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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Acting Chief, Information Collection Review
Office, Health Scientist, 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–16–16AXB; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0076]

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 Information Collection on
Feasibility of Social Distancing
Measures in K–12 Schools in the United
States, which is being conducted to
determine if the implementation of
social distancing strategies other than
school closures can be accomplished
without causing major detrimental
effects to ongoing education activities.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0076 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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.

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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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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
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
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data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Proposed Project
Feasibility of Social Distancing
Measures in K–12 Schools in the United
States—New—National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global
Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global
Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ),
requests approval of a new information
collection to identify social distancing
strategies to reduce person-to-person
contact among students and staff in
K–12 schools that are implementable
without causing major detrimental
effects to ongoing education activities.
CDC is requesting a one-year approval to
collect information.
The information collection for which
approval is sought is in accordance with
DGMQ/CDC’s mission to reduce
morbidity and mortality in mobile
populations, and to prevent the
introduction, transmission, or spread of
communicable diseases within the
United States. Insights gained from this
information collection will assist in the
planning and implementation of CDC
Pre-Pandemic Community Mitigation
Guidance on the use of school-based
measures to slow transmission during
an influenza pandemic.
School-aged children are often the
main introducers and an important
transmission source of influenza and
other respiratory viruses in their
families, and school-based outbreaks
frequently pre-date wide-spread
influenza transmission in the
surrounding communities. Therefore,
infection control measures undertaken
to reduce virus transmission among
children at schools may also help
prevent or postpone influenza outbreaks
in communities. In respiratory
transmission of influenza, proximity to
the person with influenza plays a
significant role. Strategies that increase
physical distance between students and/
or reduce the duration of person to
person contact in school settings may,
theoretically, be effective in slowing
influenza transmission. There have been
no evaluations to date of feasibility of
implementing social distancing
measures other than school closures.
Therefore, there is a need to research

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alternative social distancing strategies
that can help reduce influenza
transmission in schools while
minimizing social and economic
burdens on the community.
CDC staff proposes that the
information collection for this package
will target senior educators in each of
the 10 HHS regions. CDC will collect
qualitative data on current knowledge,
attitudes, and practices with regard to

organizing and delivering K–12
instruction in ways that help increase
space between students and/or reduce
daily duration of in-person instruction,
while preserving the normal education
process; this will be accomplished
through focus group discussions.
Findings obtained from this
information collection will be used to
inform the update CDC’s Pre-pandemic
Community Mitigation Guidance on the

implementation of school related
measures to prevent the spread of
influenza. This Guidance is used as an
important planning and reference tool
for both State and local health
departments in the United States.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time. The estimated
annualized burden hours for this data
collection are 1,400 hours.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

Senior educators (e.g. school principals, superintendents, teachers, senior leaders from state
agencies, etc.).

Social Distancing Questionnaire Form.

700

1

2

1,400

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

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

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

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

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

1,400

Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Health Scientist, Acting 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–16–16AWJ; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0082]

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 the ‘‘Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS) Asthma
Call-back Survey (ACBS).’’ The ACBS is
an in-depth asthma survey conducted
on a subset of BRFSS respondents with
an asthma diagnosis. The goal of this
survey is to strengthen the existing body

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of asthma data and to address critical
questions surrounding the health and
experiences of persons with asthma.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0082 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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

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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

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