[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 217 (Tuesday, November 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69680-69681]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28473]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-16-16CP; Docket No. CDC-2015-0100]


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 proposed 
information collection request entitled ``Data Collection for 
Community-based Tick Control for the Prevention of Rocky Mountain 
Spotted Fever in Hermosillo, Mexico.'' This project will be carried out 
in collaboration with the Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, National Center 
for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the University of Sonora 
School of Medicine (UNSOM) to assess the efficacy and impact of a 
community based tick prevention project.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 11, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0100 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

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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

    Community-based Tick Control for the Prevention of Rocky Mountain 
Spotted Fever in Hermosillo, Mexico''--New--National Center for 
Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Rickettsial 
Zoonoses Branch (RZB) requests approval of a public health intervention 
assessment tool to demonstrate the efficacy and impact of public health 
research related to the prevention of Rocky Mountain spotted fever 
[RMSF] in Hermosillo, Mexico. These activities include monitoring 
cases, conducting tick control interventions, and performing 
participant surveys to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices 
relating to tick control and prevention.
    The information collection for which approval is sought is in 
accordance with RZB's mission to reduce morbidity and mortality of 
rickettsial diseases and decrease the burden of disease through control 
and prevention methods. Authorizing Legislation comes from section 301 
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241).
    Approval for a three-year data collection will allow RZB to collect 
information related to risk of RMSF to improve and inform prevention 
activities. Successful execution of RZB's public health mission 
requires use data collection activities in collaboration with multiple 
local and international partners. RZB proposes the following use of 
pre/posttests to evaluate the changes in knowledge, attitudes and 
practices relating to tick control as well as perceived impact of the 
intervention project. The project will also collect basic household 
information to document their consent to participate. Data collection 
will be conducted in-person. Data will be recorded on paper forms and 
then entered into an electronic database.
    RZB estimates involvement of 1,300 respondents and a maximum of 600 
hours of burden for research activities each year. The collected 
information will not impose a cost burden on the respondents beyond 
that associated with their time to provide the required data.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden
      Type of respondents           Form name       respondents    responses per   response  (in    (in hours)
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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General Public................  Registration....             500               1           20/60             167
General Public................  KAP survey (pre              800               2           20/60             533
                                 and post
                                 intervention).
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             700
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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. 2015-28473 Filed 11-9-15; 8:45 am]
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