[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 237 (Friday, December 9, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76976-76977]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-31622]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-12-12BT]


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

    Community Transformation Grants: Use of System Dynamic Modeling and 
Economic Analysis in Select Communities--New--National Center for 
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 was 
signed into law on February 17, 2009, Public Law 11-5 (``Recovery 
Act''). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed 
an initiative in response to ARRA--the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act (ACA)--that is helping to reorient the U.S. health 
care system from primarily treating disease to promoting population 
health and well-being. The ACA created a new Prevention and Public 
Health Fund designed to expand and sustain the necessary infrastructure 
to prevent disease, detect it early, and manage conditions before they 
become severe. Section 4002 of the ACA authorized the Community 
Transformation Grants (CTG) program to promote the development of 
healthier communities through strategies designed to reduce chronic 
disease rates, prevent the development of secondary conditions, reduce 
health disparities, and develop a stronger evidence base for effective 
prevention programming.
    In September 2011, CDC funded 61 CTG cooperative agreements with 
state, local and tribal government agencies, and nonprofit 
organizations. Twenty-six awardees are focused on capacity building 
efforts, and 35 awardees are working to implement sustainable, broad, 
evidence- and practice-based policy, environmental, programmatic and 
infrastructure changes to improve public health. Each CTG 
implementation awardee is developing a work plan for its jurisdiction 
or service area that focuses on one or more of the following five 
strategic directions: (1) Tobacco-free living, (2) active lifestyles 
and healthy eating, (3) high impact evidence-based clinical and other 
preventive services, (4) social and emotional well-being, and (5) 
healthy and safe physical environments.
    As part of a multi-component evaluation plan for the CTG program, 
CDC is seeking OMB approval to collect the information needed to 
conduct cost and cost-benefit analyses relating to the implementation 
of CTG-funded community interventions. Using a system dynamics 
approach, CDC also plans to conduct simulation modeling which will 
integrate the cost data with other data to predict selected chronic 
disease outcomes and their associated monetary impacts under various 
scenarios. CDC and NIH have previously collaborated on the development 
of analytic tools for system dynamics modeling under more limited 
conditions. The collection and analysis of actual cost data from CTG 
awardees will support the expansion and refinement of these analytic 
tools with respect to short-, intermediate- and long-term outcomes for 
large-scale,

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community-based programs that employ multiple policy and environmental 
change strategies.
    Information to be collected from participating CTG awardees 
includes the interventions to be implemented; expenditures for labor, 
personnel, consultants, materials, travel, services, and 
administration; in-kind contributions; and partner organizations and 
their expenditures. Information will be collected electronically via a 
user-friendly, Web-based CTG Cost Study Instrument (CTG-CSI). 
Respondents will be a subset of 30 out of 35 CTG awardees funded 
specifically for implementation activities. CDC will select awardees 
for participation in the cost data collection based on a list of 
priority interventions appropriate for cost analysis.
    Results of this data collection and planned analyses, including 
improvements in CDC's analytic and modeling tools, will be used to 
assist CTG awardees, CDC, and HHS in choosing intervention approaches 
for particular populations that are both beneficial to public health 
and cost-effective.
    OMB approval is requested for the first three years of a five-year 
project with first data collection beginning approximately July 2012. 
CDC plans to seek an extension of OMB approval to support information 
collection through the end of the five-year award period.
    Information will be collected electronically on a quarterly 
schedule. The estimated burden per response is 11 hours and there are 
no costs to respondents except their time to participate in the survey.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden
      Type of respondents           Form name       respondents   responses  per   response (in      (in hrs)
                                                                     respondent        hrs)
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CTG Awardee...................  CTG-CSI.........              30               4              11           1,320
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    Dated: December 2, 2011.
Daniel Holcomb,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-31622 Filed 12-8-11; 8:45 am]
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