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CDC anticipates that 450 new HOPS
study participants will be recruited
annually into HOPS from a pool of
patients with HIV currently in HIV-care
at the eight aforementioned clinics (50–
60 patients per site). Patients are
approached during one of their routine
clinic visits to participate in HOPS.
Patients interested in participating in

each year. Medical record abstractions
will be completed on all HOPS
participants and impose no direct
burden on HOPS study participants.
Participation of respondents is
voluntary. CDC request OMB approval
for an estimated 428 annual burden
hours. There is no cost to the
respondents other than their time.

HOPS are given detailed information
about the nature of the study and
provided with written informed consent
that must be completed prior to
enrollment. The 450 newly enrolled
participants each year will be added to
the database of existing participants
such that approximately 2,700
participants will be seen in the HOPS

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
burden per
response
(in hr)

Total burden
(in hr)

Form name

HOPS Study Patients .......................
HOPS Study Patients .......................

Behavioral survey .............................
Consent form ....................................

2,700
450

1
1

7/60
15/60

315
113

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

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

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

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

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

428

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–23–23CO; Docket No. CDC–2023–
0011]

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 information collection, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on a proposed information
collection project titled the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Rapid Surveys System (RSS). The RSS
is a new survey system being designed
to complement the current household
survey systems at NCHS. The RSS will
use survey data from probability-based
online panels to produce time-sensitive
estimates of new and emerging public
health topics, attitudes, and behaviors.

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CDC must receive written
comments on or before April 18, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2023–
0011 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
www.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 H21–8, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
www.regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
through the Federal eRulemaking portal
(www.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
H21–8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329;
Telephone: 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
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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
National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS) Rapid Surveys System (RSS)—
New—National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Section 306 of the Public Health
Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C.), as
amended, authorizes that the Secretary
of Health and Human Services (HHS),
acting through NCHS, collect data about

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the health of the population of the
United States. The NCHS Rapid Surveys
System (RSS) will collect data on
emerging public health topics, attitudes,
and behaviors using cross-sectional
samples from two commercially
available, national probability-based
online panels. The RSS will then
combine these data to form estimates
that approximate national
representation in ways that many data
collection approaches cannot. The RSS
is intended to collect data in contexts in
which decision makers’ need for timesensitive data of known quality about
emerging and priority health concerns is
a higher priority than their need for
statistically unbiased estimates.
The RSS will complement NCHS’s
current household survey systems. As
quicker turnaround surveys that require
less accuracy and precision than CDC’s
more rigorous population representative
surveys, the RSS will incorporate
multiple mechanisms to carefully
evaluate the resulting survey data for its
appropriateness for use in public health
surveillance and research (e.g.,
hypothesis generating) and facilitate
continuous quality improvement by
supplementing these panels with
intensive efforts to understand how well
the estimates reflect populations at most
risk. The RSS data dissemination
strategy will communicate the strengths
and limitations of data collected
through online probability panels as
compared to more robust data collection
methods.

maintained by each of the contractors. A
separate 30-day OMB package and
Federal Register notice with the draft
data collection instrument will be
submitted for each round of data
collection. As part of the base
(minimum sample size), each round of
data collection will collect 2,000
responses per quarter. The RSS can be
expanded by increasing the number of
completed responses per round and/or
the number of rounds per year as
needed up to a maximum of 28,000
responses per year per contractor or
56,000 total responses per year.
Additionally, each data collection may
include up to 2,000 additional
responses per quarter (8,000 for the
year) to improve representativeness.
This increases the maximum burden by
up to 16,000 responses per year. The
RSS may also target individual surveys
to collect data only from specific
subgroups within existing survey panels
and may supplement data collection for
such groups with additional
respondents from other probability or
nonprobability samples. An additional
12,000 responses per year may be used
for these developmental activities.
Survey questions being asked of the
panelists will be cognitively tested. This
cognitive testing will help survey users
interpret the findings by understanding
how respondents answer each question.
CDC requests OMB approval for an
estimated 28,080 burden hours annually
over the course of the three-year
approval. There are no costs to
respondents other than their time.

The RSS has three major goals: (1) to
provide CDC and other partners with
time-sensitive data of known quality
about emerging and priority health
concerns; (2) to use these data
collections to continue NCHS’s
evaluation of the quality of public
health estimates generated from
commercial online panels; and (3) to
improve methods to communicate the
appropriateness of public health
estimates generated from commercial
online panels.
Each round’s questionnaire will
consist of four main components: (1)
basic demographic information on
respondents to be used as covariates in
analyses; (2) new, emerging, or
supplemental content proposed by
NCHS, other CDC Centers, Institute, and
Offices, and other HHS agencies; (3)
questions used for calibrating the survey
weights; and (4) additional content
selected by NCHS to evaluate against
relevant benchmarks. NCHS will use
questions from components (1) and (2)
to provide relevant, timely data on new,
emerging, and priority health topics to
be used for decision making. NCHS will
use questions from components (3) and
(4) to weight and evaluate the quality of
the estimates coming from questions in
component (1) and (2). Components (1)
and (2) will contain different topics in
each round of the survey.
The RSS is designed to have four
rounds of data collection each year with
two contractors. A cross-sectional
nationally representative sample will be
drawn from the online probability panel

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Type of survey

Number of
responses per
respondent

Total burden
hours

Base Surveys ...................................................................................................
Potential Sample Expansion ............................................................................
Additional Surveys to Increase Representativeness .......................................
Developmental: Additional Surveys for Specific Subgroups ...........................
Cognitive Interviews .........................................................................................

16,000
40,000
16,000
12,000
80

1
1
1
1
1

20/60
20/60
20/60
20/60
1

5,333
13,334
5,333
4,000
80

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

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

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

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

28,080

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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