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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondent Form name 

Number 

of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total 

burden 

hours 

Participating health departments reporting aggregate data to CDC 

using Partner’s Portal (every 6 

months).

Partner’s Portal Data Entry Form 

(Up to 60 indicators).

12 2 8 192 

Partner’s Portal Data Entry Form (9 

metadata questions).

12 2 2 48 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 240 

Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Lead, Information Collection Review Office, 

Office of Public Health Ethics and 

Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25087 Filed 11–13–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–24–1408] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 

received approval from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to 

conduct Rapid Surveys System 

(RSS)(OMB Control No. 0920–1408), 

which includes fielding four surveys per 

year. The 06/30/2022 date clearance 

approved the Round 1 survey. A second 

round of the RSS was additionally 

approved. In accordance with the Terms 

of Clearance NCHS will publish a 30- 

day Federal Register Notice announcing 

each new survey so that public 

comments can be received about the 

specific content of each survey. This 

notice includes specific details about 

the questions that would be asked in the 

third round of the RSS and serves to 

allow 30 days for public and affected 

agency comments, consistent with 

OMB’s terms of clearance. 

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 Center for Health Statistics 

(NCHS) Rapid Surveys System (RSS) 

Round 3 (OMB Control No. 0920– 

1408)—National Center for Health 

Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Section 306 of the Public Health 

Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C.), as 

amended, authorizes the Secretary of 

Health and Human Services (HHS), 

acting through the National Center for 

Health Statistics (NCHS), to collect data 

about the health of the population of the 

United States. Rapid Surveys System 

(RSS)(OMB Control No. 0920–1408) 

collects data on emerging public health 

topics, attitudes, and behaviors using 

cross-sectional samples from two 

commercially available, national 

probability-based online panels. The 

RSS then combines these data to form 

estimates that approximate national 

representation in ways that many data 

collection approaches cannot. The RSS 

collects data in contexts in which 

decision makers’ need for time-sensitive 

data of known quality about emerging 

and priority health concerns is a higher 

priority than their need for statistically 

unbiased estimates. 

The RSS complements NCHS’s 

current household survey systems. As 

quicker turnaround surveys that require 

less accuracy and precision than CDC’s 

more rigorous population representative 

surveys, the RSS incorporates multiple 

mechanisms to carefully evaluate the 

resulting survey data for their 

appropriateness for use in public health 

surveillance and research (e.g., 

hypothesis generating) and facilitates 

continuous quality improvement by 

supplementing these panels with 

intensive efforts to understand how well 

the estimates reflect populations at most 

risk. The RSS data dissemination 

strategy communicates the strengths and 

limitations of data collected through 

online probability panels as compared 

to more robust data collection methods. 

The RSS has three major goals: (1) to 

provide CDC and other partners with 

time-sensitive data of known quality 

about emerging and priority health 

concerns; (2) to use these data 

collections to continue NCHS’s 

evaluation of the quality of public 

health estimates generated from 

commercial online panels; and (3) to 

improve methods to communicate the 

appropriateness of public health 

estimates generated from commercial 


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online panels. The RSS is designed to 

have four rounds of data collection each 

year with data being collected by two 

contractors with probability panels. A 

cross-sectional nationally representative 

sample will be drawn from the online 

probability panel maintained by each of 

the contractors. As part of the base 

(minimum sample size), each round of 

data collection will collect 2,000 

responses per quarter. The RSS can be 

expanded by increasing the number of 

completed responses per round or the 

number of rounds per year as needed up 

to a maximum of 28,000 responses per 

year per contractor or 56,000 total 

responses per year. Additionally, each 

data collection may include up to 2,000 

additional responses per quarter (8,000 

for the year) to improve 

representativeness. This increases the 

maximum burden by up to 16,000 

responses per year. The RSS may also 

target individual surveys to collect data 

only from specific subgroups within 

existing survey panels and may 

supplement data collection for such 

groups with additional respondents 

from other probability or nonprobability 

samples. An additional 12,000 

responses per year may be used for 

these developmental activities. Survey 

questions being asked of the panelists 

will be cognitively tested. This cognitive 

testing will help survey users interpret 

the findings by understanding how 

respondents answer each question. 

Each round’s questionnaire will 

consist of four main components: (1) 

basic demographic information on 

respondents to be used as covariates in 

analyses; (2) new, emerging, or 

supplemental content proposed by 

NCHS, other CDC Centers, Institute, and 

Offices, and other HHS agencies; (3) 

questions used for calibrating the survey 

weights; and (4) additional content 

selected by NCHS to evaluate against 

relevant benchmarks. NCHS will use 

questions from Components 1 and 2 to 

provide relevant, timely data on new, 

emerging, and priority health topics to 

be used for decision making. NCHS will 

use questions from Components 3 and 4 

to weight and evaluate the quality of the 

estimates coming from questions in 

Components 1 and 2. Components 1 and 

2 will contain different topics in each 

round of the survey. NCHS submits a 

30-day Federal Register Notice with 

information on the contents of each 

round of data collection. 

NCHS calibrates survey weights from 

the RSS to gold standard surveys. 

Questions used for calibration in this 

round of RSS will include marital 

status, employment, social and work 

limitations, use of the internet in 

general and for medical reasons, 

telephone use, civic engagement, and 

language used at home and in other 

settings. All these questions have been 

on the National Health Interview Survey 

(NHIS) in prior years allowing 

calibration to these data. 

Finally, all RSS rounds will include 

several questions that were previously 

on NHIS for benchmarking to evaluate 

data quality. Panelists in the RSS will be 

asked about health status; chronic 

conditions; disability; healthcare access 

and utilization; health behaviors; and 

food insecurity. 

The estimated total annual burden 

hours for the three-year approval period 

remains at 28,079 burden hours. The 

NCHS RSS Round 3 (2024) data 

collection is based on 13,100 complete 

surveys (4,367 hours) and 20 cognitive 

interviews (20 hours) using the same 

survey instrument for a total of 4,387 

hours. There are no costs to respondents 

other than their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Adults 18+ ........................................ Survey: NCHS RSS Round 3 ....................................... 13,100 1 20/60

Adult 18+ .......................................... Cognitive Interviews ...................................................... 20 1 1 

Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Lead, Information Collection Review Office, 

Office of Public Health Ethics and 

Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25086 Filed 11–13–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–24–23BJ] 

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 ‘‘U.S. National 

Authority for Containment of Poliovirus 

Data Collection Tools’’ 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 December 

12, 2022 to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. CDC 

received one comment related to the 

previous 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 


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