CDC Wants Your Take on Poop-Powered Disease Tracking Forms!
Published Date: 10/5/2026
Notice
Summary
The CDC is asking for your thoughts on a new form to track diseases through wastewater. If you or your agency deal with this info, now’s the time to speak up—comments are open for 30 days. This review helps make sure the form is useful, clear, and not a hassle, with no new costs expected.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Reporting Time Burden on Health Depts., Utilities, Labs
State, tribal, local, and territorial health departments, wastewater utilities, and private laboratories will continue to submit wastewater sampling data and associated metadata to NWSS and CDC platforms. The CDC estimates a total annualized burden of 453,505 hours, including 64 health department respondents (2,080 responses) with a per-response burden listed as 139/60 hours, private laboratory submissions of up to 62,400 samples annually, and 213 sewershed respondents (one response each) with a per-response burden of 155/60 hours.
NWSS Continues Nationwide Surveillance
The CDC is asking OMB to approve continuation of the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) data collection for an additional three years (OMB Control No. 0920-1422, currently expires 2026-12-31). NWSS data cover about 142 million people (about 42% of the U.S. population) and provide an early warning signal roughly 4–6 days before trends appear in clinical surveillance, which jurisdictions can use to inform public health action.
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