Notice2023-10742
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
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Published
May 19, 2023
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Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract
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 information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled Workplans for Regional Centers to Enhance Public Health Preparedness and Response. This data collection is designed to support regional centers' creation of a five-year workplan which addresses focus areas that would benefit from use of new or enhanced evidence- based strategies (EBSI), existing and needed approaches to meet regional emergency preparedness and EBSI needs, proposed measures to ensure strategies and interventions are effectively implemented, and regional sustainability of evidence-based practice beyond the five-year workplan.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 97 (Friday, May 19, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32222-32223]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10742]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-23-23EZ; Docket No. CDC-2023-0037]
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 information
collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project
titled Workplans for Regional Centers to Enhance Public Health
Preparedness and Response. This data collection is designed to support
regional centers' creation of a five-year workplan which addresses
focus areas that would benefit from use of new or enhanced evidence-
based strategies (EBSI), existing and needed approaches to meet
regional emergency preparedness and EBSI needs, proposed measures to
ensure strategies and interventions are effectively implemented, and
regional sustainability of evidence-based practice beyond the five-year
workplan.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before July 18, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2023-
0037 by either of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. Follow
the instructions for submitting comments.
<bullet> Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information Collection Review
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE, MS H21-8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments
to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. Please note: Submit all comments through the
Federal eRulemaking portal (<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>) 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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information Collection
Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton
Road NE, MS H21-8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; Telephone: 404-639-7570;
Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e7888a85a7848384c9808891"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e18e8c83a1828582cf868e97">[email protected]</span></a>.
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:
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;
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; and
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
Workplans for Regional Centers to Enhance Public Health
Preparedness and Response--New--Office of Readiness and Response (ORR),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Since 2001, CDC has supported the development, implementation,
evaluation, translation and dissemination of research findings,
strategies, and interventions to improve public health preparedness and
response systems, infrastructures, processes, and practices. This
includes the long-standing PHEP cooperative agreement, CDC's Public
Health Crisis Response Funding, and support for applied research and
evaluation, metrics, measures, tools, and training development.
In 2021, with contract support, CDC's Office of Applied Research
(OAR) initiated 12 scoping reviews, six landscape analyses, and one
systematic review to conduct deeper dives into topics such as trust in
public health preparedness and response, emergency communications
strategies with people with limited English proficiency, public health
emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR) practice in rural and
tribal communities, and use of health equity coordinators in incident
management. The results of these reviews show great breadth in the
PHEPR field as it relates to knowledge available to support current
practice and highlights the need to expand knowledge to address
specific gaps. These needs and gaps may differ across geographical
regions and within those regions at the state or local level. To
address needs to increase the uptake of evidence-based interventions,
in December 2022, through Section 2231 of the Federal appropriations
for fiscal year 2023, CDC was directed to support not fewer than 10
Centers for PHEPR that are equally distributed among the geographical
regions of the U.S. (referred to as the ``network of centers''.
The goal of this project is to conduct a needs assessment to
enhance the PHEPR capabilities in the 10 designated Health and Human
Services (HHS) regions by creating an optimal five-year workplan to
implement evidence-based strategies or interventions (EBSI) in this
space. The five-year workplan will address: (1) focus areas that would
benefit from use of new or enhanced evidence-based strategies or
interventions (EBSI) or interventions, particularly to increase health
equity; (2) existing and needed approaches as well as STLT health
departments' capacity and capability to meet regional emergency
preparedness and EBSI needs; (3) prioritized strategies and
interventions to implement (and develop, if needed) EBSIs over the next
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five years; (4) proposed quantitative (required) and qualitative
(optional) measures to ensure strategies and interventions are
effectively implemented; and (5) regional sustainability of evidence-
based practice beyond the five-year work plan. Contractors will collect
information from the 10 HHS regional Strategic Coordinators to develop
individualized workplans for their respective regions to increase the
implementation of EBSIs for PHEPR activities.
OMB approval is requested for six months. The total estimated
annualized burden for this information collection is 80 hours. There is
no cost to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in (in hours)
respondent hours)
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HHS Regional Strategic Office of Applied 10 1 8 80
Coordinators. Research Five-
Year Regional
Work Plan
Development
Template FY 2024-
2028.
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Total....................... .................. ............ .............. ............ 80
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Public Health
Ethics and Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2023-10742 Filed 5-18-23; 8:45 am]
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