[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 144 (Thursday, July 26, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43837-43841]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-17990]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the 
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of 
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated 
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as 
amended most recently at 77 FR 27070-27071, dated May 8, 2012) is 
amended to reflect the reorganization of the Procurement and Grants 
Office, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows: Delete in its entirety the title and functional statements for 
the Procurements and Grants Office (CAJH) and insert the following:
    Procurement and Grants Office (CAJH). (1) Advises the Director, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Administrator, 
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and their 
staff, and provides leadership and direction for CDC acquisition, 
assistance, and materiel management activities to improve the public's 
health; (2) plans and develops CDC-wide policies, procedures, and 
practices in acquisition, assistance, and materiel management areas to 
support public health science and programs; (3) obtains research and 
development, services, equipment, supplies, and construction in support 
of CDC's public health mission through acquisition processes; (4) 
maintains functions relating to personal property, transportation, and 
warehousing operations; (5) awards, administers, and terminates 
contracts, purchase orders, grants, and cooperative agreements 
essential to improve public health; (6) maintains a continuing program 
of reviews, evaluations, inquiries, and oversight activities of CDC-
wide acquisitions, assistance, and materiel management operations to 
ensure adherence to laws, policies, procedures, regulations, and 
alignment to CDC's public health goals; and (7) maintains liaison with 
the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), General Services 
Administration (GSA), General Accounting Office (GAO), and other 
federal agencies on acquisition, assistance, and materiel management 
policies, procedures, and operating matters.
    Office of the Director (CAJH1). (1) Provides overall leadership, 
guidance and coordination in all areas of the Procurement and Grants 
Office (PGO) activities; (2) ensures PGO's policies, processes, and 
procedures adhere to all rules and regulations and are in alignment 
with CDC's public health goals; (3) develops and implements 
organizational strategic planning goals and objectives that support 
CDC's public health goals; (4) provides overall budgetary and human 
resource management, and administrative support; (5) directs and 
coordinates activities in support of the Department's Equal Employment 
Opportunity Program and employee development; (6) conducts continuing 
studies and analysis of branch activities; (7) provides technical and 
managerial direction for the development, implementation, and 
maintenance of the Integrated Contracts Expert System on a CDC-wide 
basis; (8) operates CDC's Small and Disadvantaged Business Program, and 
provides direction and support to various other socioeconomic programs 
encompassing acquisition and assistance activities; and (9) develops 
technical requirements for support business practices through 
technology.
    Office of Policy. Oversight and Evaluation (CAJHK). (1) Provides 
technical and managerial direction for the development of CDC-wide 
policies, procedures, and practices in the acquisition, assistance, and 
materiel management areas to support CDC's public health science and 
programs; (2) participates with senior management in program planning, 
policy determinations, evaluations, and decisions concerning 
acquisition, assistance, and materiel management; (3) provides 
direction for award, administration, measures of effectiveness and 
termination of contracts, purchase orders, grants, and cooperative 
agreements; (4) maintains a continuing program of reviews, evaluations, 
inquiries, and oversight activities of CDC-wide acquisitions, 
assistance, and materiel management operations to ensure adherence to 
laws, policies, procedures, and regulations and alignment with CDC's 
public health goals; (5) maintains liaison with DHHS, GSA, GAO, and 
other federal agencies on acquisition, assistance, and materiel 
management policy, procedures, and operating matters; (6) serves as 
central CDC receipt and referral point for all applications for 
assistance funds, including interfacing with the automated grants 
systems and relevant DHHS line of business agencies and distributing 
draft public health program announcements for review; and (7) provides 
cost advisory support to acquisition and assistance activities with 
responsibility for initiating requests for audits and evaluations, and 
providing recommendations to contracting officer or grants management 
officer, as required; participates in negotiations with potential 
contractors and grantees, develops overhead rates for profit and 
nonprofit organizations, and provides professional advice on accounting 
and cost principles in resolving audit exceptions as they relate to the 
acquisition and assistance processes.
    Buildings and Facilities Contracts Branch (CAJHL). (1) Directs and 
controls acquisition planning activities to assure total program needs 
are addressed and procurements are conducted in a logical, appropriate, 
and timely sequence; (2) plans, directs, and conducts the acquisition 
of non-personal services, institutional support services, architect-
engineering services, construction of new buildings, alterations, 
renovations, commodities, and equipment in support of CDC/ATSDR 
facilities, utilizing a wide variety of contract types and pricing 
arrangements; (3) provides leadership, direction, procurement options, 
and approaches in developing specification/statements of work and 
contract awards; (4) performs contract and purchasing administrative 
activities including coordination and negotiation of contract 
modifications, reviewing and approving contractor billings, resolving 
audit findings, and performing close-out/termination activities; (5) 
performs simplified acquisition activities in support of CDC/ATSDR 
program offices; (6) assures that contractor performance is in 
accordance with contractual commitments; (7) provides leadership and 
guidance to CDC/ATSDR project officers and program officials; (8) 
participates with senior program management in program planning, policy 
determination, evaluation, and directions concerning acquisition 
strategies and execution; (9) plans, directs, and coordinates 
activities of the branch; (10) maintains branch's official contracts 
files; (11) maintains a close working relationship with facilities 
management and other CDC components in carrying out their

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missions; and (12) establishes branch goals, objectives, and 
priorities, and assures their consistency and coordination with overall 
objectives of PGO.
    Acquisition and Assistance Branch I (CAJHM). This branch supports 
the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB 
Prevention by performing the following: (1) Plans, directs, and 
conducts the acquisition of non-personal services, supplies, equipment, 
research and development, studies, and data collection for CDC through 
a variety of contractual mechanisms (competitive and non-competitive) 
to support CDC's public health goals; (2) plans, directs, and conducts 
assistance management activities for CDC through the awards of grants 
and cooperative agreements (competitive and non-competitive) across the 
public health system; (3) reviews statements of work and assistance 
applications from a management point of view for conformity to laws, 
regulations, and policies and alignment to CDC's public health goals, 
and negotiates and issues contract, grant, and cooperative agreement 
awards; (4) provides continuing surveillance of financial and 
administrative aspects of acquisition and assistance-supported 
activities to assure compliance with appropriate DHHS and CDC policies 
and application to public health activities; (5) gives technical 
assistance, where indicated, to improve the management of acquisition 
and assistance-supported activities, and responds to requests for 
management information from the Office of the Director, headquarters, 
regional staffs, CDC offices and the public; (6) performs contract and 
purchasing administrative activities including coordination and 
negotiation of contract modifications, reviewing and approving 
contractor billings, resolving audit findings, and performing close-
out/termination activities; (7) provides for the collection and 
reporting of business management and public health programmatic data, 
and analyzes and monitors business management data on grants and 
cooperative agreements; (8) assures that contractor and grantee 
performance is in accordance with contractual and assistance 
commitments; (9) provides leadership and guidance to CDC project 
officers and public health program officials; (10) provides leadership, 
direction, procurement options, and approaches in developing 
specifications/statements of work and contract awards; (11) plans, 
directs, coordinates, and conducts the grants management functions and 
processes in support of public health assistance awards, including 
cooperative agreements, discretionary grants, block grants, and formula 
grants, to state and local governmental public health entities, 
universities, colleges, research institutions, hospitals, public and 
private organizations, small businesses, and minority and/or women-
owned businesses for CDC; (12) participates with top program management 
in program planning, policy determination, evaluation, and directions 
concerning acquisition and assistance strategies and execution; (13) 
maintains branch's official contract and assistance files; (14) 
maintains a close working relationship with CDC program office 
components in carrying out their public health missions; and (15) 
establishes branch goals, objectives, and priorities, and assures their 
consistency and coordination with the overall objectives of PGO and 
CDC.
    Acquisition and Assistance Branch II (CAJHN). This branch supports 
the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases and 
the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases by 
performing the following: (1) Plans, directs, and conducts the 
acquisition of non-personal services, supplies, equipment, research and 
development, studies, and data collection for CDC through a variety of 
contractual mechanisms (competitive and non-competitive) to support 
CDC's public health goals; (2) plans, directs, and conducts assistance 
management activities for CDC through the awards of grants and 
cooperative agreements (competitive and noncompetitive) across the 
public health system; (3) reviews statements of work and assistance 
applications from a management point of view for conformity to laws, 
regulations, and policies and alignment to CDC's public health goals; 
and negotiates and issues contract, grant, and cooperative agreement 
awards; (4) provides continuing surveillance of financial and 
administrative aspects of acquisition and assistance-supported 
activities to assure compliance with appropriate DHHS and CDC policies 
and application to public health activities; (5) gives technical 
assistance, where indicated, to improve the management of acquisition 
and assistance-supported activities, and responds to requests for 
management information from the Office of the Director, headquarters, 
regional staffs, CDC program offices and the public; (6) performs 
contract and purchasing administrative activities including 
coordination and negotiation of contract modifications, reviewing and 
approving contractor billings, resolving audit findings, and performing 
close-out/termination activities; (7) provides for the collection and 
reporting of business management and public health programmatic data, 
and analyzes and monitors business management data on grants and 
cooperative agreements; (8) assures that contractor and grantee 
performance is in accordance with contractual and assistance 
commitments; (9) provides leadership and guidance to CDC project 
officers and public health program officials; (10) provides leadership, 
direction, procurement options, and approaches in developing 
specifications/statements of work and contract awards; (11) plans, 
directs, coordinates, and conducts the grants management functions and 
processes in support of public health assistance awards, including 
cooperative agreements, discretionary grants, block grants, and formula 
grants, to state and local governmental public health entities, 
universities, colleges, research institutions, hospitals, public and 
private organizations, small businesses, and minority and/or women-
owned businesses for CDC; (12) participates with top program management 
in program planning, policy determination, evaluation, and directions 
concerning acquisition and assistance strategies and execution; (13) 
maintains branch's official contract and assistance files; (14) 
maintains a close working relationship with CDC program office in 
carrying out their public health missions; and (15) establishes branch 
goals, objectives, and priorities, and assures their consistency and 
coordination with the overall objectives of PGO and CDC.
    Acquisition and Assistance Branch III (CAJHP). This branch supports 
the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities 
and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health 
Promotion by performing the following: (1) Plans, directs, and conducts 
the acquisition of non-personal services, supplies, equipment, research 
and development, studies, and data collection for CDC through a variety 
of contractual mechanisms (competitive and non-competitive) to support 
CDC's public health goals; (2) plans, directs, and conducts assistance 
management activities for CDC through the awards of grants and 
cooperative agreements (competitive and non-competitive) across the 
public health system; (3) reviews statements of work and assistance 
applications from a management point of view for conformity to laws, 
regulations, and

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policies and alignment to CDC's public health goals, and negotiates and 
issues contract, grant, and cooperative agreement awards; (4) provides 
continuing surveillance of financial and administrative aspects of 
acquisition and assistance supported activities to assure compliance 
with appropriate DHHS and CDC policies, and application to public 
health activities; (5) gives technical assistance, where indicated, to 
improve the management of acquisition and assistance supported 
activities, and responds to requests for management information from 
the Office of the Director, headquarters, regional staffs, CDC program 
offices and the public; (6) performs contract and purchasing 
administrative activities including coordination and negotiation of 
contract modifications, reviewing and approving contractor billings, 
resolving audit findings, and performing close-out/termination 
activities; (7) provides for the collection and reporting of business 
management and public health programmatic data, and analyzes and 
monitors business management data on grants and cooperative agreements; 
(8) assures that contractor and grantee performance is in accordance 
with contractual and assistance commitments; (9) provides leadership 
and guidance to CDC project officers and public health program 
officials; (10) provides leadership, direction, procurement options, 
and approaches in developing specifications/statements of work and 
contract awards; (11) plans, directs, coordinates, and conducts the 
grants management functions and processes in support of public health 
assistance awards, including cooperative agreements, discretionary 
grants, block grants, and formula grants, to state and local 
governmental public health entities, universities, colleges, research 
institutions, hospitals, public and private organizations, small 
businesses, and minority and/or women-owned businesses for CDC; (12) 
participates with top program management in program planning, policy 
determination, evaluation, and directions concerning acquisition and 
assistance strategies and execution; (13) maintains branch's official 
contract and assistance files; (14) maintains a close working 
relationship with CDC program office components in carrying out their 
public health missions; and (15) establishes branch goals, objectives, 
and priorities, and assures their consistency and coordination with the 
overall objectives of PGO and CDC.
    Acquisition and Assistance Branch IV (CAJHR). This branch supports 
the National Center for Environmental Health, the National Center for 
Injury Prevention and Control, and ATSDR by performing the following: 
(1) Plans, directs, and conducts the acquisition of non-personal 
services, supplies, equipment, research and development, studies, and 
data collection for CDC through a variety of contractual mechanisms 
(competitive and non-competitive) to support CDC's public health goals; 
(2) plans, directs, and conducts assistance management activities for 
CDC through the awards of grants and cooperative agreements 
(competitive and non-competitive) across the public health system; (3) 
reviews statements of work and assistance applications from a 
management point of view for conformity to laws, regulations, and 
policies and alignment to CDC's public health goals, and negotiates and 
issues contract, grant, and cooperative agreement awards; (4) provides 
continuing surveillance of financial and administrative aspects of 
acquisition and assistance-supported activities to assure compliance 
with appropriate DHHS and CDC policies and application to public health 
activities; (5) gives technical assistance, where indicated, to improve 
the management of acquisition and assistance-supported activities, and 
responds to requests for management information from the Office of the 
Director, headquarters, regional staffs, CDC program offices and the 
public; (6) performs contract and purchasing administrative activities 
including coordination and negotiation of contract modifications, 
reviewing and approving contractor billings, resolving audit findings, 
and performing closeout/termination activities; (7) provides for the 
collection and reporting of business management and public health 
programmatic data, and analyzes and monitors business management data 
on grants and cooperative agreements; (8) assures that contractor and 
grantee performance is in accordance with contractual and assistance 
commitments; (9) provides leadership and guidance to CDC project 
officers and public health program officials; (10) provides leadership, 
direction, procurement options, and approaches in developing 
specifications/statements of work and contract awards; (11) plans, 
directs, coordinates, and conducts the grants management functions and 
processes in support of public health assistance awards, including 
cooperative agreements, discretionary grants, block grants, and formula 
grants, to state and local governmental public health entities, 
universities, colleges, research institutions, hospitals, public and 
private organizations, small businesses, and minority- and/or women-
owned businesses for CDC; (12) participates with top program management 
in program planning, policy determination, evaluation, and directions 
concerning acquisition and assistance strategies and execution; (13) 
maintains branch's official contract and assistance files; (14) 
maintains a close working relationship with CDC program office 
components in carrying out their public health missions; and (15) 
establishes branch goals, objectives, and priorities, and assures their 
consistency and coordination with the overall objectives of PGO and 
CDC.
    Acquisition and Assistance Branch V (Field) (CAJHS). This branch 
supports the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 
(NIOSH) by performing the following: (1) Plans, directs, and conducts 
the acquisition of non-personal services, supplies, equipment, research 
and development, studies, and data collection for CDC through a variety 
of contractual mechanisms (competitive and non-competitive) to support 
CDC's public health goals; (2) plans, directs, and conducts assistance 
management activities for CDC through the awards of grants and 
cooperative agreements (competitive and non-competitive) across the 
public health system; (3) reviews statements of work and assistance 
applications from a management point of view for conformity to laws, 
regulations, and policies and alignment to CDC's public health goals, 
and negotiates and issues contract, grant, and cooperative agreement 
awards; (4) provides continuing surveillance of financial and 
administrative aspects of acquisition and assistance-supported 
activities to assure compliance with appropriate DHHS and CDC policies 
and application to public health activities; (5) gives technical 
assistance, where indicated, to improve the management of acquisition 
and assistance-supported activities, and responds to requests for 
management information from the Office of the Director, headquarters, 
regional staffs, and the public; (6) performs contract and purchasing 
administrative activities including coordination and negotiation of 
contract modifications, reviewing and approving contractor billings, 
resolving audit findings, and performing close-out/termination 
activities; (7) provides for the collection and reporting of business 
management and public health programmatic data, and analyzes and 
monitors business management data on grants and cooperative agreements; 
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performance is in accordance with contractual and assistance 
commitments; (9) provides leadership and guidance to CDC project 
officers and public health program officials; (10) provides leadership, 
direction, procurement options, and approaches in developing 
specification/statements of work and contract awards; (11) plans, 
directs, coordinates, and conducts the grants management functions and 
processes in support of public health assistance awards, including 
cooperative agreements, discretionary grants, block grants, and formula 
grants, to state and local governmental public health entities, 
universities, colleges, research institutions, hospitals, public and 
private organizations, small businesses, and minority- and/or women-
owned businesses for CDC; (12) participates with top program management 
in program planning, policy determination, evaluation, and directions 
concerning acquisition and assistance strategies and execution; (13) 
maintains branch's official contract and assistance files; (14) 
maintains a close working relationship with CDC components in carrying 
out their public health missions; (15) establishes branch goals, 
objectives, and priorities, and assures their consistency and 
coordination with the overall objectives of PGO and CDC; and (16) 
acquisition and public health assistance functions in support of NIOSH 
are accomplished with field office locations located in Pittsburgh, PA; 
Morgantown, WV; Cincinnati, OH; and Spokane, WA.
    Acquisition and Assistance Branch VI (CAJHT). This branch supports 
the Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, the 
Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response and the Office for 
State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support by performing the 
following: (1) Plans, directs, and conducts the acquisition of non-
personal services, supplies, equipment, research and development, 
studies, and data collection for CDC through a variety of contractual 
mechanisms (competitive and noncompetitive) to support CDC's public 
health goals; (2) plans, directs, and conducts assistance management 
activities for CDC through the awards of grants and cooperative 
agreements (competitive and non-competitive) across the public health 
system; (3) reviews statements of work and assistance applications from 
a management point of view for conformity to laws, regulations, and 
policies and alignment to CDC's public health goals, and negotiates and 
issues contract, grant, and cooperative agreement awards; (4) provides 
continuing surveillance of financial and administrative aspects of 
acquisition and assistance-supported activities to assure compliance 
with appropriate DHHS and CDC policies and application to public health 
activities; (5) gives technical assistance, where indicated, to improve 
the management of acquisition and assistance-supported activities, and 
responds to requests for management information from the Office of the 
Director, headquarters, regional staffs, CDC program offices and the 
public; (6) performs contract and purchasing administrative activities 
including coordination and negotiation of contract modifications, 
reviewing and approving contractor billings, resolving audit findings, 
and performing close-out/termination activities; (7) provides for the 
collection and reporting of business management and public health 
programmatic data, and analyzes and monitors business management data 
on grants and cooperative agreements; (8) assures that contractor and 
grantee performance is in accordance with contractual and assistance 
commitments; (9) provides leadership and guidance to CDC project 
officers and public health program officials; (10) provides leadership, 
direction, procurement options, and approaches in developing 
specifications/statements of work and contract awards; (11) plans, 
directs coordinates, and conducts the grants management functions and 
processes in support of assistance awards, including cooperative 
agreements, discretionary grants, block grants, and, formula grants, to 
state and local governmental public health entities, universities, 
colleges, research institutions, hospitals, public and private 
organizations, small businesses, and minority- and/or women-owned 
businesses for CDC; (12) participates with top program management in 
program planning, policy determination, evaluation, and directions 
concerning acquisition and assistance strategies and execution; (13) 
maintains branch's official contract and assistance files; (14) 
maintains a close working relationship with CDC program office 
components in carrying out their public health missions; and (15) 
establishes branch goals, objectives, and priorities, and assures their 
consistency and coordination with the overall objectives of PGO and 
CDC.
    Acquisition and Assistance Branch VII (Global) (CAJHU). This branch 
supports the Center for Global Health and CDC's global acquisition and 
assistance needs by performing the following: (1) Plans, directs and 
conducts the acquisition of a wide variety of services, research and 
development, studies, data collection, equipment, materials, and 
personal and non-personal services in support of CDC's international 
public health operations, utilizing a wide variety of contract types 
and pricing arrangements; (2) plans, directs, and conducts assistance 
management activities for CDC's international public health programs; 
(3) provides leadership, direction, acquisition options, and approaches 
in developing specifications/statements of work and grants 
announcements; (4) participates with top public health program 
management in program planning, policy determination, evaluation, and 
directions concerning acquisition and grants strategies and execution; 
(5) provides innovative problem-solving methods in the coordination of 
international procurement and grants for a wide range plan with public 
health partners in virtually all major domestic and international 
health agencies dealing with the United Nations Foundation health 
priorities/issues, to include resolution of matters with the Department 
of State; (6) executes contracts and grants in support of international 
activities; (7) provides business management oversight for contracts 
and public health assistance awards; (8) participates with top program 
management in program planning, policy determination, evaluation, and 
directions concerning acquisition and assistance strategies and 
execution; (9) maintains branch's official contract and assistance 
files; (10) maintains a close working relationship with CDC public 
health program office components in carrying out their missions; and 
(11) establishes branch goals, objectives, and priorities, and assures 
their consistency and coordination with the overall objectives of PGO 
and CDC.
    Acquisition and Assistance Branch VIII (CAJHV). This branch 
supports the CDC Office of the Director acquisition requirements by 
performing the following: (1) Plans, directs, and conducts the 
acquisition of non-personal services, supplies, equipment, research and 
development, studies, and data collection for CDC through a variety of 
contractual mechanisms (competitive and non-competitive); (2) reviews 
statements of work from a management point of view for conformity to 
laws, regulations, and policies and alignment to CDC's public health 
goals, and negotiates and issues contracts; (3) provides continuing 
surveillance of financial and

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administrative aspects of acquisition-supported activities to assure 
compliance with appropriate DHHS and CDC policies and application to 
public health activities; (4) gives technical assistance, where 
indicated, to improve the management of acquisition activities, and 
responds to requests for management information from the Office of the 
Director, headquarters, regional staffs, CDC program offices and the 
public; (5) performs contract and purchasing administrative activities 
including coordination and negotiation of contract modifications, 
reviewing and approving contractor billings, resolving audit findings, 
and performing close-out/termination activities; (6) provides for the 
collection and reporting of business management and public health 
programmatic data, and analyzes and monitors business management data 
on grants and cooperative agreements; (7) assures that contractor 
performance is in accordance with contractual commitments; (8) provides 
leadership and guidance to CDC project officers and program officials; 
(9) provides leadership, direction, procurement options, and approaches 
in developing specifications/statements of work and contract awards; 
(10) participates with top program management in public health program 
planning, policy determination, evaluation, and directions concerning 
acquisition strategies and execution; (11) maintains branch's official 
contract files; (12) maintains a close working relationship with CDC 
program office components in carrying out their missions; and (13) 
establishes branch goals, objectives, and priorities, and assures their 
consistency and coordination with the overall objectives of PGO and 
CDC.
    Logistics Management Branch (CAJHW). (1) Develops and implements 
CDC-wide policies, procedures, and criteria necessary to comply with 
federal and departmental regulations governing personal property, 
transportation, shipping, and fleet management; (2) determines, 
recommends, and implements procedural changes needed to maintain 
effective management of CDC property including but not limited to: 
Inventory control; property records; receipt, delivery, tracking, 
shipping and return of CDC materiel; property reutilization and 
disposal; transportation of freight; and CDC's vehicle fleet; (3) 
provides audits, training and technical assistance to CDC Centers/
Institute/Offices on property, transportation, shipping, and fleet 
management; (4) determines the requirement for and serves as the 
functional proponent for the design, test, and implementation of 
logistics management systems; (5) represents CDC on inter-and intra-
departmental committees relevant to logistical functions; (6) serves as 
the CDC liaison to HHS and other federal agencies on logistical matters 
such as property, transportation and traffic management; and (7) 
establishes branch goals, objectives and priorities, and assures 
consistency and coordination with overall Procurement and Grants Office 
logistical goals and objectives.

    Dated: July 3, 2012.
 Sherri A. Berger,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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