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Previous ICR	202212-2127-001

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is seeking approval from OMB of this information collection request (ICR) for an extension with modification of its currently approved information collection for the Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS) information collection and related special studies. NHTSA is seeking approval to modify the collection to include the collection of the portion of NHTSA’s Non-Traffic Surveillance (NTS) data that is submitted through the CRSS data collection effort and add two special studies. NHTSA is authorized by 49 U.S.C. 30182 and 23 U.S.C. 403 to collect data on motor vehicle traffic crashes to aid in the identification of issues and the development, implementation, and evaluation of motor vehicle and highway safety countermeasures to support efforts to reduce injuries and fatalities caused by motor vehicle crashes. CRSS is a voluntary collection of data from police-reported crashes involving all types of motor vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists; this includes property damage only crashes as well as those resulting in injuries and fatalities. The Non-Traffic Surveillance (NTS) is a virtual data collection effort for collecting information about non-traffic crashes and non-crash incidents. The NTS data provide counts and details regarding fatalities and injuries that occur in non-traffic crashes and in non-crash incidents. Additionally, two special studies are included: the non-Sample count study and the PJ frame evaluation which will assess the quality of the CRSS sampling frame and assist with determining the weights and measure of size for the CRSS Police Jurisdictions (PJs). This is a modification to the previously approved as OMB Control No. 2127-0714 (current expiration Date: 12/31/2022). This ICR increases burden by 7,000 hours (from 35,680 hours to 42,680 hours). The cost burden remains the same at $0.

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Previous ICR	202310-2577-001

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The Tribal Housing and Urban Development Veteran Administration Supportive Housing Program (Tribal HUD–VASH) provides rental housing assistance and supportive services to Native American veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness living on or near a reservation or other Indian areas. Housing assistance under this program is available by grants to tribes and Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs) that are eligible to receive Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) funding under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act (25 U.S.C. 4101) (NAHASDA). Grants and renewal funds are awarded and approved by HUD. Grants include an additional amount for administrative costs and eligible homeless veterans receive case management services through the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Previous ICR	202306-2577-001

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Application for the ROSS Service Coordinator grant program for Public Housing; Eligible applicants are PHAs, Tribes/TDHEs, Non-Profits and Resident Associations. Information collected will be used to evaluate applications and award grants.

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Previous ICR	202307-1840-003

Federal Register Notices

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Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement (McNair) Program grantees must submit the Annual Performance Report each year. The reports are used to evaluate grantees' performance for substantial progress, respond to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and award prior experience points at the end of each project (budget) period. The Department also aggregates the data to provide descriptive information on the projects and to analyze the impact of the McNair Program on the academic progress of participating students.

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Previous ICR	202307-1840-004

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All Veterans Upward Bound projects must provide instruction in mathematics through pre-calculus, laboratory science, foreign language, composition, and literature. Projects may also provide short-term remedial or refresher courses for veterans who are high school graduates but have delayed pursuing postsecondary education. Projects are also expected to assist veterans in securing support services from other locally available resources such as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans- associations, and other state and local agencies that serve veterans. The Department-s annual performance report (APR) for VUB collects each current grantee-s data at the participant level on services and performance over the course of a year. The Department uses the information conveyed in the performance report to assess a grantee-s progress in meeting its approved goals and objectives and to evaluate a grantee-s prior experience in accordance with the program regulations in 34 CFR 645.32. Grantees- annual performance reports also provide information on the outcomes of projects- work and of the VUB program as a whole. In addition, APR data allows the Department to respond to the reporting requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act. The APR has been updated to include questions related to the Competitive Preference Priorities used in the most recent competition. These questions are not expected to affect the total burden hours per response.

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Previous ICR	202306-1840-004

Federal Register Notices

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The Department of Education (ED) collects Annual Performance Reports (APRs) from Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) grantees under the authority of Title IV, Part A, Subpart 2, Division 1, Sections 402A and 402B of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, the program regulations in 34 CFR 644, and the Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR), in 34 CFR 74.51, 75.720, and 75.732. The information that grantees submit in their APRs allows ED to annually assess each grantee's progress in meeting their project's approved goals and objectives. The APR data that grantees submit are compared with the projects' approved objectives to determine the projects' accomplishments, to make decisions regarding whether funding should be continued, and to award "prior experience" points. The regulations for this program provide for awarding up to 15 points for prior experience (34 CR 644.22). During a competition for new grant awards, the prior experience points are added to the average of the peer reviewers' scores to arrive at a total score for each application. Funding recommendations and decisions are primarily based on the rank order of applications on the slate; therefore, assessment of prior experience points, based on data in the annual performance report, is a crucial part of the overall application process. Further, this performance report form is the main source of data for the Department's response to the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) for this program. In addition, the Department uses the annual performance reports to produce program level data for annual reporting, budget submissions to OMB, Congressional hearings and inquiries, and responding to inquiries from higher education interest groups and the general public. EOC APRs are prepared and submitted by EOC grant projects. For each EOC grant project, the grant project director of record completes, or supervises the completion of the data submission process. The grant project director supervises the administration of an EOC grant. An EOC grant provides counseling and information on college admissions to qualified adults who want to enter or continue a program of postsecondary education. The program also provides services to improve the financial and economic literacy of participants. An important objective of the program is to counsel participants on financial aid options, including basic financial planning skills, and to assist in the application process. The goal of the EOC program is to increase the number of adult participants who enroll in postsecondary education institutions. The proposed revision to the APR entails replacement of Competitive Preference Priority (CPP) questions with new CPP questions of equal response time. In addition, the annual number of responses and total annual burden hours have been adjusted to reflect an increase in the size of the reporting universe.

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Previous ICR	202312-0524-003

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The purpose of this collection is to renew the information collection and also revise it to include three reporting modules that are currently part of the currently approved REEport information collection (0524-0044). Specifically, the Financial Report for Programs/Projects, the Project/Program Initiation, and the Project/Program Results modules. NIFA is also requesting to include a new OGFM Supplemental module. Finally, NIFA is requesting to include a new field in the Project/Program Results module reports to request digital persistent identifiers, and to allow respondents to provide information on Co-Project Director(s) when applicable. The requested revisions will allow NIFA to comply with updated reporting requirements found in NSPM-33 and revised Departmental Regulations (DR 1020-006).

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Previous ICR	202402-0524-001

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Research, Education, and Extension project online reporting tool (REEport) is used to document programmatic, technical, and financial content for ongoing research, education, and extension activities in agriculture, food science, human nutrition, and forestry to meet the relevant regulatory reporting requirements for NIFA's competitive grant programs.

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Previous ICR	202303-3316-001

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Applications for employment are needed to collect qualifications, determine suitability & veterans preference, & to make comparative appraisals & assist in selections. Affected public consists of individuals who voluntary apply for employment.

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Previous ICR	202309-1405-004

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The purpose of the DS-4079 questionnaire is to determine current citizenship status and the possibility of loss of United States citizenship. The information provided assists consular officers and the Department of State in determining if the U.S. citizen has lost his or her nationality by voluntarily performing an expatriating act with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality.

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Previous ICR	202112-0920-012

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The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) collects information for surveillance to monitor the occurrence of violent deaths in the U.S. at the national, state, and local levels. Data is used to understand magnitude, trends, and characteristics of violent death and what factors protect people or put them at risk for experiencing violence. This revision includes 1) updates to the web-based system to improve performance, functionality, and accessibility, 2) new variables, 3) addition of a School Associated Violent Death (SAVD) module to prepare for discontinuation of OMB No. 0920-0604, and 4) addition of a Public Safety Officer suicide module.

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Previous ICR	202403-0920-015

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This information collection request (ICR) facilitates agency initiation and conduct of the investigation of fatigue and fatigue management in land-based Oil and Gas Extraction (OGE) workers in the United States. Collection of information may help a) identify occupational and non-occupational determinants of fatigue in OGE workers; b) identify worker and organizational factors to consider when developing and implementing fatigue management strategies in the OGE industry; and c) describe how fatigue mitigation strategies are currently being used in the onshore OGE industry.

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SPD-15 Implementation	Yes
Previous ICR	202407-0920-007

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The main goal of the National Firefighter Registry (NFR), according to the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018, is, “to develop and maintain a voluntary registry of firefighters to collect relevant health and occupational information of such firefighters for purposes of determining cancer incidence.” This Non-Substantive Change Request is submitted for the following reason(s): 1) Modification of R/E question to follow the recently released Statistical Policy Directive 15 (SPD-15) Standard in the NFR Enrollment Questionnaire; 2) Removal of three questions in the Enrollment Questionnaire that are being asked exclusively in the User Profile; and 3) Modification of Sex question to conform to EO 14168. There is no change to the burden hours approved for this data collection.

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Previous ICR	202411-0920-015

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The goal of this information collection request (ICR) is to collect Annual Progress Report (APR) performance monitoring data via the web-based Cooperative Agreement Management Platform (CAMP). This APR data helps monitor the grantees under Grants for Injury Control Research Centers (ICRC). CDC/NCIPC is submitting a Change Request to revise/remove questions to better align the information collection request with the priorities and Orders issued by the current administration. There are no anticipated changes to the currently approved burden hours.

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Previous ICR	202409-0920-005

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This information collection is designed to collect the MDN and response-specific data as needed, for confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of any disease or condition that is the subject of an emergency response at CDC. During an emergency response, CDC uses case data to inform actions that need to be taken at all levels of public health and by the public. State, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) health departments and CDC need to exchange data on confirmed, probable, and suspected cases rapidly. Timely notification of cases from STLT to CDC is critical to provide situational awareness at the federal level to support decision making, particularly for public health threats. This change request involves adhering to recent executive orders.

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Previous ICR	202305-0920-015

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The goal of this study is to evaluate an online, interactive training on fatigue management tailored to taxi drivers and other for-hire rideshare drivers. The proposed study is a longitudinal, randomized design comparing two interventions and a control over 5 study periods. One group of 60 drivers will receive both interventions: fatigue training and daily feedback on estimated fatigue score. A second group of 60 drivers will receive only the fatigue training. A third group of 60 drivers will receive neither intervention. All participating drivers will take a self-administered questionnaire, wear a wrist actigraph to measure sleep quality, complete a sleep and activities diary, and take a sleep health and driving knowledge assessment. Drivers taking the training will be asked to complete an evaluation. Findings will be used to improve the training program for potential future dissemination. This change request updates documents to follow executive orders.

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Previous ICR	202404-0920-006

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The goal of the study is to amend one question on our list of potential additional questions to support data collection for a winter 2023/2024 pilot project. There is a continuous need to have no more than four of the additional questions added to the primary instrument at any given time, there is no additional burden to the participant. The responses to these questions will be collected using the same digital questionnaire as the primary instrument. The PRA-approved supporting statement A (SSA) and consent form both indicate the potential for testing for additional pathogens, and the data collected from this additional question is necessary for the interpretation of test results from the pathogens for which are now testing. This change request modifies the collection to adhere to current execute orders.

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Previous ICR	202412-0915-001

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The goal of this ongoing monitoring and evaluation is to assess Healthy Start (HS) progress towards meeting its performance goals. Results from monitoring and evaluation efforts will provide actionable evidence to support the improvement, sustainability, replication, and dissemination of the program. The information collected will be used to obtain consistent information across all 100 grantees about HS, its participants, and its outcomes. Respondents include pregnant women and women of reproductive age that were served by HS and HS staff. This revision seeks to reduce the burden of data collection on grantees and program participants, as well as to focus the evaluation more clearly on progress towards meeting performance goals regarding program impact. In the process, this will ensure that collected data is meaningful for monitoring and evaluation, and that previously separate data systems can be streamlined, thus improving efficiency.

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Previous ICR	202412-0970-003

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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks renewal of this generic data collection development clearance to allow us to use samples of more than nine participants in applying methods useful for identifying data collection material and procedural problems, and pretesting questions and procedures. This will allow for identification of solutions and measuring the relative effectiveness of alternative solutions and for identification of appropriate questions to meet the intended purposes and uses of data collection efforts. The ACF Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) studies ACF programs, and the populations they serve, through rigorous research and evaluation projects. These include evaluations of existing programs, evaluations of innovative approaches to helping low-income children and families, research syntheses and descriptive and exploratory studies. This umbrella generic was originally written and has been used for pretesting research and evaluation data collection efforts primarily by OPRE. ACF program offices also collect data for a variety of purposes including but not limited to performance reporting and monitoring of funding recipients; understanding of the populations served including who they are, what their needs are, and how we can serve them better; program and service improvement feedback; research and evaluation; etc. For this reason, ACF proposes to broaden the scope of this generic to include pretesting of data elements used on information collections that are not specifically for research and evaluation. This could be used to inform a variety of data collection efforts in ACF to allow for consistent data requests across program offices that are high quality and appropriate for program office needs and for respondents who represent ACF program populations. This generic clearance will continue to allow us to identify if and when an information collection may be simplified for respondents, respondent burden may be reduced, among other possible improvements. The work completed under this generic is intended to be informative in nature; the studies may be iterative, as variation in questions or procedures are proposed, evaluated, and retested. The pretesting of data collection materials is necessary to improve future ACF information collections, resulting in higher quality data with the best possible utility for the government and its stakeholders, when appropriate. The core methodology and target populations will be consistent and burden caps and token of appreciation structure are proposed in this request. Updates to individual GenICs and the umbrella SSA are currently being submitted to make updates in response to recent presidential actions in 2025.

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Previous ICR	202408-0970-004

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Information collection for the Next Generation of Enhanced Employment Strategies (NextGen) Project was originally approved in April 2020 and granted a three-year extension in April 2023. Approval covered 11 data collection instruments including a baseline survey, identifying and contact information, two follow-up participant surveys, service receipt tracking, program and staff surveys, program and employer discussion guides, an in-depth participant interview, and a cost workbook. Currently, the NextGen Project has completed study enrollment and is fielding both the first and second follow-up surveys (Instruments 3 and 4) with NextGen study participants across four programs. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

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Previous ICR	202404-0970-005

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The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is conducting the R3-Impact study which includes an impact and implementation evaluation of the Parent Mentor Program (PMP). OMB initially approved data collection instruments for this project on September 21, 2023. A nonsubstantive change request was approved on March 26, 2024. Since approval, the OMB published revisions to statistical policy directive (SPD) No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (89 FR 22182). Since data collection for R-3 Impact is planned over the next few years and study enrollment has not yet begun, OPRE would like to make updates now to implement the new standards as outlined in this publication. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

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Previous ICR	202306-0970-003

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The consequences of adolescent sexual activity remain a critical social and economic issue in the United States, shaping the lives of thousands of teens and their families every year. Despite declining births to teen mothers over the past 25 years, the teen birthrate in the United States remains higher than that in other industrialized countries and varies widely across geographic regions and racial/ethnic groups (Martin et al. 2017). Further, adolescents and young adults account for half of all new sexually transmitted infection (STI) cases each year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2022). Sexual activity in youth is also related to engaging in other risky behaviors such as alcohol and substance use. In March 2010, Congress authorized the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). PREP provides grants to states, tribes and tribal communities, and community organizations to support evidence-based programs to reduce teen pregnancy and STIs. The programs are required to provide education on both abstinence and contraceptive use. The programs also offer information on adulthood preparation subjects such as healthy relationships, adolescent development, financial literacy, parent–child communication, education and employment skills, and healthy life skills. Grantees are encouraged to target their programming to high-risk populations—for example, youth in foster care, homeless youth, youth with HIV/AIDS, pregnant youth who are under age 21, mothers who are under age 21, and youth residing in geographic areas with high teen birth rates. The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-352) requires federal agencies to report annually on measures of program performance. It is essential that PREP grantees report the performance data described in this information collection request to enable the Administration for Children and Families to carry out its reporting requirements to Congress and the Office of Management and Budget. This request seeks to (1) to extend the previously approved data collection of the performance measures from PREP grantees with proposed revisions. Specifically, ACF is requesting approval to eliminate the requirement for grantees to aggregate participant survey data to the program level for submission starting with the 2023-2024 data. Updates made to program-level data collection forms (Instruments 3b and 4b) reflect this request. Grantees will continue to use the currently approved data collection forms (Instruments 3a and 4a) for submission of 2022-2023 data. Additionally, we are requesting a study name change from Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Performance Measures and Adulthood Preparation Subjects Study (PREP PMAPS) to Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Performance Measures, as the data collection for the Adulthood Preparation Subjects Study is complete. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

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Previous ICR	202407-0970-005

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This is the second of two information collection requests for the Testing Identified Elements for Success in Fatherhood Programs (Fatherhood TIES) study. The first request (approved December 7, 2023) included consent for participants to enter the study, baseline data collection, and data collection about program processes and outcomes during the study period to support the study team’s understanding of implementation and how it could be improved. In this second request, approval is being sought for the remainder of study data collection which seeks to gather additional information about program implementation and outcomes. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

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Previous ICR	202501-0970-004

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This request is to establish a new umbrella generic clearance for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to request information from potential participants at ACF gatherings, such as meetings or conferences. This may include large scale conferences, meetings for grantees or contractors, workshops, trainings, poster sessions, and other in-person and virtual gatherings for individuals with interest in ACF programs (clients, researchers, policymakers, etc.), among others. To ensure ACF has adequate information to plan these activities, the Agency must often collect information from potential participants such as basic contact information, preferences for attendance (mode, special requests, etc.), organizational affiliation, feedback about meeting content, etc. Additionally, some activities require ACF to have additional information to have the means to select the most appropriate participants for attendance according to the type or purpose of a given activity, or to group participants into the most appropriate category or activity during an event. This may include information about poster presentations, speaking panels, training courses, professional perspectives or experiences, etc. In addition, attendees may be asked to submit an application or abstract for prescreening to be selected for attendance. The planning for meetings is most often on a quick timeline and the standard timeline to comply with a full request under the Paperwork Reduction Act would inhibit the ability to collect information to inform these activities. Therefore, an umbrella generic is necessary to allow for quick turnaround requests for similar information collections related to these activities. As part of this generic, ACF requests OMB provide a response on individual generic information collections within 5 business days. If no response is received and the request meets the purposes, uses and scope outlined in this document, ACF may move forward with the proposed information collection.

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Previous ICR	202412-0920-019

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The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) is a system designed to accumulate, exchange, and integrate relevant information and resources among private and public stakeholders to support local and national efforts to protect patients and promote healthcare safety. Specifically, the data is used to determine the magnitude of various healthcare-associated adverse events and trends in the rates of these events among patients and healthcare workers with similar risks. The data will be used to detect changes in the epidemiology of adverse events resulting from new and current medical therapies and changing risks. This Change Request is submitted to adhere to recent EOs and includes another minor change.Emergency Justfication:Emergency Processing is requested to add three (3) additional pathogens of concern to the NHSN (OMB Control No. 0920-0666) data collection: Influenza A (H5), Marburg, and Oropouche. This requested update in disease surveillance will illustrate which patient populations are being affected by these pathogens and the potential need for additional healthcare infection prevention and control. Since this form is collecting data on hospitalized patients, the update will also help inform on the severity of illness a high consequence pathogen is causing as well as what region(s) of the country are affected. Data collection is vital to ensure that local and state authorities are supported to prepare for and respond to emerging outbreaks.