[Federal Register: September 5, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 172)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-02-75]

 
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)498-1210.
    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 or 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.
    Proposed Project: Children's Longitudinal Development Study, OMB 
No. 0920-0450--Revision--National Center for Birth Defects and 
Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC). CDC developed the Children's Longitudinal Development 
Study to investigate etiologic factors for select developmental 
disabilities. Since 1991, surveillance of children aged three to ten 
years who have one or more select developmental disabilities (cerebral 
palsy, mental retardation, hearing loss, and vision impairment) has 
been conducted in the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area through CDC 
Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program 
(MADDSP).
    MADDSP has identified children with developmental disabilities 
primarily through the special education programs of the public schools 
in those five counties and select pediatric medical facilities. 
Recently, MADDSP expanded to identify children with cerebral palsy at 
younger ages through a broader array of medical facilities where 
diagnostic evaluations are performed, and autism has been included as 
one of the developmental disabilities.
    CDC National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental 
Disabilities Children's Longitudinal Development Study is an ongoing 
case-control study that will serve as an instrument to annually (1) 
contact parents of all children (750 children) with any of the five 
developmental disabilities who are newly identified in the surveillance 
database and who were born in the metro Atlanta area and parents of 250 
control children to request access to maternal prenatal, labor and 
delivery, and newborn medical records; and (2) conduct telephone 
interviews with mothers of children with cerebral palsy or autism (250 
children) and mothers of control children.
    The interviews will supply additional risk factor information 
relating to the mothers' medical and reproductive histories, prenatal 
behaviors and exposures, and family histories of developmental 
problems. Additionally photographs and head circumference measurements 
of children will be included in the interview sample. There is no cost 
to respondents.

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                                                                      No. of       Avg. burden/
               Survey instruments                     No. of        responses/     response (in    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondents       hours)        (in hours)
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Mothers contact calls Scheduling calls..........            1000               1           20/60             333
Scheduling calls................................             500               1           20/60             167
Telephone interview.............................             500               1           90/60             750
Photography/anthropomertry......................             500               1           45/60             375
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............            1625
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    Dated: August 28, 2002.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-22554 Filed 9-4-02; 8:45 am]
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