[Federal Register: March 24, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 57)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-08-0008]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
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) 639-5960 or send an e-mail
to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-
6974. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (HSEES)--
Extension--(OMB Control 0923-0008), Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is
mandated pursuant to the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response
Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and its 1986 Amendments, The
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), to prevent or
mitigate adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life
resulting from the exposure to hazardous substances into the
environment. The primary purpose of this activity, which ATSDR has
supported since 1992, is to develop, implement, and maintain a state-
based surveillance system for hazardous substances emergency events
which can be used to (1) describe the distribution of the hazardous
substances releases; (2) describe the public health consequences
(morbidity, mortality, and evacuations) associated with the events; (3)
develop strategies to reduce future public health consequences. The
study population will consist of all hazardous substance non-permitted
acute releases within the 14 states (Colorado, Florida, Iowa,
Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina,
Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin) participating in the
surveillance system.
Until this system was developed and implemented, there was no
national public health-based surveillance system to coordinate the
collation, analysis, and distribution of hazardous substances emergency
release data to public health practitioners. It was necessary to
establish this national surveillance system which describes the public
health impact of hazardous substances emergencies on the health of the
population of the United States. The data collection form will be
completed by the state health department Hazardous Substances Emergency
Events Surveillance (HSEES) coordinator using a variety of sources
including written and oral reports from environmental protection
agencies, police, firefighters, emergency response personnel; or
researched by the HSEES coordinator using material safety data sheets,
and chemical handbooks. There is a reduction in the annual burden hours
per response because of the reduction in number of states from 15 to 14
and because of a change in the case definition of an HSEES event in
2005, which excludes stack emissions of oxides of nitrogen
(NOX), oxides of sulfur (SOx), and carbon monoxide (CO) when
they are not mixed with another hazardous substance.
The HSEES public use data set is available on the ATSDR HSEES Web
site. Interested parties complete a brief description of who will be
using the data and for what purpose in order to download the data. This
allows ATSDR to widely distribute the data and track its usefulness.
The estimated annual burden hours are 5,678.
There is no cost to the respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours:
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Average
burden
Number of Number of per
Respondents respondents responses per response
respondent (in
hours)
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Participating State Health 14 536............. 45/60
Department HSEES
Coordinators.
Persons interested in HSEES 500 1............... 6/60
data through Web site.
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Dated: March 18, 2008.
Marilyn S. Radke,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8-5862 Filed 3-21-08; 8:45 am]
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