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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–21–0792; Docket No. CDC–2021–
0032]

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 effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a proposed and/or continuing
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This notice invites comment on a
proposed information collection project
titled Environmental Health Specialists
Network (EHS-Net) Program. The goal of
this food safety research program is to
collect data in retail food establishments
that will identify and address
environmental factors (e.g., manager
food safety certification, equipment
condition, etc.) associated with retailrelated foodborne illness and outbreaks.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before June 4, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2021–
0032 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. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
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 Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS–

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D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone:
404–639–7118; 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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
4. Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses; and
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
Environmental Health Specialists
Network (EHS-Net) Program—OMB
Control No. 0920–0792, Exp. 8/31/
2021)—Revision—National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), is requesting a three-year
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
clearance for a Revision of this generic
clearance for Environmental Health
Specialists Network (EHS-Net) data
collections to support research focused
on identifying and addressing the

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environmental causes of foodborne
illness.
An estimated 47.8 million foodborne
illnesses occur annually in the United
States, resulting in 127,839
hospitalizations, and 3,037 deaths
annually. These figures indicate that
foodborne illness is a significant
problem in the U.S. Reducing foodborne
illness requires identification and
understanding of the environmental
factors that cause these illnesses. We
need to know how and why food
becomes contaminated with foodborne
illness pathogens. This information can
then be used to determine effective food
safety prevention methods, increase
regulatory program effectiveness, and
decrease foodborne illness. The purpose
of this food safety research program is
to identify and understand
environmental factors associated with
foodborne illness and outbreaks. This
program is conducted by the EHS-Net,
a collaborative project of CDC, U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA), and local and state sites.
Environmental factors associated with
foodborne illness include both food
safety practices (e.g., inadequate
cleaning practices) and the factors in the
environment associated with those
practices (e.g., worker and retail food
establishment characteristics). To
understand these factors, we need to
collect data from those who prepare
food (i.e., food workers) and on the
environments in which the food is
prepared (i.e., retail food establishment
kitchens). Thus, data collection methods
for this generic clearance include: (1)
Manager and worker interviews or penand-paper assessments, and (2)
observation of kitchen environments.
Both methods allow data collection on
food safety practices and environmental
factors associated with those practices.
To date, EHS-Net has conducted five
studies under this generic clearance.
The data from these studies have been
disseminated to environmental public
health/food safety regulatory programs
and the food industry in the form of
presentations at conferences and
meetings, scientific journal
publications, and website postings. The
current package is a Revision of the
previous PRA clearance from 2018. The
sites in which data will be collected
differ. CDC funded a renewal of the
EHS-Net cooperative agreement in 2020;
as a result, one site was dropped from
the agreement (California), and one was
added (Franklin County, Ohio). The
other sites remained the same. These
are: Harris County, Texas; Minnesota,
New York; New York City, New York;

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Rhode Island; Southern Nevada Health
District, Nevada; and Tennessee.
The total annual time burden
requested will be reduced by 766 hours
for reasons described below.
• Although the annual number of
restaurants remains the same (n=400),
we have reduced the number of
respondents from ten to five food
workers per restaurant. Thus, the total
number of food workers to be
interviewed is reduced from 4,000 to
2,000 per year.

• The average time burden for food
workers has been reduced from 20
minutes to 17 minutes per response for
recruiting, informed consent, and
interview. Thus, the total time burden
for food workers is reduced from 1,333
to 500 hours per year.
• There are no requested changes to
the number of managers; however, their
time burden has increased by 200 hours
per year. We have transferred the
respondent type for observation from
health department staff in 2018 to the

managers in 2021. Managers incur this
additional time burden by allowing
health department staff to conduct the
observation activities in their
establishments. This change does not
result in any net difference in overall
time burden requested but eliminates
one respondent type.
The total estimated annual burden
requested is 1,011 hours. There is no
cost to the respondents other than their
time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

Retail managers ................................

Manager Recruiting Script ...............
Manager Interview/Assessment .......
Observation ......................................
Worker Recruiting Screener and Informed Consent.
Worker Interview/Assessment ..........

889
400
400
2,000

1
1
1
1

3/60
30/60
30/60
2/60

44
200
200
67

2,000

1

15/60

500

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

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

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

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

1,011

Retail food workers ...........................

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

Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of Science,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day-2021–21DZ; Docket No. CDC–2021–
0031]

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 effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a proposed and/or continuing
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This notice invites comment on a
proposed information collection project
titled Harm Reduction Toolkit for NonPrescription Syringe Sales in
Community Pharmacies. The aim of the

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project is to create harm reduction
products that can help: (1) Facilitate
greater access to sterile syringes through
pharmacy-based non-prescription
syringe sales (NPSS), (2) minimize the
burden of NPSS distribution on
pharmacists, and (3) improve pharmacy
personnel’s understanding of, and skills
with, NPSS efforts.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before June 4, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2021–
0031 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. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
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 Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS–

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D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone:
404–639–7118; Email: omb@cdc.gov.
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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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