Notice2024-17766
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
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Published
August 9, 2024
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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 continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). BRFSS is an annual state-based health survey that produces information on health risk behaviors, health conditions, and preventive health practices that are associated with chronic diseases, infectious diseases, and injury.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 154 (Friday, August 9, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65355-65356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-17766]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-24-1061; Docket No. CDC-2024-0059]
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 continuing information
collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project
titled Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). BRFSS is an
annual state-based health survey that produces information on health
risk behaviors, health conditions, and preventive health practices that
are associated with chronic diseases, infectious diseases, and injury.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before October 8, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2024-
0059 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#dcb3b1be9cbfb8bff2bbb3aa"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="610e0c03210205024f060e17">[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
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) (OMB Control No.
0920-1061, Exp. 12/31/2024)--Revision--National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC is requesting OMB approval to revise the information collection
for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) for the
period of 2025-2027. The BRFSS is a nationwide system of cross-
sectional surveys using random digit dialed (RDD) samples administered
by health departments in states, territories, and the District of
Columbia (collectively referred to here as states) in collaboration
with the CDC. Traditionally, subject recruitment and interviews have
been conducted by telephone. In 2025-2027, the BRFSS will expand the
option to allow participants to voluntarily complete online surveys,
after telephone recruitment. The BRFSS produces state-level information
primarily on health risk behaviors, health conditions, and preventive
health practices that are associated with chronic diseases, infectious
diseases, and injury. Designed to meet the data needs of individual
states and territories, the CDC sponsors the BRFSS information
collection project under a cooperative agreement with states and
territories. Under this partnership, BRFSS state coordinators determine
questionnaire content with technical and methodological assistance
provided by CDC.
For most states and territories, the BRFSS provides the only
sources of data amenable to state and local level health and health
risk indicator uses. Over time, it has also developed into an important
data collection system that federal agencies rely on for state and
local health information and to track national health objectives such
as Healthy People. CDC bases the BRFSS questionnaire on modular design
principles to accommodate a variety of state-specific needs within a
common framework. All participating states are required to administer a
standardized core questionnaire, which provides a set of shared health
indicators for all BRFSS partners. The BRFSS core questionnaire
consists of fixed core, rotating core, and emerging core questions.
Fixed core questions are asked every year. Rotating core questions
cycle on and off the core questionnaire in two- or three-year cycles,
depending on the question. Emerging core questions are included in the
core questionnaire as needed to collect data on urgent or emerging
health topics such as infectious disease. In addition, the BRFSS
includes a series of optional modules on a variety of topics. In off
years, when the rotating questions are not included in the core
questionnaire, they are offered to states as optional modules. This
framework allows each state to produce a customized BRFSS survey by
appending selected optional modules to the core
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survey. States may select which, if any, optional modules to
administer. As needed, CDC provides technical and methodological
assistance to state BRFSS coordinators in the construction of their
state-specific surveys. Each state administers its BRFSS questionnaire
throughout the calendar year.
CDC periodically updates the BRFSS core survey and optional
modules. The purpose of this Revision request is to add the following
topics to the questionnaires: COVID vaccination, impact of the COVID
pandemic, periodontal disease, additional questions on heart attack and
stroke, disaster/pandemic preparedness, veterans' health, and the use
of newly available tobacco products. In addition, this request seeks
approval for reinstating topics which have been included in BRFSS in
the past, dependent upon state interest and funding.
Participation in BRFSS is voluntary, and there is no cost to
participate. The average time burden per response will be 22 minutes.
OMB approval is requested for three years. The total time burden
requested is for 274,632 annual burden hours.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in hours
respondent hours)
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U.S. General Population....... Landline 173,000 1 1/60 2,883
Screener.
Cell Phone 694,000 1 1/60 11,567
Screener.
Field Test 900 1 1/60 15
Screener.
Annual Survey Respondents BRFSS Core 480,000 1 15/60 120,000
(Adults >18 Years). Survey by Phone
Interview.
BRFSS Optional 440,000 1 15/60 110,000
Modules by
Phone Interview.
BRFSS Core 100,000 1 10/60 16,667
Survey by
Online Survey.
BRFSS Optional 80,000 1 10/60 13,333
Modules by
Online Survey.
Field Test Respondents (Adults Field Test 500 1 20/60 167
>18 Years). Survey by Phone
Interview.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 274,632
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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. 2024-17766 Filed 8-8-24; 8:45 am]
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