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e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

5. Assess information collection costs. 

Proposed Project 

Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning 

Surveillance System (HHLPSS) (OMB 

Control Number 0920–0931, expires 05/ 

31/2018)—Extension—National Center 

for Environmental Health (NCEH), 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The overarching goal of the Healthy 

Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance 

System (HHLPSS) is to support healthy 

homes surveillance activities at the state 

and national levels. CDC is requesting 

an 18-month extension to collect data 

from up to 40 state and local Healthy 

Homes Childhood Lead Poisoning 

Prevention Programs (CLPPP) and the 

state-based Adult Blood Lead 

Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES) 

programs. The state programs will 

report information (e.g., presence of lead 

paint, age of housing, occupation of 

adults and type of housing) to the CDC 

under a one-year cost extension of the 

Fiscal Year 2014 Funding Opportunity 

Announcement (Funding Opportunity 

Announcement Number CDC–RFA–14– 

1408) titled ‘‘(PPHF) Childhood Lead 

Poisoning Prevention.’’ The 18-month 

extension will allow CDC to collect data 

for the third-year supplement, which 

represents the fourth and final year of 

awardee blood lead surveillance data 

under this program announcement. 

Over the last three years, seven states 

have adopted the HHLPPS and 13 are in 

beta-testing. Since October 2014, CDC 

has funded up to 40 state and local 

blood lead surveillance programs. All of 

these programs or their subcontractors 

at the local level are submitting lead 

surveillance data for an additional year. 

The objectives for this surveillance 

system remain two-fold. First, the 

HHLPSS allows CDC to track, 

systematically, how the state and local 

programs conduct case management and 

follow-up of residents with housingrelated health outcomes. Second, the 

system allows for identification and 

collection of information on other 

housing-related risk factors. Childhood 

and adult lead poisoning is just one of 

many adverse health conditions related 

to common housing deficiencies. 

Multiple hazards in housing (e.g., mold, 

vermin, radon and the lack of safety 

devices) continue to affect, adversely, 

the health of residents. HHLPSS offers 

a coordinated, comprehensive, and 

systematic public health approach to 

eliminate multiple housing-related 

health hazards. 

HHLPSS enables flexibility to 

evaluate housing where the risk for lead 

poisoning is high, regardless of whether 

children less than 6 years of age 

currently reside there. Thus, HHLPSS 

supports CDC efforts for primary 

prevention of childhood and adult lead 

poisoning. Over the past several 

decades, there has been a remarkable 

reduction in environmental sources of 

lead, improved protection from 

occupational lead exposure, and an 

overall decreasing trend in the 

prevalence of elevated blood lead levels 

(BLLs) in U.S. adults. As a result, the 

U.S. national BLL geometric mean 

among adults was 1.2 mg/dL during 

2009–2010. Nonetheless, lead exposures 

continue to occur at unacceptable 

levels. Current research continues to 

find that BLLs previously considered 

harmless can have harmful effects in 

adults, such as decreased renal function 

and increased risk for hypertension and 

essential tremor at BLLs <10 mg/dL. 

There is no cost to respondents other 

than their time. The total estimated time 

burden is 640 hours. There are no 

changes to the requested burden hours 

or the data collection. 

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) 

State, Local, and Territorial Health 

Departments.

Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning 

Surveillance System (HHLPSS) 

Variables.

40 4 4 640 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 640 

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–18–17ADT] 

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 ‘‘Who’s at Risk: 

From Hazards to Communities—An 

Approach for Operationalizing CDC 

Guidelines to Determine Risks, and 

Define, Locate, and Reach At-Risk 

Populations in Public Health 

Emergencies’’ 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 May 18, 

2017 to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. CDC did 

not receive comments 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 

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 


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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., 

Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 

395–5806. Provide written comments 

within 30 days of notice publication. 

Proposed Project 

Who’s at Risk: From Hazards to 

Communities—An Approach for 

Operationalizing CDC Guidelines to 

Determine Risks, and Define, Locate, 

and Reach At-Risk Populations in 

Public Health Emergencies—New— 

Office of Public Health Preparedness 

and Response (OPHPR), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The Risk Assessment, Mapping, and 

Planning (RAMP) tool is currently being 

developed by CDC for public health and 

medical emergency planners (especially 

Public Health Emergency Preparedness 

and Hospital Preparedness Program 

awardees) to assess and quantify risk, 

identify and map at-risk populations, 

and to determine response objectives for 

hazard-specific public health emergency 

plans at all jurisdictional levels in the 

United States. 

To assist in developing this tool, CDC 

will conduct key informant interviews/ 

focus groups with public health and 

emergency management professionals 

from across the United States. To 

understand the needs of at-risk 

populations, CDC will also administer 

an anonymous survey to respondents 

from Los Angeles County Department of 

Public Health clinics. 

CDC seeks to obtain subject matter 

expertise and feedback for pilot testing 

the RAMP tool and anonymous 

demographic information from LA 

County DPH clinic guests. CDC will use 

the data to develop the RAMP tool. 

Public health and emergency manager 

respondents in pre-identified partner 

jurisdictions will participate in the 

interview and focus groups. 

CDC will offer Los Angeles 

Department of Public Health Clinic 

guests the Community Emergency 

Preparedness Survey in order to 

determine community perspectives on 

several emergency preparedness and 

response topics. CDC will offer the 

Community Emergency Preparedness 

Survey anonymously to three separate 

types of community members: LA 

County Public Health Center Clients, LA 

County Community Partner 

Stakeholders, and LA County 

Community Residents. 

CDC will collect information with the 

use of paper surveys. CDC will enter the 

information from the paper survey into 

a secured database. CDC will lock all 

paper surveys in the secure offices of 

the Los Angeles County Department of 

Public Health Emergency Preparedness 

and Response Division. CDC will 

disseminate and report results in 

aggregate form only. The total number of 

estimated annual burden hours is 226. 

There are no costs 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) 

Public Health and Medical Emergency Planners.Focus Group Questionnaire .......................... 100 1 1 

LA County Public Health Center Guests ....... Community Emergency Preparedness Survey.500 1 5/60 

LA County Community Partner Stakeholders Community Emergency Preparedness Survey.500 1 5/60 

LA County Community Residents .................. Community Emergency Preparedness Survey.500 1 5/60 

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 Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[Document Identifier: CMS–10653] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing 

an opportunity for the public to 

comment on CMS’ intention to collect 

information from the public. Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the 

PRA), federal agencies are required to 

publish notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information (including each proposed 

extension or reinstatement of an existing 

collection of information) and to allow 

60 days for public comment on the 

proposed action. Interested persons are 

invited to send comments regarding our 

burden estimates or any other aspect of 

this collection of information, including 

the necessity and utility of the proposed 

information collection for the proper 

performance of the agency’s functions, 

the accuracy of the estimated burden, 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected, and the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 


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