[Federal Register: December 27, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 249)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-03-26]
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 Anne O'Connor, 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: National Program of Cancer Registries--Cancer
Surveillance System 0920-0469--Extension--National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
The American Cancer Society estimates that about 1.2 million
Americans will be newly diagnosed with cancer and that about 8.2
million Americans are currently alive with a history of cancer. The
National Institutes of Health estimates the cost of cancer is about
$172 billion including ($61 billion) direct costs to treat cancer and
($111 billion) indirect costs in lost productivity due to illness and
premature death.
In 2000, CDC implemented the National Program of Cancer Registries
(NPCR)--Cancer Surveillance System (CSS) to collect, evaluate and
disseminate cancer incidence data collected by population-based cancer
registries. In 2002, CDC published United States Cancer Statistics--
1999 Incidence which provided cancer statistics for 78% of the United
States population from all cancer registries whose data met national
data standards. Prior to this, at the national level, cancer incidence
data were available for only 14% of the population of the United
States.
With this expanded coverage of the U.S. population, it will now be
possible to better describe geographic variation in cancer incidence
throughout the country and provide incidence data on minority
populations and rare cancers to further plan and evaluate state and
national cancer control and prevention efforts.
Therefore, the CDC's NCCDPHP, Division of Cancer Prevention and
Control, proposes to continue to aggregate existing cancer incidence
data from states funded by the National Program of Cancer Registries
into a national surveillance system.
These data are already collected and aggregated at the state level.
Thus the additional burden on the states is small. Funded states are
asked to continue to report data to CDC on an annual basis twelve
months after the close of a diagnosis year and again at twenty-four
months to obtain more complete incidence data and vital status from
mortality data. The estimated annualized cost to respondents is
$885,000.
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No. of Average burden/
Respondents No. of responses/ response (in Total burden
respondents respondent hours) (in hours)
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State, Territorial, and District of Columbia 63 1 2 126
Cancer Registries..............................
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Dated: December 20, 2002.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-32657 Filed 12-26-02; 8:45 am]
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