[Federal Register: March 17, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 52)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30dy-08-07BH]
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) 639-5960 or send an email to
omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974.
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-NET) Program--New--
National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The purpose of this project is to conduct research focused on
identifying the environmental causes of food and waterborne illness and
improving environmental public health practice. This research program
is conducted by the Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net),
a collaborative project of CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), and nine states
(California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, New York, Minnesota, Oregon,
Rhode Island, and Tennessee). The network consists of environmental
health professionals, epidemiologists, and laboratorians.
EHS-Net plans to conduct a maximum of 35 applied research projects
per year. These research projects will focus on identifying and
understanding environmental factors associated with food and waterborne
illness, such as poor food and water handling practices. These projects
will also focus on evaluation of food and water safety regulatory
programs. Data collection for these projects may involve: (1) Surveys,
(2) observations, and (3) food, water, and environmental sampling. Data
may be collected from: (1) Retail food establishments, where the
majority of foodborne illness outbreaks originate, (2) public and non-
public water systems, representing possible sources of waterborne
illness, and (3) environmental public health program regulators (food
and water), who are responsible for food and water safety.
There will be up to 3,900 respondents for retail food service
workers; 2,200 respondents for water system operators; and 4,275
respondents for environmental public health program (food and water)
regulators. Each respondent will respond only once and the average
burden per response will be approximately 90 minutes. The maximum total
annual burden for all EHS-Net projects is expected to be approximately
20,625 hours.
There is no cost to the respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden
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Number of Average burden
Respondents Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
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Retail food service workers--pretest for data collection........ 300 1 1.5
Retail food service workers--data collection.................... 3,600 1 1.5
Water system operators--pretest for data collection............. 200 1 1.5
Water system operators--data collection......................... 2,000 1 1.5
Environmental public health program (food and water) regulators-- 375 1 1.5
pretest for data collection....................................
Environmental public health program (food and water) regulators-- 3,900 1 1.5
data collection................................................
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Dated: March 11, 2008.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8-5261 Filed 3-14-08; 8:45 am]
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