[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2954-2955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00716]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-24-1316]


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 ``Aerosols from cyanobacterial blooms: 
Exposures and Health Effects in a Highly Exposed Population'' 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 October 16, 2023 to obtain 
comments from the public and affected agencies. CDC received one 
comment related to this 30-day notice.
    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

    Aerosols from Cyanobacterial Blooms: Exposures and Health Effects 
in a Highly Exposed Population (OMB Control No. 0920-1316, Exp. 1/31/
2024)--Extension--National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), requests a three-year Paperwork 
Reduction Act (PRA) clearance for a renewal of the information 
collection request titled Aerosols from Cyanobacterial Blooms: 
Exposures and Health Effects in a Highly Exposed Population. NCEH is 
authorized to conduct research under the Public Health Service Act, 
Section 301, ``Research and investigation,'' (42 U.S.C. 241).
    Toxins produced by blooms of algae, cyanobacteria, and seaweed 
(herein called harmful algal blooms or HABS) are among the most potent 
natural chemicals. Exposure to these toxins can induce a wide variety 
of reported and documented effects in people and animals. Published 
studies demonstrate that people and animals are at risk for health 
effects from exposure to HABS, whether through eating contaminated 
food, drinking contaminated water, or inhaling contaminated aerosols. 
Although there is substantial published work describing the public 
health impacts from these blooms, unanswered questions remain, 
including quantitative assessments of exposure and characterization of 
the clinical presentations of illnesses associated with HAB exposures.
    HAB events and associated environmental impacts (e.g., geographic 
and temporal extent, composition, toxin production) are difficult, if 
not impossible to predict and track. Specifically, for the previously 
approved project, we were not able to align the physical occurrence of 
a specific type of a HAB of significant magnitude with government 
approvals and resource commitments. Therefore, we request a three-year 
Extension of the original Information Collection Request (ICR).
    CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated 1,273 annual burden 
hours. There is no cost to 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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Interested community members..........  Screening/baseline                    84               1           15/60
                                         Survey.
Eligible study respondents............  Symptom Survey..........              67              10           15/60
Eligible study respondents............  Record of Time Spent                  67               5           10/60
                                         Outdoors.
Eligible study respondents............  Provide blood specimen..              67               3           15/60
Eligible study respondents............  Provide specimens                     67              10               1
                                         (urine, nasal swabs,
                                         lung function test).
Eligible study respondents............  Be outfitted with                     67               5           45/60
                                         personal air sampler.
Eligble study respondents.............  Provide fish (if                      67               5           10/60
                                         respondent went fishing
                                         and caught fish).
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Public Health 
Ethics and Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2024-00716 Filed 1-16-24; 8:45 am]
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