[Federal Register: October 6, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 193)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-05-0134]
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) 371-5983 or send an e-mail
to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974.
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Foreign Quarantine Regulations, OMB No. 0920-0134--Revision--
National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description:
Section 361 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 264)
authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to make
and enforce regulations necessary to prevent the introduction,
transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries
into the United States. Legislation and the existing regulations
governing foreign quarantine activities (42 CFR part 71) authorize
quarantine officers and other personnel to inspect and undertake
necessary control measures with respect to conveyances, persons, and
shipments of animals and etiologic agents entering the United States
from foreign ports in order to protect the public health.
Under foreign quarantine regulations, the master of a ship or
captain of an airplane entering the United States from a foreign port
is required by public health law to report certain illnesses among
passengers (42 CFR 71.21)(b). In this revision, CDC proposes adding two
additional reporting requirements. First, in addition to the
aforementioned list of required illnesses to be reported, CDC is asking
that reports be made for the following conditions, which may indicate a
reportable illness: (1) Hemorrhagic fever syndrome (persistent fever
accompanied by abnormal bleeding from any site); or (2) acute
respiratory syndrome (severe cough or severe respiratory disease of
less than 3 weeks in duration); or (3) acute onset of fever and severe
headache, accompanied by stiff neck or change in level of
consciousness. CDC has the authority to collect personal health
information to protect the health of the public under the authority of
section 301 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.).
Second, CDC proposes adding the Passenger Locator Form currently
under OMB control number 0920-0664 to OMB control number 0920-0134. The
Passenger Locator Form is used to collect reliable information that
assists quarantine officers in locating in a timely manner those
passengers and crew who are exposed to communicable diseases of public
health importance while traveling on a conveyance. Additional burden
hours for the voluntary reporting of additional certain illnesses and
the Passenger Locator Form are reflected in the burden hour table
below. DHHS delegates authority to CDC to conduct quarantine control
measures. Currently, with the exception of rodent inspections and the
cruise ship sanitation program, inspections are performed only on those
vessels and aircraft which report illness prior to arrival or when
illness is discovered upon arrival. Other inspection agencies assist
quarantine officers in public health screening of persons, pets, and
other importations of public health significance and make referrals to
PHS when indicated. These practices and procedures assure protection
against the introduction and spread of communicable diseases into the
United States with a minimum of recordkeeping and reporting as well as
a minimum of interference with trade and travel.
Respondents include airplane pilots, ships' captains, importers,
and travelers. The nature of the quarantine response would dictate
which forms are completed by whom. There are no costs to respondents
except for their time. The total estimated annual burden hours are
225,759.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Table
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Average burden
Form number/ Number of Number of per
Citation former respondents responses per respondent
OMB respondent (in hours)
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Reporting:
71.21 Radio report death/illness............ .............. 9,500 1 2/60
71.33(c) Report by person/s in isolation or .............. 11 1 3/60
surveillance...............................
71.35 Report of death/illlness in port...... .............. 5 1 30/60
Used in an outbreak of public health 0920-0664 2,700,000 1 5/60
significance...............................
Used for reporting of an ill passenger(s)... 0920-0664 800 1 5/60
71.51(b)(3) Admission of cats/dogs: death/ .............. 5 1 3/60
illness....................................
71.51(d) Dogs/cats: certification of CDC 75.37 1,200 1 15/60
confinement, vaccination...................
71.52(d) Turtle importation permits......... .............. 10 1 30/60
71.53(d) Importer registration--nonhuman CDC 75.10A 40 1 10/60
primates...................................
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Total (Reporting)....................... .............. 2,711,571
Recordkeeping:
71.53(e).................................... .............. 30 4 30/60
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Dated: September 30, 2005.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05-20054 Filed 10-5-05; 8:45 am]
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