[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 221 (Wednesday, November 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70265-70266]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-28930]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-11-11AC]
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 404-639-5960 or
send comments to Carol E. Walker, CDC Acting Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road, MS D-74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail to
[email protected].
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
Using Traditional Foods and Sustainable Ecological Approaches for
Health Promotion and Diabetes Prevention in American Indian/Alaska
Native Communities--New--National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Type 2 Diabetes was rare among American Indians until the 1950s.
Since that time, diabetes has become one of the most common and serious
illnesses among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN). From 1994
to 2004, the age-adjusted prevalence of diagnosed diabetes doubled
(from 8.5 to 17.1 per 1,000 population) among AI/ANs less than 35 years
of age who used Indian Health Service healthcare services. However,
dietary management and physical activity can help to prevent or control
Type 2 diabetes.
In 2008, the CDC's Native Diabetes Wellness Program (NDWP), in
consultation with American Indian/Alaska Native Tribal elders, issued a
cooperative agreement entitled, ``Using Traditional Foods and
Sustainable Ecological Approaches for Health Promotion and Diabetes
Prevention in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities.'' The
Traditional Foods program seeks to build on what is known about
traditional ways in order to inform culturally relevant, contemporary
approaches to diabetes prevention for AI/AN communities. The program
supports activities that enhance or re-introduce indigenous foods and
practices drawn from each grantee's landscape, history, and culture.
Example activities include the cultivation of community gardens,
organization of local farmers' markets, and the dissemination of
culturally appropriate health messages through storytelling, audio and
video recordings, and printed materials.
CDC requests OMB approval to collect standardized information,
called Traditional Foods Shared Data Elements (SDE), from grantees over
a three-year period. The SDE will be organized in three domains:
Traditional Local Healthy Foods, Physical Activity, and Social Support
for Healthy Lifestyle Change and Maintenance. Since each grantee
currently maintains activity data for local program improvement,
reporting summary information to CDC in SDE format is not expected to
entail significant burden to respondents.
The SDE will allow CDC to compile a systematic, quantifiable
inventory of activities, products, and outcomes associated with the
Traditional Foods program. The SDE will also allow CDC to analyze
aggregate data for improved technical assistance and overall program
evaluation, reporting, and identification of outcomes; allow CDC and
grantees to create a comprehensive inventory/resource library of
diabetes primary prevention ideas and approaches for AI/AN communities
and identify emerging best practices; and improve dissemination of
success stories. The SDE will supplement the narrative progress report
that grantees submit to CDC in conjunction with the annual continuation
application for funding. Although these reports provide important
contextual information and are useful for local program monitoring,
they do not support the production of statistical reports that are
needed to fully describe the Traditional Foods program and to respond
to inquiries.
Respondents will be 17 Tribes and Tribal organizations that receive
funding through the Traditional Foods program. The SDE will be
routinely submitted to CDC semi-annually using Survey Monkey, an
electronic Web-based interface. The estimated burden per response is
two hours. Each grantee will receive a personalized advance
notification letter, followed by an e-mail with a link to the Survey
Monkey site. One of the two required SDE submissions will coincide
approximately with submission of the continuation application for
funding in the Spring. The second SDE submission will be scheduled
annually in the Fall, at approximately the midpoint between the Spring
submissions.
CDC anticipates that routine information collection will begin in
April 2011 and will describe activities conducted during the period
October 2010-March 2011. CDC also requests OMB approval to conduct one
additional cycle of retrospective data collection during the first year
of this three-year information collection request. The retrospective
information collection will provide baseline SDE information about
grantee activities conducted prior to October 2010, which is needed for
comparison purposes and optimal overall program evaluation. Inclusion
of the retrospective data will enable CDC and grantees to have a
clearer, more quantifiable view of the growth of Traditional Foods
activities over the five-year funding cycle for the cooperative
agreement.
The total estimated burden for the one-time retrospective data
collection is 34 hours (17 respondents x 2 hours/response). Annualizing
this collection over three years results in an estimated annualized
burden of 12 hours (6 respondents per year). The annualized figures
slightly over-estimate the actual burden, due to rounding of the number
of respondents for even allocation over the three-year clearance
period. Second, some of the information could be collected through pre-
testing the SDE collection system during Fall/Winter 2010.
There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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No. of Avg. burden
Type of respondents Form name No. of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hrs) (in hrs)
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AI/AN Tribal Grantees.......................... Traditional Foods Shared Data Elements. 17 2 2 68
One-Time Retrospective Data Collection. 6 1 2 12
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Total...................................... ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 80
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Dated: November 10, 2010.
Carol E. Walker,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-28930 Filed 11-16-10; 8:45 am]
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