10096 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 37 / Wednesday, February 25, 2015 / Notices 

Proposed Project 

Extended Evaluation of the National 

Tobacco Prevention and Control Public 

Education Campaign—New—National 

Center for Chronic Disease Prevention 

and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

In 2012, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC) launched the first 

federally funded, national mass media 

campaign to educate consumers about 

the adverse health consequences of 

tobacco use (the National Tobacco 

Prevention and Control Public 

Education Campaign, or ‘‘The 

Campaign’’). The Campaign continued 

in 2013 and 2014 with advertisements 

known as ‘‘Tips from Former Smokers.’’ 

Activities for Phase 3 of the campaign 

are ongoing. To assess the impact of The 

Campaign in Phases 1–3, CDC obtained 

OMB approval to conduct a series of 

longitudinal surveys of smokers and 

nonsmokers (OMB Control Number 

0920–0923, exp. 3/31/2017). 

New media activities for Phases 4 and 

5 of The Campaign are scheduled to 

launch in March 2015. To support 

evaluation of The Campaign through 

Phase 5, CDC plans to field four new 

waves of information collection. The 

surveys will be fielded in English and 

Spanish and will occur during late 

2015, 2016, and early 2017. Once 

enrolled in the first wave of data 

collection, all participants will be recontacted for follow-up at subsequent 

survey waves. 

The sample for the data collection 

will originate from two sources: (1) An 

online longitudinal cohort of smokers 

and nonsmokers, sampled randomly 

from postal mailing addresses in the 

United States (address-based sample, or 

ABS); and (2) the existing GfK 

KnowledgePanel, an established longterm online panel of U.S. adults. The 

ABS-sourced longitudinal cohort will 

consist of smokers and nonsmokers who 

have not previously participated in any 

established online panels to reduce 

potential panel conditioning bias from 

previous participation. The new cohort 

will be recruited by GfK, utilizing 

similar recruitment methods that are 

used in the recruitment of 

KnowledgePanel. The GfK 

KnowledgePanel will be used in 

combination with the new ABS-sourced 

cohort to support larger sample sizes 

that will allow for more in-depth 

subgroup analysis, which is a key 

objective for CDC. All online surveys, 

regardless of sample source, will be 

conducted via the GfK KnowledgePanel 

Web portal for self-administered 

surveys. 

Information will be collected through 

Web surveys to be self-administered on 

computers in the respondents’ homes or 

in another convenient location. 

Information will be collected about 

smokers’ and nonsmokers’ awareness of 

and exposure to specific campaign 

advertisements; knowledge, attitudes, 

beliefs related to smoking and 

secondhand smoke; and other marketing 

exposure. The surveys will also measure 

behaviors related to smoking cessation 

(among the smokers in the sample) and 

behaviors related to nonsmokers’ 

encouragement of smokers to quit 

smoking, recommendations of cessation 

services, and attitudes about other 

tobacco and nicotine products. 

It is important to evaluate The 

Campaign in a context that assesses the 

dynamic nature of tobacco product 

marketing and uptake of various tobacco 

products, particularly since these may 

affect successful cessation rates. Survey 

instruments may be updated to include 

new or revised items on relevant topics, 

including cigars, noncombustible 

tobacco products, and other emerging 

trends in tobacco use. 

OMB approval is requested for two 

years. Participation is voluntary and 

there are no costs to respondents other 

than their time. 

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 

(in hours) 

General Population ............................ Screening and Consent Questionnaire.25,000 1 5/60 2,083 

Adults Smokers and Nonsmokers, 

ages 18–54, in the United States.

Smoker Survey (Wave A) ................

Smoker Survey (Wave B) ................

Smoker Survey (Wave C) ................

6,500 

4,000 

4,000 

1 

1 

1 

30/60 

30/60 

30/60 

3,250 

2,000 

2,000 

Smoker Survey (Wave D) ................ 4,000 1 30/60 2,000 

Nonsmoker Survey (Wave A) .......... 2,500 1 30/60 1,250 

Nonsmoker Survey (Wave B) .......... 2,000 1 30/60 1,000 

Nonsmoker Survey (Wave C) .......... 2,000 1 30/60 1,000 

Nonsmoker Survey (Wave D) .......... 2,000 1 30/60 1,000 

Total ........................................... .......................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 15,583 

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. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–15–0824] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

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 to take this opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. To request more 

information on the below proposed 

project or to obtain a copy of the 

information collection plan and 

instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send 


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comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 

Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 

30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. 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. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

National Syndromic Surveillance 

Program (BioSense, OMB Control No. 

0920–0824, Expiration Date 10/31/

2015)—Revision—Center for 

Surveillance, Epidemiology and 

Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The BioSense Program was created by 

congressional mandate as part of the 

Public Health Security and Bioterrorism 

Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 

and was launched by the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 

2003. The BioSense Program has since 

been expanded into the National 

Syndromic Surveillance Program 

(NSSP) to promote the use of highquality syndromic surveillance data for 

improved nationwide all-hazard 

situational awareness for public health 

decision making and enhanced 

responses to hazardous events and 

outbreaks. 

NSSP is a collaboration among 

individuals and organizations from the 

local, state, and federal levels of public 

health; other federal agencies, including 

the Department of Defense (DoD) and 

the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); 

and associations of public health 

officials, including the Association of 

State and Territorial Health Officials. 

NSSP includes a community of practice, 

a stakeholder governance process, and a 

cloud-based syndromic surveillance 

platform (the NSSP platform) that hosts 

the BioSense application and other 

analytic tools and services. 

Syndromic surveillance is a process 

that regularly and systematically uses 

health and health-related data in near 

real-time to make information on the 

health of a community available to 

public health officials. Patient 

encounter, laboratory, and pharmacy 

data from healthcare settings including 

emergency departments, urgent care, 

ambulatory care and inpatient settings 

provide critical information for 

syndromic surveillance and are used by 

public health agencies under authorities 

granted to them by applicable local and 

state laws. 

CDC requests a three-year approval for 

a Revision for NSSP (BioSense, OMB 

Control No. 0920–0824, Expiration Date 

10/31/2015). With this revision, CDC 

also requests the following collection 

title: National Syndromic Surveillance 

Program (NSSP). The NSSP will 

continue to receive and processes four 

different types of information: (1) 

Contact information for state and local 

public health officials who wish to have 

data from their jurisdictions submitted 

to NSSP (recruitment data); (2) contact 

information for public health officials 

and other new users needed to provide 

them with access to the NSSP Platform 

(registration data); (3) NSSP user 

information needed to determine for 

development of the NSSP platform and 

to assess the usability of the platform 

(user data) (since the number of 

respondents will not exceed nine nonfederal users to assess usability, the 

associated burden is not applicable to 

this request); and (4) existing healthcare 

encounter, pharmacy, and laboratory 

data (healthcare data) without 

personally identifiable information (PII). 

As in the past, healthcare data will 

continue to be submitted to NSSP by 

state and local health departments or 

hospitals in those jurisdictions, federal 

agencies including the VA, DoD, a 

national level private sector clinical 

laboratory, and a private sector health 

information exchange company. 

In addition, healthcare data will be 

submitted from urgent care, ambulatory 

care and inpatient settings. The 

inclusion of these additional data in 

NNSP is consistent with the Department 

of Health and Human Services’ criteria 

for the ‘‘meaningful use’’ by public 

health of electronic health records for 

syndromic surveillance. 

There are no costs to respondents 

other than their time. Respondents in 

this data submission include state and 

local public health jurisdictions, federal 

agencies, and the private sector 

providers of healthcare, laboratory and 

pharmacy data. 

Though a large number of electronic 

health records are transmitted to NSSP, 

once the automated interfaces are set up 

for transmission (developing the data 

sharing agreements), there is no burden 

for record transmission. The estimated 

annual burden is 51 hours. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents 

Number 

of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total 

burden 

(in hours) 

Recruitment Information Collection 

State and Local Public Health Jurisdictions .................... 20 1 1 20 

Federal Government ........................................................ 2 1 1 2 

Private Sector .................................................................. 3 1 1 3 

Registration Information Collection 

State and Local Public Health Jurisdictions .................... 200 1 5/60 17 


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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued 

Type of respondents 

Number 

of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total 

burden 

(in hours) 

Federal Government ........................................................ 30 1 5/60 3 

Private Sector .................................................................. 50 1 5/60 4 

Healthcare Information Collection: Administrator Data Sharing Agreements/Permissions 

State and Local Public Health Jurisdictions .................... 20 1 5/60 2 

Federal Government ........................................................ 2 0 5/60 0 

Private Sector .................................................................. 3 0 0 0 

Total .......................................................................... ................................ ................................ ................................ 51 

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. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Title: Affordable Care Act Tribal 

Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood 

Home Visiting Program: Guidance for 

Submitting an Annual Report to the 

Secretary. 

OMB No.: 0970–0409. 

Description: Section 511(e)(8)(A) of 

the Social Security Act, as added by 

Section 2951 of the Affordable Care Act, 

requires that grantees under the 

Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood 

Home Visiting (MIECHV) program for 

states and jurisdictions submit an 

annual report to the Secretary of Health 

and Human Services regarding the 

program and activities carried out under 

the program, including such data and 

information as the Secretary shall 

require. Section 511 (h)(2)(A) further 

states that the requirements for the 

MIECHV grants to tribes, tribal 

organizations, and urban Indian 

organizations are to be consistent, to the 

greatest extent practicable, with the 

requirements for grantees under the 

MIECHV program for states and 

jurisdictions. 

The Administration for Children and 

Families, Office of Child Care, in 

collaboration with the Health Resources 

and Services Administration, Maternal 

and Child Health Bureau, has awarded 

grants for the Tribal Maternal, Infant, 

and Early Childhood Home Visiting 

Program (Tribal Home Visiting). The 

Tribal Home Visiting discretionary 

grants support cooperative agreements 

to conduct community needs 

assessments; plan for and implement 

high-quality, culturally-relevant, 

evidence-based home visiting programs 

in at-risk tribal communities; establish, 

measure, and report on progress toward 

meeting performance measures in six 

legislatively-mandated benchmark 

areas; and participate in rigorous 

evaluation activities to build the 

knowledge base on home visiting among 

Native populations. 

Tribal Home Visiting grantees have 

been notified that in every year of their 

grant, after the first year, they must 

comply with the requirement for 

submitting an Annual Report to the 

Secretary that should feature activities 

carried out under the program during 

the past reporting period. In order to 

assist grantees with meeting the 

requirements of the Annual Report to 

the Secretary, ACF created guidance for 

grantees to use when writing their 

annual reports. The existing guidance 

(OMB Control No. 0970–0409, 

Expiration Date 9/30/15) provides 

sections where grantees must address 

the following: 

• Update on Home Visiting Program 

Goals and Objectives 

• Update on the Implementation of 

Home Visiting Program in Targeted 

Community(ies) 

• Progress toward Meeting 

Legislatively Mandated Benchmark 

Requirements 

• Update on Rigorous Evaluation 

Activities 

• Home Visiting Program Continuous 

Quality Improvement (CQI) Efforts 

• Administration of Home Visiting 

Program 

• Technical Assistance Needs 

The proposed data collection form is 

as follows: 

ACF is requesting approval to renew 

and update the existing Tribal Home 

Visiting Guidance for Submitting an 

Annual Report to the Secretary (OMB 

Control No. 0970–0409) that will 

include instructions for grantees to 

submit either an annual or final report 

(in the final year of the grant) on the 

progress of their program to the 

Secretary, depending on the reporting 

period. 

Respondents: Tribal Maternal, Infant, 

and Early Childhood Home Visiting 

Program Managers (The information 

collection does not include direct 

interaction with individuals or families 

that receive the services). 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument 

Annual 

number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Average 

burden 

hours per 

response 

Total annual 

burden 

hours 

Annual/Final Report to the Secretary (depending on reporting period) .. 25 1 1 50 1250 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,250. 


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