Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[INFO-97-15]

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 the CDC Reports

Clearance Officer on (404) 639-7090.

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 for other

forms of information technology. Send comments to Wilma Johnson, CDC

Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, Atlanta, GA

30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this

notice.

Proposed Projects

1. Information Collection Procedures for Evaluating Toxicological

Profiles--New--The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

(ATSDR) prepares toxicological profiles in accordance with guidelines

developed with guidelines developed by ATSDR and EPA and each profile

is revised and republished as necessary, but no less often than every

three years. The principal audiences for the toxicological profiles are

health professionals at the federal, state, and local levels,

interested private sector organizations and groups, and members of the

public.

This is a request for approval to collect information in the

profiles from users on: (a) Affiliation of users of the profiles, (b)

clarity of discussion in the profiles, (c) consistency of information

in the profiles, (d) completeness of information in the profiles, and

(e) utility of information in the profile.

The information will be used in an effort to maintain customer

satisfaction concerning use of the profiles by these multi-disciplinary

users. This will also ensure that we continue to provide a client-

oriented product. This effort will be accomplished through enhancement

of the built-in system used for updating existing toxicological

profiles and improving the utility of newly developed profiles by use

of these user surveys.

The only cost to respondents will be the time to complete the form,

which we estimate at less than 15 minutes per respondent. We expect

respondents of the toxicological profile survey to come from a wide

range of occupational and professional backgrounds and have an average

hourly wage of $15. The cost to respondents to evaluate toxicological

profiles would then be $3.75 per evaluation. Assuming a 50% response

rate and a total of 12000 profiles (questionnaires) per year, the

estimated annual cost to respondents is $22,500

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Number of

Respondents Number of responses/ Avg. burden/ Total burden

respondents respondent response (in hrs.)

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Questionnaire............................... 6000 1 0.25 750

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2. Preventive Health and Health Services Block, Annual applications

and reports--(0920-0106)--Extension--In 1994, OMB approved the

collection of information provided in the grant applications and annual

reports for the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant (OMB

#0920-0106). This approval expires on September 30, 1997. CDC is

requesting extension of OMB clearance for this legislatively mandated

information collection.

The information collected through the applications from the

official State health agencies is required from section 1905 of the

Public Health Service Act. This is no change in the proposed

information collection from previous years. The information collected

from the annual reports is required by section 1906, specifically the

requirement for uniform data sets matching the uses of funds. Minor

modifications to some individual uniform data sets for chronic

diseases, as well as some other program areas, have been made to

maintain consistency with performance measures developed as a result of

the Government Performance and Results Act. Overall, this request

reflects a 25% reduction in the collection burden to the grantees

(States). The total cost to all respondents is $137,250, estimated at

$25/burden hour.

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Number of Avg. burden/

Respondents Number of responses/ response (in Total burden

respondents respondents hrs.) (in hrs.)

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Annual Applications............................. 61 1 30 1830

Annual Reports.................................. 61 1 30 1830

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Total..................................... .............. .............. .............. 5490

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Dated: June 25, 1997.

Wilma G. Johnson,

Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning And Evaluation, Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

[FR Doc. 97-17128 Filed 6-30-97; 8:45 am]

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