indicative of Ebola exposure (OMB Control No 
0920-1034). This system is used to assist states in actively monitoring 
those travelers from Ebola affected countries for 21 days after 
arrival. The additional burden requested for the use of the IVR system 
is 91,350 hours.
    No revisions are requested to the Air Travel, Maritime Conveyance 
or Land Travel Illness and Death Investigation forms or burden 
associated with these information collections. The current burden 
associated with these forms is 314 hours.
    This revision incorporates the burden estimates provided for the 
emergency information collection 0920-1031 and 0920-1034. The total 
additional burden requested for this revision is 133,110 respondents 
and 108,335 burden hours. The estimated total burden for OMB Control 
Number 0920-0821 is 136,968 respondents and 108,654 burden hours. There 
is no burden to respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Respondent                  Form           Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent     (in minutes)        hours
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Traveler......................  Airline Travel              1626               1            5/60             136
                                 Illness or
                                 Death
                                 Investigation
                                 Form.
Traveler......................  Maritime                    1873               1            5/60             156
                                 Conveyance
                                 Illness or
                                 Death
                                 Investigation
                                 Form.
Traveler......................  Land Travel                  259               1            5/60              22
                                 Illness or
                                 Death
                                 Investigation
                                 Form.
Traveler......................  United States             45,325               1           15/60          11,331
                                 Travel Health
                                 Declaration
                                 (English: Hard
                                 Copy, fillable
                                 PDF, electronic
                                 portal).
Traveler......................  United States             19,625               1           15/60            4906
                                 Travel Health
                                 Declaration
                                 (French hard
                                 copy).
Traveler......................  United States                300               1           15/60              75
                                 Travel Health
                                 Declaration
                                 (Arabic hard
                                 copy).
Traveler......................  Ebola Risk                  1815               1           15/60             454
                                 Assessment for
                                 Travelers from
                                 Outbreak-
                                 affected
                                 Countries
                                 (English hard
                                 copy).
Traveler......................  Ebola Risk                   783               1           15/60             196
                                 Assessment for
                                 Travelers from
                                 Outbreak-
                                 affected
                                 Countries
                                 (French hard
                                 copy).
Traveler......................  Ebola Risk                    12               1           15/60               3
                                 Assessment for
                                 Travelers from
                                 Outbreak-
                                 affected
                                 Countries
                                 (Arabic hard
                                 copy).
Traveler......................  Ebola Risk                   100               1           15/60              25
                                 Assessment for
                                 Travelers from
                                 Outbreak-
                                 affected
                                 Countries (Ill
                                 traveler
                                 interview).
Traveler......................  IVR Active                45,625              21            4/60          63,875
                                 Monitoring
                                 Survey
                                 (English:
                                 Recorded).
Traveler......................  IVR Active                19,625              21            4/60          27,475
                                 Monitoring
                                 Survey (French:
                                 Recorded).
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.....................  ................         136,968  ..............  ..............         108,654
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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.
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