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‘‘ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND PRACTICES RELATING TO EVD PREVENTION AND MEDICAL CARE

IN GUINEA’’ 

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hrs.) 

Total burden 

(in hrs.) 

Household Members ......................... Information Collection Instrument— 

Household.

5,120 1 1 5,120 

Village or Neighborhood Leaders ..... Information Collection Instrument— 

Leader.

128 1 30/60 64 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 5,184 

Leroy A. Richardson, 

Chief, Information Collection Review Office, 

Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the 

Associate Director for Science, Office of the 

Director, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60-Day 15–15AFJ; Docket No. CDC–2015– 

0027] 

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. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 

its continuing efforts to reduce public 

burden and maximize the utility of 

government information, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. This notice invites 

comment on the proposed information 

collection entitled The Green Housing 

Pilot Study (New Orleans). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before July 6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2015– 

0027 by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions 

for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, 

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. All relevant comments 

received will be posted without change 

to Regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. For 

access to the docket to read background 

documents or comments received, go to 

Regulations.gov. 

Please note: All public comment should be 

submitted 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 the Information 

Collection Review Office, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 

Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570; 

Email: omb@cdc.gov. 

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 OMB for approval. To 

comply with this requirement, we are 

publishing this notice of a proposed 

data collection as described below. 

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; (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; and (e) estimates of capital 

or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. Burden means 

the total time, effort, or financial 

resources expended by persons to 

generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information, to search 

data sources, to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

Proposed Project 

The Green Housing Pilot Study (New 

Orleans)—New—National Center for 

Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention 

(CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) is seeking a new 

three-year regular OMB approval for a 

pilot study of additional components to 

be tested in a single study site (New 

Orleans) for the Green Housing Study 

(OMB No. 0920–0906, Expiration Date 

10/31/2017). The goal of the Green 

Housing pilot study (New Orleans) is to 

apply environmental sample collection 

methods and novel approaches to study 

exposures to various indoor pollutants 

(both chemical and biological agents) in 

children (0–12 yrs.). 

The information collected will help 

scientists better understand timeactivity patterns of young children (0– 

12 years) that affect exposures to 


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chemical and biological agents in their 

residential environments. This 

knowledge will improve estimates of 

exposure for children. Results from this 

pilot study will also inform future Green 

Housing Study sites and will potentially 

reduce participant time burden by 

collecting some questionnaires 

electronically. 

This study directly supports the 

Healthy People 2020 Healthy Homes’ 

health protection goal of the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

This investigation is also consistent 

with CDC’s Health Protection Research 

Agenda, which calls for research to 

identify the major environmental causes 

of disease and disability and related risk 

factors. 

In 2011, CDC funded the first two 

study sites for the Green Housing Study; 

one location was in Boston and the 

other was in Cincinnati. In these two 

cities, renovations sponsored by the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD) had already been 

scheduled. By selecting sites in which 

renovations were already schedule to 

occur, the CDC leveraged the 

opportunity to collect survey and 

biomarker data from residents and to 

collect environmental measurements in 

homes in order to evaluate associations 

between green housing and health. The 

biomarker measurements of the children 

(such as those from urine, feces, 

toenails) reflects exposures that are in 

body, thus improving assessment of 

how environmental exposures can 

influence what enters the body. 

The third study is in New Orleans. 

With the New Orleans study site, CDC 

and Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) investigators propose a pilot 

study of other sampling and analysis 

methodologies to improve exposure 

assessment for future study sites. 

Several objectives will be evaluated in 

the EPA pilot study add-on to the third 

study site: 

(1) Identify and characterize factors 

affecting children’s exposures to 

chemical ingredients from consumer 

products found in their everyday 

environment in order to support the 

data and modeling needs of the 

exposure components of EPA’s national 

research programs; 

(2) Evaluate the pilot study data 

metrics for incorporation in and 

enhancement of CDC’s ability to 

understand the relationship between 

environmental exposures and asthma in 

green versus traditional low-income 

housing; 

(3) Compare multimedia 

measurements and survey data between 

pre- and post-renovation time points in 

green and traditional low-income 

housing to assess exposure related 

changes in the residence and 

participants due to renovation activities. 

This pilot study of additional 

environmental exposure assessment 

methodologies is only for the New 

Orleans study site. Each study site only 

has 64 households (32 green renovated 

homes and 32 comparison homes) so 

this will be the maximum number of 

households in this pilot study. Like the 

previous study sites, participants for the 

New Orleans study site will continue to 

include children with asthma, their 

mothers/primary caregivers living in 

HUD-subsidized housing that has either 

received a green renovation or is a 

comparison home (i.e., no renovation). 

In addition, younger children (newborns 

through age 12 years, with a focus on 

newborns to age 3 years) will be 

enrolled for the New Orleans study site. 

Having a larger age range of children in 

the pilot study will improve the 

estimate of how environmental 

exposures inside and outside of their 

homes can occur during different life 

stages of childhood, a critical period of 

life when the immune system and other 

organ systems are still developing. 

The Pilot study will be implemented 

by incorporating it into the Green 

Housing study schedule for 

approximately 12 months. Data 

collection methods proposed for the 

pilot include: (1) A questionnaire 

regarding time-activity patterns of their 

children which will be administered to 

mothers/primary caregivers (i.e., the 

respondents), (2) collection of air, soil, 

dust samples from the respondent’s 

home; and (3) collection of blood, urine, 

toenails clippings, and feces from the 

respondent’s eligible children. We 

hypothesize that a better estimation of 

exposure pathways will improve 

exposure modeling for the current Green 

Housing Study site (New Orleans), 

future Green Housing Study sites, and 

future research in environmental health. 

Although children are considered 

participants (by giving biological 

samples and providing some clinical 

measurements), the respondents to all 

questionnaires are the mothers/primary 

caregivers. 

The number and type of respondents 

that will complete the questionnaires 

are 64 mothers/primary caregivers of 

enrolled children. All health and 

environmental exposure information 

about children will be provided by their 

mothers/primary caregivers (i.e., no 

children will fill out questionnaires). 

There is no cost to the respondents 

other than their time to participate in 

the study. The total estimated annual 

burden hours for the pilot study in New 

Orleans study site of the Green Housing 

Study is 171 hrs. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hrs.) 

Total burden 

(in hrs.) 

Mothers/Primary Caregivers of Enrolled Children.Time/Activity Questionnaire ............. 64 4 40/60 171 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 171 

Leroy A. Richardson, 

Chief, Information Collection Review Office, 

Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the 

Associate Director for Science, Office of the 

Director, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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