[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 127 (Wednesday, July 7, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35797-35798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-14441]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-21-0856; Docket No. CDC-2021-0058]


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 an information 
collection project titled National Quitline Data Warehouse. The 
National Quitline Data Warehouse (NQDW) collects a core set of 
information from all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam, 
Puerto Rico, and the Asian Smoker's Quitline, regarding what services 
telephone quitlines offer to tobacco users as well as the number and 
type of tobacco users who receive services from telephone quitlines.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before September 7, 
2021.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2021-
0058 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;
    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; and
    5. Assess information collection costs.

Proposed Project

    National Quitline Data Warehouse (OMB Control No. 0920-0856, Exp. 
10/31/2022)--Revision--National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention 
and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Since 2010, the National Quitline Data Warehouse (NQDW) has 
collected a core set of information from the 50 U.S. states, the 
District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico regarding what services 
telephone quitlines offer to tobacco users as well as the number and 
type of tobacco users who receive services from telephone quitlines. 
The data collection was modified in 2015 to collect data from the Asian 
Smokers' Quitline (ASQ) in addition to the other 53 states/territories 
that provide data, and included five new questions to the NQDW Intake 
Questionnaire to help CDC and states tailor quitline services to the 
needs of its callers. Additionally, collection of the NQDW Services 
Survey was changed from quarterly to semiannually in 2019.
    The NQDW provides data on the general smoking population who 
contact their state quitlines, but also allows for collections of 
information about key subgroups of tobacco users who contact state 
quitlines to better support cessation services. Data is collected on 
tobacco users who received service from state telephone quitlines from 
all funded U.S. states, territories, and the Asian Smokers' Quitline 
(ASQ) through the NQDW Intake Questionnaire. The NQDW Seven-month 
Follow-up Questionnaire is administered to tobacco users who received 
services from the ASQ only. Data on the quitline call volume, number of 
tobacco users served, and the services offered by state quitlines will 
be provided by state health department personnel who manage the 
quitline, or their designee, such as contracted quitline service 
providers, using the NQDW Quitline Services Survey. Data collected from 
the NQDW is analyzed with simple descriptive data tabulations, and 
trends are currently reported online through the CDC State Tobacco 
Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System website. More complex 
statistical analyses, including multivariate regression techniques will 
be utilized to assess quitline outcomes such as quitline reach, service 
utilization, how callers reported hearing about the quitline, and the 
effectiveness of quitline promotions and the CDC Tips From Former 
Smokers national tobacco education media campaigns on state quitline 
call volume, and tobacco users receiving services from state quitlines. 
CDC uses the information collected by the NQDW for ongoing monitoring, 
reporting, and evaluation related to state quitlines. Select data from 
the NQDW are reported online through the CDC's STATE System website 
(http://www.cdc.gov/statesystem).
    CDC requests OMB approval to continue the NQDW information 
collection for three years. This Revision reflects inclusion of 
additional measures, including those related to e-cigarette use and 
online quitline services, that reflect the impact of new

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technologies. Adding these measures to the NQDW survey instruments will 
impose minimal additional burden on states but will substantially 
improve the utility of the NQDW data to identify use of state quitlines 
by key tobacco use populations and through modalities other than 
telephone calls. Participation in the caller intake and follow-up 
interviews is voluntary for quitline callers. The estimated burden is 
10 minutes for a complete intake call conducted with an individual who 
calls on their own behalf. The estimated burden is one minute for a 
caller who requests information for someone else, as these callers 
complete only a subset of questions on the intake questionnaire.
    As a condition of funding (CDC-RFA-DP20-2001), the 54 cooperative 
agreement awardees are required to submit NQDW intake data quarterly, 
and services survey data semiannually. CDC recognizes that awardees 
incur additional burden for preparing and transmitting summary files 
with their de-identified caller intake and follow-up data. This burden 
is acknowledged in the instructions for transmitting the electronic 
data files. There is a net decrease in burden hours from the previous 
NQDW package estimate. This is primarily due to decreases in the 
overall number of telephone calls to the quitlines, which is estimated 
to be only partially offset by the use of other quitline modalities. 
The total estimated annual Burden Hours for the NQDW are 68,088. There 
is no cost to respondents other than their time to participate.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondent            Form name        Number of     responses per  per respondent   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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Quitline participants who       NQDW Intake              405,053               1           10/60          67,509
 contact the quitline for help   Questionnaire
 for themselves.                 (English-
                                 complete).
                                ASQ Intake                 1,686               1           10/60             281
                                 Questionnaire
                                 (Chinese,
                                 Korean, or
                                 Vietnamese-
                                 complete).
                                ASQ Seven-Month              236               1            7/60              28
                                 Follow-up
                                 Questionnaire.
Participants who contact the    NQDW Intake                  819               1            1/60              14
 quitline on behalf of someone   Questionnaire               249               1            1/60               4
 else.                           (English-
                                 subset).
                                ASQ Intake
                                 Questionnaire
                                 (Chinese,
                                 Korean, or
                                 Vietnamese-
                                 subset).
Tobacco Control Manager or      Submission of                 54               4               1             216
 their Designee/quitline         NQDW Intake
 Service Provider.               Questionnaire
                                 Electronic Data
                                 File to CDC.
                                Submission of                  1               1               1               1
                                 NQDW (ASQ)
                                 Seven-Month
                                 Follow-up
                                 Electronic Data
                                 File to CDC.
                                NQDW Quitline                 54               2           20/60              36
                                 Services Survey.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............          68,088
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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. 2021-14441 Filed 7-6-21; 8:45 am]
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