[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 6, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26055-26056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-10542]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60-Day 15-15AFJ; Docket No. CDC-2015-0027]


Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part 
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, 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. This notice invites comment on the proposed 
information collection entitled The Green Housing Pilot Study (New 
Orleans).

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before July 6, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0027 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review 
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road 
NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted 
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.

    Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the 
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the 
address listed above.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of 
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires 
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register 
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new 
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of 
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information 
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    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.

Proposed Project

    The Green Housing Pilot Study (New Orleans)--New--National Center 
for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking a 
new three-year regular OMB approval for a pilot study of additional 
components to be tested in a single study site (New Orleans) for the 
Green Housing Study (OMB No. 0920-0906, Expiration Date 10/31/2017). 
The goal of the Green Housing pilot study (New Orleans) is to apply 
environmental sample collection methods and novel approaches to study 
exposures to various indoor pollutants (both chemical and biological 
agents) in children (0-12 yrs.).
    The information collected will help scientists better understand 
time-activity patterns of young children (0-12 years) that affect 
exposures to

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chemical and biological agents in their residential environments. This 
knowledge will improve estimates of exposure for children. Results from 
this pilot study will also inform future Green Housing Study sites and 
will potentially reduce participant time burden by collecting some 
questionnaires electronically.
    This study directly supports the Healthy People 2020 Healthy Homes' 
health protection goal of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC). This investigation is also consistent with CDC's 
Health Protection Research Agenda, which calls for research to identify 
the major environmental causes of disease and disability and related 
risk factors.
    In 2011, CDC funded the first two study sites for the Green Housing 
Study; one location was in Boston and the other was in Cincinnati. In 
these two cities, renovations sponsored by the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development (HUD) had already been scheduled. By selecting 
sites in which renovations were already schedule to occur, the CDC 
leveraged the opportunity to collect survey and biomarker data from 
residents and to collect environmental measurements in homes in order 
to evaluate associations between green housing and health. The 
biomarker measurements of the children (such as those from urine, 
feces, toenails) reflects exposures that are in body, thus improving 
assessment of how environmental exposures can influence what enters the 
body.
    The third study is in New Orleans. With the New Orleans study site, 
CDC and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigators propose a 
pilot study of other sampling and analysis methodologies to improve 
exposure assessment for future study sites. Several objectives will be 
evaluated in the EPA pilot study add-on to the third study site:
    (1) Identify and characterize factors affecting children's 
exposures to chemical ingredients from consumer products found in their 
everyday environment in order to support the data and modeling needs of 
the exposure components of EPA's national research programs;
    (2) Evaluate the pilot study data metrics for incorporation in and 
enhancement of CDC's ability to understand the relationship between 
environmental exposures and asthma in green versus traditional low-
income housing;
    (3) Compare multimedia measurements and survey data between pre- 
and post-renovation time points in green and traditional low-income 
housing to assess exposure related changes in the residence and 
participants due to renovation activities.
    This pilot study of additional environmental exposure assessment 
methodologies is only for the New Orleans study site. Each study site 
only has 64 households (32 green renovated homes and 32 comparison 
homes) so this will be the maximum number of households in this pilot 
study. Like the previous study sites, participants for the New Orleans 
study site will continue to include children with asthma, their 
mothers/primary caregivers living in HUD-subsidized housing that has 
either received a green renovation or is a comparison home (i.e., no 
renovation). In addition, younger children (newborns through age 12 
years, with a focus on newborns to age 3 years) will be enrolled for 
the New Orleans study site. Having a larger age range of children in 
the pilot study will improve the estimate of how environmental 
exposures inside and outside of their homes can occur during different 
life stages of childhood, a critical period of life when the immune 
system and other organ systems are still developing.
    The Pilot study will be implemented by incorporating it into the 
Green Housing study schedule for approximately 12 months. Data 
collection methods proposed for the pilot include: (1) A questionnaire 
regarding time-activity patterns of their children which will be 
administered to mothers/primary caregivers (i.e., the respondents), (2) 
collection of air, soil, dust samples from the respondent's home; and 
(3) collection of blood, urine, toenails clippings, and feces from the 
respondent's eligible children. We hypothesize that a better estimation 
of exposure pathways will improve exposure modeling for the current 
Green Housing Study site (New Orleans), future Green Housing Study 
sites, and future research in environmental health. Although children 
are considered participants (by giving biological samples and providing 
some clinical measurements), the respondents to all questionnaires are 
the mothers/primary caregivers.
    The number and type of respondents that will complete the 
questionnaires are 64 mothers/primary caregivers of enrolled children. 
All health and environmental exposure information about children will 
be provided by their mothers/primary caregivers (i.e., no children will 
fill out questionnaires).
    There is no cost to the respondents other than their time to 
participate in the study. The total estimated annual burden hours for 
the pilot study in New Orleans study site of the Green Housing Study is 
171 hrs.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                   Number of      Average burden
     Type of respondents         Form name        Number of      responses per     per response    Total burden
                                                 respondents       respondent       (in hrs.)        (in hrs.)
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Mothers/Primary Caregivers    Time/Activity                64                4            40/60              171
 of Enrolled Children.         Questionnaire.
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    Total...................  ...............  ...............  ...............  ...............             171
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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. 2015-10542 Filed 5-5-15; 8:45 am]
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