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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

Mine Workers (pilot mine—focus
group).
Section Foreman (full study) ............
Mine Workers (full study—baseline)
Mine Workers (full study—1, 3, and
6 months for control and prototypes).

Focus Group Questions ..................

9

1

1

9

Section Foreman Form ...................
Baseline Form .................................
1, 3, and 6 months forms ................

6
54
54

12
1
6

10/60
20/60
25/60

12
18
135

Total ..........................................

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182

Kimberly S. Lane,
Deputy Director, Office of Science Integrity,
Office of the Associate Director for Science,
Office of the Director, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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HUMAN SERVICES

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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 404–639–7570 and
send comments to Kimberly Lane, at
1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an email to
omb@cdc.gov.
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
or other forms of information
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be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
The National Voluntary
Environmental Assessment Information
System (NVEAIS)—New—National
Center for Environmental Health
(NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description

Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention

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Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Number of
responses per
respondent

Number of
respondents

Respondents

The CDC is requesting OMB approval
for the National Voluntary
Environmental Assessment Information
System (NVEAIS) to collect data from
foodborne illness outbreak
environmental assessments routinely
conducted by local, state, territorial, or
tribal food safety programs during
outbreak investigations. Environmental
assessment data are not currently
collected at the national level. The data
reported through this information
system will provide timely data on the
causes of outbreaks, including
environmental factors associated with
outbreaks, and are essential to
environmental public health regulators’
efforts to respond more effectively to
outbreaks and prevent future, similar
outbreaks. This information system is
specifically designed to link to CDC’s
existing disease outbreak surveillance
system (National Outbreak Reporting
System).
The information system was
developed by the Environmental Health
Specialists Network (EHS–Net), a
collaborative project of CDC, the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA), and nine states (California,
Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, New York,
Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, and
Tennessee). The network consists of
environmental health specialists (EHSs),
epidemiologists, and laboratorians. The
EHS–Net has developed a standardized
protocol for identifying, reporting, and
analyzing data relevant to foodborne

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illness outbreak environmental
assessments.
While conducting environmental
assessments during outbreak
investigations is routine for food safety
program officials, reporting information
from the environmental assessments to
CDC is not routine. Thus, state, local,
tribal, and territorial food safety
program officials are the respondents for
this data collection—one official from
each participating program will report
environmental assessment data on
outbreaks. These programs are typically
located in public health or agriculture
agencies. There are approximately 3,000
such agencies in the United States.
Thus, although it is not possible to
determine how many programs will
choose to participate, as NVEAIS is
voluntary, the maximum potential
number of program respondents is
approximately 3,000.
These programs will be reporting data
on outbreaks, not their programs or
personnel. It is not possible to
determine exactly how many outbreaks
will occur in the future, nor where they
will occur. However, we can estimate
that, based on existing data, a maximum
of 1,400 foodborne illness outbreaks
will occur annually. Only programs in
the jurisdictions in which these
outbreaks occur would report to
NVEAIS. Thus, not every program will
respond every year. Consequently, the
respondent burden estimate is based on
the number of outbreaks likely to occur
each year. Assuming each outbreak
occurs in a different jurisdiction, there
will be one respondent per outbreak.
There are two activities associated
with NVEAIS that require a burden
estimate. The first is entering all
requested environmental assessment
data into NVEAIS. This will be done
once for each outbreak. This will take
approximately 2 hours per outbreak.
The second activity is the manager
interview that will be conducted at each
establishment associated with an
outbreak. Most outbreaks are associated

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with only one establishment; however,
some are associated with multiple
establishments. We estimate that a
maximum average of four manager

interviews will be conducted per
outbreak. Each interview will take about
20 minutes.

The total estimated annual burden is
4,667 hours. There is no cost to the
respondents other than their time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden
per response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

Food safety program personnel ..

1,400

1

2

2,800

Retail food personnel ...................

Reporting environmental assessment
data into NVEAIS.
Manager interview .................................

1,400

4

20/60

1,867

Total ......................................

................................................................

........................

........................

........................

4,667

Kimberly S. Lane,
Deputy Director, Office of Scientific Integrity,
Office of the Director, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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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 (404) 639–7570 or send an
email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written
comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington,
DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395–5806.
Written comments should be received
within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Developing a Responsive Plan for
Building the Capacity of Community
Based Organizations (CBOs) to
Implement HIV Prevention Services—
New—National Center for HIV/AIDS,
Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
(NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
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living with HIV. Each year,
approximately 50,000 people in the
United States become newly infected.
Some groups are disproportionately
affected by this epidemic. For example,
between 2006 and 2009, there was an
almost 50% increase in the number of
new HIV infections among young Black
men who have sex with men (MSM). In
order to address these health disparities,
the CDC funded 34 community-based
organizations via cooperative agreement
PS11–1113 to implement HIV
prevention programs targeting young
MSM of color and young transgender
persons of color.
Building the capacity of community
based organizations (CBOs) is a priority
to ensure effective and efficient delivery
of HIV prevention services. Since the
late 1980s, CDC has been working with
CBOs to broaden the reach of HIV
prevention efforts. Over time, the CDC’s
program for HIV prevention has grown
in size, scope, and complexity,
responding to changes in approaches to
addressing the epidemic, including the
introduction of new guidances; effective
behavioral, biomedical, and structural
interventions; and public health
strategies. The Capacity Building
Branch within the Division of HIV/AIDS
Prevention (DHAP) provides national
leadership and support for capacity
building assistance (CBA) to help
improve the performance of the HIV
prevention workforce. One way that it
accomplishes this task is by funding
CBA providers via cooperative
agreement PS09–906 to work with
CBOS, health departments, and
communities to increase their
knowledge, skills, technology, and
infrastructure to implement and sustain
science-based, culturally appropriate
interventions and public health
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CBOs funded under PS11–1113 will
collaborate with CBA providers to
develop Strategic Plans for Enhanced
CBO Capacity. CBA providers will
conduct face-to-face field visits with the
CBOs utilizing a structured
organizational needs assessment tool
that was developed in collaboration
with CDC. This comprehensive tool
offers a mixed-methods data collection
approach consisting of checklists, closeended (quantitative) questions, and
open-ended (qualitative) questions.
CBOs will be asked to complete the tool
prior to the field visits in order to
maximize time during the visits for
discussion and strategic planning.
Findings from this project will be
used by the participating CBOs, the CBA
providers, and the Capacity Building
Branch. By the end of the project, the
participating CBOs will have CBA
strategic plans that will help guide the
success of their programs. Based on
these plans, the CBA providers (in
collaboration with CDC) will be able to
better identify and address those needs
most reported by CBOs. Finally, the
Capacity Building Branch will be able to
refine its approach to conceptualizing
and providing CBA on a national level
in the most cost-effective manner
possible.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time. The CBA providers will
complete their field visits in one day (8
hours). Eighteen of the participating
CBOs are dually funded under both
PS11–1113 and PS10–1003; they
participated in a similar process under
the earlier cooperative agreement.
Therefore, they will not need to
complete the full tool nor participate in
a full-day field visit; the burden will be
reduced for these respondents.

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