[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 137 (Thursday, July 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41691-41693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-16840]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-14-14AOO]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the
below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information
collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to
Leroy Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send
an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval. Comments are invited on: (a)
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Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on respondents, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of
operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide
information. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose
or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the
time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and
utilize technology and systems for the purpose of collecting,
validating and verifying information, processing and maintaining
information, and disclosing and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of information, to
search data sources, to complete and review the collection of
information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Monitoring and Reporting System for the Division of Community
Health's Cooperative Agreement Programs--New--National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established
the Division of Community Health (DCH) to support multi-sectorial,
community-based programs that promote healthy living. In 2014, DCH
announced three new cooperative agreement programs authorized by the
Public Health Service Act and the Prevention and Public Health Fund of
the Affordable Care Act (Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DP14-
1417, FOA DP14-1418, and FOA DP14-1419PPHF14). The new programs are
designed to address chronic diseases and risk factors for chronic
diseases, including physical inactivity, poor diet, obesity, and
tobacco use. The programs will provide support for implementation of
broad, evidence- and practice-based policy and environmental
improvements in large and small cities, urban rural areas, tribes,
multi-sectorial community coalitions, and racial and ethnic communities
experiencing chronic disease disparities. DCH programs align with the
National Prevention Strategy and ``Healthy People 2020'' focus areas.
Awards under the new FOAs will be announced in the Fall of 2014.
Awardees are expected to include a mix of approximately 57 state,
local, and tribal government entities, and approximately 51 private
sector entities including national organizations. CDC will seek OMB
approval to collect information from these awardees.
Information collection will be conducted primarily via an
electronic management information system (MIS) which will enable the
accurate, reliable, uniform and timely submission to CDC of each
awardee's work plans and progress reports, including objectives and
milestones. The electronic MIS will also generate a variety of routine
and customizable reports. Local level reports will allow each awardee
to summarize its activities and progress towards meeting work plan
objectives. CDC will use the information collected in the MIS to
monitor each awardee's progress and to identify its strengths and
weaknesses. Monitoring allows CDC to determine whether an awardee is
meeting performance goals and to make adjustments in the type and level
of technical assistance provided to them to support attainment of their
objectives. CDC's monitoring and evaluation activities also allow CDC
to provide oversight of the use of federal funds, and to identify and
disseminate information about successful prevention and control
strategies implemented by awardees. Finally, the information collection
will allow CDC to monitor the increased emphasis on partnerships and
programmatic collaboration, and is expected to reduce duplication of
effort, enhance program impact and maximize the use of federal funds.
The estimated burden of initial population of the MIS is 15 hours per
awardee. Thereafter, the estimated burden of producing each semi-annual
report is 3 hours.
Due to substantial interest in the new DCH programs from a variety
of stakeholders, CDC may also seek OMB approval to conduct targeted,
special-purpose information collections on an as-needed basis. CDC
estimates that each DCH awardee could be asked to participate in one
special purpose information collection per year. Methods for these data
collections could include telephone interviews, in-person interviews,
Web-based surveys, or paper-and-pencil surveys. Each special-purpose
information collection request will be submitted to OMB for approval
through the Change Request mechanism, and will include the data
collection instrument(s) and a description of purpose and methods.
OMB approval is requested for three years. Participation in semi-
annual progress reporting is required for cooperative agreement
awardees, but could be voluntary for some special-purpose data
collections. There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) (in hours)
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DCH Program Awardees (state, DCH MIS: Initial 19 1 15 285
local and tribal government population.
sector).
DCH MIS: Semi- 57 2 3 342
annual
reporting.
Special Data 19 1 17 323
Request.
DCH Program Awardees (private DCH MIS: Initial 17 1 15 255
sector). population.
DCH MIS: Semi- 51 2 3 306
annual
reporting.
Special Data 17 1 17 289
Request.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 1,800
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Leroy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-16840 Filed 7-16-14; 8:45 am]
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