[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 245 (Wednesday, December 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 80507-80508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-32078]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-11-11BF]
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 instrument, call 404-639-5960 and
send comments to Carol E. Walker, Acting CDC Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 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 a 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
Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting Forms--New--National Center
for Emerging, Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC proposes to collect passenger-level, epidemiologic,
demographic, and health status data from State/local Health Departments
and maritime operators at the conclusion of contact investigations of
individuals believed to have been exposed to a communicable disease
during travel. The information requested by CDC would be obtained by
the health departments or maritime operators while conducting the
contact investigation according to their established policies and
procedures, and would be reported to CDC on a voluntary basis. This
information will assist CDC in fulfilling its regulatory responsibility
to prevent the importation of communicable diseases from foreign
countries (42 CFR part 71) and interstate control of communicable
diseases in humans (42 CFR part 70). To perform these tasks in a
streamlined manner and ensure that all relevant information is
collected in the most efficient and timely manner possible, Quarantine
Stations use a number of forms: Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting
Forms: (1) Optional TB Air/Land Contact Investigation Outcome
Reporting, (2) Optional Measles, Mumps, or Rubella Air/Land Contact
Investigation Outcome Reporting, (3) Optional General Air/Land Contact
Investigation Outcome Reporting Form, (4) Optional TB Maritime Contact
Investigation Outcome Reporting Form, (5) Optional Measles, Mumps or
Rubella Maritime Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting Form, (6)
Optional General Maritime Contact Investigation Outcome Reporting Form.
Section 361 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 USC 264)
authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make and
enforce regulations necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission
or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the
United States. The regulations that implement this law, 42 CFR parts 70
and 71, require conveyances to report an ``ill person'' or any death
onboard to authorized quarantine officers and other personnel to
inspect and undertake necessary control measures with respect to
conveyances (e.g., airplanes, cruise ships), persons, and shipments of
animals and etiologic agents in order to protect the public health. The
notification is made possible by contacting individuals who may have
been exposed to a communicable disease during travel and their
contacts, and investigating this exposure so that the necessary medical
or public health interventions can be implemented.
CDC provides state and local health departments and maritime
conveyance operators with information to notify and contact individuals
and further investigate this exposure by contacting others who may have
been potentially exposed to disease. However, there currently is no
standardized tool or form to collect pertinent information regarding
the outcome of such investigations.
To address the need to inform CDC of additional actions that may be
needed to further protect public health based on the outcome of the
contact investigations, CDC has developed six forms to assist health
departments and maritime conveyance operators in reporting back to CDC.
The forms are specific to the nature of the investigation; Tuberculosis
(TB), Measles, Mumps, and Rubella or the General forms specific to
other diseases of public health concern. The purpose of the forms is
the same: To collect information to help CDC quarantine officials to
fully understand the extent of disease spread and transmission during
travel and to inform the development and or refinement of investigative
protocols, aimed at reducing the spread of communicable disease.
All six forms collect the following categories of information:
Heath status of traveler, clinical history including diagnosis, and
interventions related to exposure.
Respondents are state and local health departments and maritime
conveyance operators. Respondents will use these standardized forms to
submit data to CDC for each individual contacted via a secure means of
their choice, e.g., Web-based application, fax or e-mail.
The estimated total burden on the public, included in the chart
below, can vary a great deal depending on the number of flights and the
number of individuals identified as contacts that are assigned to a
given health jurisdiction in the U.S. There is no cost to respondents
other than their time.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden/ Total burden
Respondents Forms respondents responses/ response (in hours
respondent hours)
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State/Local health department Optional TB Air/ 2154 1 5/60 180
staff. Land Contact
Investigation
Outcome
Reporting Form.
State/Local health department Optional 367 1 5/60 31
staff. Measles, Mumps
or Rubella Air/
Land Contact
Investigation
Outcome
Reporting Form.
State/Local health department Optional General 456 1 5/60 38
staff. Air/Land
Contact
Investigation
Outcome
Reporting Form.
Maritime Operators............ Optional TB 190 1 5/60 16
Maritime
Contact
Investigation
Outcome
Reporting Form.
Maritime Operators............ Optional 140 1 5/60 12
Measles, Mumps
or Rubella
Maritime
Contact
Investigation
Outcome
Reporting Form.
Maritime Operators............ Optional General 40 1 5/60 3
Maritime
Contact
Maritime
Operators
Investigation
Outcome
Reporting Form.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 280
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Dated: December 16, 2010.
Catina Conner,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-32078 Filed 12-21-10; 8:45 am]
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