Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 59 / Friday, March 27, 2015 / Notices 16397 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–15–15UR; Docket No. CDC–2015– 

0010] 

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 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 newly proposed 

information collection activities for 

enhanced surveillance of 

Coccidioidomycosis in low- and nonendemic states. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before May 26, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2015– 

0010 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., 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 

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 start-up 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 

Enhanced Surveillance of 

Coccidioidomycosis in Low- and NonEndemic States—New—National Center 

for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious 

Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Coccidioidomycosis, also called 

‘‘Valley fever,’’ is a nationally notifiable 

fungal infection caused by inhalation of 

soil-dwelling Coccidioides spp. In the 

United States, coccidioidomycosis is 

known to be endemic in the 

southwestern states, but new evidence 

suggests that the true endemic areas 

may be broader than previously 

recognized. Approximately 10,000 

coccidioidomycosis cases are reported 

in the U.S. each year to the National 

Notifiable Disease Surveillance System 

(NNDSS), but this system captures 

limited clinical and epidemiological 

information about reported cases. Most 

cases occur in Arizona or California, so 

the epidemiology of this disease has 

been well-described for these states, but 

little is known about the features of 

cases in other states. 

Enhanced surveillance in low- and 

non-endemic states will help determine 

which information is most important to 

collect during routine surveillance and 

will help assess the suitability of the 

Council of State and Territorial 

Epidemiologists (CSTE) case definition 

for coccidioidomycosis in these areas. 

Primary prevention strategies for 

coccidioidomycosis have not yet been 

proven to be effective, so public health 

efforts may be best aimed at promoting 

awareness of coccidioidomycosis among 

healthcare providers and the general 

public. Improved surveillance data are 

essential for identifying such 

opportunities to promote awareness 

about this disease and for determining 

its true public health burden. 

For a period of one year, state health 

department personnel in participating 

low- and non-endemic states (Louisiana, 

Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, 

Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North 

Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, 

Utah, and Wyoming) will conduct 

telephone interviews with reported 

coccidioidomycosis cases that meet the 

CSTE case definition and will record 

responses on a standardized form. 

Information collected on the form will 

include demographics, underlying 

medical conditions, travel history, 

symptom type and duration, healthcareseeking behaviors, diagnosis, treatment, 

and outcomes. 

This interview activity is consistent 

with the state’s existing authority to 

investigate reports of notifiable diseases 

for routine surveillance purposes; 

therefore, formal consent to participate 

in the surveillance is not required. 

However, cases may choose not to 

participate and may choose not to 

answer any question they do not wish 

to answer. 

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It will take state health department 

personnel 20 minutes to administer the 

questionnaire and 10 minutes to retrieve 

and record the diagnostic information 

from their state reportable disease 

database. 

Participation is voluntary. There are 

no costs to the respondents other than 

their time. The total burden hours are 73 

hours. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hrs.) 

Total burden 

(in hrs.) 

State Health Department Personnel Case Report Form for Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) Enhanced Surveillance.145 1 30/60 73 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 73 

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. 2015–07036 Filed 3–26–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–15–15GD] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) has submitted the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for 

the proposed information collection is 

published to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information are encouraged. Your 

comments should address any of the 

following: (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 or 

send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written 

comments and/or suggestions regarding 

the items contained in this notice 

should be directed to the Attention: 

CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management 

and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or 

by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

Emergency Self Escape for Coal 

Miners—New—National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention’s (CDC) mission is to 

promote health and quality of life by 

preventing and controlling disease, 

injury, and disability. The National 

Institute for Occupational Safety and 

Health (NIOSH) provides national and 

world leadership to prevent workrelated illness, injury, disability, and 

death by gathering information, 

conducting scientific research, and 

translating knowledge gained into 

products and services. NIOSH’s mission 

is critical to the health and safety of 

every American worker. The Office of 

Mine Safety and Health Research 

(OMSHR), one of the preeminent mining 

research laboratories in the world, is 

focused on occupational health and 

safety research for mine workers. 

Recent research by the National 

Academy of Sciences (NAS) has called 

for a detailed, formal task analysis of 

mine self-escape (National Research 

Council, 2013). Such an analysis should 

identify the knowledge, skills, abilities, 

and other attributes (KSAOs) needed by 

mine personnel in the event of a mine 

disaster to successfully complete an 

emergency self-escape. This analysis 

will identify gaps between worker 

demands and capabilities, and propose 

recommendations to either minimize 

those gaps or enhance existing systems 

(e.g., communications, training, 

technology). 

The purpose of the project is to 

enhance the ability of miners to escape 

from underground coal mines in the 

event of a fire, explosion, collapse of the 

mine structure, or flooding of the area 

by toxic gas or water. To escape, miners 

need to perform a set of tasks that apply 

specific knowledge and skills in moving 

through the mine, avoiding dangers, and 

using protective equipment. The project 

will identify the tasks, knowledge and 

skills, procedures, equipment, 

communications, and physical 

requirements of self-escape. The results 

are expected to lead to 

recommendations for improvements to 

task requirements and procedures, 

equipment, training and communication 

processes. 

NIOSH proposes this two-year study 

to better understand the requirements of 

emergency self-escape and to answer the 

following questions: 

• What tasks (and critical tasks) do 

miners perform during self-escape? 

• What knowledge beyond that 

needed to perform normal, routine 

mining tasks do miners require to 

facilitate successful self-escape? 

• What are the cognitive requirements 

(such as reasoning, or weighing and 

deciding among alternatives, 

recognizing when a course of action is 

not producing the intended results) 

beyond that needed to perform normal, 

routine mining tasks? 

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