Nonmaterial Change Request

Requirements for the Importation of Nonhuman Primates into the United States

(OMB Control No. 0920-0263)

Request for Non-Substantive Change to Currently Approved Data Collection

November 3, 2016

Program Contact

Lee Samuel

Office of Policy and Planning

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1600 Clifton Road, N.E., MS C12

Atlanta, Georgia 30333

Phone: (404) 718-1616

Email: llj3@cdc.gov

Circumstances of Change Request for OMB 0920-0263

Consistent with the SAFE Port Act of 2006, CDC accepts notification of nonhuman primate shipments via the International Trade Data System (ITDS) and the Automated Cargo Environment (ACE). CDC seeks to clarify that the agency plans to accept most of these documents via the Document Imaging System (DIS) and potentially CDC PGA Message Sets if that capacity is developed at a later date.

There will be no changes to information collection instruments. Only the method by which respondents submit their forms would change. Both CDC and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will publicize the fact that imports can now be documented via ACE/ITDS. CDC plans to communicate this change to trade and industry via notification in CBP’s Cargo System Messaging Service (CSMS). CDC is also seeking to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying importers of these changes and explaining CDC’s notification requirements in ITDS/ACE, including the use of DIS.

Description of Changes

The following collections may be submitted via DIS:

1. Recordkeeping and reporting requirements for importing NHPs: Notification of shipment arrival 71.53(n) (no form)
   Importers may submit notification of shipment arrival via DIS. In the event that importers/filers choose to use ITDS/ACE to document the importation of nonhuman primates or nonhuman primate products, the information requested of the importers/filers in DIS is the email notification message generated by CDC’s Quarantine Activity Reporting System (QARS) when a registered importer notifies CDC of an incoming nonhuman primate shipment.

2. Documentation of Non-infectiousness 71.53(t)
   Importers may submit documentation under this collection via DIS.

CDC does not anticipate that the changes to the mode of submittal of these documents will alter the burden nor volume of responses.

Burden

As a result of this proposed update, CDC does not anticipate any change in burden to this information collection.

Privacy Impact Assessment

These proposed updates to the submission process for nonhuman primate notifications will have no effect on the Privacy Impact Assessment provided in the supporting statement for the information collection approved under OMB 0920-0263.