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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–15–15BCU; Docket No. CDC–2015–
0074]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:

The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its 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. This notice invites
comment on the National Ambulatory
Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) on
Culturally and Linguistically
Appropriate Services (CLAS) Survey.
The purpose of the NAMCS CLAS
survey is to describe the awareness,
training, adoption, and implementation
of the Enhanced Standards for CLAS in
Health and Health Care among officebased physicians.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 27, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2015–
0074 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. All relevant comments
received will be posted without change
to Regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. For
access to the docket to read background
documents or comments received, go to
Regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Leroy A. Richardson, Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,1600

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Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires Federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
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.
Proposed Project
National Ambulatory Medical Care
Survey (NAMCS) on Culturally and
Linguistically Appropriate Services

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(CLAS) Survey—New—National Center
for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
As the population of the United States
becomes increasingly diverse, it is
important that health care providers
deliver culturally and linguistically
competent services. Culturally and
linguistically appropriate services
(CLAS) are respectful of and responsive
to individual cultural health beliefs and
practices, preferred languages, health
literacy levels, and communication
needs. The National CLAS Standards in
Health and Health Care were established
in 2000 by the Office of Minority Health
(OMH), Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS) to advance
health equity, improve quality, and
eliminate health care disparities. In
2013, OMH published the Enhanced
Standards for CLAS in Health and
Health Care to revise the National CLAS
Standards in order to reflect
advancements made since 2000, expand
their scope and improve their clarity to
ensure better understanding and
implementation. Although there has
been increased awareness and efforts to
train culturally and linguistically
competent health care providers, there
has not been a systematic evaluation of
the level of adoption or implementation
of the National CLAS Standards among
physicians. Due to the limited
understanding of how the Standards are
adopted and implemented, it is difficult
to know what goals have been achieved
and which need more work.
OMH came to NCHS’ Division of
Health Care Statistics with this project
because of our expertise collecting data
from physicians in the NAMCS. The
NAMCS CLAS project meets two of the
Division’s missions: Conduct
multidisciplinary research directed
towards development of new scientific
knowledge on the provision, use,
quality, and appropriateness of
ambulatory care; and develop and
sustain collaborative partnerships
internally within DHHS and externally
with public, private, domestic and
international entities on health care
statistics programs. The purpose of the
NAMCS CLAS survey is to describe the
awareness, training, adoption, and
implementation of the Enhanced
Standards for CLAS in Health and
Health Care among office-based
physicians. The information will be
collected directly from physician

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respondents through an online survey,
paper form or telephone administration.
Information that will be collected
includes demographic information,
specialty, number of years the physician
has provided direct patient care,
training related to cultural competency
and the National CLAS Standards,
provision of CLAS to patients,
organizational characteristics that
helped or prevented provision of CLAS,

as the basis to provide regional and
national estimates. Participation in the
CLAS survey is voluntary. There will be
no financial incentive to participate.
The CLAS survey will be a selfadministered online questionnaire, with
paper form and telephone
administration as follow-up alternatives
for non-respondents. A three-year
approval will be requested.
There is no cost to the respondents
other than their time.

and awareness of the National CLAS
Standards.
The target universe of the CLAS
survey includes non-federally employed
physicians who were classified by the
American Medical Association or the
American Osteopathic Association as
providing ‘‘office-based, patient care.’’
The target universe excludes physicians
in the specialties of anesthesiology,
radiology, and pathology. The survey
sample of 2,400 physicians will be used

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
hours

Form name

Office-based physicians ....................

NAMCS CLAS Survey .....................

800

1

30/60

400

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

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

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

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

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

400

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.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–15–15BEB; Docket No. CDC–2015–
0071]

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:

The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing efforts 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. This notice invites
comment on a proposed information
collect project entitled Balance After
Baby Intervention: Phase 2 (BABI2.) A
three-year clearance is requested to
conduct a randomized controlled trial of
a Web site-based lifestyle program with
a racially diverse population of

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responses per
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Number of
respondents

Type of respondent

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postpartum women who had recent
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 27, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2015–
0071 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. All relevant comments
received will be posted without change
to Regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. For
access to the docket to read background
documents or comments received, go to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be
submitted through the Federal eRulemaking
portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.

To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact the Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570;
Email: omb@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
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or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires Federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
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

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