[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 199 (Friday, October 15, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63485-63486]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-25916]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-11-0728]
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 [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington,
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DC or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received
within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
The National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) (OMB
Number 0920-0728 exp. 2/28/2011)--Extension--National Center for Public
Health Informatics (NCPHI), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC is responsible for the dissemination of nationally notifiable
diseases information and for monitoring and reporting the impact of
epidemic influenza on mortality, Public Health Services Act (42 U.S.C.
241). Since April 1984, CDC National Center for Public Health
Informatics Epidemiology Program Office (EPO) began working with the
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) to demonstrate
the efficiency and effectiveness of computer transmission of
surveillance data between CDC and the State health departments.
By 1989, all 50 States were using this computerized disease
surveillance system, which was then renamed the National Electronic
Telecommunications System for Surveillance (NETSS) to reflect its
national scope (OMB numbers 0920-0447 and 0920-0007).
Beginning in 1999, CDC, Epidemiology Program Office (EPO) worked
with CSTE, State and local public health system staff, and other CDC
disease prevention and control program staff to identify information
categories and information technology standards to support integrated
disease surveillance. That effort is now focused on development and
completion of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System
(NEDSS), coordinated by CDC's National Center for Public Health
Informatics, Division of Integrated Surveillance Systems and Services
(DISSS).
States will continue to use portions of NETSS to transmit data to
CDC. One of the reasons for providing NETSS to NEDSS data mapping is to
identify what data elements in NETSS correspond to data elements in
NEDSS. Those elements mapped from NETSS to NEDSS were collected in OMB
number 0920-0007.
NEDSS will electronically integrate and link together a wide
variety of surveillance activities and will facilitate more accurate
and timely reporting of disease information to CDC and State and local
health departments. Consistent with recommendations supported by our
State and local surveillance partners and described in the 1995 report,
Integrating Public Health Information and Surveillance Systems, NEDSS
includes data standards, an Internet based communications
infrastructure built on industry standards, and policy-level agreements
on data access, sharing, burden reduction, and protection of
confidentiality.
To support NEDSS, CDC has developed an information system, the
NEDSS Base System (NBS), which uses NEDSS technical and information
standards. The NBS is currently deployed to 16 States, including AL,
AR, ID, MD, ME, MT, NE, NM, NV, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, and WY.
CDC is requesting a three-year OMB clearance extension of
collecting the NEDSS data. The table below outlines the annualized
burden which consists of two components. The first component is
``weekly reporting'' (52 weeks annually). The second component is an
end of year report titled ``annual reporting''. The two components
collectively represent the estimated annualized hours for the
submitting jurisdictions.
There are no costs to respondents other than their time. The total
estimated annual burden hours for the Weekly Morbidity Reports and the
Annual Summary Report is 9,384.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Respondents Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
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Weekly Reporting
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States....................................................... 50 52 3
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Territories.................................................. 5 52 1.5
Cities....................................................... 2 52 3
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Annual Reporting
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States....................................................... 50 1 16
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Territories.................................................. 5 1 10
Cities....................................................... 2 1 16
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Dated: October 7, 2010.
Carol Walker,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-25916 Filed 10-14-10; 8:45 am]
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