Request for Approval

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: September 8, 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 a modification of 2 disease-specific data elements for babesiosis. The request is to change the timeframe of interest for two previously OMB-approved data elements from 8 weeks to a period of 1 year. There is no change in burden as the burden was accounted for at the time OMB No. 0920-0728 was originally submitted.

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

Modified Babesiosis Data Elements

Data Element Identifier	Data Element Name	Data Element Description
TBD	Blood Recipient/ Blood Transfusion	In the year before symptom onset or diagnosis, did the subject receive a blood transfusion?
TBD	Blood Donor	In the year before symptom onset or diagnosis, did the subject donate blood?

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 because reporting jurisdictions already collect this information and only approximately 10 cases of transfusion-associated babesiosis are reported each year across the United States. There will be no increase in burden for the reporting jurisdictions to send those data elements to CDC since most case notifications are submitted from already existing databases.

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	26,000
Territories	5	52	5	1,300
Cities	2	52	10	1,040
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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