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who plan to attend and need special 

assistance, such as sign language 

interpretation or other reasonable 

accommodations, should notify the 

designated contact person at least 

fourteen (14) business days prior to the 

meeting. Members of the public will 

have an opportunity to provide 

comments at the meeting. Public 

comments will be limited to three 

minutes per speaker. Individuals who 

would like to submit written statements 

should mail or fax their comments to 

the Office of Minority Health at least 

seven (7) business days prior to the 

meeting. Any members of the public 

who wish to have printed material 

distributed to ACMH committee 

members should submit their materials 

to the Executive Secretary, ACMH, 

Tower Building, 1101 Wootton 

Parkway, Suite 600, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852, prior to close of 

business October 13, 2009. 

Dated: August 31, 2009. 

Garth Graham, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority 

Health, Office of Minority Health, Office of 

Public Health and Science, Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

[FR Doc. E9–22078 Filed 9–14–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–09–0607] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of 

information collection requests under 

review by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). To request a copy of these 

requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance 

Officer at (404) 639–5960 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, Washington, 

DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

The National Violent Death Reporting 

System (NVDRS)—[OMB# 0920–0607, 

exp.01/31/2010]—Revision—National 

Center for Injury Prevention and Control 

(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Violence is an important public 

health problem. In the United States, 

homicide and suicide are the second 

and third leading causes of death, 

respectively, in the 1–34-year-old age 

group. Unfortunately, public health 

agencies do not know much more about 

the problem than the numbers and the 

sex, race, and age of the victims, all 

information obtainable from the 

standard death certificate. Death 

certificates, however, carry no 

information about key facts necessary 

for prevention such as the relationship 

of the victim and suspect and the 

circumstances of the deaths, thereby 

making it impossible to discern 

anything but the gross contours of the 

problem. Furthermore, death certificates 

are typically available 20 months after 

the completion of a single calendar year. 

Official publications of national violent 

death rates, e.g. those in Morbidity and 

Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use data 

that is less than two years old. Public 

health interventions aimed at a moving 

target last seen two years ago may well 

miss the mark. 

Local and Federal criminal justice 

agencies such as the Federal Bureau of 

Investigation (FBI) provide slightly more 

information about homicides, but they 

do not routinely collect standardized 

data about suicides, which are in fact 

much more common than homicides. 

The FBI’s Supplemental Homicide 

Report system (SHRs) does collect basic 

information about the victim-suspect 

relationship and circumstances, like 

death certificates, it does not link 

violent deaths that are part of one 

incident such as homicide-suicides. It 

also is a voluntary system in which 

some 10–20 percent of police 

departments nationwide do not 

participate. The FBI’s National Incident 

Based Reporting System (NIBRS) 

addresses some of these deficiencies, 

but it covers less of the country than 

SHRs, still includes only homicides, 

and collects only police information. 

Also, the Bureau of Justice Statistics 

Reports do not use data that is less than 

two years old. 

CDC therefore proposes to continue a 

state-based surveillance system for 

violent deaths that will provide more 

detailed and timely information. It taps 

into the case records held by medical 

examiners/coroners, police, and crime 

labs. Data is collected centrally by each 

state in the system, stripped of 

identifiers, and then sent to the CDC. 

Information is collected from these 

records about the characteristics of the 

victims and suspects, the circumstances 

of the deaths, and the weapons 

involved. States use standardized data 

elements and software designed by CDC. 

Ultimately, this information will guide 

states in designing programs that reduce 

multiple forms of violence. 

Neither victim families nor suspects 

are contacted to collect this information. 

It all comes from existing records and is 

collected by state health department 

staff or their subcontractors. Health 

departments incur an average of 2.0 

hours per death in identifying the 

deaths from death certificates, 

contacting the police and medical 

examiners to get copies of or to view the 

relevant records, abstracting all the 

records, various data processing tasks, 

various administrative tasks, data 

utilization, training, communications, 

etc. Public agencies working with 

NVDRS states incur an average of 0.5 

hours per death to retrieve and then 

refile records. 

This revision is a request to allow 10 

new state health departments to be 

added to the currently funded 17 if 

funding becomes available. This may 

bring the total to 27 by the year 2012. 

There are no costs to respondents other 

than their time. The total estimated 

annual burden hours are 67,500. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

State Health Departments ......................................................................................................... 27 1,000 2 .0 

Public Agencies ......................................................................................................................... 27 1,000 30/60 


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Dated: September 9, 2009. 

Maryam I. Daneshvar, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E9–22141 Filed 9–14–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. FDA–2008–N–0487] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for Office of 

Management and Budget Review; 

Comment Request; Food Safety 

Survey 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA) is announcing 

that a proposed collection of 

information has been submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Fax written comments on the 

collection of information by October 15, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on 

the information collection are received, 

OMB recommends that written 

comments be faxed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

OMB, Attn: FDA Desk Officer, FAX: 

202–395–6974, or e-mailed to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. All 

comments should be identified with the 

OMB control number 0910–0345. Also 

include the FDA docket number found 

in brackets in the heading of this 

document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jonna Capezzuto, Office of Information 

Management (HFA–710), Food and Drug 

Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Rockville, MD 20857, 301–796–3794, 

JonnaLynn.Capezzuto@fda.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA 

has submitted the following proposed 

collection of information to OMB for 

review and clearance. 

Food Safety Survey—(OMB Control 

Number 0910–0345—Reinstatement) 

Under section 903(b)(2) of the Federal 

Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 

393(b)(2)), FDA is authorized to conduct 

research relating to foods and to 

conduct educational and public 

information programs relating to the 

safety of the nation’s food supply. The 

Food Safety Survey is a nationally 

representative survey of consumers’ 

knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about 

food safety. Previous versions of the 

survey were collected in 1988, 1993, 

1998, 2001, and 2006. Data from the 

previous surveys are being used to 

evaluate two Healthy People 2010 

objectives: (1) Increase the proportion of 

consumers who follow key food safety 

practices (Objective 10–5), and (2) 

reduce severe allergic reactions to food 

among adults (Objective 10–4b). 

Additionally, data are used to measure 

trends in consumer food safety habits 

including hand and cutting board 

washing, cooking practices, and use of 

food thermometers. Finally, data are 

used to evaluate educational messages 

and to inform policymakers about 

consumer attitudes about novel 

technologies such as food irradiation 

and biotechnology. 

Since 2006, there have been several 

high profile recalls of FDA-regulated 

food due to contamination. Information 

about food recalls does not always reach 

the intended audience (Refs. 1, 2, and 

3). The Food Safety Survey planned for 

2009 will look specifically at reasons 

why consumers do not always heed 

food recall alerts. A new food recall 

module will be added that contains new 

questions to learn about how recent 

food recalls have affected consumer 

confidence in the food supply and what 

effect, if any, they have on consumers’ 

home food safety behaviors. This 

information will help FDA develop 

strategies to more effectively 

communicate food recall information to 

the public. 

The methods for the 2009 version of 

the Food Safety Survey will be the same 

as for the previous Food Safety Surveys. 

A nationally representative sample of 

4,000 adults in households with 

telephones will be selected at random 

and interviewed by telephone. This 

survey will include an oversample of 

Hispanics with a minimum of 500 

Hispanics sampled. Additionally, 200 

initial nonrespondents will be asked to 

participate in a short version of the 

survey to conduct a nonresponse 

analysis. Participation will be voluntary. 

Cognitive interviews and a pretest will 

be conducted prior to fielding the 

survey. 

In the Federal Register of September 

17, 2008 (73 FR 53878), FDA published 

a 60-day notice requesting public 

comment on the proposed collection of 

information. The agency received one 

comment that was not responsive to the 

comment request on the information 

collection provisions. 

FDA estimates the burden of this 

collection of information as follows: 

The total estimated burden imposed 

by this collection of information is 1,541 

hours (table 1 of this document). 

TABLE 1.—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN1

Activity No. of 

Respondents 

Annual Frequency 

per Response 

Total Annual 

Responses 

Hours per 

Response Total Hours 

Cognitive Interview 20 1 20 1 20 

Pretest 27 1 27 0 .5 14 

Screener 10,000 1 10,000 .0167 167 

Survey 4,000 1 4,000 .33 1,320 

Nonresponse 200 1 200 .10 20 

Total 1,541 

1There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information. 

Prior to finalizing the survey, FDA 

will conduct 20 cognitive interviews 

each requiring an average of 1 hour per 

respondent for a total of 20 hours. 

Before the survey is fielded, a small 

pretest of 27 individuals, each lasting 

half an hour (0.5 hour), will be 

conducted. The survey screener is 

estimated to take 1 minute or less per 


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