[Federal Register: June 6, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 109)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-30-02]

 
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) 498-1210. 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

    National Public Health Performance Standards Program Local Public 
Health System Assessment--New--Public Health Practice Program Office 
(PHPPO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
    Since 1998, the CDC National Public Health Performance Standards 
Program has convened workgroups with the National Association of County 
and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the Association of State and 
Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the National Association of Local 
Boards of Health NALBOH), the American Public Health Association 
(APHA), and the Public Health Foundation (PHF) to develop performance 
standards for public health systems based on the ten Essential Services 
of Public Health. In the fall of 2000, CDC conducted field tests with 
the local public health survey instruments in the States of Hawaii, 
Minnesota, and Mississippi.
    CDC is now proposing to implement a voluntary data collection to 
assess the capacity of local public health systems to deliver the 
Essential Public Health Services. Electronic data submission will be 
the method of choice. If computer technology in local jurisdictions 
does not support electronic submission, hard-copy survey instruments 
will be available. Local jurisdictions using hard-copy survey 
instruments will receive assistance from State or local level field 
coordinators for web-based data entry.
    Local health departments will respond to the survey on behalf of 
the collective body of representatives from the local public health 
system. An estimated 33 percent of local health departments will 
complete the local instrument in year one, 30 percent in year two and 
25 percent in year three. The total burden hours are estimated to be 
67,200.

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                                                                Average
                                                    Responses    burden
       Data collection period         Respondents      per      response
                                                   respondent  (in hrs.)
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Year 1..............................         875            1         24
Year 2..............................        1167            1         24
Year 3..............................         875            1         24
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    Dated: May 29, 2002.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-14127 Filed 6-5-02; 8:45 am]
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