[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34645-34647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14787]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60-Day-15-0134; Docket No. CDC-2015-0039]


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 a revision to 
several of the information collections pertaining to the importation of 
dogs as outlined in the currently approved information collection 
entitled ``Foreign Quarantine Regulations (42 CFR part 71)''.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before August 17, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0039 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

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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

    Foreign Quarantine Regulations (42 CFR part 71)--Revision--(OMB 
Control No. 0920-0134, Expires September 30, 2017), National Center for 
Emerging and Zoonotic Infections Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    This information collection revision request is an effort to 
provide greater clarity surrounding paperwork requirements and focuses 
exclusively on certain information collections that pertain to 
importation of dogs into the United States. Specifically, CDC seeks to 
make the following changes:
     CDC is asking to correct a transcription error in the 
burden tables in section 12. Currently, the relevant IC reads: 
71.51(b)(2) Dogs/cats: Certification of Confinement, Vaccination (CDC 
form 75.37). It should have been: 71.51(c)(2) Dogs: Certification of 
Confinement, Vaccination (CDC form 75.37).
     CDC is also proposing to replace the CDC form 75.37 NOTICE 
TO OWNERS AND IMPORTERS OF DOGS: Requirement for Dog Confinement with a 
new Application For Permission To Import A Dog Unimmunized Against 
Rabies, which, if the importer meets the criteria for importation, will 
be followed by a CDC-completed Permit to Conditionally Import a Dog 
Inadequately Immunized against Rabies--Single Entry
     CDC is also requesting approval to change and split the 
current information collection (IC) ``71.51(c)(2) Dogs/cats: 
Certification of Confinement, Vaccination (CDC form 75.37)'' into two 
separate ICs.
     CDC will include one modified IC: ``71.51(c)(2), (d) 
Application For Permission To Import A Dog Unimmunized Against 
Rabies''. This will include a reduced estimate of the numbers of these 
permits, formerly CDC form 75.37 NOTICE TO OWNERS AND IMPORTERS OF 
DOGS: Requirement for Dog Confinement, issued each year.
     CDC will include a separate IC pertaining to 71.51(c)(1), 
(d). The title for this IC is Valid Rabies Vaccination Certificate, 
which will include only the burden associated with rabies vaccination 
certificates.
     CDC is also including an information collection for 
71.51(c)(i), (ii), and (iii) which provides exemption criteria for the 
importation of a dog without a rabies vaccination certificate.
    CDC is not requesting changes to any of the other information 
collections included under OMB control number 0920-0134.
    The total requested burden hours is 307,613. There is no burden to 
respondents other than the time taken to complete the reports or 
documentation for CDC.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                  Form name/CFR      Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden
      Type of respondent            reference       respondents    responses per   response  (in       hours
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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Maritime conveyance operators.  71.21(a) Radio             2,000               1            2/60              67
                                 Report of death/
                                 illness--illnes
                                 s reports from
                                 ships (fillable
                                 PDF (individual
                                 case and
                                 cumulative
                                 report), phone,
                                 transcribed
                                 email).
Aircraft commander or           71.21(b) Death/            1,700               1            2/60              57
 operators.                      Illness reports
                                 from aircrafts
                                 (verbal, no
                                 form).
Maritime conveyance operators.  71.21(c)                  17,000               1            3/60             850
                                 Gastrointestina
                                 l Illnesses
                                 reports 24 and
                                 4 hours before
                                 arrival (MIDRS).
Maritime conveyance operators.  71.21(c)                  17,000               1            3/60             850
                                 Recordkeeping--
                                 Medical logs
                                 (no form,
                                 captains
                                 provide logs).
Isolated or Quarantined         71.33(c) Report               11               1            3/60               1
 individuals.                    by persons in
                                 isolation or
                                 surveillance
                                 (verbal, no
                                 form).
Maritime conveyance operators.  71.35 Report of                5               1           30/60               3
                                 death/illness
                                 during stay in
                                 port (verbal,
                                 no form).
Traveler......................  Locator Form           2,700,000               1            5/60         225,000
                                 used in an
                                 outbreak of
                                 public health
                                 significance.
Traveler......................  Locator Form                 800               1            5/60              67
                                 used for
                                 reporting of an
                                 ill
                                 passenger(s).
Importer......................  71.51(c)(1),             245,310               1           15/60          61,328
                                 (d)--Valid
                                 Rabies
                                 Vaccination
                                 Certificates.
Importer......................  71.51(c)(i),              43,290               1           15/60          10,823
                                 (ii), and (iii)
                                 exemption
                                 criteria for
                                 the importation
                                 of a dog
                                 without a
                                 rabies
                                 vaccination
                                 certificate.
Importer......................  71.51(c)(2), (d)           1,400               1           15/60             350
                                 Application For
                                 Permission To
                                 Import A Dog
                                 Unimmunized
                                 Against Rabies.
Importer......................  71.51(b) (3)                  20               1           15/60               5
                                 Dogs/cats:
                                 Record of
                                 sickness or
                                 deaths (no
                                 form, record
                                 review).

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Importer/Filer................  CDC PGA Message           30,000               1           15/60           7,500
                                 Set for
                                 Importing Cats
                                 and Dogs.
Importer......................  71.52(d) Turtle                5               1           30/60               3
                                 Importation
                                 Permits (no
                                 form, just
                                 written
                                 request).
Importer......................  71.56(a)(2)                   20               1               1              20
                                 African
                                 Rodents--Reques
                                 t for exemption
                                 ( no form,
                                 written request
                                 only).
Importer/Filer................  CDC PGA Message               60               1           15/60              15
                                 Set for
                                 Importing
                                 African Rodents.
Importers.....................  71.55 Dead                     5               1               1               5
                                 bodies (death
                                 certificates
                                 submitted).
Filer.........................  71.56(a)(iii)                  2               1               1               2
                                 Appeal (no
                                 form, written
                                 request only).
Filer/Importer................  Statement or               2,000               1            5/60             167
                                 documentation
                                 of Non-
                                 infectiousness
                                 (Documented, no
                                 form; authority
                                 under 71.32(b)).
Importer/Filer................  CDC PGA Message            2,000               1           15/60             500
                                 Set for
                                 Importing
                                 African Rodent
                                 and All Family
                                 Viverridae
                                 Products.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............         307,613
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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. 2015-14787 Filed 6-16-15; 8:45 am]
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