[Federal Register: July 1, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 126)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-57-04]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 498-1210 or send an e-mail
to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Human
Resources and Housing Branch, New Executive Office Building, Room
10235, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-6974. Written
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
NCHS Application for Vital Statistics Training Form, OMB No. 0920-
0217--Extension--National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the United States, legal
authority for the registration of vital events, i.e., births, deaths,
marriages, divorces, fetal deaths, and induced terminations of
pregnancy, resides individually with the States (as well as cities in
the case of New York City and Washington, DC) and Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands. These governmental entities are the full
legal proprietors of vital records and the information contained
therein. As a result of this State authority, the collection of
registration-based vital statistics at the national level, referred to
as the U.S. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), depends on a
cooperative relationship between the States and the Federal government.
This data collection, authorized by 42 U.S.C. 242k, has been conducted
by NCHS since it was created in 1960.
NCHS assists in achieving the comparability needed for combining
data from all States into national statistics, by conducting a training
program for State and local vital
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statistics staff to assist in developing expertise in all aspects of
vital registration and vital statistics. The training offered under
this program includes courses for registration staff, statisticians,
and coding specialists, all designed to bring about a high degree of
uniformity and quality in the data provided by the States. This
training program is authorized by 42 U.S.C. 242b, section 304(a). In
order to offer the types of training that would be most useful to vital
registration staff members, NCHS requests information from State and
local vital registration officials about their projected needs for
training. NCHS also asks individual candidates for training to submit
an application form containing name, address, occupation, work
experience, education, and previous training. These data enable NCHS to
determine those individuals whose needs can best be met through the
available training resources. There is no cost to respondents in
providing these data. The estimated annualized burden is 44 hours.
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Number of
Number of Number of Average burden Number of responses
Respondents respondents responses per per response Respondents respondents per
respondents (in hours) responses
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State, local, and Territory Registration Officials............... 57 1 20/60
Training applicants.............................................. 100 1 15/60
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Dated: June 22, 2004.
Diane Allen,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-14934 Filed 6-30-04; 8:45 am]
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