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Proposed Project
Extended Evaluation of the National
Tobacco Prevention and Control Public
Education Campaign—New—National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
In 2012, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) launched the first
federally funded, national mass media
campaign to educate consumers about
the adverse health consequences of
tobacco use (the National Tobacco
Prevention and Control Public
Education Campaign, or ‘‘The
Campaign’’). The Campaign continued
in 2013 and 2014 with advertisements
known as ‘‘Tips from Former Smokers.’’
Activities for Phase 3 of the campaign
are ongoing. To assess the impact of The
Campaign in Phases 1–3, CDC obtained
OMB approval to conduct a series of
longitudinal surveys of smokers and
nonsmokers (OMB Control Number
0920–0923, exp. 3/31/2017).
New media activities for Phases 4 and
5 of The Campaign are scheduled to
launch in March 2015. To support
evaluation of The Campaign through
Phase 5, CDC plans to field four new
waves of information collection. The
surveys will be fielded in English and

Information will be collected through
Web surveys to be self-administered on
computers in the respondents’ homes or
in another convenient location.
Information will be collected about
smokers’ and nonsmokers’ awareness of
and exposure to specific campaign
advertisements; knowledge, attitudes,
beliefs related to smoking and
secondhand smoke; and other marketing
exposure. The surveys will also measure
behaviors related to smoking cessation
(among the smokers in the sample) and
behaviors related to nonsmokers’
encouragement of smokers to quit
smoking, recommendations of cessation
services, and attitudes about other
tobacco and nicotine products.
It is important to evaluate The
Campaign in a context that assesses the
dynamic nature of tobacco product
marketing and uptake of various tobacco
products, particularly since these may
affect successful cessation rates. Survey
instruments may be updated to include
new or revised items on relevant topics,
including cigars, noncombustible
tobacco products, and other emerging
trends in tobacco use.
OMB approval is requested for two
years. Participation is voluntary and
there are no costs to respondents other
than their time.

Spanish and will occur during late
2015, 2016, and early 2017. Once
enrolled in the first wave of data
collection, all participants will be recontacted for follow-up at subsequent
survey waves.
The sample for the data collection
will originate from two sources: (1) An
online longitudinal cohort of smokers
and nonsmokers, sampled randomly
from postal mailing addresses in the
United States (address-based sample, or
ABS); and (2) the existing GfK
KnowledgePanel, an established longterm online panel of U.S. adults. The
ABS-sourced longitudinal cohort will
consist of smokers and nonsmokers who
have not previously participated in any
established online panels to reduce
potential panel conditioning bias from
previous participation. The new cohort
will be recruited by GfK, utilizing
similar recruitment methods that are
used in the recruitment of
KnowledgePanel. The GfK
KnowledgePanel will be used in
combination with the new ABS-sourced
cohort to support larger sample sizes
that will allow for more in-depth
subgroup analysis, which is a key
objective for CDC. All online surveys,
regardless of sample source, will be
conducted via the GfK KnowledgePanel
Web portal for self-administered
surveys.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

General Population ............................

Screening and Consent Questionnaire.
Smoker Survey (Wave A) ................
Smoker Survey (Wave B) ................
Smoker Survey (Wave C) ................
Smoker Survey (Wave D) ................
Nonsmoker Survey (Wave A) ..........
Nonsmoker Survey (Wave B) ..........
Nonsmoker Survey (Wave C) ..........
Nonsmoker Survey (Wave D) ..........

25,000

1

5/60

2,083

6,500
4,000
4,000
4,000
2,500
2,000
2,000
2,000

1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

30/60
30/60
30/60
30/60
30/60
30/60
30/60
30/60

3,250
2,000
2,000
2,000
1,250
1,000
1,000
1,000

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

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

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

15,583

Adults Smokers and Nonsmokers,
ages 18–54, in the United States.

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

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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and
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continuing effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. To request more
information on the below proposed
project or to obtain a copy of the
information collection plan and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send

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comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. 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; (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
technology; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
National Syndromic Surveillance
Program (BioSense, OMB Control No.
0920–0824, Expiration Date 10/31/
2015)—Revision—Center for
Surveillance, Epidemiology and

Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The BioSense Program was created by
congressional mandate as part of the
Public Health Security and Bioterrorism
Preparedness and Response Act of 2002
and was launched by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in
2003. The BioSense Program has since
been expanded into the National
Syndromic Surveillance Program
(NSSP) to promote the use of highquality syndromic surveillance data for
improved nationwide all-hazard
situational awareness for public health
decision making and enhanced
responses to hazardous events and
outbreaks.
NSSP is a collaboration among
individuals and organizations from the
local, state, and federal levels of public
health; other federal agencies, including
the Department of Defense (DoD) and
the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA);
and associations of public health
officials, including the Association of
State and Territorial Health Officials.
NSSP includes a community of practice,
a stakeholder governance process, and a
cloud-based syndromic surveillance
platform (the NSSP platform) that hosts
the BioSense application and other
analytic tools and services.
Syndromic surveillance is a process
that regularly and systematically uses
health and health-related data in near
real-time to make information on the
health of a community available to
public health officials. Patient
encounter, laboratory, and pharmacy
data from healthcare settings including
emergency departments, urgent care,
ambulatory care and inpatient settings
provide critical information for
syndromic surveillance and are used by
public health agencies under authorities
granted to them by applicable local and
state laws.
CDC requests a three-year approval for
a Revision for NSSP (BioSense, OMB
Control No. 0920–0824, Expiration Date
10/31/2015). With this revision, CDC
also requests the following collection

title: National Syndromic Surveillance
Program (NSSP). The NSSP will
continue to receive and processes four
different types of information: (1)
Contact information for state and local
public health officials who wish to have
data from their jurisdictions submitted
to NSSP (recruitment data); (2) contact
information for public health officials
and other new users needed to provide
them with access to the NSSP Platform
(registration data); (3) NSSP user
information needed to determine for
development of the NSSP platform and
to assess the usability of the platform
(user data) (since the number of
respondents will not exceed nine nonfederal users to assess usability, the
associated burden is not applicable to
this request); and (4) existing healthcare
encounter, pharmacy, and laboratory
data (healthcare data) without
personally identifiable information (PII).
As in the past, healthcare data will
continue to be submitted to NSSP by
state and local health departments or
hospitals in those jurisdictions, federal
agencies including the VA, DoD, a
national level private sector clinical
laboratory, and a private sector health
information exchange company.
In addition, healthcare data will be
submitted from urgent care, ambulatory
care and inpatient settings. The
inclusion of these additional data in
NNSP is consistent with the Department
of Health and Human Services’ criteria
for the ‘‘meaningful use’’ by public
health of electronic health records for
syndromic surveillance.
There are no costs to respondents
other than their time. Respondents in
this data submission include state and
local public health jurisdictions, federal
agencies, and the private sector
providers of healthcare, laboratory and
pharmacy data.
Though a large number of electronic
health records are transmitted to NSSP,
once the automated interfaces are set up
for transmission (developing the data
sharing agreements), there is no burden
for record transmission. The estimated
annual burden is 51 hours.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number
of
respondents

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Number of
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Average burden per
response
(in hours)

Total
burden
(in hours)

Recruitment Information Collection
State and Local Public Health Jurisdictions ....................
Federal Government ........................................................
Private Sector ..................................................................

20
2
3

1
1
1

1
1
1

20
2
3

1

5/60

17

Registration Information Collection
State and Local Public Health Jurisdictions ....................

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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Number
of
respondents

Type of respondents
Federal Government ........................................................
Private Sector ..................................................................

Number of
responses per
respondent
30
50

Average burden per
response
(in hours)
1
1

Total
burden
(in hours)

5/60
5/60

3
4

Healthcare Information Collection: Administrator Data Sharing Agreements/Permissions
State and Local Public Health Jurisdictions ....................
Federal Government ........................................................
Private Sector ..................................................................

20
2
3

1
0
0

5/60
5/60
0

2
0
0

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

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Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request
Title: Affordable Care Act Tribal
Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood
Home Visiting Program: Guidance for
Submitting an Annual Report to the
Secretary.
OMB No.: 0970–0409.
Description: Section 511(e)(8)(A) of
the Social Security Act, as added by
Section 2951 of the Affordable Care Act,
requires that grantees under the
Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood
Home Visiting (MIECHV) program for
states and jurisdictions submit an
annual report to the Secretary of Health
and Human Services regarding the
program and activities carried out under
the program, including such data and
information as the Secretary shall
require. Section 511 (h)(2)(A) further
states that the requirements for the
MIECHV grants to tribes, tribal
organizations, and urban Indian

organizations are to be consistent, to the
greatest extent practicable, with the
requirements for grantees under the
MIECHV program for states and
jurisdictions.
The Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Child Care, in
collaboration with the Health Resources
and Services Administration, Maternal
and Child Health Bureau, has awarded
grants for the Tribal Maternal, Infant,
and Early Childhood Home Visiting
Program (Tribal Home Visiting). The
Tribal Home Visiting discretionary
grants support cooperative agreements
to conduct community needs
assessments; plan for and implement
high-quality, culturally-relevant,
evidence-based home visiting programs
in at-risk tribal communities; establish,
measure, and report on progress toward
meeting performance measures in six
legislatively-mandated benchmark
areas; and participate in rigorous
evaluation activities to build the
knowledge base on home visiting among
Native populations.
Tribal Home Visiting grantees have
been notified that in every year of their
grant, after the first year, they must
comply with the requirement for
submitting an Annual Report to the
Secretary that should feature activities
carried out under the program during
the past reporting period. In order to
assist grantees with meeting the
requirements of the Annual Report to
the Secretary, ACF created guidance for
grantees to use when writing their

annual reports. The existing guidance
(OMB Control No. 0970–0409,
Expiration Date 9/30/15) provides
sections where grantees must address
the following:
• Update on Home Visiting Program
Goals and Objectives
• Update on the Implementation of
Home Visiting Program in Targeted
Community(ies)
• Progress toward Meeting
Legislatively Mandated Benchmark
Requirements
• Update on Rigorous Evaluation
Activities
• Home Visiting Program Continuous
Quality Improvement (CQI) Efforts
• Administration of Home Visiting
Program
• Technical Assistance Needs
The proposed data collection form is
as follows:
ACF is requesting approval to renew
and update the existing Tribal Home
Visiting Guidance for Submitting an
Annual Report to the Secretary (OMB
Control No. 0970–0409) that will
include instructions for grantees to
submit either an annual or final report
(in the final year of the grant) on the
progress of their program to the
Secretary, depending on the reporting
period.
Respondents: Tribal Maternal, Infant,
and Early Childhood Home Visiting
Program Managers (The information
collection does not include direct
interaction with individuals or families
that receive the services).

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Instrument

Annual
number of
respondents

Number of
responses
per
respondent

Total
responses

Average
burden
hours per
response

Total annual
burden
hours

Annual/Final Report to the Secretary (depending on reporting period) ..

25

1

1

50

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