[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 107 (Friday, June 3, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32212-32213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-13762]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-11-0106]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-5960 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-5806. 
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant (OMB No. 0920-
0106, exp. 8/31/2011)--Revision--National Center for Chronic Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion (NCDDPHP), Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant program 
provides awardees with their primary source of flexible funding for 
health promotion and disease prevention programs. Sixty-one awardees 
(50 states, the District of Columbia, two American Indian Tribes, and 
eight U.S. territories) currently receive block grants from CDC in 
order to address locally-defined public health needs in innovative 
ways. Block Grants allow awardees to prioritize the use of funds to 
fill funding gaps in programs that deal with the leading causes of 
death and disability. Block Grants also improve awardees' ability to 
respond rapidly to emerging health issues.
    CDC currently collects standardized application and performance 
information from each awardee through a web-based system called the 
Block Grant Management Information System (BGMIS). As required by the 
authorizing legislation for the Block Grant program, the BGMIS collects 
information by the areas described in Healthy People National Health 
Objectives, and improves adherence to its goals. The BGMIS requires 
awardees to enter their objectives in SMART (Specific, Measurable, 
Achievable, Realistic, and Time-based) format, and to use evidence 
based guidelines and best practices as the basis for public health 
programs and interventions. Finally, the BGMIS information collection 
includes a Compliance Review section, which provides feedback to each 
awardee pertaining to its past reviews.
    Information will be collected from awardees twice per year, once 
for the annual Work Plan, and once for the Annual Report. CDC will 
continue to use the information collected from Block Grant awardees to 
provide oversight and direction to recipients and to inform CDC 
management, decision makers, and the general public about PHHS Block 
Grant allocations, activities, and outcomes. There are no changes to 
the information being collected during the period of this Revision 
request, however, there are expected reductions in the estimated burden 
per response for both the Work Plan and the Annual Report. These 
reductions are due to changes in the BGMIS, which has been modified to 
allow pre-population of some fields. Respondents will only need to 
update information already entered into the system, thus improving the 
efficiency of reporting and reducing the burden per response. In 
addition, the guidance documents for both information collections are 
being revised to improve their usability.
    All information is collected electronically. There are no costs to 
respondents other than their time. The estimated annualized burden 
hours are 2,135.

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                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                  Number of      Average burden
            Respondents                    Form name            Number of       responses per     per response
                                                               respondents       respondent        (in hours)
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PHHS Block Grant Awardees..........  Work Plan............                61                 1                20
                                     Annual Report........                61                 1                15
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    Dated: May 27, 2011.
Daniel Holcomb,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-13762 Filed 6-2-11; 8:45 am]
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