[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 29, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24475-24476]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-11400]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-18-18AEJ; Docket No. CDC-2018-0048]
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 effort to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or
continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed
information collection project titled Applied Research to Address
Emerging Public Health Priorities, a broad agency announcement for the
competitive selection of research proposals.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before July 30, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2018-
0048 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Jeffery M. Zirger, 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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments
to Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments 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 Jeffery M. Zirger, 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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:
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1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submissions of responses.
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
Applied Research to Address Emerging Public Health Priorities--New
ICR--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
(NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
On March 26, 2018, CDC issued a Broad Agency Announcement (FY2018-
OADS-01) available at https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/CDCP/PGOA/FY2018-OADS-BAA/listing.html. There is potential for standardized information
collection attached to a limited number of awarded projects. For those
projects, a 30-day notice will be published in the Federal Register and
information collection requests will be submitted to OMB for approval.
This Federal Register notice is intended to broadly inform the public
of CDC's intent to contract with researchers to carry out a variety of
different research projects awarded through this announcement.
For this announcement, CDC has identified the following research
areas of interest. Interested parties are invited to consider
innovative approaches to support advanced research and development
strategies in the following research areas of interest:
1. New Diagnostic, Sequencing, and Metagenomic Tools for AR Detection
and Improved Antibiotic Use
2. International Transmission, Colonization, and Prevention of AR
Pathogens
3. Domestic Transmission, Colonization, and Prevention of AR Pathogens
and CDI
4. Develop Human Microbiome Disruption Indices Relevant to Antibiotic
Resistance
5. Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens and Genes in Water Systems and the
Environment and their Contribution to Human Infections
6. Improving Antibiotic Stewardship
7. Approaches to Prevention and Control of Parasitic Infections in the
United States
8. Approaches to Prevention and Control of Parasitic Infections and
Neglected Tropical Diseases Globally
9. Surveillance and Control of Arthropod Vectors of Human Pathogens
10. Modernization of the Surveillance Data Platform
Contracts that are awarded based on responses to this BAA are as a
result of full and open competition and therefore in full compliance
with the provisions of Public Law 98-369, ``The Competition in
Contracting Act of 1984.'' CDC contracts with educational institutions,
nonprofit organizations, state and local government, and private
industry for research and development (R&D) in those areas covered in
this BAA.
The public is invited to look at the BAA online for greater detail
and more specific research areas falling under the ten topics listed
above.
Authorizing legislation comes from Section 301 of the Public Health
Service Act. Responses will be voluntary and it is not expected that
there will be any cost to respondents other than the time to
participate in information collection. The total estimated burden for
all of the information collections is not expected to exceed 1,500
hours (100 hours of burden for a maximum of 15 potentially PRA-
applicable contracts).
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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Public........................ Information 150 10 1 1,500
collection.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 1,500
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Jeffery M. Zirger,
Acting 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. 2018-11400 Filed 5-25-18; 8:45 am]
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