[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 6, 2015)]

[Notices]

[Pages 26055-26056]

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

[FR Doc No: 2015-10542]

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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.

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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 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., 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 

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 

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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

 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 

time-activity 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 

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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 lowincome housing;

 (3) Compare multimedia measurements and survey data between preand 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

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 Number of Average burden

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

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

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Mothers/Primary Caregivers Time/Activity 64 4 40/60 171

 of Enrolled Children. Questionnaire.

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

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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.

[FR Doc. 2015-10542 Filed 5-5-15; 8:45 am]

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