[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 100 (Tuesday, May 26, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 30076]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-12513]


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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 80 FR 1745-17459, dated April 1, 2015) 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 item (8) of the functional statement for the Office of the 
Director (CGE1), Division of Strategic National Stockpile (CGE), Office 
of Public Health Preparedness and Response (CG), and renumber remaining 
items accordingly.
    Delete in its entirety the mission statement for the Division of 
State and Local Readiness (CGC) and insert the following:
    Division of State and Local Readiness (CGC): The Division of State 
and Local Readiness provides program support, technical assistance, 
guidance, technical integration and capacity building of preparedness 
planning across the public health, healthcare, and emergency management 
sectors and fiscal oversight to state, local, tribal and territorial 
public health department grantees for the development, monitoring and 
evaluation of public health capabilities, plans, infrastructure and 
systems to prepare for and respond to terrorism, outbreaks of disease, 
natural disasters and other public health emergencies.
    After the title and functional statement for the Field Services 
Branch (CGCD), Division of State and Local Readiness (CGC), Office of 
Public Health Preparedness and Response (CGA), insert the following:
    Public Health and Health Systems Capacity Building Branch (CGCE). 
(1) Facilitates the improvement of the preparedness and response 
capabilities of the nation's public health and healthcare system in 
collaboration with Hospital Preparedness Program/Assistant Secretary 
for Preparedness and Response (HPP/ASPR) to strengthen the intersect 
between public health, healthcare systems, and emergency management at 
the state and local level, specifically, this branch strives to improve 
medical countermeasure planning at the state and local level; (2) 
creates a system for assuring coordination, collaboration, and 
communication between HPP/ASPR and the Division of State and Local 
Readiness, CDC; (3) improves states and local healthcare systems 
planning and response through development of guidance, tools, program 
monitoring, technical assistance, and training; (4) improves the 
delivery of technical assistance to the public health and healthcare 
sector; (5) serves as an agent of information to improve awardee access 
to healthcare preparedness tools and expertise; (6) assures healthcare 
system preparedness in the top 10 Urban Areas Security Initiative 
(UASI) regions covered by executive order 13527; (7) facilitates the 
enhancement of healthcare preparedness at the state/local public health 
department level to have a national impact; (8) provides health 
communications guidance and products before, during, and after an event 
to assist state/local public health departments and the healthcare 
systems in developing risk communicating strategies and messages; and 
(9) collaborates with the Division of Strategic National Stockpile, 
Response and Logistics Branches during exercises or upon a federal 
deployment of DSNS assets.

James Seligman,
Acting Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2015-12513 Filed 5-22-15; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4160-18-P