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assessment activities is required for 

awardees and partner organizations. 

Participation in the Health Center Youth 

Survey is voluntary for youth and will 

not involve the collection of identifiable 

personal information. There are no costs 

to respondents other than their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hrs.) 

Total 

burden 

(in hrs.) 

Awardee .................................................. Training and Technical Assistance Tool 3 12 2 72 

Quarterly Performance Measure Reporting Tool.3 3 2 18 

Annual Performance Measure Reporting 

Tool.

3 1 6 18 

Health Center Project Coordinator .......... Quarterly Performance Measure Reporting Tool.35 3 2 210 

Annual Performance Measure Reporting 

Tool.

35 1 4 140 

Health Center Organizational Assessment.35 1 2 70 

Health Center Providers .......................... Health Center Provider Survey .............. 175 1 30/60 88 

Youth ....................................................... Health Center Youth Survey .................. 1,750 1 15/60 438 

YSO Project Coordinator ........................ Quarterly Performance Measure Reporting Tool.30 3 1 90 

Annual Performance Measure Reporting 

Tool.

30 1 75/60 38 

Youth Serving Organization (YSO) Organizational Assessment.30 1 1 30 

YSO Staff ................................................ YSO Staff Survey ................................... 450 1 30/60 225 

Total ................................................. ................................................................ .................... ........................ .................... 1,437 

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–16–0980; Docket No. CDC–2016– 

0018] 

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 the proposed revision of 

the information collection project 

entitled National Environmental 

Assessment Reporting System (NEARS), 

formerly known as the National 

Voluntary Environmental Assessment 

Information System (NVEAIS). The 

NEARS collects data on foodborne 

illness outbreaks and environmental 

assessments routinely conducted by 

food safety programs during outbreak 

investigations. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before April 5, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2016– 

0018 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 

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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 

National Environmental Assessment 

Reporting System (NEARS), formerly 

the National Voluntary Environmental 

Assessment Information System 

(NVEAIS; OMB Control No. 0920–0980; 

expiration date 08/31/2016)— 

Revision—National Center for 

Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention 

(CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Since 2014, environmental factor data 

associated with foodborne outbreaks 

have been reported to the National 

Voluntary Environmental Assessment 

Information System (NVEAIS). CDC 

intends to seek a three-year Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval to revise the NVEAIS, hereafter 

referred to as the National 

Environmental Assessment Reporting 

System (NEARS). In 2015, it was 

recommended that NVEAIS be renamed 

as NEARS. This name change will be an 

enhancement of the current surveillance 

system and was recommended by CDC 

leadership, and other food safety 

partners who desired to simplify and 

improve the name. 

The goal of NEARS remains to collect 

data on foodborne illness outbreaks and 

environmental assessments routinely 

conducted by local, state, federal, 

territorial, or tribal food safety programs 

during outbreak investigations. The data 

reported through this surveillance 

system provides timely data on the 

causes of outbreaks, including 

environmental factors associated with 

outbreaks, which are essential to 

environmental public health regulators’ 

efforts to respond more effectively to 

outbreaks and prevent future, similar 

outbreaks. 

NEARS was developed by the 

Environmental Health Specialists 

Network (EHS–Net), a collaborative 

network of CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA), the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA), and 

local, state, territorial, and tribal food 

safety programs. NEARS is designed to 

link to CDC’s National Outbreak 

Reporting System (NORS, under the 

National Disease Surveillance Program 

II—Disease Summaries; OMB Control 

No. 0920–0004; expiration date 10/31/

2017), a disease outbreak surveillance 

system for enteric diseases transmitted 

by food. 

When linked, NEARS and NORS data 

provide opportunities to strengthen the 

robustness of outbreak data reported to 

CDC. The foodborne outbreak 

environmental assessment data reported 

to NEARS will be used to characterize 

data on food vehicles and monitor 

trends; identify contributing factors and 

their environmental antecedents; 

generate hypotheses, guide planning, 

and implementation; evaluate food 

safety programs, and ultimately assist to 

prevent future outbreaks. Collectively, 

these data play a vital role in improving 

the food safety system, strengthening 

the robustness of outbreak data reported 

to CDC. 

The first type of NEARS respondent is 

food safety program officials. Although 

not a requirement, food safety program 

personnel participating in NEARS will 

be encouraged to take two trainings: 

NEARS food safety program personnel 

training and NEARS e-learning. The 

former will train food safety personnel 

on identifying environmental factors, 

logging in and entering data into the 

web-based NEARS data entry system, 

and troubleshooting problems. The 

latter is an e-Learning course on how to 

use a systems approach in foodborne 

illness outbreak environmental 

assessments. It is suggested that 

respondents take this training one time, 

for a total of 10 hours. 

Next, for each outbreak, one official 

from each participating program will 

spend about one hour to make 

establishment observations, 30 minutes 

to record environmental assessment 

data and 30 minutes to report 

environmental assessment data into the 

NEARS web-based system. Officials will 

not report on their programs or 

personnel. Food safety programs are 

typically located in public health or 

agriculture agencies. There are 

approximately 3,000 such agencies in 

the United States. 

It is not possible to determine exactly 

how many outbreaks will occur in the 

future, nor where they will occur. 

However, based on existing data, we 

estimate a maximum of 1,400 foodborne 

illness outbreaks will occur annually. 

Only programs in the jurisdictions in 

which these outbreaks occur would 

voluntarily report to NEARS. Thus, not 

every program will respond every year. 

We assume each outbreak will occur in 

a different jurisdiction. 

The second type of NEARS 

respondent is managers of retail 

establishments. The manager interview 

will be conducted at each establishment 

associated with an outbreak. Most 

outbreaks are associated with only one 

establishment. We estimate that a 

maximum average of four managers at 

each establishment will be interviewed 

per outbreak. Each interview will take 

about 20 minutes. 

The total estimated annual burden is 

20,067 hours, an increase of 14,000 

hours over the previously approved 

6,067. This increase in requested burden 

hours is due to the addition of the 

NEARS e-learning training opportunity. 

There is no cost to the 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 hours 

Food safety program personnel ........ NEARS Food Safety Program Training .. 1,400 1 2 2,800 

NEARS e-Learning (screenshots) ........... 1,400 1 10 14,000 

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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued 

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total 

burden hours 

NEARS Data Recording (paper form) ..... 1,400 1 30/60 700 

NEARS Data Reporting (web entry) ....... 1,400 1 30/60 700 

Retail food personnel ........................ NEARS Manager Interview ..................... 5,600 1 20/60 1,867 

Total ............................................ .................................................................. .................... ........................ .................... 20,067 

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. 2016–02175 Filed 2–4–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–16–0106; Docket No. CDC–2016– 

0017] 

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 a proposed revision of the 

information collection project entitled 

‘‘Preventive Health and Health Services 

Block Grant’’. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before April 5, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2016– 

0017 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 

Preventive Health and Health Services 

Block Grant (OMB Control No. 0920– 

0106, exp. 8/31/2016)—Revision— 

Office for State, Tribal, Local and 

Territorial Support (OSTLTS), Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention 

(CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The management of the Preventive 

Health and Health Services (PHHS) 

Block Grant program has transitioned 

from the National Center for Chronic 

Disease Prevention and Health 

Promotion to the Office for State, Tribal, 

Local and Territorial Support (OSTLTS). 

The Program continues to provide 

awardees with a source of flexible 

funding for health promotion and 

disease prevention programs. Currently, 

61 awardees (50 states, the District of 

Columbia, two American Indian Tribes, 

and eight U.S. territories) receive Block 

Grants to address locally-defined public 

health needs in innovative ways. Block 

Grants allow awardees to prioritize the 

use of funds and to fill funding gaps in 

programs that deal with the leading 

causes of death and disability. Block 

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