Notice2024-08592
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
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Published
April 23, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 23, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30375-30376]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-08592]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-24-24EZ]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted the information
collection request (ICR) titled ``Workplan Templates for Ten Regional
Centers to Enhance Public Health Preparedness and Response'' to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. CDC
previously published a ``Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public
Comment and Recommendations'' notice on May 19, 2023 to obtain comments
from the public and affected agencies. CDC received one comment related
to the previous notice. This notice serves to allow 30 days for public
and affected agency comments on new and updated information collection
instruments.
CDC will accept all comments for this proposed information
collection project. The Office of Management and Budget is particularly
interested in comments that:
(a) 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;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
(d) 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 submission of responses; and
(e) Assess information collection costs.
To request additional information on the proposed project or to
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call
(404) 639-7570. Comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. Direct
written comments and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in
this notice to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management
and Budget, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202)
395-5806. Provide written comments within 30 days of notice
publication.
Proposed Project
Workplan Templates for Ten 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 supported 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 Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response that are
equally distributed among the geographical regions of the U.S.
(referred to as the ``network of centers'').
This project aims to establish up to 10 centers across the
designated Health and Human Services (HHS) regions for public health
preparedness and response (PHPR). The goal is to improve PHPR practices
by increasing the uptake of evidence-based strategies and interventions
(EBSIs) that align with the needs of the communities involved. This
will be achieved through: (1) the development of a five-year workplan
that covers known strategies or interventions, plans to implement each
strategy or intervention, or the development and evaluation of new
approaches in PHPR; (2) the use of a Cooperative Agreement Work Plan
Template to monitor performance of activities throughout the funding
period; and (3) the use of an Evaluation Work Plan Template to support
evaluation of implemented work plan activities.
The Five-Year Regional Work Plan addresses: (1) focus areas and
objectives across State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial (STLT) and
relevant partners that would benefit from use of new or enhanced PHPR
EBSIs; (2) activities to meet objectives; (3) prioritized EBSIs to
implement; (4) capability and capacity of STLT health departments and
relevant partners to implement and evaluate activities; and (5)
regional sustainability for implementation of evidence-based practice
beyond the five-year period. Contractors will collect information from
the 10 HHS regional Strategic Coordinators to develop focus areas,
objectives, or activities for individualized workplans to advance the
implementation of EBSIs for PHPR activities.
This proposed project also includes two additional instruments
including: (1) an Evaluation Work Plan Template that provides
background information needed to understand approaches in evaluating
selected strategies or intervention activities; and (2) a Cooperative
Agreement Work Plan Template that serves as a performance monitoring
instrument that supports tracking of project activities throughout the
performance period.
OMB approval is sought for three years. The estimated annualized
burden for this information collection is 150 hours. There is no cost
to respondents other than their time.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
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HHS Regional Strategic Coordinators... Office of Readiness and 10 1 5
Response--Regional
Centers for Public
Health Preparedness and
Response: Five-Year
Regional Workplan
Template FY2024-2030.
HHS Regional Strategic Coordinators... Office of Readiness and 10 1 8
Response--Evaluation
Work Plan Template.
HHS Regional Strategic Coordinators... Office of Readiness and 10 1 2
Response--Cooperative
Agreement Work Plan.
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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. 2024-08592 Filed 4-22-24; 8:45 am]
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