[Federal Register: September 10, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 175)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-04-040D]
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 email 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
ATSDR Rapid Response Registry--New--The Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry (ATSDR). ATSDR plans to develop a registry of
individuals exposed to a terrorist or other significant emergency event
potentially affecting public health within the United States and its
territories. The authority to establish and maintain this registry was
given to ATSDR through the following federal laws: Public Health
Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 319; the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental
Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and its 1986
Amendments, the Superfund Amendments and Re-authorization Act (SARA);
Federal Response Plan; National Contingency Plan; and the Department of
Homeland Security's Consolidated Emergency Operations Plan. ATSDR has
consistently been identified as having the primary responsibility for
the creation and
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maintenance of an event-related registry of affected individuals during
the acute response phase of an emergency event.
ATSDR plans to develop and maintain a central registry, named the
Rapid Response Registry (RRR), of individuals who were in the vicinity
of a terrorist or other emergency event. The ATSDR RRR teams will begin
identifying and enrolling victims and potentially exposed individuals
within hours of an incident, in collaboration with state and local
government agencies and private response organizations. RRR activities
are intended to help document an individual's presence at or near a
specific terrorist or other significant emergency event. This
information will be used primarily to provide health officials with
essential information necessary for both short- and long-term follow-up
of victims and potentially exposed individuals.
Contact information will be used to provide information to the
registrants regarding their exposures, potential health impacts,
available educational materials, and other pertinent news and updates.
Follow-up contacts by health officials are anticipated to be for the
purposes of assessing current and future medical needs and providing
appropriate and timely medical interventions where possible. Subsequent
health studies (not part of this activity) may be useful to identify
potential long-term health outcomes in the exposed population; the
contact information will enable these studies to be conducted.
A standardized, one-page survey instrument will be used to collect
contact information, demographics, and brief exposure and outcome data
on all registrants. The same survey instrument will be used in both
Phase I and Phase II data collection activities.
Phase I response entails immediate deployment of the RRR team to
support local efforts to enroll victims and immediately-exposed
individuals. Phase I RRR data collection teams will be deployed to all
places where victims and the immediately-exposed population might be
located (e.g., on-site response facilities, emergency departments,
hospitals, morgues, public shelters, churches).
Phase II response entails later deployment of an RRR team to
conduct a census of the entire at-risk population. Phase II data
collection methods will include house-to-house interviews, telephone
interviews, on-line enrollment, media outreach, and professional
tracing services. If the at-risk population or geographic area is
reasonably small-scale, a systematic census will be conducted to enroll
every exposed or potentially exposed person. If the at-risk population
or geographic area is large-scale, then a representative sample of the
at-risk population will be enrolled. A brief, optional health effects
questionnaire also has been developed that will be made available to
local health officials, if they wish to use it, to better characterize
the types of health outcomes resulting from the emergency event. The
annualized burden hours are estimated to be 234.
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Avg. burden
Respondents Number of Responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hrs.)
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People in proximity to an emergency event: 1-page contact form 1,000 1 10/60
only...........................................................
People in proximity to an emergency event: health effects 200 1 20/60
questionnaire..................................................
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Dated: August 31, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-20515 Filed 9-9-04; 8:45 am]
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