[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 8, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6500-6501]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-1695]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-06-05AG]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-4766 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974. 
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Process Evaluation of the Protocol for Assessing Community 
Excellence in Environmental Health--New--National Center for 
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The CDC, through a cooperative agreement with the National 
Association of City and County Health Organizations (NACCHO), developed 
and disseminated the Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in 
Environmental Health (PACE EH). This document consists of 13 tasks to 
engage the community in environmental health planning and assessment 
activities. PACE EH seeks to strengthen public health leadership, 
promote community collaboration, and encourage environmental justice. 
In the long run, PACE EH seeks to establish a new leadership role for 
local public health agencies and build sustainable community processes 
for decision-making. More than 1,700 copies of a guidebook have been 
disseminated to the public and approximately 900 organizations 
requested one or more copies for review. Little is known about how each 
of the hundreds of potentially interested communities nationwide 
evaluates the suitability of the PACE EH methodology to its own 
situation. Nor do we know the relative advantages and disadvantages 
each community perceives in this methodology compared to other tools 
and methods available for conducting environmental health assessments, 
nor the range of challenges encountered in implementing the method.
    The purpose of the proposed study is to obtain information from 
current and potential PACE EH users that will be used to guide resource 
decisions related to its continued support and development. Two data 
collection activities are proposed. The first is a Web survey of all 
state and local health agencies that requested a copy of the PACE EH 
Guidebook. The survey will ask questions about their decision whether 
or not to adopt the method. If they did choose to adopt it, the survey 
will ask questions about their progress, challenges faced, and impacts 
of the method on their agency, the community, and the environment. The 
second data collection activity is a one-day site visit to 24 of the 
communities that are actively engaged in implementation to conduct 
interviews with key staff and community members. These site visits will 
provide additional detail about implementation issues and challenges 
that are not readily obtained through survey methodology. There is no 
cost to respondents other than their time. The total estimated 
annualized burden hours are 846.

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                                       Estimate of Annualized Burden Table
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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
                     Type of data collection                        respondents    responses per   response (in
                                                                                    respondent        hours)
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PACE EH Requestor Survey........................................             872               1           45/60
PACE EH Participant Interviews..................................             192               1               1
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    Dated: February 1, 2006.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
 [FR Doc. E6-1695 Filed 2-7-06; 8:45 am]
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