Justification for Change

Request for Change for 0923-0048

ATSDR Exposure Investigations

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)requests a nonmaterial change to 0923-0048, ATSDR Exposure Investigations, due to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Information Collection Review Office’s error in submitting burden estimates for the original generic clearance request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). As stated in the Information Collection Request, ATSDR requested 1,200 respondents and 600 burden hours annually for this collection. When the information was entered into the Information Collection Request, Review and Approval System (ICRAS), those annual numbers were entered, and approved by OMB. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now realizes that the burden estimates entered should have covered all three years of information collection, that is, three times what was requested and granted.

ATSDR requests that 2,400 respondents and 1,200 hours are added to the collection, to total what we estimate will be required for three years under this generic information collection.