[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1682-1683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-474]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-01-14]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. 
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports 
Clearance Officer on (404) 639-7090.
    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; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques for other 
forms of information technology. Send comments to Anne O'Connor, CDC 
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, 
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Projects: Pediatric and Adult HIV/AIDS Case Reports--New--
National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP). For many 
years Pediatric and Adult case reports were included in the OMB 
clearance for the National Disease Surveillance Program--I. Case 
Reports, OMB Number 0920-0009. This clearance currently includes the 
formal surveillance of 19 separate reportable diseases which are 
ongoing to meet the public demand and scientific interest for accurate, 
consistent, epidemiologic data. These ongoing diseases include: 
bacterial meningitis, dengue, hantavirus, HIV/AIDS, Idiopathic CD4+T-
lymphocytopenia, Kawasaki syndrome, Legionellosis, lyme disease, 
malaria, Mycobacterium avium Complex Disease, plague, Reye Syndrome, 
tick-borne Rickettsial Disease, toxic shock syndrome, toxocariasis, 
trichinosis, typhoid fever, and viral hepatitis. Case

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report forms enable CDC to collect demographic, clinical, and 
laboratory characteristics of cases of these diseases. This information 
is used to direct epidemiologic investigations, to identify and monitor 
trends in reemerging infectious diseases or emerging modes of 
transmission, to search for possible causes or sources of the diseases, 
and to develop guidelines for the prevention of treatment.
    CDC proposes to separate the two HIV/AIDS case reports from the 
current clearance in order to have the case reports sent to the 
appropriate CDC organizational entity. Under the current clearance 
these forms are managed by the staff within the National Centers for 
Infectious Diseases (NCID). Separating the packages into two clearances 
will be more efficient for CDC. These forms are used to report all HIV/
AIDS cases for children and adults in all 50 states, Guam, the Pacific 
Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The information collected 
and the methodology used will remain the same. The data will continue 
to be used for the purposes described in the previous paragraph. The 
total annualized burden is 4,373 hours. The total cost to respondents 
is estimated at $65,595.

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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
                           Respondents                              respondents    responses per    respondent
                                                                                    respondent       (in hrs.)
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HIV/AIDS Adult Case Report......................................              55             473           10/60
HIV/AIDS Pediatric Case Report..................................              55               4           10/60
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    Dated: January 2, 2001.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 01-474 Filed 1-8-01; 8:45 am]
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