Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[INFO-98-14]

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 Seleda Perryman, CDC

Assistant 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. 1999 and 2001 National School-Based Youth Risk Behavior

Surveys--The purpose of this request is to renew OMB clearance for a

biennial, national, youth risk behavior survey. This ongoing biennial

survey is administered to students attending regular public, private,

and Catholic schools in grades 9-12. The survey addresses priority

health risk behaviors related to the major preventable causes of

mortality, morbidity, and social problems among both youth and adults

in the U.S. Previous OMB clearance for these surveys expired in October

of 1997 (OMB No. 1920-0258, expiration 10/97). OMB clearance for a

similar survey conducted among alternative school students will expire

in December of 1998 (OMB No. 0920-0416, expiration 12/31/98). Data on

the health risk behaviors of adolescents is the focus of at least 26

national health objectives in Healthy People 2000: Midcourse Review and

1995 Revisions. This survey will provide end-of-decade data to help

measure these objectives as well as baseline data to measure many new

national health objectives proposed for 2010. No other national source

of data exists for most of the proposed 2010 objectives that address

behaviors of adolescents. The data also will have significant

implications for policy and program development for school health

programs nationwide. The total estimated cost to respondents is $47,250

assuming a minimum wage of $5.25 for the 1997-1998 school year.

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Number of Average burden/

Respondents Number of responses/ response (in Total burden

respondents respondent hrs.) (in hrs.)

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Alternative school students................. 12,000 1 0.75 9,000

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2. Multistate Case-Control Study of Childhood Brain Cancers--New--

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is

mandated pursuant to the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and its 1986 Amendments, the

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), to prevent or

mitigate adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life

resulting from exposure to hazardous substances in the environment.

Scientific knowledge is lacking concerning the reasons for the apparent

rise in childhood brain cancer incidence during the last two decades in

the U.S. and for explanations of childhood brain cancer in general. To

date, most epidemiologic studies exploring the causes of childhood

brain cancer have suffered from lack of statistical power due to the

small numbers of cases available for the study. By combining recent

childhood brain cancer data from multiple states, this study will help

to better understand what environmental factors may be associated with

childhood brain cancer, and therefore to possibly develop well-focused

prevention measures.

This study will examine the association between environmental

exposures and risk of childhood brain cancers, by employing a

population based case-control study of childhood brain cancer.

Information to be collected includes proximity of parental residence to

hazardous waste sites and other known or suspected risk factors. Other

known or purported risk factors identified from the literature will

include both environmental and host factors during the prenatal as well

as postnatal periods: parental occupation, parents' and child's dietary

habits, parental history of smoking and drinking, mother's and child's

exposure to radiation through medical care, residential use of

pesticides or herbicides, mother's and child's history of viral

infection, and family history of cancer and neurological disorders.

This request is for a 3-year OMB approval.

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Number of Average burden/

Respondents Number of responses/ response (in Total burden

respondents respondent hrs.) (in hrs.)

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Parent/Child questionnaire...................... 1200 1 0.75 900

Blood sample collection......................... 200 1 0.5 100

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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 1000

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Charles Gollmar,

Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

[FR Doc. 98-7413 Filed 3-20-98; 8:45 am]

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