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well-established qualitative analysis 

methods, such as coding interviews for 

themes about barriers and successes to 

HIV prevention, care, and treatment. 

Structured response surveys will be 

analyzed using descriptive statistics and 

other appropriate statistical methods. 

CDC will use the results from each 

specific data collection study to help to 

identify ways to improve local 

programmatic activities for specific 

communities along the continuum of 

HIV prevention, treatment and care for 

populations and areas with the greatest 

HIV burden. CDC will communicate 

study outcomes to local stakeholders 

and organizations in positions to 

consider and implement site-specific 

improvements in HIV prevention, care, 

and treatment for each of the study sites 

examined. For stakeholders, 

organizations, or agencies outside the 

local affected communities, all 

communications will include clear 

discussion of the limitations of the 

region-specific, qualitative methods and 

the non-generalizability of the study 

outcomes. 

For a given year, each separate data 

collection will range from 30 

(minimum) to 200 (maximum) 

respondents based on the nature and 

scope of the research purposes. For 

example, if there are three data 

collections, the maximum combined 

number of expected respondents is 600. 

In a given year, CDC anticipates that the 

need to screen 1600 persons to identify 

800 eligible persons, of which 600 

persons will agree to participate. 

CDC anticipates that screener forms 

will take five minutes to complete each, 

contact information forms will take one 

minute to complete each, and consent 

forms will take five minutes to complete 

each. CDC anticipates 50% of the 

targeted populations screened will be 

eligible for the study. Of eligible 

persons, 75% will agree to participate. 

Brief structured surveys will take 15 

minutes to complete. In-depth 

interviews or focus groups with 

respondents are expected to take 60 

minutes (one hour) to complete. Indepth interviews or focus groups with 

healthcare providers are expected to 

take 45 minutes to complete. 

The total annual response burden 

based on an average of 600 study 

respondents per year (assuming three 

large data collections involving 200 

participants each) is estimated at 918 

hours. There is no cost to respondents 

other than their time. 

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

General Public—Adults ................................... Study Screener .............................................. 1600 1 5/60

General Public—Adults ................................... Contact Information Form .............................. 600 1 1/60 

General Public—Adults ................................... Consent Form ................................................ 600 1 5/60 

General Public—Adults ................................... Demographic Survey ...................................... 500 1 15/60 

General Public—Adults ................................... Interview Guide .............................................. 500 1 1 

General Public—Adults ................................... Provider Demographic Survey ....................... 100 1 15/60 

General Public—Adults ................................... Provider Interview Guide ................................ 100 1 45/60 

Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Acting 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 

[60Day–2018–18APJ; Docket No. CDC– 

2018–0062] 

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 effort to reduce public 

burden and maximize the utility of 

government information, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies the opportunity to comment on 

a proposed and/or continuing 

information collection, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

This notice invites comment on a 

proposed information collection project 

titled ‘‘Surveillance of Nonfatal Injuries 

Among On-Duty Law Enforcement 

Officers.’’ The purpose of this project is 

to collect follow-back telephone 

interview data from injured and 

exposed law enforcement officers 

treated in emergency departments (EDs) 

and produce a descriptive summary of 

these injuries and exposures. 

DATES: CDC must receive written 

comments on or before September 18, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2018– 

0062 by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions 

for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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. CDC will post, without 

change, all relevant comments to 

Regulations.gov. 

Please note: Submit all Federal 

comments 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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

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 

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collection to the OMB for approval. To 

comply with this requirement, we are 

publishing this notice of a proposed 

data collection as described below. 

The OMB is particularly interested in 

comments that will help: 

1. 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; 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

4. 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 submissions 

of responses. 

5. Assess information collection costs. 

Proposed Project 

Surveillance of Nonfatal Injuries 

Among On-Duty Law Enforcement 

Officers—New—National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Law enforcement officers have high 

rates of non-fatal injuries compared to 

the general worker population. As law 

enforcement officers undertake many 

critical public safety activities and are 

tasked with protecting the safety and 

health of the public, it follows that 

understanding and preventing injuries 

among law enforcement officers will 

have a benefit reaching beyond the 

workers to the general public. 

As mandated in the Occupational 

Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 

91–596), the mission of NIOSH is to 

conduct research and investigations on 

occupational safety and health. Related 

to this mission, the purpose of this 

project is to conduct research that will 

provide a detailed description of nonfatal occupational injuries and 

exposures incurred by law enforcement 

officers. This information will offer 

detailed insight into events that lead to 

the largest number of nonfatal injuries 

and exposures among law enforcement 

officers. The project will use two related 

data sources. The first source is data 

abstracted from medical records of law 

enforcement officers treated in a 

nationally stratified sample of 

emergency departments. These data are 

routinely collected through the 

occupational supplement to the 

National Electronic Injury Surveillance 

System (NEISS-Work). The second data 

source, for which NIOSH is seeking 

OMB approval for three years, is 

responses to telephone interview 

surveys of the injured and exposed law 

enforcement officers identified within 

NEISS-Work. 

The proposed telephone interview 

surveys will supplement NEISS-Work 

data with an extensive description of 

law enforcement officers injuries and 

exposures, including worker 

characteristics, injury types, injury 

circumstances, and injury outcomes. 

Previous reports describing 

occupational injuries to law 

enforcement officers provide limited 

details on specific regions or subsegments of the population. As 

compared to these earlier studies, the 

scope of the telephone interview data 

will be broader as it includes sampled 

cases nationwide. Results from the 

telephone interviews will be weighted 

and reported as national estimates. 

The sample size for the telephone 

interview survey is estimated to be 

approximately 900 law enforcement 

officers annually for the proposed three 

year duration of the study. This is based 

on the number of law enforcement 

officers identified in previous years of 

NEISS-Work data and a 30% response 

rate that is comparable to the rate of 

previously conducted National 

Electronic Injury Surveillance System 

telephone interview studies. Each 

telephone interview will take 

approximately 30 minutes to complete, 

resulting in an annualized burden 

estimate of 150 hours. Using the routine 

NEISS-Work data, an analysis of all 

identified EMS workers will be 

performed to determine if there are 

differences between the telephone 

interview responder and non-responder 

groups. 

The Division of Safety Research (DSR) 

within NIOSH is conducting this 

project. DSR has a strong interest in 

improving surveillance of law 

enforcement officer injuries and 

exposures to provide the information 

necessary for effectively targeting and 

implementing prevention efforts and, 

consequently, reducing occupational 

injuries to law enforcement officers. The 

Consumer Product Safety Commission 

(CPSC) will also contribute to this 

project, as they are responsible for 

coordinating the collection of all NEISSWork data and for overseeing the 

collection of all telephone interview 

data. The total estimated burden is 450 

hours. There is no cost 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) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

Law enforcement officers .................. Follow-back survey .......................... 900 1 30/60 450 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 450 

Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Acting 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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