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CDC seeks comment by 2026-11-04 on NWSS wastewater data collection renewal

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionHealth and Human ServicesConsultationOct 5, 2026

Check: The National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) data collection, which includes tribal participants, is open for 30 days of public comment to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), closing 2026-11-04.

Read in the Federal Register

What it does

CDC has asked OMB to approve a three-year continuation of NWSS data collection, which currently supports six tribes and two tribe-serving organizations. The revision moves data submission from the DCIPHER platform to the NWSS-One CDC Platform (1CDP) and reduces the estimated burden because case data are no longer collected. Tribal health programs in NWSS should expect the platform change in how they report data.

Why it matters for tribal funding

Tribes eligible. Tribes or Native organizations are among those who can apply or are covered, alongside others.

Who it covers: Tribal governments.

What to do next

  1. Submit any comments to OMB by 2026-11-04 (within 30 days of the 2026-10-05 publication) at www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, searching for OMB Control No. 0920-1422.
  2. Call (404) 639-7570 to request the information collection plan and instruments, including the 1CDP reporting templates.

Sources

Every signal is built from public records. The highlighted words appear in the source exactly as shown.

  • Federal Register: tribal termsNoticeOct 5, 2026

    Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    • Quoted from the source: “Comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice”
    • Quoted from the source: “NWSS-One CDC Platform (1CDP) accepts data from US jurisdictional partners, allowing them to submit, view, and analyze wastewater detections and trends in near real time.”
    • Quoted from the source: “Modifications to the data collection package include and update on platform used to collect data from the Data Collation and Integration for Public Health Event Response (DCIPHER) to 1CDP”
    Read in the Federal RegisterU.S. government record, public domain.

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