[Federal Register: February 27, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 39)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-03-46]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports
Clearance Officer on (404) 498-1210.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
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ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Send
comments to Anne O'Connor , CDC Assistant Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project: Restriction on Travel of Persons, (0920-0488)--
Extension--National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and CDC
consolidated regulations related to controlling the spread of
communicable diseases. FDA formerly administered the regulations
contained in part 1240 of Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, which
pertained to interstate control of communicable diseases. These
regulations may now be found in part 70 of Title 42, Code of Federal
Regulations.
Among the regulations in 21 CFR part 1240, FDA transferred to CDC
certain sections that relate to restrictions on interstate travel of
any person who is in the communicable period of cholera, plague,
smallpox, typhus, or yellow fever, or who, having been exposed to any
such disease, is in the incubation period thereof. One of the
sections--formerly 21 CFR 1240.50 and now 42 CFR 70.5 (Certain
communicable diseases; special requirements)--contains a requirement
for reporting certain information to the Federal government.
Specifically, this regulation requires any person who is in the
communicable period of cholera, plague, smallpox, typhus or yellow
fever, or who, having been exposed to any such disease, is in the
incubation period thereof, to apply for and receive a permit from the
Surgeon General or his authorized representative in order to travel
from one State or possession to another.
Control of disease transmission within the States is considered to
be the province of state and local health authorities, with federal
assistance being sought by those authorities on a cooperative basis,
without application of federal regulations. The regulations formerly
administered by FDA and assumed by CDC were developed to facilitate
Federal action in the event of large outbreaks requiring a coordinated
effort involving several states, or in the event of inadequate local
control. While it is not known whether, or to what extent, situations
may arise in which these regulations would be invoked, contingency
planning for domestic emergency preparedness is now commonplace. Should
this occur, CDC will use the reporting and record-keeping requirements
contained in the regulations to carry out quarantine responsibilities
as required by law.
Because of the uncertainty about whether a situation will ever
arise precipitating CDC's enforcement of this rule, the following data
collection burden estimate was prepared using the article Smallpox: An
Attack Scenario, Tara O'Toole; Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 5,
No. 4, Jul-Aug 1999. This article describes the aftermath of a
hypothetical domestic public health emergency situation involving
smallpox virus. Of the potentially 15,000 persons infected with
smallpox, the data collection assumes that one-fourth of these would
apply for a permit to move from one state to another while in the
communicable period of or having been exposed to smallpox. Should the
event be different and/or involve a different number of people, the
burden will vary accordingly.
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Number of Average burden/
Respondent Number of responses/ response (in Total burden
responses respondents hrs.) (in hrs.)
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Applicants (per application for a permit to move 3,750 1 15/60 938
from state to state while in the communicable
period of or having been exposed to smallpox...
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 938
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Dated: February 21, 2003.
Thomas Bartenfeld,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
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