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local health information and to track 

national health objectives such as 

Healthy People. 

CDC bases the BRFSS questionnaire 

on modular design principles to 

accommodate a variety of state-specific 

needs within a common framework. All 

participating states are required to 

administer a standardized core 

questionnaire, which provides a set of 

shared health indicators for all BRFSS 

partners. The BRFSS core questionnaire 

consists of fixed core, rotating core, and 

emerging core questions. Fixed core 

questions are asked every year. Rotating 

core questions cycle on and off the core 

questionnaire in two- or three-year 

cycles, depending on the question. 

Emerging core questions are included in 

the core questionnaire as needed to 

collect data on urgent or emerging 

health topics such as infectious disease. 

In addition, the BRFSS includes a series 

of optional modules on a variety of 

topics. In off years, when the rotating 

questions are not included in the core 

questionnaire, they are offered to states 

as optional modules. This framework 

allows each state to produce a 

customized BRFSS survey by appending 

selected optional modules to the core 

survey. States may select which, if any, 

optional modules to administer. As 

needed, CDC provides technical and 

methodological assistance to state 

BRFSS coordinators in the construction 

of their state-specific surveys. Each state 

administers its BRFSS questionnaire 

throughout the calendar year. 

CDC periodically updates the BRFSS 

core survey and optional modules. The 

purpose of this Revision request is to 

continue with the following topics in 

the questionnaires: Traumatic brain 

injury, medical adherence, 

cardiovascular health, veterans’ health, 

positive childhood experiences, and the 

use of newly available tobacco products. 

In addition, this request seeks approval 

for reinstating topics which have been 

included in BRFSS in the past, 

dependent upon state interest and 

funding. 

Participation is voluntary and there is 

no cost to participate. The average time 

burden per response will be no more 

than 22 minutes by phone and 60 

minutes by mail. The total time burden 

across all respondents will be 

approximately 274,632 hours. OMB 

approval is requested for three years. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

U.S. General Population ................................. Landline Screener .......................................... 173,000 1 1/60 

Cell Phone Screener ...................................... 694,000 1 1/60 

Field Test Screener ........................................ 900 1 1/60 

Annual Survey Respondents (Adults >18 

Years).

BRFSS Core Survey by Phone Interview ...... 480,000 1 15/60 

BRFSS Optional Modules by Phone Interview.440,000 1 15/60 

BRFSS Core Survey by Online Survey ......... 100,000 1 10/60 

BRFSS Optional Modules by Online Survey 80,000 1 10/60 

Field Test Respondents (Adults >18 Years) .. Field Test Survey by Phone Interview ........... 500 1 20/60 

Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Lead, Information Collection Review Office, 

Office of Public Health Ethics and 

Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–25–1408] 

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 the National Center for Health 

Statistics (NCHS) Rapid Surveys System 

(RSS) (OMB Control No. 0920–1408), 

which includes fielding four surveys per 

year. RSS Round 1 Survey was 

approved in June 2023. A second, third, 

and fourth round of the RSS were 

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. Interested persons are invited to 

send comments regarding this 

information collection, including ways 

to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the Round 6 content. This 

notice includes specific details about 

the questions that would be asked in the 

sixth round (Round 6) 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/ 

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‘‘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 

Rapid Surveys System (RSS) Round 6 

(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 that the Secretary 

of Health and Human Services (HHS), 

acting through NCHS, collect data about 

the health of the population of the 

United States. The Rapid Survey 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 facilitate 

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 

online panels. 

The RSS is designed to have several 

rounds of data collection each year with 

data being collected by two contractors 

with probability panels. A crosssectional 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. 

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. 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 healthcare 

access and utilization, social and work 

limitation, employment, marital status, 

civic engagement, language used at 

home and in other settings, and health 

information technology use. All of 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 or other suitable federal 

surveys for benchmarking to evaluate 

data quality. Panelists in the RSS will be 

asked about health status, chronic 

conditions, cigarette and tobacco use, 

healthcare access and utilization, 

immunizations, health insurance, and 

social determinants of health including 

the ability to pay medical bills 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 6 (2024) data 

collection is based on 8,000 complete 

surveys (2,664 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 6 ........................ 8,000 1 20/60 

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


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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. 2024–28320 Filed 12–2–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–25–1363; Docket No. CDC–2024– 

0097] 

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 to take this opportunity to 

comment on a continuing information 

collection, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. This notice 

invites comment on the Research Data 

Center (RDC) Proposal for Access to 

Confidential Data for the National 

Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). 

This data collection is used to assess 

researcher’s request for access to 

confidential NCHS data for their 

research projects. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before February 3, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2024– 

0097 by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.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–H21–8, 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 www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. For 

access to the docket to read background 

documents or comments received, go to 

www.regulations.gov. 

Please note: All public comment 

should be submitted through the 

Federal eRulemaking portal 

(www.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– 

H21–8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; 

Telephone: 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. 

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; 

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; and 

5. Assess information collection costs. 

Proposed Project 

Research Data Center (RDC) Proposal 

for Access to Confidential Data for the 

National Center for Health Statistics 

(OMB Control No. 0920–1363, Exp. 4/ 

30/2025)—Extension—National Center 

for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Section 306(b)(4) of the Public Health 

Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 242k(b)(4)), 

as amended, authorizes the Secretary of 

Health and Human Services (DHHS), 

acting through NCHS, to receive 

requests for providing data and statistics 

to the public. NCHS receives requests 

for confidential data from the public 

through the Research Data Center (RDC) 

Proposal for Access to Confidential 

Data. This is a request for an Extension 

without change from OMB to collect 

information via the RDC proposal over 

the next three years at an overall burden 

rate of 990 hours. 

As part of a comprehensive data 

dissemination program, the Research 

Data Center (RDC), National Center for 

Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 

requires prospective researchers who 

need access to confidential data to 

complete a research proposal. 

Researchers self-select whether they 

need access to confidential data to 

answer their research questions. The 

RDC requires the researcher to complete 

a research proposal so NCHS 

understands the research proposed, 

whether confidential data are available 

to address the research questions, how 

the confidential data will be used and 

what data outputs the researcher needs 

to satisfy their project. The completed 

proposal is sent to NCHS for 

adjudication on whether the proposed 

research is possible. 

To capture the information needed to 

adjudicate researchers’ need for access 

to confidential NCHS data, this request 

allows for both respondents and time 

per response for a total estimated annual 

burden total of 330 hours (990 hours for 

a three-year clearance period). There is 

no cost to respondents other than their 

time to complete the proposal. 


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