[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 13, 2015)]

[Notices]

[Pages 27315-27316]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [http://www.gpo.gov/]

[FR Doc No: 2015-11514]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-15-0728; Docket No. CDC-2015-0033]

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.

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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 a proposed 

revision of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System 

(NNDSS) information collection. The NNDSS is the nation's public health 

surveillance system that monitors the occurrence and spread of diseases 

and conditions that are nationally notifiable or under national 

surveillance.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before July 13, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-

0033 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., MSD74, 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 

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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 startup 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

 National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (OMB Control No. 

0920-0728, Expires 01/31/2017)--Revision--Center for Surveillance, 

Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

 The Public Health Services Act (42 U.S.C. 241) authorizes CDC to 

disseminate nationally notifiable condition information. The Nationally 

Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) is based on data 

collected at the state, territorial and local levels as a result of 

legislation and regulations in those jurisdictions that require health 

care providers, medical laboratories, and other entities to submit 

health-related data on reportable conditions to public health 

departments. These

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reportable conditions, which include infectious and non-infectious 

diseases, vary by jurisdiction depending upon each jurisdiction's 

health priorities and needs. Infectious disease agents and 

environmental hazards often cross geographical boundaries. Each year, 

the Council of State and Territorial Disease Epidemiologists (CSTE), 

supported by CDC, determines which reportable conditions should be 

designated nationally notifiable and voluntarily submitted to CDC so 

that information can be shared across jurisdictional boundaries and 

both surveillance and prevention and control activities can be 

coordinated at regional and national levels.

 CDC requests a three-year approval for a revision the NNDSS 

information collection. This Revision includes requests for approval to 

receive: (1) Case notification data for Chikungunya, Dengue-like 

illness, Non-HPS Hantavirus, and Acute Flaccid Myelitis; (2) new 

laboratory and vaccine data elements for all conditions; and (3) new 

disease-specific data elements for Mumps, Pertussis, and Sexually 

Transmitted Diseases.

 Although this Revision includes case notifications that were not 

part of the last NNDSS Revision, the estimate of the average burden per 

response based on the burden tables from all of the consolidated 

applications has not changed. The burden on the states and cities is 

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estimated to be 10 hours per response and the burden on the territories 

is estimated to be 5 hours per response. The addition of new vaccine, 

laboratory, and disease-specific data elements do not add any 

additional burden because the states, territories, and cities already 

collect those data elements. There will be no increase in burden for 

the states, territories, and cities to send those data elements to CDC. 

The estimated annual burden is 28,340 hours.

 Estimated Annualized Burden Hours

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 Number of Avg. burden

 Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden

 respondents respondent (in hrs.) (in hrs.)

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States........................ Weekly and 50 52 10 26,000

 Annual.

Territories................... Weekly and 5 52 5 1,300

 Annual.

Cities........................ Weekly and 2 52 10 1,040

 Annual.

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 Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 28,340

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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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