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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Institute for Occupational Safety and demonstration projects are needed to
HUMAN SERVICES Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease evaluate interventions in damp
Control and Prevention (CDC). buildings.
Centers for Disease Control and
Background and Brief Description NIOSH is proposing to conduct an
Prevention
initial cross-sectional respiratory health
[60 Day–07–07BD] The mission of the National Institute survey in three schools. The study will
for Occupational Safety and Health
then continue with two additional years
Proposed Data Collections Submitted (NIOSH) is to promote safety and health
of longitudinal follow-up, which will be
for Public Comment and at work for all people through research
used to assess respiratory health and
Recommendations and prevention. The Occupational
environmental conditions in relation to
Safety and Health Act, Public Law 91–
In compliance with the requirement time and intervention status in the three
596 (section 20[a][1]) authorizes the
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the National Institute for Occupational schools. NIOSH will study one school
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for Safety and Health (NIOSH) to conduct with no history of building leaks and
opportunity for public comment on research to advance the health and good control of internal moisture
proposed data collection projects, the safety of workers. NIOSH is conducting sources, one school with previous
Centers for Disease Control and a longitudinal study among teachers and building leaks and water damage but
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic staff in public schools. The goals of this with subsequent renovation before the
summaries of proposed projects. To study are (1) To document the time start of the study, and one school with
request more information on the course of changes in respiratory health, current building leaks and dampness
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of problems with renovation scheduled
sick leave, and quality of life in relation
the data collection plans and during the study. The questionnaire will
to building remediation for water
instruments, call 404–639–5960 and be administered each year to
incursion and dampness problems and
send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar, approximately 255 respondents by an
(2) to validate the reporting of building-
CDC Acting Reports Clearance Officer, interviewer who will record the
related lower respiratory symptoms in
1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, responses directly into a computer. It
school staff with bronchial hyper-
GA 30333 or send an e-mail to will include sections on the
responsiveness by the use of serial
omb@cdc.gov. participant’s medical history, work
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether spirometry to look for building-related
patterns of airflow variability. history, and home environment. All
the proposed collection of information
The Centers for Disease Control and participants from the initial cross-
is necessary for the proper performance
Prevention sponsored the Institute of sectional survey meeting an
of the functions of the agency, including
Medicine to make an exhaustive review epidemiologic definition of asthma and
whether the information shall have
of the published literature relating reporting that the symptoms improve
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the exposures in damp buildings to health away from the school will be asked to
proposed collection of information; (c) consequences. The committee findings, perform spirometry and a methacholine
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and summarized in Damp Indoor Spaces and challenge test, or if obstructed, a
clarity of the information to be Health (Institute of Medicine of the bronchodilator test, both of which are
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the National Academies of Science 2004), standard medical tests for asthma;
burden of the collection of information concluded that sufficient evidence NIOSH anticipates about 45 respondents
on respondents, including through the exists for associating the presence of for these tests. Of those 45, 20
use of automated collection techniques mold or other agents in damp buildings participants who are positive for either
or other forms of information to nasal and throat symptoms, cough, test will also be asked to participate in
technology. Written comments should wheeze, asthma symptoms in sensitized the serial spirometry study, which will
be received within 60 days of this asthmatics, and hypersensitivity cover three weeks during the school
notice. pneumonitis in susceptible persons. term and an additional three weeks
Identification of specific causal agents during the summer break. Participation
Proposed Project for these health outcomes in damp in all surveys is completely voluntary.
Building Related Asthma Research in environments requires more There are no costs to the respondents
Public Schools—New—National investigation, and more research and other than their time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Number of Average burden
Number of Total Burden
Form name responses per per response
respondents (in hours)
respondent (in hours)

Health questionnaire ................................................................................ 255 1 1 255

Health questionnaire and lung function testing ....................................... 25 1 2 50
Health questionnaire, lung function testing, serial spirometry ................ 20 1 39 780

Total .................................................................................................. .......................... .......................... .......................... 1,085

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Dated: June 22, 2007. or other forms of information gonorrhea in the CDC’s Sexually
Maryam I. Daneshvar, technology. Written comments should Transmitted Diseases Treatment
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for be received within 60 days of this Guidelines, 2006 and to release an
Disease Control and Prevention. notice. MMWR article stating the CDC no
[FR Doc. E7–12504 Filed 6–27–07; 8:45 am] longer recommended fluoroquinolones
Proposed Project
BILLING CODE 4163–18–P for treatment of gonococcal infections
The Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance (CDC, MMWR, Vol. 56, No. 14, 332–
Project (GISP) (OMB No. 0920–0307)— 336).
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Extension—National Center for HIV/ Under the GISP protocol, clinics are
HUMAN SERVICES AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB asked to provide 25 isolates per month.
Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for However, due to low volume at some
[60 Day–07–0307] Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). sites, clinics submit an average of 20
Centers for Disease Control and isolates per clinic per month, providing
Background and Brief Description
Prevention; Proposed Data Collections an average of 121 isolates per laboratory
The objectives of GISP are: (1) To per month. For Forms 1 and 2, a
Submitted for Public Comment and
monitor trends in antimicrobial ‘‘response’’ is defined as the laboratory
Recommendations
susceptibility of strains of Neisseria processing and data collection/
In compliance with the requirement gonorrhoeae in the United States and (2) processing associated with an
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the to characterize resistant isolates. GISP individual gonococcal isolate from an
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for provides critical surveillance for individual patient. The estimated time
opportunity for public comment on antimicrobial resistance, allowing for for clinical personnel to abstract data for
proposed data collection projects, the informed treatment recommendations. Form 1 is 11 minutes per response (20
Centers for Disease Control and GISP was established in 1986 as a isolates per clinic per month; the total
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic voluntary surveillance project and now number of responses per 30 clinics is
summaries of proposed projects. To involves 5 regional laboratories and 30 240). Based on previous laboratory
request more information on the publicly funded sexually transmitted experience in analyzing the gonococcal
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of disease clinics around the country. The isolates, the estimated burden for each
the data collection plans and STD clinics submit up to 25 gonococcal participating laboratory for Form 2 is 1
instruments, call 404–639–5960 or send isolates per month to the regional hour per response, which includes the
comments to Maryam Daneshvar, Acting laboratories, which measure time required for laboratory processing
CDC Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 susceptibility to a panel of antibiotics. of the client’s isolate, gathering and
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA Limited demographic and clinical maintaining the data needed, and
30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. information corresponding to the completing and reviewing the collection
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether isolates are submitted directly by the of information. We estimate 121
the proposed collection of information clinics to CDC. gonococcal isolates per laboratory each
is necessary for the proper performance During 1986–2006, GISP has month (total number of responses per 5
of the functions of the agency, including demonstrated the ability to effectively laboratories is 1,452). For Form 3, a
whether the information shall have achieve its objectives. The emergence of ‘‘response’’ is defined as the laboratory
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the resistance in the United States to processing and recording of laboratory
agency’s estimate of the burden of the penicillin, tetracyclines, and now data for a set of 7 control strains. It takes
proposed collection of information; (c) fluoroquinolones was identified through approximately 12 minutes to process
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and GISP and makes ongoing surveillance and record the laboratory data on Form
clarity of the information to be critical. Increased prevalence of 3 for one set of 7 control strains, of
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the fluoroquinolone-resistant N. which there are 4 sets (total number of
burden of the collection of information gonorrhoeae (QRNG) as seen in GISP responses per 5 laboratories is 48).
on respondents, including through the data has prompted the CDC to update There is no cost to respondents other
use of automated collection techniques the treatment recommendations for than their time.

ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Average
Number of
Number of burden Total burden
Types of forms responses per
respondents per response (in hours)
respondent (in hours)

Clinic:
Form 1 ...................................................................................................... 30 240 11/60 1,320
Laboratory:
Form 2 ...................................................................................................... 5 1,452 1 7,260
Form 3 ...................................................................................................... 5 48 12/60 48

Total ................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 8,628

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