[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 178 (Monday, September 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56615-56616]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-20215]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-20-1227; Docket No. CDC-2020-0097]


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 effort to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, invites the general public and other 
Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or 
continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed 
revision to an information collection project titled ``Assessment of 
Ill Worker Policies Study.'' The study will examine whether an 
educational intervention has an effect on restaurants either developing 
or expanding their ill worker management policies.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before November 13, 
2020.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2020-
0097 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments 
to Regulations.gov.
    Please note: Submit all comments 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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information Collection 
Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton 
Road NE, MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7118; 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 the OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:
    1. 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;
    2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and
    4. 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 
submissions of responses.
    5. Assess information collection costs.

Proposed Project

    Assessment of Ill Worker Policies Study (OMB Control No. 0920-1227, 
Exp. 05/31/2021)--Revision--National Center for Environmental Health

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(NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The CDC is requesting a three-year Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 
clearance for a Revision to an information collection request (ICR) for 
a research program focused on identifying the environmental causes of 
foodborne illness and improving environmental public health practice. 
This research program is conducted by the Environmental Health 
Specialists Network (EHS-Net), a collaborative project of the CDC, U.S. 
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture 
(USDA), and eight state and local public health programs (California; 
Tennessee; Minnesota; Rhode Island; New York; New York City, NY; 
Southern Nevada Health District, NV; and Harris County, TX).
    This ICR aims to assess whether an educational intervention will 
result in either the development or enhancement of restaurant ill 
worker policies. This will be accomplished by interviewing restaurant 
managers, surveying workers, and observing restaurant practices in 320 
randomly selected and assigned restaurants in the EHS-Net catchment 
area. Burden hours would be associated with the restaurant staff for 
the time to answer questions about their restaurant. There would be two 
to three site visits depending upon which group the restaurants were 
assigned to, that is, the intervention or the control group. An initial 
visit will be used to observe baseline conditions and to provide the 
intervention only to the restaurants selected to receive it. A second 
visit will be used to determine if the policies had changed and to 
introduce the intervention to the control restaurants (if it is deemed 
successful), and a final follow up visit to the control restaurants 
that received the intervention on the second visit.
    Although approved in 2018, NCEH and its program partners needed to 
prioritize other data collections over this study, and then had to 
delay the current study due to the COVID-19 pandemic. NCEH partners 
provided feedback to refine this research protocol, revise the ICR, and 
plan to begin this study in 2021. NCEH is requesting approval for 
revisions which fall into three categories: (1) Changes to comply with 
the 2018 Revised Common Rule and 21st Century Cures Act; (2) changes to 
strengthen the study, based on recent experience and stakeholder 
feedback; and (3) changes to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    NCEH is requesting a revised PRA clearance for 715 responses per 
year and for a time burden of 206 hours per year. These changes result 
in a decrease of 1,412 responses and 146 hours per year relative to the 
2018 PRA clearance. There is no cost to the respondents other than 
their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden
      Type of respondent            Form name       respondents    responses per   response (in       (in hr)
                                                                    respondent          hr)
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Restaurant Managers             Manager                      119               1            3/60               6
 (Intervention Restaurants).     Recruiting
                                 Script.
Manager Informed Consent and    53..............               2           20/60              35
 Interview Form.
Restaurant Managers (Control    Manager                      119               1            3/60               6
 Restaurants).                   Recruiting
                                 Script.
Manager Informed Consent and    53..............               3           20/60              53
 Interview Form.
Health Department Workers       Restaurant                    53               2           30/60              53
 (Intervention Restaurants).     Environment
                                 Observation
                                 Form.
Health Department Workers       Restaurant                    53               2           30/60              53
 (Control Restaurants).          Environment
                                 Observation
                                 Form.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             206
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
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