[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 214 (Thursday, November 5, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68540-68542]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28155]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-16CB; Docket No. CDC-2015-0094]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, 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. This notice invites comment on the evaluation of
the progress of CDC partners that receive awards distributed via
contracts, grants and cooperative agreements, from the Procurements and
Grants Office (PGO). PGO is responsible for the stewardship of these
funds while providing excellent, professional services to our partners
and stakeholders. Data will be collected for the purpose of evaluating
the progress of programmatic activities.
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DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 4, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0094 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
Comments are invited on: (a) 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.
Proposed Project
Performance Progress and Evaluation Report (PPER)--Existing
Collection in use without an OMB Control Number--Procurements and
Grants Office (PGO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Each year, approximately 80% of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention's (CDC) budget is distributed via contracts, grants and
cooperative agreements, from the Procurements and Grants Office (PGO)
to partners throughout the world to promote health, prevent disease,
injury and disability and prepare for new health threats. PGO is
responsible for the stewardship of these funds while providing
excellent, professional services to our partners and stakeholders.
Currently, CDC uses SF-PPR (a progress report form for Non-Research
awards) to collect information semi-annually from Awardees regarding
the progress made over specified time periods on CDC funded projects.
The SF-PPR (OMB Control Number: 0970-0406, Expiration Date: 10/31/2015)
is owned by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This New ICR is
being developed by CDC to create a CDC-wide collection tool called the
Progress Performance and Evaluation Report (PPER) that will be used to
collect data on the progress of CDC Awardees for the purposes of
evaluation and to bring the Awardee reporting procedure into compliance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).
The information collected will enable the accurate, reliable,
uniform and timely submission to CDC of each Awardee's work plans and
progress reports, including strategies, activities and performance
measures. The information collected by the PPER is designed to align
with, and support the goals outlined for each of the CDC Awardees.
Collection and reporting of the information will occur in an efficient,
standardized, and user-friendly manner that will generate a variety of
routine and customizable reports. The PPER will allow each Awardee to
summarize activities and progress towards meeting performance measures
and goals over a specified time period specific to each award. CDC will
also have the capacity to generate reports that describe activities
across multiple Awardees. In addition, CDC will use the information
collection to respond to inquiries from HHS, Congress and other
stakeholder inquiries about program activities and their impact.
The total estimated burden is 16,000 hours. There is no cost to
respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) (in hours)
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CDC Non-Research contract, Performance 8,000 1 120/60 16,000
grant, and cooperative Progress and
agreement Awardees. Evaluation
Report (PPER).
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 16,000
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Leroy A. 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.
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