Notice2023-13571
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
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June 27, 2023
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Health and Human Services DepartmentAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Abstract
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), 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 continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled APPLETREE Performance Measures. ATSDR will use this data collection to manage the next five-year cooperative agreement program under Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) No. CDC-RFA-TS-23-0001.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 122 (Tuesday, June 27, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41620-41623]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13571]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[60Day-23-0057; Docket No. ATSDR-2023-0002]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
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 continuing
information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection
project titled APPLETREE Performance Measures. ATSDR will use this data
collection to manage the next five-year cooperative agreement program
under Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) No. CDC-RFA-TS-23-0001.
DATES: ATSDR must receive written comments on or before August 28,
2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. ATSDR-
2023-0002 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. ATSDR 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#1d72707f5d7e797e337a726b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="94fbf9f6d4f7f0f7baf3fbe2">[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
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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
APPLETREE Performance Measures (OMB Control No. 0923-0057, Exp. 09/
30/2023)--Revision--Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR).
Background and Brief Description
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) seeks
to build and sustain the capacity to evaluate exposures to hazardous
waste across the country. Releases from hazardous waste sites are a
major source of harmful exposures in homes, schools, workplaces, and
communities. These exposures are often complex and may be difficult to
identify and control. Hazardous waste sites may involve various toxic
substances, exposure pathways, and health impacts. ATSDR's primary goal
is to keep communities safe from harmful exposures and related
diseases. To accomplish this goal, the agency works closely with
partnering agencies to evaluate exposures at hazardous waste sites,
educate communities, and seek new ways to better protect public health.
ATSDR's Partnership to Promote Local Efforts to Reduce
Environmental Exposure (APPLETREE) Program is critical to ATSDR's
success in accomplishing its mission in communities nationwide. ATSDR's
recipients will use APPLETREE funding to advance ATSDR's primary goal
of keeping communities safe from harmful environmental exposures and
related diseases. APPLETREE gives recipients the resources to build
their capacity to assess and respond to site-specific issues involving
human exposure to hazardous substances in the environment. APPLETREE
helps recipients identify exposure pathways at specific sites; educate
affected communities about site contamination and potential health
effects; make recommendations to prevent exposure; review health
outcome data to evaluate potential links between site contaminants and
community health outcomes. APPLETREE facilitates the implementation of
state-level programs to ensure that potential early care and education
facilities are in areas free from harmful environmental exposures.
Additionally, it motivates the recipients to innovate and implement
progressive public health interventions that can prevent exposure to
environmental contamination. Due to the local connections and
partnerships of APPLETREE recipients, there is an enhancement in
community engagement and implementation of recommendations. This
program is authorized under Sections 104(i)(15) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of
1980, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
(SARA) of 1986 [42 U.S.C. 9604(i)(15)].
Under the next five-year APPLETREE cooperative agreement NOFO No.
CDC-RFA-TS-23-0001), eligible applicants include federally recognized
American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments; American Indian/
Alaska native tribally designated organizations; political subdivisions
of states (in consultation with states); and state and local
governments or their bona fide agents. ATSDR technical project officers
(TPOs) will assist approximately 30 APPLETREE recipients to address
site-specific issues involving human exposure to hazardous substances.
Key capacities include identification of human exposure pathways at
ATSDR sites, education of affected communities and local health
professionals about site contamination and potential health effects;
making appropriate recommendations to prevent exposure; reviewing
health outcome data to evaluate potential links between site
contaminants and community health; and documenting the effects of
environmental remediation on health.
This is a Revision Information Collection Request (ICR) titled
``APPLETREE Performance Measures,'' previously approved under OMB
Control No. 0923-0057 (Expiration Date 9/30/2023). ATSDR will continue
to collect information related to recipient activities, and the process
and outcome performance measures outlined by the cooperative agreement
program. Information will be used to monitor progress toward program
goals and objectives, and for program quality improvement. Nine forms
have been previously approved by OMB under APPLETREE Performance
Measures under OMB Control No. 0923-0057. The first three forms were
migrated to the new information technology (IT) system called ATSDR's
Request Management Service System (ARMSS).
1. ATSDR Health Education Activity (HE) Form: For each
environmental health assessment and health education activity conducted
at ATSDR sites, APPLETREE Recipients shall quantitatively assess and
report efforts to educate community members about site recommendations
and health risks using indicators to assess community understanding of
site findings about health risks and community understanding of agency
recommendations to reduce health risks. This information will be
entered into ARMSS for each health education activity at ATSDR sites.
2. ATSDR Technical Assistance Activity (TA) Form: Throughout the
budget year, this form will be used to record the routine requests made
by the recipients and their program responses. These responses do not
evaluate environmental data and do not make health calls but are
monitored by ATSDR as part of the recipients' performance.
3. ATSDR Site Impact Assessment (SIA) Form: For each environmental
health assessment and health education activity conducted at ATSDR
sites, recipients shall estimate and report the number of people
protected from exposure to toxic substances at each site where
implementation of agency recommendations has taken place and at each
childcare center where safe siting guidelines have been implemented. To
the extent possible, recipients shall estimate and report the disease
burden prevented due to the implementation of site recommendations and
safe siting guidelines.
The fourth form is currently being migrated from SharePoint to
ARMSS. This transition is currently taking place.
4. ATSDR Success Story Form: Recipients will provide one success
story per quarter (four success stories total per year) that highlights
the impact of any of their programs. Recipients will report a summary,
background, intervention/action taken, and accomplishment/impact for
each story. Optionally, they may include a photo or quote.
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Recipients will continue to submit the following five forms to
ATSDR via email. In the future, these forms will be moved to an
electronic system (e.g., ARMSS or REDCap) to simplify data collection.
5. APPLETREE Annual Performance Report (APR) Template: Recipients
will continue to provide an APR each year and at the end of the funding
cycle, which summarizes their annual and funding cycle performances,
respectively. APRs will be due in December of each year to coincide
with the CDC Grants Management annual reports to reduce the overall
reporting burden, and the final report will be due at the end of the
funding cycle. The purpose of the performance reports will be to assess
Partners based on performance measures and evaluation projects. The
reports should include a summary of performance measures, results of
any evaluation projects, an accompanying narrative of progress and
interpretation of results, optional successes, challenges, and an
updated work plan. These reports will be entered into a Microsoft Word
form.
6. Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education (CSPECE)
Qualitative Narrative Form: Recipients will continue to provide a
narrative report of their CSPECE Programs to document descriptive
details of their state's landscape, program plan, program
implementation, and results that cannot be captured through numbers.
Recipients will complete and submit the narrative once a year as a
supplement with their APRs in a Microsoft Word form.
7. CSPECE Quantitative Form: Recipients will continue to provide
data on their CSPECE Programs to quantify aspects of their program such
as children reached, target audiences educated, early care and
education programs referred and screened, and recommendations
implemented. To supplement their APRs, recipients will complete and
submit a Microsoft Excel form once a year as a supplement with their
APRs.
In addition to the required annual reporting, at the end of the
five-year program, each recipient will report cumulative five-year
performance measures for three forms: the APR, the CSPECE Qualitative
Narrative Form, and the CSPECE Quantitative Form. This will result in
six total responses in a five-year period for each form. The estimated
annualized number of required responses is thus rounded to once per
year for these three forms, as 6 hours divided by three years equals
1.2 hours per year.
8. ATSDR SoilSHOP Form: SoilSHOPs are not a required activity;
however, if conducted, a recipient will need to complete the ATSDR
SoilSHOP Form. This form gathers data on the inputs, activities,
outputs, and outcomes of the event, such as the number of soil samples
screened, the number of elevated soil samples, the number of
individuals receiving health consultations, and the number of
individuals receiving referrals. The form will be submitted to ATSDR
via email within three weeks of the SoilSHOP completion.
9. ATSDR Recommendation Follow-up Form: For each environmental
health assessment, recipients will provide an update on the status of
acceptance and implementation of all recommendations to understand
whether and how recommendations have been implemented, and the
subsequent impact on communities. Recipients will complete a Microsoft
Excel reporting form annually on the anniversary date of the release of
each health assessment.
As part of the Revision request, the last form is new.
10. ATSDR Requests for Certified and Non-certified Public Health
Assessments and Health Consultations Form: For each environmental
health assessment, recipients will provide the request, dates, and
triage information and can associate the request with a hazardous waste
site. Site scoping and clearance information are completed for about
15% of environmental health assessments that complete ATSDR's clearance
process (i.e., certified). This information will be entered into ARMSS.
ATSDR is seeking a three-year Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
clearance for this Revision ICR. ATSDR will fund 30 recipients.
Recipient reporting is required to receive funding under the APPLETREE
cooperative agreement. The total annual time burden requested is 269
hours.
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 hrs.) (in hours)
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APPLETREE Recipients.......... ATSDR Health 30 17 4/60 34
Education (HE)
Activity Form.
ATSDR Technical 30 17 4/60 34
Assistance (TA)
Activity Form.
ATSDR Site 30 3 7/60 11
Impact
Assessment
(SIA) Form.
ATSDR Success 30 4 30/60 60
Story Form.
APPLETREE Annual 30 1 2 60
Performance
Report (APR)
Template.
Choose Safe 30 1 1 30
Places for
Early Care and
Education
(CSPECE)
Qualitative
Narrative Form.
CSPECE 30 1 15/60 8
Quantitative
Form.
ATSDR SoilSHOP 10 1 7/60 1
Form.
ATSDR 30 4 10/60 20
Recommendation
Follow-up.
ATSDR Requests.. 30 3 7/60 11
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 269
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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. 2023-13571 Filed 6-26-23; 8:45 am]
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