Justification for Non-Substantive Change Request 15AUG2016

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)

OMB Control Number 0920-0728

Expiration Date: 01/31/2019

Program Contact

Umed Ajani

Associate Director for Surveillance

Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance

Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1600 Clifton Rd, MS-E91

Atlanta, GA 30329

Phone: (404) 498-0258

E-mail: uajani@cdc.gov

Submission Date: August 15, 2016

Circumstances of Change Request for OMB 0920-0728

This is a nonmaterial/non-substantive change request for OMB No. 0920-0728, expiration date 01/31/2019, for the reporting of Nationally Notifiable Diseases. The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) is the nation’s public health surveillance system that enables all levels of public health (local, state, territorial, federal and international) to monitor the occurrence and spread of the diseases and conditions that the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) has officially designated as either “nationally notifiable” or as under “national surveillance.” The NNDSS facilitates the submission and aggregation of case notification data voluntarily submitted to CDC from 57 jurisdictions: health departments in every U.S. state, New York City, Washington DC, and 5 U.S. territories (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). NNDSS also facilitates relevant data management, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of the information. The data are used to monitor health occurrence of notifiable conditions and to plan and conduct prevention and control programs at the state, territorial, local and national levels.

This request is for the addition of two new core data elements.

The new core data elements requested are “Occupation” and “Industry.” These data elements are needed to standardize the way work-related information is collected across conditions. This standardization is necessary so that data on various workplace exposures from different occupations and industries can be compared within and across various conditions to identify common exposure risks.

The new data elements requiring the change request are in the following table:

New Core Data Element

Data Element Identifier	Data Element Name	Data Element Description	Value Set Name
63743-9	Current Occupation	What kind of work do you do?	PHVS_Occupation_CDC_Census_2010
63742-1	Current Industry	What kind of business or industry do you work in?	PHVS_Industry_CDC_Census_2010

Burden

The annualized burden hours and cost to reporting jurisdictions to submit these data to CDC does not change from the original estimates in the “Estimates of Annualized Burden Hours and Costs” section in A.12 of OMB No. 0920-0728. The addition of core data elements will not add any additional burden because the reporting jurisdictions already collect those data elements. There will be no increase in burden for the reporting jurisdictions to send those data elements to CDC since most case notifications are submitted electronically from already existing databases via automated electronic transfers. CSTE recommends that jurisdictions collect these data for their own surveillance purposes. Requesting jurisdictions to submit these data (that they will already collect) to CDC will not increase the burden to the jurisdictions.

A.12A. Estimates of Annualized Burden Hours

Respondents	Number of Respondents	Number of Responses per Respondent	Average Burden Per Response (in hours)	Total Burden (in hours)
Weekly and Annual Submissions
States	50	52	10	26000
Territories	5	52	5	1300
Cities	2	52	10	1040
Total				28,340

A.12B. Estimates of Annualized Cost Burden

Type of Respondents	Form Name	Number of Respondents	Number of Responses per Respondent	Average Burden Per Response (in hours)	Total Burden Hours	Hourly Wage Rate	Respondent Cost
States	Weekly and Annual	50	52	10	26,000	$35.63	$926,380
Territories	Weekly and Annual	5	52	5	1,300	$35.63	$46,319
Cities	Weekly and Annual	2	52	2	1,040	$35.63	$37,055
Total							$1,009,754

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