Notice2024-12235
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
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Published
June 4, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting Forms. The project includes the contact investigation outcome reporting forms used to obtain data from State, local, and territorial public health professionals or conveyance operators and medical professionals on their contact tracing efforts to better assess the risk to individuals who may have been exposed to a confirmed case of a communicable disease of public health concern while traveling to or within the United States.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 4, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47957-47958]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12235]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-24-0900; Docket No. CDC-2024-0045]
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.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or
continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed
information collection project titled Contact Investigation Outcome
Reporting Forms. The project includes the contact investigation outcome
reporting forms used to obtain data from State, local, and territorial
public health professionals or conveyance operators and medical
professionals on their contact tracing efforts to better assess the
risk to individuals who may have been exposed to a confirmed case of a
communicable disease of public health concern while traveling to or
within the United States.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before August 5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2024-
0045 by either of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. Follow
the instructions for submitting comments.
<bullet> Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information Collection Review
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE, MS H21-8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments
to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>.
Please note: Submit all comments through the Federal eRulemaking
portal (<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>) or by U.S. mail to the address listed
above.
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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information Collection
Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton
Road NE, MS H21-8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; Telephone: 404-639-7570;
Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d2bdbfb092b1b6b1fcb5bda4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c4aba9a684a7a0a7eaa3abb2">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:
1. 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;
2. 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;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
4. 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
submissions of responses; and
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting Forms (OMB Control No.
0920-0900, Exp. 8/31/2024)--Revision--National Center for Emerging and
Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
This proposed information collection project includes the contact
investigation outcome reporting information collection tools used by
CDC to better assess the risk to interstate and arriving international
travelers who may have been exposed to a confirmed case of a
communicable disease of public health concern while traveling.
Different forms are tailored for different diseases of public health
concern that are tracked by the Division of Global Migration Health
(DGMH/CDC). The information will be used to assist and collaborate with
State, local, and territorial health departments, conveyance operators,
air, maritime, and land port of entry partners, and international
public health authorities to identify potential exposures and to
determine the risk of infection, and whether future public health
interventions are needed.
Methods used to collect the information are basic surveys of
respondents that record information about the exposed traveler's
location and activities on air or maritime conveyances or land border
crossing, other potential exposures, signs/symptoms that may have
occurred after their potential exposure, prior history of vaccination
or disease, and other medical conditions that could influence the risk
of infection or severity of illness.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC modified how cruise ships report
information on cases of influenza-like-illness. Since December 2023,
CDC has been using a new surveillance system for cumulative acute
respiratory illness (ARI) reporting (under OMB Control Number 0920-
1335), which includes cases of influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory
syncytial virus. One form (the Influenza Outbreak Enhanced Data
Collection Form) is not used routinely now; however, this form may be
used in limited circumstances in the future. The burden of outcome
reporting forms has been adjusted based on more recent numbers, which
notably excludes COVID-19 numbers because we are no longer requiring
contact investigations for COVID-19 and thus these are lower than past
estimates. This applies primarily to the General Contact Investigation
Outcome Reporting Form. Other burden estimates have been adjusted to
reflect current estimates reflecting 2021-2023 numbers.
CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated 50 annual burden hours.
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There is no cost to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average Total
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per burden per burden
respondents response response hours
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Cruise Ship Physicians/Cargo Clinically Active TB 17 1 20/60 6
Ship Managers. Contact Investigation
Outcome Reporting
Form--Maritime.
Cruise Ship Physicians/Cargo Varicella Investigation 74 1 20/60 25
Ship Managers. Outcome Reporting Form.
Cruise Ship Physicians.......... Influenza Outbreak 20 1 20/60 7
Enhanced Data
Collection Form--
Maritime.
State/Local/Territorial public General Contact 8 1 5/60 1
health staff. Investigation Outcome
Reporting Form--Air.
State/Local/Territorial public TB Contact 51 1 5/60 4
health staff. Investigation Outcome
Reporting Form--Air.
State/Local/Territorial public Measles Contact 72 1 5/60 6
health staff. Investigation Outcome
Reporting Form--Air.
State/Local/Territorial public Rubella Contact 5 1 5/60 1
health staff. Investigation Outcome
Reporting Form--Air.
State/Local/Territorial public General Contact 2 1 5/60 0
health staff. Investigation Outcome
Reporting Form--Land.
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Total....................... ....................... .............. .............. ........... 50
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Public Health
Ethics and Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2024-12235 Filed 6-3-24; 8:45 am]
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