[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 171 (Tuesday, September 4, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53888-53889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-21522]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as
amended most recently at 77 FR 43837--43841, dated July 26, 2012) is
amended to reflect the reorganization of the Office of Public Health
Preparedness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows:
Delete in its entirety the title and functional statements for the
Program Services Branch (CGCB), and Applied Science Evaluation Branch
(CGCC), within the Division of State and Local Readiness (CGC), and
insert the following:
Program Services Branch (CGCB). (1) Provides consultation and
technical assistance to state, territorial, tribal and local health
departments in management and operation of activities to support public
health preparedness, response and recovery including the infrastructure
and systems necessary to manage and use deployed Division of Strategic
National Stockpile (DSNS) assets; (2) facilitates partnerships between
public health preparedness programs at federal, state, and local levels
to ensure their consistency, sharing promising practices, and
integration; (3) collaborates with and supports other divisions in
OPHPR and other national centers across CDC to ensure high quality
technical assistance is available to the grantees on preparedness
capabilities; (4) supervises federal field staff providing technical
assistance to state and local public health preparedness programs; (5)
provides oversight to partnership organization cooperative agreements
and maintains a strong working relationship with national partners; (6)
monitors activities of cooperative agreements and grants of partners
and state, local, tribal and territorial organizations to assure
program objectives and key performance
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indicators are achieved including reviews of Cities Readiness
Initiative response plans; (7) provides assistance to state and local
governments and public health agencies in engaging communities of major
metropolitan areas to prepare for effective responses to large scale
public health events; (8) provides health communications guidance and
products before, during, and after an event to assist state/local
public health departments in developing risk communicating strategies
and messages; and (9) collaborates with the DSNS Response and Logistics
Branches during exercises or upon a federal deployment of DSNS assets.
Applied Science and Evaluation Branch (CGCC). (1) Assesses the
effectiveness of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP)
Cooperative Agreement;
(2) provide analytic support and evaluation expertise to the
Division of State and Local Readiness and the Office of Public Health
Preparedness and Response; (3) conducts, integrates, translates, and
leverages interdisciplinary preparedness science; (4) fosters
innovation and efficiency in evaluation and research through
collaboration with healthcare and health security partners; and (5)
develops evidence based recommendations to improve the quality of
decision-making on preparedness, response and recovery activities.
Delete in its entirety the title and functional statements for the
Office of the Director (CGE1), within the Division of Strategic
National Stockpile (CGE), and insert the following:
Office of the Director (CGE1). (1) Conducts the executive planning
and management of the division; (2) plans strategies and methods for
educating the public health and emergency response communities about
the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and its effective use; (3)
represents the DSNS in state, local, and federally sponsored exercises
to test community response to a catastrophic health event; (4) directs
and monitors a comprehensive strategy for managing and executing the
critical systems in operating a successful commercial good
manufacturing practice compliance program; (5) provides medical,
pharmaceutical, and scientific oversight of the SNS formulary; (6)
partners with other governmental agencies, public health organizations,
and commercial entities with interest and involvement in DSNS
activities and information; (7) coordinates the Stockpile Configuration
Management Board that is responsible for reviewing, reconciling, and
adjusting SNS package and kit design and contents to maintain
consistency with medical, scientific, resource, and end user
requirements; (8) provides leadership, guidance, and technical
integration of preparedness planning across the public health,
healthcare, and emergency management sectors; (9) provides status of
DSNS assets and deployment strategies to inform development and
refinement of SNS guidance and communications to PHEP awardees; (10)
serves as the point of contact for federal agencies, non-governmental
organizations, and partners for initiatives and issues relating to the
contents, management, deployment and use of DSNS assets; (11) develops
and implements innovative strategies and solutions to reduce the burden
of medical countermeasure distribution and dispensing from state and
local public health agencies; (12) collaborates with Division of State
and Local Readiness (DSLR) to promote and encourage PHEP awardees to
pilot and implement private-public partnerships and initiatives to
enhance medical countermeasure distribution and dispensing
capabilities; (13) provides guidance to prepare healthcare systems
partners for medical surge events and supply chain awareness, access,
to public sector pathways; and (14) develops and leverages systems to
manage, track and report the disposition of deployed SNS assets.
Delete in its entirety the title and functional statements for the
Program Preparedness Branch (CGEC).
After item (12) of the functional statement for the Response Branch
(CGEE), add the following: (13) supports response capabilities with
state and local medical countermeasure receipt, distribution and
dispensing training courses and exercise; and (14) coordinate staff
training in support of the SNS response capabilities.
After item (8) of the functional statement for the Operations
Branch (CGFB), Division of Select Agents and Toxins (CGF), add the
following: and (9) performs inspections of foreign select agent
laboratories in accordance with National Institutes of Health/National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases agreements.
Delete item (2) of the functional statement for the Program
Services Branch (CGFD), and insert the following: (2) processes permit
applications to import etiological agents, hosts, and vectors of human
disease (not limited to select agents) into the United States from
international sources.
Dated: August 16, 2012.
Sherri A. Berger,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2012-21522 Filed 8-31-12; 8:45 am]
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