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cost to respondents other than their time 

to participate. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Form Respondents Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

CURRENT NHDS 2010: 

Primary Procedure Hospital 

(PPH) Sample Listing Sheet.

Medical Coder .................................. 7 12 25/60 35 

PPH Medical Abstract Form ...... Medical Coder .................................. 7 250 5/60 146 

PPH Transmittal Notice ............. Medical Coder .................................. 7 12 1/60 1 

Alternate Procedure Hospital— 

Locating medical records.

Medical Coder .................................. 20 250 1/60 83 

In-House Tape or Printout Hospital—Computer programming 

and submission.

Medical Coder .................................. 14 12 13/60 36 

Hospital Interview Questionnaire Hospital CEO/CFO ........................... 5 1 2 10 

REDESIGNED NHDS 2010–2012: 

Survey presentation to hospital Hospital CEO/CFO ........................... 80 1 1 80 

Induction (including initial facility 

questionnaire).

Director of health information management.80 1 4 320 

Post induction annual facility 

questionnaire.

Director of health information management.107 1 2 214 

Sample hospital discharges, obtain UB–04 & payment data.Director of health information management.187 120 14/60 5,236 

Verify sampling & re-abstract 

medical records.

Director of health information management.26 10 7/60 30 

Total .................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 6,191 

Dated: September 2, 2009. 

Maryam I. Daneshvar, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E9–21914 Filed 9–10–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–09–09CK] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–639–5960 and 

send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar, 

CDC Acting Reports Clearance Officer, 

1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, 

GA 30333 or send an e-mail to 

omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Asthma Information Reporting System 

(AIRS)—New—Air Pollution and 

Respiratory Health Branch (APRHB), 

National Center for Environmental 

Health (NCEH, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC)). 

Background and Brief Description 

In 1999, the CDC began developing its 

National Asthma Control Program, a 

population-based, public health 

approach to addressing the burden of 

asthma. The program supports the goals 

and objectives of ‘‘Healthy People 2010’’ 

for asthma and is based on the public 

health principles of surveillance, 

partnerships, and interventions. This 

data collection request will provide 

NCEH with routine information, 

through a semi-annual Management 

Information System, AIRS, about the 

activities and performance of the state 

and territorial grantees funded under 

the National Asthma Control Program. 

The primary purpose of the National 

Asthma Control Program is to develop 

program capacity to address asthma 

from a public health perspective to 

bring about: (1) A focus on asthmarelated activity within states; (2) an 

increased understanding of asthmarelated data and its application to 

program planning and evaluation 

through the development and 

maintenance of an ongoing asthma 

surveillance system; (3) an increased 

recognition, within the public health 

structure of states, of the potential to use 

a public health approach to reduce the 

burden of asthma; (4) linkages of state 

health agencies to other agencies and 

organizations addressing asthma in the 

population; and (5) implementation of 

interventions to achieve positive health 

impacts, such as reducing the number of 

deaths, hospitalizations, emergency 

department visits, school or work days 

missed, and limitations on activity due 

to asthma. 

The proposed AIRS management 

information system will be comprised of 

multiple components that enable the 

electronic reporting of three types of 


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data/information from state asthma 

control programs: (1) Information that is 

currently collected as part of interim 

(semi-annual) and end-of-year progress 

reporting, (2) Aggregate level reports of 

surveillance data on long-term program 

outcomes, and (3) Specific data 

indicative of progress made on: 

Partnerships, surveillance, 

interventions, and evaluation. 

Currently, data is collected on an 

interim (semi-annual) basis from state 

asthma control programs as part of 

regular reporting of cooperative 

agreement activities. Programs report 

information such as progress to date on 

accomplishing intended objectives, 

programmatic changes, changes to 

staffing or management, and budgetary 

information. Regularly reporting this 

information is a requirement of the cooperative agreement mechanism utilized 

to fund state asthma control programs. 

Information in this section will be 

consistent with previous reporting by 

states through Grants.gov. States will be 

required to submit interim (semiannual) and year-end progress report 

information into AIRS, thus this type of 

programmatic information on activities 

and objectives will be collected twice 

per year (interim report and end-of-year 

report). 

The National Asthma Control Program 

at CDC has access to and analyzes 

national-level asthma surveillance data 

(http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/ 

asthmadata.htm). With the exception of 

data from the Behavioral Risk Factor 

Surveillance System (BRFSS), analyses 

cannot be conducted at the level of the 

state. Therefore, as part of AIRS, state 

asthma control programs will be asked 

to submit aggregate surveillance data to 

allow calculation of state asthma 

surveillance indicators across all funded 

states (where data is available) in a 

standardized manner. Data likely to be 

requested through this system include: 

Hospital discharges (with asthma as first 

listed diagnosis), and emergency 

department visits (with asthma as first 

listed diagnosis). States will be required 

to submit this information into AIRS 

once per year, in conjunction with the 

end of year reporting of activities and 

objectives, described above. 

National and state asthma 

surveillance data provide information 

useful to examining progress on longterm outcomes of state asthma 

programs. To identify appropriate 

indicators of program implementation 

and short-term outcomes, CDC 

convened and facilitated workgroups 

comprised of state asthma control 

program representatives over the course 

of two years. In collaboration with these 

workgroups, the CDC generated specific 

questions (qualitative and quantitative 

in nature) intended to collect data on 

key features of state asthma control 

programs: Partnerships, surveillance, 

interventions, and evaluation. States 

will be asked to provide answers to 

these questions once per year in 

conjunction with the end of year 

reporting of activities and objectives, 

described above. These data will be 

used to foster a continuous learning 

environment about what is working in 

state asthma programs and to identify 

potential areas for improvement. 

There will be no cost for grantees to 

participate in AIRS. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Forms Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

State Health Departments ................ Interim report on activities and objectives.36 1 2 72 

End of year report on activities, objectives and aggregate surveillance.36 1 6 216 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... 36 2 8 288 

Dated: September 3, 2009. 

Maryam I. Daneshvar, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E9–21913 Filed 9–10–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–09–09CL] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

data collection plans and instruments, 

call the CDC Reports Clearance Officer 

on 404–639–5960 or send comments to 

CDC Assistant Reports Clearance 

Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS D–74, 

Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail to 

omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Written comments should be received 

within 60 days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

Calibration of the Short Strengths and 

Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in the 

National Health Interview Survey 

(NHIS)—New—National Center for 

Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Section 306 of the Public Health 

Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 242k), as 

amended, authorizes that the Secretary 

of Health and Human Services (DHHS), 

acting through NCHS, shall collect 

statistics on the extent and nature of 

illness and disability of the population 

of the United States. Section 520 [42 

U.S.C. 290bb-31] of the Public Health 


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