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4, 2017.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–17–17AVB; Docket No. CDC–2017–
0066]

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 ‘‘Leveraging the
Emerging Field of Disaster Citizen
Science to Enhance Community
Resilience to Improve Disaster
Response’’ project. This project will
include individual and group interviews
of citizen scientists and their partners
and will field a nationally
representative survey of local health
departments to understand experiences
and perceptions of citizen science for
disaster preparedness.

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Written comments must be
received on or before November 20,
2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0066 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: 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
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
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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
Leveraging the Emerging Field of
Disaster Citizen Science to Enhance
Community Resilience to Improve
Disaster Response—New—Office of
Public Health Preparedness and
Response (OPHPR), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
OPHPR’s mission is to safeguard
health and save lives by providing a
platform for public health preparedness
and emergency response. As part of its
role, OPHPR funds applied research to
improve the ability of CDC and its
partners, including but not limited to
state and local health departments,
emergency management organizations,
and health care entities, to effectively
prepare for and respond to public health
emergencies and disasters. The
proposed information collection project
is in accordance with OPHPR’s mission.
OPHPR requests approval of a new
information collection to learn about
how the emerging field of disaster
citizen science can enhance community
resilience for a period of one year. This
(mixed methods) information collection
uses interviews and a cross-sectional
survey. Researchers aim to: (1) Explore
the potential of disaster citizen science
for increasing community resilience,
enhancing participation in preparedness
and response activities, and improving
preparedness efforts; and (2) provide
evidence to inform the development of
educational and instructional tools for
communities and health departments to
navigate the emerging field of disaster
citizen science and promote
collaborations. CDC will use the insights
gained from this information collection
to inform the development of guidance

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and toolkits for LHDs and community
groups so that they can align their
efforts and strengthen the benefits and
positive impacts of citizen science
activities. For interviews, the
information collection will target citizen
scientists and end users of citizen
science data.
Citizen science is defined as research
activities (e.g., data collection, analysis,
and reporting) performed by members of
the general public without any
particular training in science. Citizen
science is growing in popularity, fueled
in part by growing use of smartphones
and other personal devices in the
population. Although citizen collection
and use of data during disasters has
increased exponentially in recent years
and there is great policy interest in the
phenomenon, there has been no robust
research to date on the use of, barriers
to, and impact of citizen science in
disasters. Local health departments
(LHDs) lack tools to respond to and
coordinate with citizen science
activities within communities.
Furthermore, citizen science
organizations lack information on how
to organize their activities for ultimate
impact.
This is an exploratory study and is the
first of its kind to explore the growing
phenomenon of disaster citizen science.
Disaster citizen science is a rapidly
growing field that is the focus of policy
interest, but currently devoid of

research. This study will generate
information that can help define the
phenomenon of disaster citizen science
and may result in nationally
representative baseline data that can
support changes in citizen science
awareness, barriers, and activities.
While interviews will be hypothesis
generating and provide rich data on the
experiences with citizen science to date
across all stakeholders active in this
enterprise, the nationally-representative
survey data will allow us to generalize
findings to the full population of LHDs
in the U.S.
CDC will collaborate with a contractor
to implement this project. Researchers
will target citizen scientists and their
partners (e.g., academics who work with
citizen scientists on research projects)
and LHDs in a position to use citizen
science data to inform public health
decision-making. For interviews,
researchers will sample for maximum
variation, seeking to obtain variation on
U.S. region, type and sophistication of
citizen science project, type of disaster
encountered, and previous experience
with disaster citizen science.
The researchers aim to conduct 35–55
individual and group facilitated semistructured interviews, each lasting
approximately 60 minutes, to cover
topics including benefits and uses of
citizen science, barriers to and
facilitators of citizen science, and
strengths and limitations of citizen

science activities and resources.
Researchers will identify potential
interview participants through literature
reviews and snowball sampling in a
phased approach starting with citizen
science and LHD organizations.
Researchers will sample for maximum
variation in order to capture the full
range of citizen scientist and health
department experiences on this topic.
For the survey, the researchers will
target a nationally representative sample
of 600 local health officials and will
apply survey weights to ensure that
findings have external validity and can
be generalized to LHDs in the U.S. The
survey, which will take 30 minutes to
complete, will include questions on
both citizen science as applied to
disaster preparedness and response, and
citizen science as occurring in other
contexts (such as environmental
health)to draw lessons for preparedness
and response.
OPHPR anticipates that the
knowledge resulting from this research
project will contribute significantly to
the evidence base for preparedness and
response and lead to improved
efficiency, effectiveness, and outcomes
in several domains.
Participation in this study is
voluntary. There are no costs to
respondents other than their time. A
summary of annualized burden hours is
below.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses
per
respondent

Number of
respondents

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

Citizen scientists and their partners;
local health officials.
Local health departments .................

Interview Guide (semi-structured
questionnaire).
Survey ..............................................

55

1

75/60

69

300

1

30/60

150

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

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

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219

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
HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA–2014–N–0192]

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ACTION:

Notice.

The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA or Agency) is
announcing an opportunity for public
comment on the proposed collection of
certain information by the Agency.
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are
required to publish notice in the
Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information,
including each proposed extension of an
existing collection of information, and
to allow 60 days for public comment in
response to the notice. This notice
solicits comments on the information
collection provisions found in the

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