[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 175 (Friday, September 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49188-49189]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-23507]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[INFO-99-34]
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 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed 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 within 60 days
of this notice.
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Proposed Project: CDC Application for Distance Learning Program,
Laboratory Training, and Other Training--Revision--The Public Health
Practice Program Office (PHPPO) in conjunction with the Public Health
Training Network (PHTN) and the National Laboratory Training Network
(NLTN) at CDC includes the Distance Learning Program which offers self-
study, computer-based training, satellite broadcast, video courses,
instructor-led field courses, and lab courses related to public health
professionals worldwide. Employees of hospitals, universities, medical
centers, laboratories, state and federal agencies, and state and local
health departments apply for training in an effort to learn up-to-date
public health procedures. The ``Application for Training'' forms are
the official applications used for all training activities conducted by
the CDC. The Continuing Education (CE) Program, which includes CDC's
accreditation to provide Continuing Medical Education (CME), Continuing
Nurse Education (CNE), and Continuing Education Unit (CEU) for almost
all training activities, requires a unique identifying number,
preferably the respondent's Social Security Number (SSN), to positively
identify and track individuals who have been awarded CE credit. It is
often necessary to identify individuals currently enrolled in courses,
or to retrieve historical information as to when a particular
individual completed a course or several courses over a time period.
This information provides the basis for producing a requested
transcript or determining if a person is enrolled in more than one
course. The use of the SSN is the only positive way of assigning a
unique number to a unique individual for this purpose. However, the use
of the SSN is voluntary; if a student chooses not to submit a SSN, CDC
assigns a unique identifier. The reason the SSN, rather than an
arbitrary assigned number, is preferred is because students are not
likely to remember an arbitrary number. A student's participation in
the curriculum of self-study courses sometimes spans a number of years.
The SSN is necessary for eliminating duplicate enrollments, for
properly crediting students with completed course work who have similar
names or have changed addresses, or for generating transcripts of
previous completed course work on a cumulative basis. Due to the volume
of enrollments, CDC Form 36.5 has been previously approved and used for
years as an optical mark scan form. Use of this form, along with the
use of the SSN, greatly enhances CDC's capability to process a much
greater volume of enrollments in less time with much greater accuracy.
The only cost to the respondent is the time involved to complete the
application (3-5 minutes each).
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No. of Avg. burden of
Respondents No. of responses/ response (In Total burden
respondents respondent hrs.) (In hrs.)
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Application for Training CDC--0.759A............ 6,300 1 5/60 525
Application for Laboratory Training--CDC-32.1... 10,0001 1 5/60 833
Application for Distance Learning Program--CDC 40,000 1 10/60 6,667
36.5...........................................
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Total....................................... 56,300 .............. .............. 8,025
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Dated: September 3, 1999.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-23507 Filed 9-9-99; 8:45 am]
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