[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 54 (Wednesday, March 22, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14731-14732]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-05699]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

[60-Day-17-17XR; Docket No. CDC-2017-0027]


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 the donor 
registration form in support of the project titled ``Acquisition of 
Freshly Drawn Whole Blood/Blood Products for Reference Diagnostic and 
Research Use.''

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before May 22, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2017-
0027 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.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

    Acquisition of Freshly-Drawn Whole Blood/Blood Products for 
Reference Diagnostic and Research Use--Existing Information Collection 
in Use Without an OMB Control Number--National Center for Emerging and 
Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The CDC seeks a three-year OMB approval to collect information in 
support of fresh blood/blood products for laboratory programs.
    The CDC regularly requires freshly drawn whole blood, serum, 
plasma, mononuclear white cell and platelet concentrates for research 
purposes, for reagents, and as ``normal'' control materials. To enhance 
the safety of CDC personnel handling these materials, the blood/blood 
products, or the donors thereof, must be screened for evidence of 
possible infections by specific testing. At the same time, donor 
confidentiality must be assured and adequate counseling must be 
available, in case any specimens or donors test positive for certain 
transmissible infections.
    The donor registration form referenced by this request is a brief, 
11-question form that establishes the availability of volunteer donors 
to participate in the donor program to fill this need for fresh blood/
blood products for CDC. The registration form captures donors' 
availability to donate, interest in various types of donations, smoking 
history, exercise background, alcohol consumption, measles vaccination 
history, cholesterol test history, and medications background.
    Donors required to maintain the CDC donor pool are recruited by 
contract program managers often by referral of current donors, directed 
outreach for new donors by email, occasional posting of notices in 
areas frequented by CDC personnel, or at local universities for 
possible student populations.
    All donor information is collected and protected by medical 
professionals with donor/patient confidentiality protected. Information 
from this form is only used to determine donor eligibility for blood 
product requests to be used by CDC laboratory programs. Approximately 
25 volunteer donors are enrolled annually.

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    There is no cost to respondents other than the time to participate. 
Authorizing legislation comes from Section 301 of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241).

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of      Avg. burden
      Type of respondents           Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)       (in hrs.)
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General public................  Registration....              25               1           15/60               7
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............               7
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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. 2017-05699 Filed 3-21-17; 8:45 am]
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