[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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