Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 86 / Wednesday, May 3, 2000 / Notices 25731

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[30DAY–23–00]

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) 639–7090. Send written

comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human

Resources and Housing Branch, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235;

Washington, DC 20503. Written

comments should be received within 30

days of this notice.

Proposed Projects

1. Telephone Survey Measuring HIV/

STD Risk Behavior Using Standard

Methodology—New—The Behavioral

Surveillance Working Group,

coordinated by the National Center for

HIV, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention

(NCHSTP). Proposes to conduct testing

of a set of survey questions intended to

obtain measures of risk behaviors for

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

(STDs). Knowledge about the level of

HIV risk behaviors in populations is

essential for effective HIV prevention

programs. Currently, survey-based

assessment of these behaviors depends

on a range of survey questions that

differ across survey, and that are

difficult to compare and to reconcile.

Therefore, CDC has developed a draft

set of items to be proposed as standard

survey questions on the topics of sexual

behavior, HIV testing, drug use, and

other behaviors related to risk of

contracting HIV and/or STDs. As part of

this effort, CDC will sponsor a

telephone-based pretest of 150

households, selected randomly from

within an urban area, in order to test

these questions.

Further, because some of the survey

questions are private and potentially

sensitive, the project will entail the

testing of a survey administration mode:

Telephone-based audio computerassisted self-interview (T–ACASI), in

which a computer will be used to

administer the most sensitive questions,

and in which the surveyed individual

enters responses directly onto the

telephone keypad. This procedure

eliminates the need for communication

of sensitive questions from the

interviewer to the respondent, as well as

the need for respondents to answer the

questions verbally. In order to test the

effectiveness of this procedures, half of

the interviews will be conducted using

the T–ACASI procedure for the most

sensitive questions, and half using

standard, interviewer-based

administration of all questions. Data

analysis will rely on an assessment of

the response rate under each mode, and

on the nature of the data obtained to the

sensitive questions.

Information and data obtained from

this evaluation will help direct future

surveys by determining whether it is

feasible to attempt to administer these

standard risk questions using a

telephone survey and whether a T–

ACASI-based procedure represents a

technological innovation that will

positively contribute to such an effort,

through improvements in data quality.

The total cost to respondents is

$505.60. The Annual Burden hours are

63.2.

Respondents Number of

respondents

Number of

responses/respondent

Avg. burden

per response

(in hours)

Screening ........................................................................................................................................... 660 1 0.02

Interview ............................................................................................................................................. 150 1 0.33

Dated: April 26, 2000.

Charles W. Gollmar,

Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning

and Evaluation Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[30 DAY–24–00]

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) 639–7090. Send written

comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human

Resources and Housing Branch, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235;

Washington, DC 20503. Written

comments should be received within 30

days of this notice.

Proposed Projects

1. Surveillance and Evaluation of

Plasma Donors for the Human

Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)—New—

National Center for HIV, STD, and TB

Prevention (NCHSTP). In 1987, the

President directed the Department of

Health and Human Services (DHHS) to

determine the nationwide incidence of,

to predict the future of, and to

determine the extent to which human

immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was

present in various segments of the

population. In response, the CDC

formed an epidemiologic team to

summarize existing information. An

extensive review of published and

unpublished data led to the conclusion

that even though there was information

suggesting a very large number of

Americans were infected, there was no

substitute for carefully and scientifically

obtained incidence and prevalence data.

The need to monitor HIV seroprevalence

existed on the national and at the state

and local levels for public health

management: targeting and evaluating

prevention programs, planning future

health care needs and determining

health policy. Research has also

indicated that similar studies are

needed to determine the incidence and

prevalence of hepatitis C (HCV)

infection.

A complementary family of surveys

and studies, organized by the CDC,

provides empirical estimates of the

extent of the epidemic of the human

immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the

United States. The national surveillance

system of HIV infection in the United

States includes monitoring incidence

and prevalence rates of HIV-infection

among first time and repeat whole blood

donors. Although this surveillance

system has been in place for several

years to monitor HIV trends in the

United States blood supply, such a