[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 24 (Monday, February 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8649-8650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-02551]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-21-1227]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted the information 
collection request titled ``Assessment of Ill Worker Policies Study'' 
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. 
CDC previously published a ``Proposed Data Collection Submitted for 
Public Comment and Recommendations'' notice on September 14, 2020, to 
obtain comments from the public and affected agencies. CDC received one 
comment related to the previous notice. This notice serves to allow an 
additional 30 days for public and affected agency comments.
    CDC will accept all comments for this proposed information 
collection project. The Office of Management and Budget is particularly 
interested in comments that:
    (a) 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;
    (b) Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected;
    (d) 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 submission of responses; and
    (e) Assess information collection costs.
    To request additional information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call 
(404) 639-7570. Comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. Direct 
written comments and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in 
this notice to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management 
and Budget, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 
395-5806. Provide written comments within 30 days of notice 
publication.

Proposed Project

    Assessment of Ill Worker Policies Study (OMB Control No. 0920-1227, 
Exp. 5/31/2021)--Revision--National Center for Environmental Health 
(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 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 (Franklin 
County, OH; 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 and observing restaurant practices in 320 randomly selected 
and assigned restaurants in the EHS-Net catchment areas. There will be 
two or three site visits depending upon which group the restaurants are 
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 have 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 (if they receive the 
intervention). Initial success for the intervention will be measured by 
whether three or more intervention restaurants in each EHS-Net 
catchment area either develop a written ill worker management plan (if 
they did not have one at the pre-intervention evaluation) or enhanced 
their policies (e.g., added provisions addressing reasons why ill 
workers reported working while ill).
    Although approved in 2018, NCEH and its program partners needed to 
prioritize other data collections over this study, and then delayed the 
current study due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NCEH partners provided feedback to refine this research protocol, to 
revise the ICR, and to begin this study in 2021. NCEH is requesting 
approval for revisions which fall into three categories: (1) Changes to 
strengthen the study, based on recent experience and stakeholder 
feedback; (2) changes to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and (3) a 
change in one participating site.
    NCEH is requesting a revised PRA clearance for 820 responses per 
year and for a time burden of 261 hours per year. These changes result 
in a decrease of 1,307 responses and 91 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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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Type of respondents                   Form name            Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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Restaurant Managers (Intervention and   Manager Recruiting                   237               1            3/60
 Control Restaurants).                   Script.
Restaurant Managers (Intervention       Manager Informed Consent              53               2           20/60
 Restaurants).                           and Interview.
                                        Intervention Log........              53               1           30/60
Restaurant Managers (Control            Manager Informed Consent              53               3           20/60
 Restaurants).                           and Interview.
                                        Intervention Log........              53               1           30/60
Health Department Workers               Restaurant Observation               106               2           30/60
 (Intervention and Control               Form.
 Restaurants).
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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.
[FR Doc. 2021-02551 Filed 2-5-21; 8:45 am]
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