[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50098-50099]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24005]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30 DAY-27-99]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-7090. Send written
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
1. Aggregate report of follow-up for contacts of tuberculosis, and
aggregate report of screening and preventive therapy for tuberculosis
infection: two revised tuberculosis program management reports--New--
National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP)--To ensure the
elimination of tuberculosis in the United States, key program
activities such as finding tuberculosis infections in recent contacts
of cases and in other persons likely to be infected, and providing
prevention therapy, must be monitored. The Division of Tuberculosis
Elimination (DTBE), is implementing two revised program management
reports for annual submission: Aggregate report of follow-up for
contacts of tuberculosis, and aggregate report of screening and
preventive therapy of tuberculosis infection. The respondents for these
reports are the 68 state and local tuberculosis control programs
receiving federal cooperative agreement funding through (DTBE). The
revised reports phase out two, twice-yearly program management reports
in the Tuberculosis Statistics and Program Evaluation Activity (OMB
0920-0026): Contact Follow-up (CDC 72.16) and Completion of Preventive
Therapy (CDC 72.21). The revised reports, which are being submitted for
an OMB approval outside of OMB 0920-0026, have several improvements
over the old reports for the respondents and for DTBE, such as the
emphasis on preventive therapy outcomes, the focus on high-priority
target populations vulnerable to tuberculosis, and programmed
electronic report generation and submission through the Tuberculosis
Information Management System. The old reports, CDC 72.16 and
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CDC 72.21, which have been submitted at least in some form by the
respondents since 1961, are tabulated by hand.
Three program management reports in the previous series already
have been phased out. They are Bacteriologic Conversion of Sputum (CDC
72.14), Case Register (CDC 72.15), and Drug Therapy (CDC 72.20). These
three reports have been superseded by integrated reporting in
Tuberculosis Statistics and Program Evaluation Activity (OMB 0920-
0026). The discontinuation of these reports has resulted in an
estimated reduction in the annual response burden of 159 hours. The
total annual burden hours are 136-340.
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No of Average burden
Report No. of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hrs.)
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Aggregate report of follow-up for contacts of tuberculosis...... 68 1 2.5
Aggregate report of screening and preventive therapy for TB 68 1 2.5
infection......................................................
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Date: September 9, 1999.
Nacy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-24005 Filed 9-14-99; 8:45 am]
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