[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 212 (Tuesday, November 3, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67759-67760]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-27890]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-16-0824]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted 
the following information collection request to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for the proposed 
information collection is published to obtain comments from the public 
and affected agencies.
    Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected 
agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are 
encouraged. Your comments should address any of the following: (a) 
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary 
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including 
whether the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology 
and assumptions used; (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; (d) Minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on those who are to respond, including 
through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or 
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses; and 
(e) Assess information collection costs.
    To request additional information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call 
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to [email protected]. Written comments and/or 
suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice should be 
directed to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and 
Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    BioSense (OMB Control No. 0920-0824, Expiration 11/30/2015)--
Revision--Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services 
(CSELS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The BioSense Program was created by congressional mandate as part 
of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and 
Response Act of 2002 and was launched by the CDC in 2003. The original 
BioSense Program (BioSense 1.0) was intended to serve as a national 
level public health syndromic surveillance system for early detection 
and rapid assessment of potential bioterrorism-related illness and 
injury. In 2009, CDC began planning and developing the computing cloud-
based BioSense 2.0 Platform. This cloud-based system would offer secure 
storage space for data and data sharing capacity for each state and 
local health department. Since August 2012, when CDC submitted a 
request to OMB for approval of a revision to the BioSense information 
collection request, HHS published new guidance on Meaningful Use of 
Electronic Health Records for syndromic surveillance. During this time, 
CDC also initiated its new CDC Surveillance Strategy. These actions 
provided new guidance for improvements to the BioSense Program, which 
resulted in new requirements for data submission to the BioSense 
Platform and new requests specified below.
    CDC requests a three-year Revision approval for BioSense. This 
Revision includes new requests for approval to: (1) Change the title of 
the information collection request from BioSense to the National 
Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP); (2) receive data from additional 
state, local, and territorial health departments; (3) receive from 
state, local, and territorial health departments syndromic surveillance 
data submitted to those health departments from urgent care, ambulatory 
care and hospital inpatient settings (in addition to data from hospital 
emergency departments, included in the previously approved information 
collection request); and (4) receive from state, local, and territorial 
health departments additional syndromic surveillance data elements.
    The total estimated number of burden hours has decreased since the 
previously approved information collection request because we 
inadvertently included estimates for the Department of Defense, 
Department of Veterans Affairs, and the two organizations that provide 
pharmacy data. We only included estimates for state, local, and 
territorial public health jurisdictions and the private sector 
laboratory company that provides laboratory data free of charge to CDC 
in this information collection request. There is no burden for the 
private sector laboratory company for recruitment, registration, and 
healthcare data collection. The private sector laboratory company chose 
their sharing permissions when they registered to use the system. The 
estimated annual burden is 39 hours.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Type of respondents                   Form name            Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)
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State, Local and Territorial Public     Recruitment Information               20               1               1
 Health Departments.                     Collection.
State, Local and Territorial Public     Registration Information             200               1            5/60
 Health Departments.                     Collection.
State, Local, and Territorial Public    Healthcare Information                20               1            5/60
 Health Departments.                     Collection:
                                         Administrator Data
                                         Sharing Agreements/
                                         Permissions.
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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. 2015-27890 Filed 11-2-15; 8:45 am]
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