Notice2025-10858
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
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Published
June 16, 2025
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 continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled National Vital Statistics Report Form. This data collection is used to report annual counts of marriages and divorces/annulments to the Federal government in support of the National Vital Statistics System.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 114 (Monday, June 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25294-25295]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10858]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-25-0213; Docket No. CDC-2025-0027]
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 continuing information
collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project
titled National Vital Statistics Report Form. This data collection is
used to report annual counts of marriages and divorces/annulments to
the Federal government in support of the National Vital Statistics
System.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before August 15, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2025-
0027 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#89e6e4ebc9eaedeaa7eee6ff"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f09f9d92b0939493de979f86">[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
National Vital Statistics Report Form (OMB Control No. 0920-0213,
Exp. 07/31/2025)--Extension--National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The compilation of national vital statistics by the Federal
government dates to the beginning of the 20th century. To administer
these functions, the National Office of Vital Statistics was
established in the Public Health Service in April 1953. In August of
1960, the National Office of Vital Statistics was reorganized as the
Division of Vital Statistics in the newly created National Center for
Health Statistics (NCHS), which is now part of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
One of the functions of NCHS is to plan and administer a program to
provide statistics on births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and
divorces reported in the National Vital Statistics System. This
includes promoting the uniform collection of data on these events and
providing technical assistance to the registration areas; conducting
follow back surveys to expand the scope of national vital statistics
beyond the data available from vital records; preparing life tables and
analyses of life table phenomena; and investigating the quality and
reliability of data and methodology.
One part of this function is to provide national final counts of
marriage, and divorce occurrences following the end of each year. The
collection of the data is authorized by 42 U.S.C. 242k. Provisional
counts of marriages and divorces are disseminated electronically. This
form is the sole source of final counts for these two events. These
data have been published since 1937 and are the sole source of this
information at the national level. The data are used by the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) and by other government, academic,
and private research organizations in tracking changes in trends of
vital events. The counts of events requested on the form are necessary
to the administration of this portion of the program.
CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated 46 annual burden hours.
There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) (in hours)
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State, Territory, and New Annual Vital 91 1 30/60 46
Mexico County Officials. Statistics
Occurrence
Report.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 46
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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. 2025-10858 Filed 6-13-25; 8:45 am]
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