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ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Average
burden per
response
in hours

Number of
responses per
respondent

Total burden
hours

Form

Employees .......................................

Health Hazard Evaluation specific
questionnaire example.
Contact information post card .........
First followback questionnaire .........
Second followback questionnaire ....

3,700

1

30/60

1,850

2,150
244
244

1
1
1

5/60
10/60
20/60

180
41
82

Third followback questionnaire ........

244

1

15/60

61

First followback questionnaire .........

98

1

10/60

17

Second followback questionnaire ....

98

1

15/60

25

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

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

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

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

2,960

Employees .......................................
Employees and Representatives;
Employers—Year 1 (on-site evaluation).
Employees and Representatives;
Employers—Year 2 (on-site evaluation).
Employees and Representatives;
Employers—Year 1 (without onsite evaluation).
Employees and Representatives;
Employers—Year 2 (without onsite evaluation).
Total ..........................................

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–17–1036; Docket No. CDC–2017–
0051]

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 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 ‘‘Community Assessment
for Public Health Emergency Response
(CASPER).’’ CASPER is an effective
public health tool designed to quickly
provide low-cost, household-based
information about a community’s needs
and health status in a simple, easy-tounderstand format for decision makers.

SUMMARY:

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Number of
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Type of respondent

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Written comments must be
received on or before July 31, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0051 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.
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 Leroy A.
Richardson, 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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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
Community Assessment for Public
Health Emergency Response (CASPER)
(OMB Control Number 0920–1036,
Expiration 12/31/2017)—Revision—
National Center for Environmental
Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description

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The National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH) is
requesting a revision of a currently
approved generic clearance information
collection request (GenICR) to allow the
Center to conduct Community
Assessments for Public Health
Emergency Response (CASPERs),
through methods developed by NCEH.
CASPER is an effective public health
tool designed to quickly provide lowcost, household-based information
about a community’s needs and health
status in a simple, easy-to-understand
format for decision makers. A CASPER
can be conducted any time the public
health needs of a community are not
well known, including as part of
disaster/emergency response to help
inform decision making and distribution
of resources, or in non-emergency
settings to assess the public health
needs of a community. In all situations,
CASPERs provide timely public health
information that is essential when
engaging in sound public health action.
For a CASPER to be initiated by CDC,
a state, local, tribal, or territorial
jurisdiction must first invite CDC to
participate. Communities are identified
by local, state, or regional emergency
managers and health department
officers. The process for conducting a
CASPER includes planning and
preparation, field work, analysis, and
sharing results with stakeholders.
Planning can take 24 hours to several
months depending on the type of
CASPER being conducted. Field work
takes approximately five days. Due to
emergency situations under which
CASPERs are often requested by states
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drought), it is important that CDC has
the ability to gain urgent approval for
data collection.
The CASPER uses a validated
statistical methodology that includes a
two-stage probability sampling
technique to collect information from a
representative sample of 210
households in the community. Within
the community, 30 clusters (typically
census blocks) are selected based on
probability proportional to size (i.e., the
number of households) and, within each
cluster, seven households are randomly
selected for interview.
Participation in a CASPER is
voluntary. Consenting participants are
not provided incentives for participating
in the survey. Face-to-face interviews,
usually taking 30 minutes or less, with
one adult (≥18 years of age) from a
selected household are recorded on
paper or in electronic form. In general,
yes/no and multiple choice questions
are used to collect household level
information including, but not limited
to, the following categories: Housing
unit type and extent of damage to the
dwelling, household needs, physical
and behavioral health status, perception
and response to public health
communications, household emergency
preparedness, and greatest reported
need. While a majority of CASPERs
collect only household-level
information, there may be instances
where the questionnaires are modified
to collect a small amount of individual
level data.
Participants give verbal consent.
Additionally, no data are collected that
could link specific questionnaires to
house addresses. Separate from the
questionnaire, a tracking form is used to
record the number of households
visited, record households that should
be revisited because a respondent was
unavailable for interview, and calculate
response rates upon completion of the
CASPER. Complete addresses, including
house number, street name, city, state,
and zip code, are never recorded on any
form. This information is not retained
by CDC or entered into any database.
There is no way to link data from the
tracking form to specific household
questionnaires.
Though each CASPER will be
different, in general, personally
identifying information is not collected.
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interview teams may come across
households with urgent needs that
present an immediate threat to life or
health, where calling emergency
services immediately is not appropriate.
In these instances, the team may refer
the household to appropriate services
using a referral form that is not attached
to the questionnaire. In the few
instances where these forms are
utilized, personally identifying
information is collected. However, the
forms go directly from the field team to
the local CASPER coordinator for
handling and rapid follow-up. When
referral forms are used, the information
is never retained by CDC or entered into
any database. There is no way to link
specific questionnaires to any
information on the referral form.
Since receiving initial approval for
this GenICR, CDC has conducted two
CASPERs. These CASPERs were in
support of the 2016 California Drought
in Mariposa County and the West
Virginia Flooding of 2016. The 2016
California Drought CASPER was a
successful collaboration between the
California Department of Public Health,
the Mariposa County Health
Department, and CDC which helped
characterize the impacts of drought in
Mariposa County as well as actions
households have taken. These results
were useful in allocating resources for
response to the drought and in
strengthening the emergency
preparedness capacity of Mariposa
County. The 2016 West Virginia Flood
CASPER assessed household disaster
preparedness, access to health care,
health impacts due to flood damage,
health information sources, and stage of
disaster recovery. Approval of this
revision of the GenICR will allow CDC
to continue to provide low-cost,
household-based information about a
community’s needs and health status in
a simple, easy-to-understand format for
decision makers.
The estimated annualized burden is
631 hours. The estimated burden is
based on conducting 6 emergency
CASPERs per year, interviewing 210
households per CASPER, conducting
30-minute interviews per household,
and completing 24 referral forms per
year. There is no cost to respondents
other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours

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Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

Households in the selected geographic area to
be assessed.

CASPER Questionnaire
Referral Form ...............

1,260
24

1
1

30/60
2/60

630
1

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

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

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

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

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

631

[60Day-17–17AGP; Docket No. CDC–2017–
0049]

• 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.

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations

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.

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

Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 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
collection entitled ‘‘Monitoring and
Reporting for the Core State Violence
and Injury Prevention (Core SVIPP)
Program Cooperative Enhanced
Component—Regional Network
Coordinating Organization (RNCO)’’
CDC will use the collection to collect
information needed for programmatic
activities of the Regional Network
Coordinating Organization (RNCO)
enhanced component funded under the
Core State Violence and Injury
Prevention Program (Core SVIPP)
cooperative agreement (CDC–RFA–
CE16–1602).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before July 31, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0049 by any of the following methods:
SUMMARY:

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response
(in hours)

Number of
responses per
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Number of
respondents

Type of respondents

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To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact Leroy A.
Richardson, 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
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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
Monitoring and Reporting for the Core
State Violence and Injury Prevention
(Core SVIPP) Program Cooperative
Enhanced Component—Regional
Network Coordinating Organization
(RNCO)—New—National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC intends to request a three-year
OMB approval for this new collection.
CDC’s National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is
committed to working with its partners
to promote action that reduces injuries,
violence, and disabilities, by providing
leadership in identifying priorities,
promoting prevention strategies,
developing useful tools, and monitoring
the effectiveness of Injury and Violence
Prevention (IVP) program activities.
Unintentional and violence-related
injuries and their consequences are the

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