Notice2026-02650
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
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February 11, 2026
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6224-6226]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-02650]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30-Day-26-0156]
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 titled ``Data Management Plan Template for
Extramural Research'' 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
August 26, 2025 to obtain comments from the public and affected
agencies. CDC received three comments related to the previous notice,
two of which were reviewed and discussed. This notice serves to allow
an additional 30 days for public and affected agency comments.
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
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Data Management Plan (DMP)
Template for Extramural Research--New--Office of Science (OS), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Office of
Science (OS) is requesting approval of a New Information Collection
Request (ICR) for a period of three years under the project titled,
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Data Management Plan (DMP)
Template for Extramural Research, hereafter referred to as CDC NOFO
DMP. OS operates within CDC, and works to collaborate with the agency's
Centers, Institutes, and Offices (CIOs). Multiple CIOs have their own
DMPs, and a deep dive into these DMPs showed some common elements.
There is a need to have a consistent and unified approach whereby CDC
could meet obligations of calls to action.
The White House Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP)
released a memo in 2013 titled, ``Increasing Access to the Results of
Federally Funded Scientific Research'' [<a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf">https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf</a>]. This memo emphasized DMPs and stated
the following instructions:
(b) Ensure that all extramural researchers receiving Federal grants
and contracts for scientific research and intramural researchers
develop data management plans, as appropriate, describing how they will
provide for long-term preservation of, and access to, scientific data
in digital formats resulting from federally funded research, or
explaining why long-term preservation and access cannot be justified;
(c) Allow the inclusion of appropriate costs for data management
and access in proposals for Federal funding for scientific research;
(d) Ensure appropriate evaluation of the merits of submitted data
management plans;
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(e) Include mechanisms to ensure that intramural and extramural
researchers comply with data management plans and policies;
In response, CDC developed a data plan, produced a public access
policy, and updated its data policy.
In 2022, OSTP released a follow-up memo titled, ``Ensuring Free,
Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research'' [<a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf">https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf</a>]. This memo emphasized the scientific data
underlying peer-reviewed publications. It included the following
language.
(b) Scientific Data
i. Scientific data underlying peer-reviewed scholarly publications
resulting from federally funded research should be made freely
available and publicly accessible by default at the time of
publication, unless subject to limitations as described in Section
3(c)(i) and should be subject to federal agency guidelines for
researcher responsibilities regarding data management and sharing
plans, consistent with Section 3(c) of this memorandum.
(c) Public access plans should outline the policies that federal
agencies will use to establish researcher responsibilities on how
federally funded scientific data will be managed and shared, including:
(i) Details describing any potential legal, privacy, ethical,
technical, intellectual property, or security limitations, and/or any
other potential restrictions or limitations on data access, use, and
disclosure, including those defined in terms and conditions of funding
agreement or award or that convey from a data use agreement or
stipulations of an Institutional Review Board;
(ii) Plans to maximize appropriate sharing of the federally funded
scientific data identified in Section 3(a) of this memorandum, such as
providing risk-mitigated opportunities for limited data access; and,
(iii) The specific online digital repository or repositories where
the researcher expects to deposit their relevant data, consistent with
the federal agency's guidelines.
OSTP released an additional memo in 2025 titled, ``Agency Guidance
for Implementing Gold Standard Science in the Conduct & Management of
Scientific Activities'' [<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/OSTP-Guidance-for-GSS-June-2025.pdf">https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/OSTP-Guidance-for-GSS-June-2025.pdf</a>]. This memo addresses
``science conducted in a manner that abides by nine key tenets'': (i)
reproducible; (ii) transparent; (iii) communicative of error and
uncertainty; (iv) collaborative and interdisciplinary; (v) skeptical of
its findings and assumptions; (vi) structured for falsifiability of
hypotheses; (vii) subject to unbiased peer review; (viii) accepting of
negative results as positive outcomes; and, (ix) without conflicts of
interest.
The Executive Order (E.O.), ``Establishing the President's Make
America Healthy Again Commission'' [<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/</a>], emphasizes transparency and open-source
data in section 2(a).
``Sec. 2. Policy. It shall be the policy of the Federal Government
to aggressively combat the critical health challenges facing our
citizens, including the rising rates of mental health disorders,
obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. To do so, executive
departments and agencies (agencies) that address health or healthcare
must focus on reversing chronic disease. Under this policy:
(a) all federally funded health research should empower Americans
through transparency and open-source data, and should avoid or
eliminate conflicts of interest that skew outcomes and perpetuate
distrust;
(b) the National Institutes of Health and other health-related
research funded by the Federal Government should prioritize gold-
standard research on the root causes of why Americans are getting sick;
(c) agencies shall work with farmers to ensure that United States
food is the healthiest, most abundant, and most affordable in the
world; and
(d) agencies shall ensure the availability of expanded treatment
options and the flexibility for health insurance coverage to provide
benefits that support beneficial lifestyle changes and disease
prevention.''
This project addresses and responds to these memos and Executive
Orders by collecting data using a unified DMP. The CDC NOFO DMP was
created to capture information consistent with CDC Grants Notice of
Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Additional Requirement 25: Data Management
and Access [<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/grants/additional-requirements/ar-25.html">https://www.cdc.gov/grants/additional-requirements/ar-25.html</a>] and is meant to be broadly applicable across CDC. The
implementation of a unified DMP is expected to reduce researcher burden
when applying for funding and when updating DMPs. This project will
also reduce CDC staff burden, reduce cognitive load on DMP reviewers,
and make it explicit which DMP elements have no responses. The project
will reduce CDC staff time spent on DMP reviews by making each DMP
element atomic and specific.
Use of the CDC NOFO DMP will allow CDC to understand the number and
types of datasets that are being released and shared alongside
publications. The proposed new metadata elements for a unified DMP will
also help guide CDC-funded researchers towards greater collaborations
through fostering data reuse; improve reproducibility by encouraging
greater data documentation; and improve accessibility by making CDC
data more open and reusable to researchers and the public.
Respondents are expected to complete the CDC NOFO DMP with as much
information as known at the time. The document is a living document and
may be updated when additional information is known and during
reporting periods. Expected respondents include any researcher
responding to Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcements. CDC
requests OMB approval for an estimated 2,877 total burden hours with an
estimated annual burden of 959 hours. There is no cost to respondents
other than their time to participate.
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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Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Notice of Funding 548 1 1.5
Applicants (Initial). Opportunity (NOFO) Data
Management Plan (DMP)
Template for Extramural
Research.
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Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Notice of Funding 548 1 15/60
Applicants (Update). Opportunity (NOFO) Data
Management Plan (DMP)
Template for Extramural
Research.
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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. 2026-02650 Filed 2-10-26; 8:45 am]
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