[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).
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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.
[FR Doc. 2014-28232 Filed 12-1-14; 8:45 am]
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