Notice2025-22006
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
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Published
December 5, 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 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 the 2025 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey (NBCUS). The NBCUS gathers information from blood collection centers and acute healthcare facilities about blood collections and transfusions in the United States.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 232 (Friday, December 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56149-56150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-22006]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-26-0002; Docket No. CDC-2025-0882]
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 the 2025 National Blood
Collection and Utilization Survey (NBCUS). The NBCUS gathers
information from blood collection centers and acute healthcare
facilities about blood collections and transfusions in the United
States.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before February 3, 2026.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2025-
0882 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#1c73717e5c7f787f327b736a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fb949699bb989f98d59c948d">[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
2025 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey--New--
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The 2025 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey will
request information from community-based blood collection centers,
hospital-based blood collection centers, and transfusing hospitals.
Respondents will be asked to provide information on blood and blood
component collections and transfusions in the United States during
2025.
The NBCUS is an HHS/OASH funded project conducted biennially. Since
2013, in close collaboration with OASH, the NBCUS has been performed by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has the
requisite technical and scientific resources to conduct the survey. The
information collected has previously been used to support public health
emergencies and inform public policy as well as inform the blood
community about the current national blood supply and demand.
Respondents will include transfusing hospitals, hospital blood
banks, and community-based blood banks. The response rates for the 2023
NBCUS were 96.2% (51/53) for community-based blood collection
facilities, 90.3% (65/72) for hospital-based blood collection
facilities, and 85.7% (2195/2561) for transfusing hospitals. Based on
the previous iterations of the NBCUS, we expect an overall response
rate of almost 85% across all types of facilities. Proposed changes
include adjustments to answer options to make them more
straightforward, removal of policy questions that were required of
blood centers by the end of 2023, defining a blood shortage, and
addition of a few new questions. New questions included information
about bacterial transfusion-transmitted infections found in blood,
length of time any blood shortage lasted, cold storage platelets,
pathogen reduced cryoprecipitated units.
CDC will take over NBCUS data collection activities from HHS/OASH
and requests OMB approval for an estimated 4,612 annual burden hours.
There is no cost to respondents other than their time to participate.
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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Transfusing Hospitals......................... 2025 National Blood Collection and 2,478 1 105/60 4,337
Utilization Survey.
Hospital Blood Banks.......................... 2025 National Blood Collection and 104 1 105/60 182
Utilization Survey.
Community-Based Blood Centers................. 2025 National Blood Collection and 53 1 105/60 93
Utilization Survey.
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Total..................................... ...................................... .............. ................ .............. 4,612
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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. 2025-22006 Filed 12-4-25; 8:45 am]
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