[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 217 (Tuesday, November 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69677-69679]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28475]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-16-0943; Docket No. CDC-2015-0098]


Proposed Data Collections 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 Data Collection 
for the Residential Care Community and Adult Day Services Center 
Components of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers. The 
purpose is to collect data for the residential care community and adult 
day services center components for the 2016 wave of the National Study 
of Long-Term Care Providers.

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

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0098 by any of the following methods:

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     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

    Residential Care Community and Adult Day Service Center Components 
of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers (OMB Control No. 
0920-0943 Exp. Date: 07/31/2015)--Reinstatement with change--National 
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 
242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, ``shall collect statistics on 
health resources . . . [and] utilization of health care, including 
extended care facilities, and other institutions.''
    NCHS seeks approval to collect data for the residential care 
community (RCC) and adult day services center (ADSC) survey components 
of the 3rd wave of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers 
(NSLTCP). A two year clearance is requested.
    As background here are some details on the complete study design. 
The NSLTCP, a voluntary survey, is designed to (1) broaden NCHS' 
ongoing coverage of paid, regulated long-term care (LTC) providers; (2) 
merge with existing administrative data on LTC providers and service 
users (i.e., Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data on 
nursing homes and residents, home health agencies and patients, and 
hospices and patients); (3) update data more frequently on LTC 
providers and service users for which nationally representative 
administrative data do not exist; and (4) enable comparisons across LTC 
sectors and timely monitoring of supply and use of these sectors over 
time.
    Data will be collected from two types of LTC providers in the 50 
states and the District of Columbia: 11,690 RCCs and 5,440 ADSCs in 
each wave. Data were collected in 2012 and 2014. The data to be 
collected beginning in 2016 include the basic characteristics, 
services, staffing, and practices of RCCs and ADSCs, and aggregate-
level distributions of the demographics, selected health conditions and 
health care utilization, physical functioning, and cognitive 
functioning of RCC residents and ADSC participants.
    Expected users of data from this collection effort include, but are 
not limited to CDC; other Department of Health and Human Services 
(DHHS) agencies, such as the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Planning and Evaluation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and 
Quality; associations, such as LeadingAge (formerly the American 
Association of Homes and Services for the Aging), National Center for 
Assisted Living, American Seniors Housing Association, Assisted Living 
Federation of America, and National Adult Day Services Association; 
universities; foundations; and other private sector organizations such 
as the Alzheimer's Association and the AARP Public Policy Institute.
    Expected burden from data collection is 30 minutes per respondent. 
We estimate that 5% of RCC and ADSC directors will be called for an 
additional 5 minutes of data retrieval when there are errors or 
omissions in their returned questionnaires. Two year clearance is 
requested to cover the collection of data. The burden for the 
collection is shown in Table 1 below. There is no cost to respondents 
other than their time to participate.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Table
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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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RCC Director/Designated Staff.  RCC                        5,846               1           30/60           2,923
                                 Questionnaire.

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ADSC Director/Designated Staff  ADSC                       2,720               1           30/60           1,360
                                 Questionnaire.
RCC and ADSC Directors/         Data Retrieval..             429               1            5/60              36
 Designated Staff.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           4,319
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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.
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