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assessment across all business lines and 

operations, including operations 

performed by third parties, and 

considering climate-related impacts on 

business continuity and the evolving 

legal and regulatory landscape. 

Legal and Compliance Risk. 

Management should consider how 

climate-related financial risks and risk 

mitigation measures affect the legal and 

regulatory landscape in which the 

financial institution operates. This 

should include, but is not limited to, 

taking into account possible changes to 

legal requirements for, or underwriting 

considerations related to, flood or 

disaster-related insurance, and ensuring 

that fair lending monitoring programs 

review whether and how the financial 

institution’s risk mitigation measures 

potentially discriminate against 

consumers on a prohibited basis, such 

as race, color, or national origin. 

Other Nonfinancial Risk. Consistent 

with sound oversight, the board and 

management should monitor how the 

execution of strategic decisions and the 

operating environment affect the 

financial institution’s financial 

condition and operational resilience. 

Management should also consider the 

extent to which the financial 

institution’s activities may increase the 

risk of negative financial impact and 

should implement adequate measures to 

account for these risks where material. 

Michael J. Hsu, 

Acting Comptroller of the Currency. 

By order of the Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System. 

Ann E. Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

By order of the Board of Directors. 

Dated at Washington, DC, on October 24, 

2023. 

James P. Sheesley, 

Assistant Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23844 Filed 10–27–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–24–23GL] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 

has submitted the information 

collection request titled ‘‘National 

Wastewater Surveillance System for 

SARS–CoV–2 and Other Infectious 

Disease Targets of Public Health 

Concern’’ to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

approval. CDC previously published a 

‘‘Proposed Data Collection Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations’’ notice on July 7, 

2023 to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. CDC 

received 4,476 comments related to this 

notice. This notice serves to allow an 

additional 30 days for public and 

affected agency comments. 

CDC will accept all comments for this 

proposed information collection project. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

is particularly interested in comments 

that: 

(a) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agencies estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; 

(d) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including, through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses; and 

(e) Assess information collection 

costs. 

To request additional information on 

the proposed project or to obtain a copy 

of the information collection plan and 

instruments, call (404) 639–7570. 

Comments and recommendations for the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent within 30 days of publication of 

this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/ 

do/PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. Direct written 

comments and/or suggestions regarding 

the items contained in this notice to the 

Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 17th 

Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by 

fax to (202) 395–5806. Provide written 

comments within 30 days of notice 

publication. 

Proposed Project 

National Wastewater Surveillance 

System for SARS–CoV–2 and Other 

Infectious Disease Targets of Public 

Health Concern—New—National Center 

for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious 

Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) seeks to continue and 

expand existing information collection 

by the National Wastewater 

Surveillance System for COVID–19 

currently approved under the COVID– 

19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) PRA 

waiver. This information collection 

request is for three years. 

The COVID–19 pandemic 

demonstrated the need for timely, 

actionable surveillance data to inform 

disease prevention and control 

activities. The genetic material of 

SARS–CoV–2, the virus that causes 

COVID–19, is detectable in the feces of 

infected individuals, regardless of their 

symptom status. Therefore, sampling 

and testing wastewater provides a 

means to assess SARS–CoV–2 infection 

trends in the community independent of 

clinical testing or other healthcare 

indicators. This public health 

surveillance approach can be used for 

other infectious diseases or targets of 

public health concern, such as mpox, 

influenza, and antimicrobial resistance. 

The National Wastewater Surveillance 

System (NWSS) was originally 

established to support the CDC COVID– 

19 response, and now, NWSS serves as 

a public health tool to provide 

community-level disease trends. NWSS 

was designed to permit the addition or 

exchange of targets for wastewater 

infectious disease testing. This built-in 

flexibility will allow jurisdictions to 

adapt wastewater testing to changing 

public health needs, enable rapid 

responses to outbreaks or emergencies, 

and support broad capacity to detect 

future, emerging disease threats. 

Wastewater data have provided 

impactful information to local public 

health authorities to confirm trends 

observed in testing or hospitalization 

rates, and to assert the need for 

increased testing or healthcare 

resources. NWSS has supported 

jurisdictions throughout the United 

States to implement wastewater 

surveillance, and will continue to 

support state, tribal, local, and territorial 

(STLT) partners to collect wastewater 

data. Together with CDC-funded 

national-level wastewater testing by 

commercial partners, jurisdictions 

across the US have submitted data to 


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NWSS that represents an estimated 141 

million individuals, or 41% of the US 

population. Wastewater data collection 

will be coordinated by STLT health 

departments through close collaboration 

with wastewater utilities. CDC will 

coordinate national-level testing 

contracts that cover up to 500 

wastewater testing sites. Once collected, 

wastewater data will be submitted to the 

Data Collation and Integration for Public 

Health Event Response (DCIPHER) 

platform for participants to view and 

analyze in near real-time. 

There are three data components 

comprising this collection request. For 

data collection Component 1, 

wastewater utilities or partners will 

collect metadata and samples from 

wastewater influent lines or at other 

points in the collection stream at regular 

intervals twice a week, or at irregular 

intervals as needed. The wastewater 

samples will be shipped, along with 

their associated sampling metadata, to 

STLT health departments where 

pathogen- or target-specific RNA or 

DNA will be quantified for up to 40 

targets (e.g., SARS–CoV–2, mpox, 

influenza, antibiotic resistance, etc.). 

Data collection for specific infectious 

diseases or targets will be based on 

public health need and input from the 

NWSS Advisory Council comprised of 

subject matter experts from across CDC. 

For some wastewater samples, target 

sequencing will be conducted to help 

public health officials monitor 

infectious disease variant trends (e.g., 

SARS–CoV–2). STLT health 

departments will compile, review, and 

submit testing data to CDC through the 

NWSS DCIPHER platform, or national 

contract laboratories will submit data 

directly to the CDC. Four forms are to 

be submitted for this data component, 

with four documents used as reference. 

For data collection Component 2, 

STLT health departments will work 

with participating utilities to obtain 

geographic boundary data of the 

wastewater utility service areas, also 

called a sewershed. These sewershed 

boundary data files (also referred to as 

spatial files) will be uploaded by 

jurisdiction health departments into the 

NWSS DCIPHER platform. No forms are 

to be submitted for this data component, 

only spatial files, with one document 

used as reference. 

For data collection Component 3, 

STLT health departments may choose to 

develop a line list of reported cases of 

specific infections (e.g., COVID–19, 

mpox, influenza, antibiotic resistant 

infections, etc.) associated with the 

participating wastewater utility service 

areas, for which wastewater testing data 

is also being collected. The STLT health 

department will submit to CDC the line 

list of deidentified cases into the NWSS 

DCIPHER platform. Two forms are to be 

submitted for this data component, with 

two documents used as reference. 

Based on previous pilot data 

collection and additional estimates from 

2022–2023 US case numbers in the CDC 

National Notifiable Disease Surveillance 

System, we estimate that 166,400 

wastewater samples and 3,664,607 

sewershed-level case data file identifiers 

will be collected and reported to NWSS 

each year, while 1,100 sewershed 

spatial files will only need to be 

submitted once during the three-year 

period. In total, the estimated annual 

burden for all data collection 

components for this request is 695,941 

hours. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

State, tribal, local, territorial 

health department staff.

Component 1 Forms: Component-1 BioSample_ww_template_

v1.9_NWSS; Component-1 SRA_ww_template_v5.7_NWSS; 

Component-1 NWSS_DCIPHER_Wastewater_Data_CSV_

Upload_Template_v3_1_All Fields.

55 2,080 1 

Wastewater Utilities Staff .......... Component 1 Forms: Component-1 NWSS_DCIPHER_Wastewater_Data_CSV_Upload_Template_v3_1_All Fields.1,100 104 80/60 

Contract laboratory .................... Component 1 Forms: Component-1 BioSample_ww_template_

v1.9_NWSS; Component-1 SRA_ww_template_v5.7_NWSS; 

Component-1 NWSS_DCIPHER_Wastewater_Data_CSV_

Upload_Template_v3_1_All Fields; Component-1 NWSS_Sequencing_Manifest_Template.

1 52,000 140/60 

State, tribal, local, territorial 

health department staff.

Component 2 Forms: Sewershed spatial files, no form required 55 20 5/60 

Wastewater utility staff .............. Component 2 Forms: Sewershed spatial files, no form required 1,100 1 2 

State, tribal, local, territorial 

health department staff.

Component 3 Forms: Component-3 NWSS_DCIPHER_

CaseData_CSVUpload_Template; Component-3 NWSS_

DCIPHER_Sewershed_Name_Crosswalk_CSV_Upload_Template.

55 66,629 5/60 

Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Lead, Information Collection Review Office, 

Office of Public Health Ethics and 

Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

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HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–24–1373] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 

has submitted the information 

collection request titled ‘‘Fire Fighter 

Fatality Investigation and Prevention 

Program Survey’’ to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. CDC previously 

published a ‘‘Proposed Data Collection 

Submitted for Public Comment and 

Recommendations’’ notice on August 

23, 2023, to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. CDC did 

not receive comments related to the 

previous notice. This notice serves to 


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