CDC Seeks Feedback on Outbreak Reporting Forms: Bureaucracy at Its Finest
Published Date: 8/19/2025
Notice
Summary
The CDC is asking for your thoughts on their National Outbreak Reporting System forms to make sure they’re useful and not too much work. They’re giving everyone 30 more days to share ideas before finalizing things. This helps keep the process smooth and saves time and money for those who fill out these forms.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Estimated time burden for respondents
CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated total of 1,160 annual burden hours for NORS (OMB Control No. 0920-1304). The table lists 59 epidemiologists each submitting 59 responses per respondent at an average of 20/60 hours (20 minutes) per response.
NORS moves to cloud-only submissions
Starting approximately October 2025, the National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) will be a module in the One CDC Data Platform (1CDP) and all NORS data must be submitted electronically to the cloud-based platform. A paper form is provided only as a reference; CDC will not collect paper forms.
Field descriptions clarified for EO compliance
The notice states that minor clarifications were made to the description of select NORS fields to ensure compliance with Executive Order 14168: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government.
No change to data elements collected
CDC explicitly states that no changes have been made to the data elements collected for NORS even though the system host will change; only minor clarifications to some field descriptions were made.
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