[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76165-76166]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-31243]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60-Day-12-12BO]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. 
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call (404) 639-5960 
or send comments to Daniel Holcomb, CDC Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 
Clifton Road, MS D-74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an email to 
[email protected].
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology. Written comments should be received 
within 60 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Monitoring and Reporting System for Community Transformation Grant 
Awardees--New--National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and 
Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Chronic diseases, including heart disease, cancer, stroke, 
diabetes, arthritis, are the leading causes of death and disability in 
the United States, accounting for seven of every ten deaths and 
affecting the quality of life of 90 million Americans. Reducing death 
and disability through the prevention and control of these conditions, 
and related risk factors such as tobacco use,

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physical inactivity, poor diet, and obesity, has critical importance 
for public health.
    The Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF) of the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) provides an important 
opportunity for states, counties, territories and tribes to advance 
public health across the lifespan and to reduce health disparities. The 
PPHF authorizes Community Transformation Grants (CTG) for the 
implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of evidence-based 
community preventive health activities. The CTG program will create 
healthier communities by building capacity to implement broad evidence 
and practice-based policy, environmental, programmatic and 
infrastructure changes, and supporting implementation of such 
interventions. The CTG program emphasizes five strategic areas: 
Tobacco-free living, active living and healthy eating, high impact 
evidence-based clinical and other preventive services, social and 
emotional wellness, and a healthy and safe physical environment. The 
CTG program is administered by the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and 
Health Promotion (NCCDPHP).
    CDC awarded 68 CTG cooperative agreements to state and local 
governmental agencies, tribes and territories, state or local non-
profit organizations, and national networks of community-based 
organizations. Fifty-four awardees were from state, local and tribal 
government, and 14 awardees were from the private, non-profit sector. 
Each awardee is charged with implementing a community-or awardee-
specific work plan that will lead to specific, measurable health 
outcomes in its jurisdiction (or service area) among an entire 
population or a specific population subgroup. Each CTG awardee is 
required to provide semi-annual reports to CDC describing its work 
plan, objectives, activities, partnerships, resources, and progress.
    CDC plans to collect the required progress report information using 
an electronic management information system (MIS), which has a number 
of advantages when compared to the collection of narrative reports. 
First, the MIS will help awardees formulate objectives that are 
specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-framed (SMART), as 
required by CDC's evaluation strategy. Second, awardees will have the 
capacity to enter updates on an ongoing basis. This capacity is 
expected to improve respondent satisfaction and result in more complete 
enumeration of CTG-funded efforts. In addition, this feature will 
facilitate communications with CDC and prompt, data-driven technical 
assistance. Third, information stored in the MIS can be used to satisfy 
routine, semi-annual reporting requirements while minimizing data re-
entry for information that has not changed. Finally, the electronic MIS 
will allow CDC to formulate ad hoc analyses and reports that would be 
impracticable using paper-based information sources. Information 
collected through the MIS will be used to monitor awardee progress, 
identify and support CDC technical assistance to awardees, and respond 
to inquiries from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 
the White House, Congress and other sources. NCCDPHP has successfully 
implemented similar MIS-based information collections with other 
chronic disease prevention and control programs.
    OMB approval is requested for three years. Awardees will report 
information to CDC twice per year. The average burden per response is 
estimated to be three hours. CDC's collection of this information is 
authorized by section and sections 311 and 317(k)(2) of the Public 
Health Service Act, 42 U.S. Code 243 and 247b(k)2. There are no costs 
to respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
               Type of respondents                   Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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Community Transformation Grant Awardees (state,               54               2               3             324
 local and tribal government sector)............
CTG Awardees (private sector)...................              14               2               3              84
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............             408
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    Dated: November 29, 2011.
Daniel Holcomb,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-31243 Filed 12-5-11; 8:45 am]
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