[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14157-14158]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7376]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; The Framingham Study
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve
the information collection listed below. This proposed information
collection was previously published in the Federal Register on August
23, 1996, page 43557 and allowed 60-days for public comment. No public
comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes of
Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required
to respond to, an information collection that has been extended,
revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays
a currently valid OMB control number.
PROPOSED COLLECTION: Title: The Framingham Study. Type of Information
Collection Request: Extension of a currently approved collection (OMB
No. 0925-0216). Need and Use of Information Collection: This project
involves physical examination and testing of the surviving members of
the original Framingham Study cohort and the surviving members of the
offspring cohort. Investigators will contact doctors, hospitals, and
nursing homes to ascertain participants' cardiovascular events
occurring outside the study clinic. Information gathered will be used
to further describe the risk factors, occurrence rates, and
consequences of cardiovascular disease in middle aged and older men and
women. Frequency of Response: The cohort participants respond every two
years; the offspring participants respond every four years. Affected
Public: Individuals or households; Businesses or other for profit;
Small businesses or organizations. Type of Respondents: Middle aged and
elderly adults; doctors and staff of hospitals and nursing homes. The
annual reporting burden is as follows:
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Estimated
Estimated Average total
Estimated number of burden annual
Type of respondents number of responses hours per burden
respondents per response hours
respondent requested
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Original cohort............................................. 490 1.0 1.54 641
Offspring cohort............................................ 1,400 1.0 4.0 5,600
Event information \1\....................................... 1,258 1.0 0.38 472
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Total................................................. ........... ........... ........... 6,713
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\1\ Annual burden is placed on doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and respondent relatives/informants through
requests for information which will help in the compilation of the number and nature of new fatal and nonfatal
events occurring outside the Framingham examining clinic.
The cost to the respondents consists of their time and travel; time
is estimated using a rate of $10.00 per hour and travel is estimated
using a cost of $0.35 per mile. The annualized cost to original and
offspring cohort respondents is estimated at: $56,640. The annualized
cost for event information is $23,173. The Capital Costs are $229,000.
The Operating and Maintenance Costs are $2,692,000.
REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Written comments and/or suggestions from the
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the
following points: (1) 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; (2) 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) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) Ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of information on those who are to
respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
DIRECT COMMENTS TO OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions regarding
the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding the
estimated public burden and associated response time, should be
directed to the: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory
Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503, Attention: Desk Officer for NIH. To request more information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans
and instruments, contact: Ms. Suzanne Anthony, Project Clearance
Liaison, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Building 31,
Room 5A-10, MSC 2490, 31 Center Dr., Bethesda, MD 20892-2490 or call
non-toll free number (301) 496-9737, or E-mail your request, including
your address, to: [email protected]
COMMENTS DUE DATE: Comments regarding this information collect are best
assured of having their full effect if received by April 24, 1997.
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Dated: March 18, 1997.
Sheila E. Merritt,
Executive Officer, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
[FR Doc. 97-7376 Filed 3-24-97; 8:45 am]
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