Notice2025-18905
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
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Published
September 30, 2025
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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 State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS). SUDORS is designed to detect new trends in fatal unintentional drug overdoses, support targeting drug overdose prevention efforts, and assess the progress of the HHS initiative to reduce opioid misuse and overdoses.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46888-46889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18905]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-25-1128; Docket No. CDC-2025-0552]
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 State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS).
SUDORS is designed to detect new trends in fatal unintentional drug
overdoses, support targeting drug overdose prevention efforts, and
assess the progress of the HHS initiative to reduce opioid misuse and
overdoses.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before December 1, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2025-
0552 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#1a7577785a797e79347d756c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="741b1916341710175a131b02">[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:
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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
State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) (OMB
Control No. 0920-1128, Exp. 2/26/2026)--Revision--National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
There has been a rapid increase in opioid overdose deaths since
2013. In the United States, more people are now dying of drug overdose
than automobile crashes, although opioids--both opioid pain relievers
(OPRs) and illicit forms such as heroin--are also a major factor in
overdose-related automobile crashes. On October 26, 2017, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared the opioid
overdose epidemic to be a national public health emergency.
CDC established the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting
System (SUDORS) to detect new trends in fatal unintentional drug
overdoses, support targeting drug overdose prevention efforts, and
assess the progress of the HHS initiative to reduce opioid misuse and
overdoses. Respondents are state- or jurisdiction-level health
departments. The SUDORS surveillance system generates detailed, timely
public health information on unintentional, fatal opioid-related drug
overdoses and has been used to inform prevention and response efforts
at the national, state, and local levels. SUDORS consolidates and
supplements information available to health departments, including
vital statistics and records created by medical examiners and coroners
(ME/C). SUDORS is built on a web-based software platform and a
collaborative surveillance and data integration model developed by CDC
and health departments to improve understanding of homicide, suicide,
undetermined deaths, and unintentional firearm deaths (National Violent
Death Reporting System (NVDRS), OMB No. 0920-0607.
Through SUDORS, CDC currently collects information that is not
provided on death certificates, such as whether the drug(s) causing the
overdoses were injected or taken orally; a toxicology report on the
decedent, if available; and risk factors for fatal drug overdoses
including previous drug overdoses, decedent's mental health, and
whether the decedent recently exited a treatment program. Without this
information, efforts to prevent drug overdose deaths are often based on
limited information available on the death certificate and anecdotal
evidence.
This is a Revision request for the currently approved State
Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) (OMB Control No.
0920-1128, Exp. 2/28/2026. With this Revision, CDC is requesting OMB
approval for an additional three years to continue data collection
efforts. This Revision request does not entail a change in the
estimated burden per response, which is based on the time needed for a
health department to retrieve and refile vital statistics records, ME/C
records, etc. The estimated burden per response does not include the
time needed to abstract SUDORS data variables from those sources, since
this activity is funded by the SUDORS cooperative agreement. CDC
requests OMB approval for an estimated 43,631 annualized burden hours.
There is no cost to respondents other than their time to participate.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Total number Average burden Total burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of of responses per response hours (in
respondents per respondent (in hours) hours)
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Public Agencies............... Retrieving and 51 1,711 30/60 43,631
refiling
records.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 43,631
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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. 2025-18905 Filed 9-29-25; 8:45 am]
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