[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 246 (Thursday, December 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 80436-80437]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-32548]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30DAY-08-01]
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) 639-7090. Send written
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Thyroid Disease in Persons Exposed to Radioactive Fallout From
Atomic Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site: Phase III--NEW--
National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). In 1997, the National Cancer Institute
(NCI) released a report entitled, Estimated Exposures and Thyroid Doses
Received by the American People from I-131 in Fallout Following Nevada
Nuclear Bomb Test. This report provided county-level estimates of the
potential radiation doses to the thyroid gland of American citizens
resulting from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test
Site (NTS) in the 1950's and 1960's. The Institute of Medicine (IOM)
conducted a formal peer review of the report at the request of the
Department of Health and Human Services. In the review, IOM noted that
the public might desire an assessment of the potential health impact of
nuclear weapons testing on American populations. The IOM also suggested
that further studies of the Utah residents who have participated in
previous studies of radiation exposure and thyroid disease might
provide this information.
The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), proposes to conduct a study of
the relation between exposure to radioactive fallout from atomic
weapons testing and the occurrence of thyroid disease on an extension
of a cohort study previously conducted by the University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, Utah. This study is designed as a follow-up to a
retrospective cohort study begun in 1965. This is the third examination
(hence Phase III) of a cohort of individuals who were children living
in Washington County, Utah, and Lincoln County, Nevada, in 1965 (Phase
I) and who were presumably exposed to fallout from above-ground nuclear
weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s. The cohort also
includes a control group who were children living in Graham County,
Arizona, in 1966 and presumably unexposed to fallout.
The study headquarters will be at the University of Utah in Salt
Lake City, Utah. The field teams will spend the majority of their time
in the urban areas nearest the original counties if the same pattern of
migration holds that was found in Phase II. These urban areas include
St. George, Utah, the Wasatch Front in Utah, Las Vegas, Nevada,
Phoenix/Tucson, Arizona, and Denver, Colorado. In addition, some time
will be spent in California as a number of subjects had relocated there
at the time of Phase II.
The purposes of Phase III are three fold: First to re-examine the
participants in Phase II for occurrence of thyroid neoplasia and other
diseases since 1986. Residents of the three counties who moved before
they could be included in the original cohort will be located and
examined. Second, disease incidence will be analyzed in addition to
period prevalence as used in the Phase II analysis. Use of incidence
will allow for greater power to detect increased risk of disease in the
exposed population through the use of person-time. Third, disease
specific mortality rates for Washington County, Utah, and a control
county, Cache County, Utah, will be compared for people who lived in
these two counties during the time of above-ground testing.
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Average
Number of Responses/ burden
Respondents respondents respondent response
(hrs)
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Telephone Location Script..... 4800 1 5/60
Telephone Location Script 240 1 5/60
(Return Letter)..............
Refusal Telephone Script...... 48 1 5/60
New Person Location Telephone 2400 1 5/60
Script.......................
Recruitment Next of Kin 240 1 5/60
Telephone Script.............
Questionnaire Not Returned 48 1 5/60
Script #1 (New)..............
Questionnaire Not Returned 12 1 5/60
Script #2 (New)..............
Recruitment & Appointment 4800 1 5/60
Script.......................
Broken Appointment Telephone 240 1 5/60
Script.......................
New Parent Recruitment & 120 1 5/60
Appointment Script...........
New Parent Alternate 60 1 5/60
Recruitment Script...........
Other New Parent Recruitment & 30 1 5/60
Appointment..................
Other Parent or Relative 30 1 5/60
Permissions Script...........
Exposure Questionnaire........ 2400 1 1
Questionnaire Preparation 2400 1 30/60
Booklet......................
Group Member Information...... 4800 1 5/60
Consent Forms................. 4800 1 10/60
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Interview Booklet............. 4800 1 30/60
Medical History Questionnaire 2400 1 1
(male).......................
Medical Records Release 240 1 5/60
Telephone Script.............
Medical History Questionnaire 2400 1 1
(female).....................
Travel Form................... 480 1 20/60
Residence History............. 2400 1 5/60
Refusal Questionnaire......... 48 1 5/60
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This comparison will determine if the risk of mortality in
Washington County (the exposed group) is significantly greater than
Cache County (the control group). CDC/NCEH is requesting a three-year
clearance. The annual burden hours are estimated to be 13,607.
Dated: December 15, 2000.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 00-32548 Filed 12-20-00; 8:45 am]
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