Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 208 / Tuesday, October 28, 2014 / Notices 64199 

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. 2014–25561 Filed 10–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–15–0213] 

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, 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 

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 Vital Statistics Report Forms 

(OMB No. 0920–0213, expires 04/30/

2015)—Extension—National Center for 

Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The compilation of national vital 

statistics dates back to the beginning of 

the 20th century and has been 

conducted since 1960 by the Division of 

Vital Statistics of the National Center for 

Health Statistics, CDC. The collection of 

the data is authorized by 42 U.S.C. 242k. 

This submission requests approval to 

collect the monthly and annually 

summary statistics for three years. 

The Monthly Vital Statistics Report 

forms provide counts of monthly 

occurrences of births, deaths, infant 

deaths, marriages, and divorces. Similar 

data have been published since 1937 

and are the sole source of these data at 

the National level. The data are used by 

the Department of Health and Human 

Services and by other government, 

academic, and private research and 

commercial organizations in tracking 

changes in trends of vital events. 

Respondents for the Monthly Vital 

Statistics Reports Form are registration 

officials in each State and Territory, the 

District of Columbia, and New York 

City. In addition, local (county) officials 

in New Mexico who record marriages 

occurring and divorces and annulments 

granted in each county of New Mexico 

will use this form. This form is also 

designed to collect counts of monthly 

occurrences of births, deaths, infant 

deaths, marriages, and divorces 

immediately following the month of 

occurrence. 

The Annual Vital Statistics 

Occurrence Report Form collects final 

annual counts of marriages and divorces 

by month for the United States and for 

each State. The statistical counts 

requested on this form differ from 

provisional estimates obtained on the 

Monthly Vital Statistics Report Form in 

that they represent complete counts of 

marriages, divorces, and annulments 

occurring during the months of the prior 

year. These final counts are usually 

available from State or county officials 

about eight months after the end of the 

data year. The data are widely used by 

government, academic, private research, 

and commercial organizations in 

tracking changes in trends of family 

formation and dissolution. Respondents 

for the Annual Vital Statistics 

Occurrence Report Form are registration 

officials in each State and Territory, the 

District of Columbia, and New York 

City. 

There are no costs to respondents 

other than their time. The total 

estimated annualized burden hours are 

211. 

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 

hours 

State, Territory, and New Mexico 

County Officials.

Monthly Vital Statistics Report ......... 91 12 10/60 182 

State, Territory, and other officials ... Annual Vital Statistics Occurrence 

Report.

58 1 30/60 29 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 211 


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64200 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 208 / Tuesday, October 28, 2014 / Notices 

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. 2014–25563 Filed 10–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–15–15CI] 

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, 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 

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 

Mental Health Profile of Congolese 

Refugees—New—National Center for 

Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious 

Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The central objective of this collection 

is to compile a mental health profile of 

Congolese refugees departing from 

Uganda, and to describe some of the 

mental health conditions most often 

experienced by this population. The 

specific objectives are (1) through a 

survey and focus groups, collect more 

detailed and systematic data on 

exposure to trauma and symptoms of 

PTSD, anxiety, and depression among a 

sample of Congolese refugees from 

Uganda prior to their resettlement in the 

United States; and, (2) to better inform 

state and local healthcare providers in 

the United States and in Uganda about 

the mental health needs of the 

Congolese refugee populations come to 

their states. As CDC have seen in 

previous surveys, although there may be 

similarities in the mental health 

problems that refugee populations may 

experience over all, there are also very 

specific differences in terms of cultural 

background, coping styles, severity, and 

risk factors. Without doing a survey, it 

would not be possible to provide 

specific recommendations for Congolese 

refugees who are coming to the U.S. 

The respondents in this study will be 

Congolese refugees 15 years of age or 

older who have been referred for U.S. 

resettlement in settlement and urban 

sites in Uganda and who consent to a 

supplemental mental health assessment 

after their required overseas medical 

exam or security screening interview. 

Individual level data will not be 

collected. Aggregated data will collected 

during focus groups and surveys to form 

a ‘profile’ of Congolese refugee 

regarding their levels of anxiety, 

depression, PTSD, ability to cope, 

physical functioning, bodily pain, role 

limitations due to physical health 

problems, role limitations due to 

personal or emotional problems, 

emotional well-being, and social 

function. 

The focus group discussion tool poses 

eight open-ended questions and will be 

moderated by a professional in the 

appropriate language for the specific 

Congolese refugee group. 

For the survey tool, CDC proposes to 

the use a compilation of the Hopkins 

Symptom Checklist, Harvard Trauma 

Questionnaire, the Medical Outcomes 

Assessment 36-Item Short-Form Health 

Survey (SF–36), a limited number of 

questions from The Coping Strategy 

Indicator, and questions concerning 

history of mental illness or substance 

abuse. Each of these tools has been used 

in similar populations that have 

experienced trauma or in conflict 

environments. 

The sample population will be a 

convenience sample of the Congolese 

refugee population ages 15 or older in 

Uganda and will be selected from the 

available population being examined 

during the International Organization 

for Migration (IOM) medical or 

Resettlement Support Center (RSC) 

screening interviews. As refugees are 

waiting for their IOM exam or RSC 

interview, staff will introduce the 

assessment with the help of an 

interpreter, and make arrangements for 

obtaining consent from refugees who 

meet the inclusion and exclusion 

criteria prior to the assessment. 

There is no cost to respondents other 

than their time. The total estimated 

annualized burden hours are 386. 

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 

Refugee ................................. Focus Group Discussion Tool ...................... 16 1 1 16 

Refugee ................................. Survey Tool .................................................. 370 1 1 370 


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