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NYTS is the only source of such data for 

students in grades 6–8. The NYTS has 

provided national estimates of tobacco 

use behaviors, information about 

exposure to pro- and anti-tobacco 

influences, and information about racial 

and ethnic disparities in tobacco-related 

topics. CDC uses the information 

collected through the NYTS to identify 

trends over time, to inform the 

development of tobacco cessation 

programs for youth, and to evaluate the 

effectiveness of existing interventions 

and programs. 

CDC plans to request OMB approval 

to conduct additional cycles of the 

NYTS in 2018, 2019, and 2020. CDC 

will conduct the survey among 

nationally representative samples of 

students attending public and private 

schools in grades 6–12, and administer 

to students either as an optically 

scannable booklet of multiple-choice 

questions or as a digitally-based survey. 

CDC will also collect information 

supporting the NYTS from state-, 

district-, and school-level administrators 

and teachers. During the 2018–2020 

timeframe, changes will be incorporated 

that reflect CDC’s ongoing collaboration 

with FDA and the need to measure 

progress toward meeting strategic goals 

established by the Family Smoking 

Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. 

Information collection will occur 

annually and may include a number of 

new questions, as well as increased 

representation of minority youth. 

The survey will examine the 

following topics: Use of cigarettes, 

cigars, smokeless tobacco, electronic 

cigarettes, hookahs, pipes, bidis, snus, 

and dissolvable tobacco products; 

knowledge and attitudes; media and 

advertising; access to tobacco products 

and enforcement of restrictions on 

access; secondhand smoke including ecigarette aerosol exposure; provision of 

school- and community-based 

interventions, and cessation. 

CDC will continue to use the results 

of the NYTS to inform and evaluate the 

National Comprehensive Tobacco 

Control Program; provide data to inform 

the Department of Health and Human 

Service’s Tobacco Control Strategic 

Action Plan, and provide national 

benchmark data for state-level Youth 

Tobacco Surveys. CDC also expects the 

information collected through the NYTS 

to provide multiple measures and data 

for monitoring progress on six of the 20 

tobacco-related objectives (TU–2, 3, 7, 

11, 18, and 19) for Healthy People 2020. 

CDC seeks to request a three-year 

OMB approval. 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) 

State Administrators .......................... State-level Recruitment Script for 

the NYTS.

38 1 30/60 19 

District Administrators ....................... District-level Recruitment Script for 

the NYTS.

153 1 30/60 77 

School Administrators ....................... School-level Recruitment Script for 

the NYTS.

240 1 30/60 120 

Teachers ........................................... Data Collection Checklist ................. 973 1 15/60 243 

Students ............................................ National Youth Tobacco Survey ...... 24,000 1 45/60 18,000 

Testing Activities .............................. 150 1 31/60 78 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 18,537 

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 

[30Day–17–0728] 

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork 

Reduction Act Review 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 

has submitted the information 

collection request titled National 

Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval. CDC 

previously published a ‘‘Proposed Data 

Collection Submitted for Public 

Comment and Recommendations’’ 

notice on December 26, 2016 to obtain 

comments from the public and affected 

agencies. CDC received one comment 

related to the previous notice. This 

notice serves to allow an additional 30 

days for public and affected agency 

comments. 

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 

agency’s 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 or 

send an email to omb@cdc.gov. 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., 


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395–5806. Provide written comments 

within 30 days of notice publication. 

Proposed Project 

National Notifiable Diseases 

Surveillance System (0920–0728, 

January 31, 2019)—Revision—Center for 

Surveillance, Epidemiology and 

Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The Public Health Services Act (42 

U.S.C. 241) authorizes CDC to 

disseminate nationally notifiable 

condition information. The National 

Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System 

(NNDSS) is based on data collected at 

the state, territorial and local levels as 

a result of legislation and regulations in 

those jurisdictions that require health 

care providers, medical laboratories, 

and other entities to submit healthrelated data on reportable conditions to 

public health departments. These 

reportable conditions, which include 

infectious and non-infectious diseases, 

vary by jurisdiction depending upon 

each jurisdiction’s health priorities and 

needs. Infectious disease agents and 

environmental hazards often cross 

geographical boundaries. Each year, the 

Council of State and Territorial Disease 

Epidemiologists (CSTE), supported by 

CDC, determines which reportable 

conditions should be designated 

nationally notifiable or under 

standardized surveillance and 

voluntarily submitted to CDC so that 

information can be shared across 

jurisdictional boundaries and 

surveillance and prevention and control 

activities can be coordinated at regional 

and national levels. 

CDC requests a three-year approval for 

this Revision, which includes requests 

to receive: (1) Case notification data 

from the Federated States of Micronesia, 

the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 

and the Republic of Palau (independent 

nations that operate under a Compact of 

Free Association with the United States 

of America that are commonly referred 

to as ‘‘freely associated states’’); (2) new 

laboratory data elements for all 

conditions; (3) new data elements for all 

vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs); (4) 

new data elements for the following 

conditions that are already approved: 

Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS), 

Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, 

Campylobacteriosis, Shiga toxinproducing Escherichia coli (STEC), 

Hepatitis, and Hantavirus Pulmonary 

Syndrome (HPS); (5) case notification 

data for histoplasmosis which is now 

under standardized surveillance; (6) 

case notification data for Acute Flaccid 

Myelitis (AFM) which is now under 

standardized surveillance; and (7) case 

notification data for all enteric 

Escherichia coli infections should any 

of them become nationally notifiable or 

be placed under standardized 

surveillance. CDC already has approval 

to receive case notification data for 

STEC, which is nationally notifiable. 

The burden estimates include the 

number of hours that the public health 

department uses to process and send 

case notification data from their 

jurisdiction to CDC. Specifically, the 

burden estimates include separate 

burden hours incurred for automated 

and non-automated transmissions, 

separate weekly burden hours incurred 

for modernizing surveillance systems as 

part of NNDSS Modernization Initiative 

(NMI) implementation, separate burden 

hours incurred for annual data 

reconciliation and submission, and 

separate one-time burden hours 

incurred for the addition of new 

diseases and data elements. These 

estimates are based on information from 

CDC employees that manage the NMI 

effort and conduct site visits to provide 

technical assistance to help the public 

health departments modernize their 

surveillance systems. The estimated 

annual burden is 18,529 hours. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

States ............................................ Weekly (Automated) ......................................................... 50 52 20/60 

States ............................................ Weekly (Non-automated) .................................................. 10 52 2 

States ............................................ Weekly (NMI Implementation) .......................................... 50 52 4 

States ............................................ Annual ............................................................................... 50 1 75 

States ............................................ One-time Addition of Diseases and Data Elements ........ 50 1 8 

Territories ...................................... Weekly (Automated) ......................................................... 1 52 20/60 

Territories ...................................... Weekly, Quarterly (Non-automated) ................................. 5 56 20/60 

Territories ...................................... Weekly (NMI Implementation) .......................................... 5 52 4 

Territories ...................................... Annual ............................................................................... 5 1 5 

Territories ...................................... One-time Addition of Diseases and Data Elements ........ 1 1 10/60 

Freely Associated States .............. Weekly, Quarterly (Non-automated) ................................. 3 56 20/60 

Freely Associated States .............. Annual ............................................................................... 3 1 5 

Cities ............................................. Weekly (Automated) ......................................................... 2 52 20/60 

Cities ............................................. Weekly (Non-automated) .................................................. 2 52 2 

Cities ............................................. Weekly (NMI Implementation) .......................................... 2 52 4 

Cities ............................................. Annual ............................................................................... 2 1 75 

Cities ............................................. One-time Addition of Diseases and Data Elements ........ 2 1 8 

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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