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Interested persons may express their 

views in writing to the Reserve Bank 

indicated for that notice or to the offices 

of the Board of Governors. Comments 

must be received not later than October 

4, 2017. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414: 

1. James S. Schafer, The Villages, 

Florida; to retain voting shares of First 

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and Commercial Bank, Whitewater, 

Wisconsin. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, September 14, 2017. 

Yao-Chin Chao, 

Assistant Secretary of the Board. 

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BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–17–17AVB; Docket No. CDC–2017– 

0066] 

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 ‘‘Leveraging the 

Emerging Field of Disaster Citizen 

Science to Enhance Community 

Resilience to Improve Disaster 

Response’’ project. This project will 

include individual and group interviews 

of citizen scientists and their partners 

and will field a nationally 

representative survey of local health 

departments to understand experiences 

and perceptions of citizen science for 

disaster preparedness. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before November 20, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2017– 

0066 by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

Regulations.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. 

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 Leroy A. 

Richardson, 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 

Leveraging the Emerging Field of 

Disaster Citizen Science to Enhance 

Community Resilience to Improve 

Disaster Response—New—Office of 

Public Health Preparedness and 

Response (OPHPR), Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

OPHPR’s mission is to safeguard 

health and save lives by providing a 

platform for public health preparedness 

and emergency response. As part of its 

role, OPHPR funds applied research to 

improve the ability of CDC and its 

partners, including but not limited to 

state and local health departments, 

emergency management organizations, 

and health care entities, to effectively 

prepare for and respond to public health 

emergencies and disasters. The 

proposed information collection project 

is in accordance with OPHPR’s mission. 

OPHPR requests approval of a new 

information collection to learn about 

how the emerging field of disaster 

citizen science can enhance community 

resilience for a period of one year. This 

(mixed methods) information collection 

uses interviews and a cross-sectional 

survey. Researchers aim to: (1) Explore 

the potential of disaster citizen science 

for increasing community resilience, 

enhancing participation in preparedness 

and response activities, and improving 

preparedness efforts; and (2) provide 

evidence to inform the development of 

educational and instructional tools for 

communities and health departments to 

navigate the emerging field of disaster 

citizen science and promote 

collaborations. CDC will use the insights 

gained from this information collection 

to inform the development of guidance 


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and toolkits for LHDs and community 

groups so that they can align their 

efforts and strengthen the benefits and 

positive impacts of citizen science 

activities. For interviews, the 

information collection will target citizen 

scientists and end users of citizen 

science data. 

Citizen science is defined as research 

activities (e.g., data collection, analysis, 

and reporting) performed by members of 

the general public without any 

particular training in science. Citizen 

science is growing in popularity, fueled 

in part by growing use of smartphones 

and other personal devices in the 

population. Although citizen collection 

and use of data during disasters has 

increased exponentially in recent years 

and there is great policy interest in the 

phenomenon, there has been no robust 

research to date on the use of, barriers 

to, and impact of citizen science in 

disasters. Local health departments 

(LHDs) lack tools to respond to and 

coordinate with citizen science 

activities within communities. 

Furthermore, citizen science 

organizations lack information on how 

to organize their activities for ultimate 

impact. 

This is an exploratory study and is the 

first of its kind to explore the growing 

phenomenon of disaster citizen science. 

Disaster citizen science is a rapidly 

growing field that is the focus of policy 

interest, but currently devoid of 

research. This study will generate 

information that can help define the 

phenomenon of disaster citizen science 

and may result in nationally 

representative baseline data that can 

support changes in citizen science 

awareness, barriers, and activities. 

While interviews will be hypothesis 

generating and provide rich data on the 

experiences with citizen science to date 

across all stakeholders active in this 

enterprise, the nationally-representative 

survey data will allow us to generalize 

findings to the full population of LHDs 

in the U.S. 

CDC will collaborate with a contractor 

to implement this project. Researchers 

will target citizen scientists and their 

partners (e.g., academics who work with 

citizen scientists on research projects) 

and LHDs in a position to use citizen 

science data to inform public health 

decision-making. For interviews, 

researchers will sample for maximum 

variation, seeking to obtain variation on 

U.S. region, type and sophistication of 

citizen science project, type of disaster 

encountered, and previous experience 

with disaster citizen science. 

The researchers aim to conduct 35–55 

individual and group facilitated semistructured interviews, each lasting 

approximately 60 minutes, to cover 

topics including benefits and uses of 

citizen science, barriers to and 

facilitators of citizen science, and 

strengths and limitations of citizen 

science activities and resources. 

Researchers will identify potential 

interview participants through literature 

reviews and snowball sampling in a 

phased approach starting with citizen 

science and LHD organizations. 

Researchers will sample for maximum 

variation in order to capture the full 

range of citizen scientist and health 

department experiences on this topic. 

For the survey, the researchers will 

target a nationally representative sample 

of 600 local health officials and will 

apply survey weights to ensure that 

findings have external validity and can 

be generalized to LHDs in the U.S. The 

survey, which will take 30 minutes to 

complete, will include questions on 

both citizen science as applied to 

disaster preparedness and response, and 

citizen science as occurring in other 

contexts (such as environmental 

health)to draw lessons for preparedness 

and response. 

OPHPR anticipates that the 

knowledge resulting from this research 

project will contribute significantly to 

the evidence base for preparedness and 

response and lead to improved 

efficiency, effectiveness, and outcomes 

in several domains. 

Participation in this study is 

voluntary. There are no costs to 

respondents other than their time. A 

summary of annualized burden hours is 

below. 

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 

(in hours) 

Citizen scientists and their partners; 

local health officials.

Interview Guide (semi-structured 

questionnaire).

55 1 75/60 69 

Local health departments ................. Survey .............................................. 300 1 30/60 150 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 219 

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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BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. FDA–2014–N–0192] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Establishing and 

Maintaining Lists of United States 

Manufacturers/Processors With 

Interest in Exporting Center for Food 

Safety and Applied Nutrition-Regulated 

Products to China 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA or Agency) is 

announcing an opportunity for public 

comment on the proposed collection of 

certain information by the Agency. 

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are 

required to publish notice in the 

Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information, and 

to allow 60 days for public comment in 

response to the notice. This notice 

solicits comments on the information 

collection provisions found in the 


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