[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 56 (Wednesday, March 24, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14163-14164]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-6523]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-10-10AD]
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, DC or by fax to (202) 395-5806.
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
School Dismissal Monitoring System--Existing Data Collection
without an OMB Number--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic
Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) (proposed), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
During the spring 2009 H1N1 outbreak, the U.S. Department of
Education (ED) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
received numerous daily requests about the overall number of school
dismissals nationwide including the number of students and teachers
impacted by the outbreak. Illness among school-aged students (K-12) in
many States and cities resulted in at least 1351 school dismissals due
to rapidly increasing absenteeism among students or staff that impacted
at least 824,966 students and 53,217 teachers.
Although a system was put in place to track school closures in
conjunction with the Department of Education (ED), no formal monitoring
system was established, making it difficult to monitor reports of
school dismissal and to gauge the impact of the outbreak.
CDC has recently issued guidance for school closure for the 2009-
2010 school year. To address the need to monitor reports of school
closure, CDC and ED have established a School Dismissal Monitoring
System to report on novel influenza A (H1N1)-related school or school
district dismissals in the United States. Although the School Dismissal
Monitoring System is currently approved to collect data under OMB
Control Number 0920-0008, Emergency Epidemic Investigations, CDC would
like to continue the data collection long term. Thus, CDC is requesting
a separate OMB Control Number for this data collection.
The purpose of the School Dismissal Monitoring System is to
generate accurate, real-time, national summary data daily on the number
of school dismissals and the number of students and teachers impacted
by the school dismissals. CDC will use the summary data to fully
understand how schools are responding to CDC community mitigation
guidance among schools, students, household contacts and for overall
awareness of the impact of influenza outbreaks on school systems and
communities.
Respondents are schools, school districts, and local public health
agencies. Respondents will use a common reporting form to submit data
to CDC. The reporting form includes the following data elements: Name
of school district; zip code of school district; date the school or
school district was dismissed; and the date school or school district
is projected to reopen. Optional data elements include: Name of person
submitting information; the organization/agency; phone number of the
organization/agency; and e-mail address. There is no cost to
respondents other than their time to complete the data collection. The
total annualized burden for this information collection request is 42
hours.
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Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Average burden
Respondent Number of Responses per per respondent
respondents respondent (in hours)
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School, school district or public health department............. 500 1 5/60
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Dated: March 17, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-6523 Filed 3-23-10; 8:45 am]
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