[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 241 (Thursday, December 15, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 90867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-30131]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-VRP-OPH-22567; PPWOVPADH0, PPMPRHS1Y.Y00000 (177)]


Proposed Information Collection; National Park Service Office of 
Public Health Disease Reporting and Surveillance System

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We (National Park Service) will ask the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described 
below. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as part 
of our continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we 
invite the general public and other Federal agencies to take this 
opportunity to comment on this IC. We may not conduct or sponsor and a 
person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless 
it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

DATES: You must submit comments on or before February 13, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the IC to Madonna L. Baucum, 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service, 12201 
Sunrise Valley Drive (Mail Stop 242), Reston, VA 20192 (mail); or via 
email at [email protected]. Please include ``1024--New DRSS'' in 
the subject line of your comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information 
about this IC, contact CDR George A. Larsen, Public Health Consultant, 
Office of Public Health, National Park Service, P.O. Box 168, 
Yellowstone National Park, WY 92190; or via email at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    The National Park Service (NPS) Organic Act of 1916 (Organic Act) 
(54 U.S.C. 100101 et seq.) gives the NPS broad authority to regulate 
the use of the park areas under its jurisdiction. With over 400 NPS 
sites and hundreds of millions of visits per year, a large potential 
exists for exposure to disease agents within the National Park System. 
The NPS Office of Public Health (OPH) is an internal agency-specific 
public health capability, managed, funded and operated by NPS. This 
program is primarily staffed with commissioned corps officers on detail 
to the agency from the United States Public Health Service and is a 
national activity headquartered in Washington, DC with field staff 
located across the NPS system. Through disease surveillance and 
response, on-site evaluation/hazard analysis, consultation, policy 
guidance, and coordination with local, state and other federal health 
jurisdictions, OPH professionals assist park superintendents in 
protecting and promoting visitor health in the frontcountry and 
backcountry/wilderness. (NPS Management Policy 2006, 8.2.5.6)
    The Disease Reporting and Surveillance System (DRSS) collects de-
identified data on illness reports and standardizes data collection 
regarding illness case reports and outbreaks among NPS employees, park 
concessioner employees, and visitors to the park. Individual illness 
reports are entered into the DRSS database by NPS staff, as well as 
employees of park concessioners and Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) 
holders, utilizing a secure web-based interface application. These data 
provide parks, OPH, staff and managers of park concessioners (lodging, 
restaurants, general stores, and snack bars), and park clinic 
concessioners with an early warning system for potential outbreaks and 
inform public health interventions. By collecting and storing data from 
multiple sources, the system monitors health trends among NPS 
employees, concessioner employees, park visitors through CUA holders, 
and clinic visitors; detect potential clusters or outbreaks; and inform 
the development and implementation of disease response and control 
activities. The system is currently in operation in Yellowstone 
National Park; however, the NPS hopes to expand the system to other 
parks in the future.

II. Data

    OMB Control Number: 1024--New.
    Title: National Park Service Office of Public Health Disease 
Reporting and Surveillance System.
    Service Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Existing collection in use without OMB approval.
    Description of Respondents: Concessioner employees, Commercial Use 
Authorization Holders, visitors to units of the National Park System, 
and NPS employees.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain a benefit.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
    Number of Annual Responses: 400.
    Estimated Time per Response: 3 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 20 hours.
    Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Cost: None.

III. Comments

    We invite comments concerning this information collection on:
     Whether or not the collection of information is necessary, 
including whether or not the information will have practical utility;
     The accuracy of our estimate of the burden for this 
collection of information;
     Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
     Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents.
    Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of 
public record. Before including your address, phone number, email 
address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you 
should be aware that your entire comment, including your personal 
identifying information, may be made publicly available at any time. 
While you can ask OMB in your comment to withhold your personal 
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that it 
will be done.

Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-30131 Filed 12-14-16; 8:45 am]
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