[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 19, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3146-3147]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-1038]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; The Atherosclerosis
Risk in Communities Study (ARIC)
Summary: Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute (NHLBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for
review and approval the information collection listed below. This
proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal
Register on October 12, 2010, page 62544, and allowed 60 days for
public comment. No comments were received. The purpose of this notice
is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The National
Institutes of Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is
not required to respond to, an information collection that has been
extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless
it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Proposed Collection: Title: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
Study (ARIC). Type of Information Collection Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection (OMB NO. 0925-0281). Need and Use of
Information Collection: ARIC will conduct a clinical examination of the
cohort over a 24-month period (May 2011 to April 2013). In addition,
this project involves biennual follow-up by telephone of participants
in the ARIC study, review of their medical records, and interviews with
doctors and family to identify disease occurrence. Interviewers will
contact doctors and hospitals to ascertain participants' cardiovascular
events. Information gathered will be used to further describe the risk
factors, occurrence rates, and consequences of cardiovascular disease
in middle aged and older men and women. Frequency of Response: The
participants will be contacted bi-annually for follow-up. A subset of
the cohort may choose to volunteer for the clinical examination; these
individually will be contacted once in a 3 year period. Affected
Public: Individuals or households; Businesses or other for profit;
Small businesses or organizations. Type of Respondents: Individuals or
households; doctors and staff of hospitals and nursing homes. The
annual reporting burden is as follows: Estimated Number of Respondents:
12,673; Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 2.7; Average
Burden Hours per Response: 0.5916; and Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours Requested: 20,434. The annualized cost to respondents is
estimated at $355,882, assuming respondent's time at the rate of $17.00
per hour and physician time at the rate of $75.00 per hour. There are
no Capital Costs to report. There are no Operating or Maintenance Costs
to report.
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Estimates of Hour Burden
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Estimated Estimated number Average burden
Type of respondents number of of responses per hours per Estimated total annual
respondents respondent response burden hours requested
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Participants.................... 10,933 3 0.6165 20,220.6
Physician (or coroner) (for CHD) 420 1 0.1667 70
Physician (for heart failure)... 920 1 0.0833 76.6
Participants' next of kin....... 400 1 0.1667 66.7
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Totals...................... 12,673 ................ ................ 20,433.9 or 20,434
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(Note: reported and calculated numbers differ slightly due to rounding.)
Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the
public and affected agencies should address one or more of the
following points: (1) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the function of
the agency, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (3) Enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
Direct Comments to OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding
the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be
directed to the: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory
Affairs, [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974,
Attention: Desk Officer for NIH. To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
instruments, contact: Dr. Hanyu Ni, NIH, NHLBI, 6701 Rockledge Drive,
MSC 7934, Bethesda, MD 20892-7934, or call non-toll-free number (301)
435-0448 or E-mail your request, including your address to:
[email protected].
Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days
of the date of this publication.
Suzanne Freeman,
NHLBI Project Clearance Liaison, National Institutes of Health.
Michael Lauer,
Director, DCVS, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 2011-1038 Filed 1-18-11; 8:45 am]
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