[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 92 (Thursday, May 13, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25883-25884]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-12092]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control And Prevention
[INFO-99-17]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) is providing opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects. To request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
instruments, call the CDC Reports Clearance Officer on (404) 639-7090.
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; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques for other
forms of information technology. Send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24,
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received with 60 days of
this notice.
Proposed Projects
1. National Program of Cancer Registries--Cancer Surveillance
System--NEW-National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion (NCCDPHP). The American Cancer Society estimates that 8.2
million Americans have a history of cancer and that in 1999, about 1.2
million new cases will be diagnosed. At the national level, cancer
incidence data are available for only 14% of the population of the
United States. While this is appropriate for analyses of major cancers
in large population subgroups, it is not always adequate for minority
populations and rare cancer analyses. Further, to plan and evaluate
state and national cancer control and prevention efforts, national data
are needed. Therefore, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Division of
Cancer Prevention and Control, proposes to aggregate existing cancer
incidence data from states funded by the National Program of Cancer
Registries into a national surveillance system.
These data are already collected and aggregated at the state level.
Thus the additional burden on the states would be small. Program
implementation would require funded states to report data to the CDC on
an annual basis twelve months after the close of a diagnosis year and
again at twenty-four months to obtain more complete incidence data and
vital status from mortality data. The estimated total cost to
respondents is $885,000 per year.
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Number of Average burden/
Respondents Number pf responses/ response (in Total burden (in hrs.)
respondents respondent hrs.)
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State, territorial, and District 63 1 2 126
of Columbia cancer registries....
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2. Sentinel Network for Public Health Practice--NEW--The Division
of Public Health Systems, Public Health Practice Program Office (PHPPO)
proposes to establish a sentinel network of 160 local health
departments to provide ongoing public health system infrastructure and
capacity data. As the nation's prevention agency, the CDC is working to
support the US public health mission of rapidly detecting disease and
health risks, rapidly communicating, and strengthening the capacity to
respond. Towards that goal, CDC proposes to assess and strengthen the
nation's public health infrastructure by developing a network of local
health departments that will provide ongoing information to public
health leaders, policy makers, program managers and others to identify
needs, target resources, and assist in overall preparedness. Data
gathered by survey from the sentinel network will also lead to
improvement of the public health communications systems and reinforced
training and credentialing for core workforce skills, and will help in
developing standards for improved organizational performance.
The purpose of this Sentinel System and its related surveys are to:
(1) Assess data and information systems, public health workforce,
effective public health organization, relationships and resources that
enable the performance of the ten essential services of public health
for every community, and use these data in developing strategies to
strengthen the infrastructure of public health; (2) rapidly detect
changes in the health care environment as they affect the nation's
health; (3) evaluate the usefulness, readability, and impact of CDC
publications and documentation such as the Guide to Community
Preventive Services, and (4) provide the CDC and collaborators with
data to assist in measuring performance of local health departments.
Results from this research will be used to help the CDC in several
ways. These systematic, longitudinal data will allow CDC and the public
health community to improve infrastructure quality and capacity.
Examples of crosscutting infrastructure issues that may be identified
by these data include the extent of under-funding for public health,
the need for effective local leadership and for integrated electronic
information systems, and the emerging role of measurable standards for
local health departments. CDC publications evaluation data will allow
the CDC to assess how useful and linked to local need are its
resources, and to plan revisions and future products. The health
performance information will help direct the development of measurable
standards. The cost to the respondent is $0.00.
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Number of Avg. burden/
Form Number of responses/ response (in Total burden
respondents* respondent hrs.) (in hrs.)
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Assessing and Strengthening public health 80 2 8 1,280
infrastructure.................................
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Year 2
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Evaluating CDC Publications..................... 80 2 4 640
Assessing and strengthening public health 160 2 8 2,560
infrastructure.................................
Evaluating CDC Publications..................... 160 2 4 1,280
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Year 3
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Assessing and strengthening public health 160 2 8 2,560
infrastructure.................................
Evaluating CDC Publications..................... 160 2 4 1,280
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 9,600
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*Respondents are local health departments.
Dated: May 6, 1999.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-12092 Filed 5-12-99; 8:45 am]
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