[Federal Register: March 10, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 46)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-05-0134]
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 404-371-5976 or
send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC Assistant Reports Clearance
Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail
to omb@cdc.gov.
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) 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. Written comments should be received
within 60 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). 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
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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 is no cost to respondents
except for their time.
Annualized Burden Table:
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Number of Average burden
Respondents Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hrs.) hours
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Radio reporting of death/illness................ 1700 1 2/60 57
Report by persons held in isolation/Surveillance 11 1 30/60 6
Report of death or Illness on carrier during 5 1 30/60 2.50
stay in port...................................
Passenger locator form:
--Used in an outbreak of public health 2,700,000 1 5/60 225,000
significance...............................
--Used for reportingof an ill passengers.... 800 1 5/60 67
Requirements for admission of dogs and cats:
Sec. 72.51(1)............................... 5 1 3/60 .25
Sec. 72.51(2)............................... 1,200 1 15/60 300
Application for permits to import turtles....... 10 1 30/60 5
Requirements for registered importers of
nonhuman primates:
Sec. 71.53(1)............................... .............. 1 10/60 7
Sec. 71.53(2)............................... .............. 4 30/60 60
Total................................... .............. .............. .............. 225,505
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Dated: February 25, 2005.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Science Officer,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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