[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 171 (Tuesday, September 4, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53888-53889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-21522]


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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 43837--43841, dated July 26, 2012) is 
amended to reflect the reorganization of the Office of Public Health 
Preparedness and Response, 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 
Program Services Branch (CGCB), and Applied Science Evaluation Branch 
(CGCC), within the Division of State and Local Readiness (CGC), and 
insert the following:
    Program Services Branch (CGCB). (1) Provides consultation and 
technical assistance to state, territorial, tribal and local health 
departments in management and operation of activities to support public 
health preparedness, response and recovery including the infrastructure 
and systems necessary to manage and use deployed Division of Strategic 
National Stockpile (DSNS) assets; (2) facilitates partnerships between 
public health preparedness programs at federal, state, and local levels 
to ensure their consistency, sharing promising practices, and 
integration; (3) collaborates with and supports other divisions in 
OPHPR and other national centers across CDC to ensure high quality 
technical assistance is available to the grantees on preparedness 
capabilities; (4) supervises federal field staff providing technical 
assistance to state and local public health preparedness programs; (5) 
provides oversight to partnership organization cooperative agreements 
and maintains a strong working relationship with national partners; (6) 
monitors activities of cooperative agreements and grants of partners 
and state, local, tribal and territorial organizations to assure 
program objectives and key performance

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indicators are achieved including reviews of Cities Readiness 
Initiative response plans; (7) provides assistance to state and local 
governments and public health agencies in engaging communities of major 
metropolitan areas to prepare for effective responses to large scale 
public health events; (8) provides health communications guidance and 
products before, during, and after an event to assist state/local 
public health departments in developing risk communicating strategies 
and messages; and (9) collaborates with the DSNS Response and Logistics 
Branches during exercises or upon a federal deployment of DSNS assets.
    Applied Science and Evaluation Branch (CGCC). (1) Assesses the 
effectiveness of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) 
Cooperative Agreement;
    (2) provide analytic support and evaluation expertise to the 
Division of State and Local Readiness and the Office of Public Health 
Preparedness and Response; (3) conducts, integrates, translates, and 
leverages interdisciplinary preparedness science; (4) fosters 
innovation and efficiency in evaluation and research through 
collaboration with healthcare and health security partners; and (5) 
develops evidence based recommendations to improve the quality of 
decision-making on preparedness, response and recovery activities.
    Delete in its entirety the title and functional statements for the 
Office of the Director (CGE1), within the Division of Strategic 
National Stockpile (CGE), and insert the following:
    Office of the Director (CGE1). (1) Conducts the executive planning 
and management of the division; (2) plans strategies and methods for 
educating the public health and emergency response communities about 
the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and its effective use; (3) 
represents the DSNS in state, local, and federally sponsored exercises 
to test community response to a catastrophic health event; (4) directs 
and monitors a comprehensive strategy for managing and executing the 
critical systems in operating a successful commercial good 
manufacturing practice compliance program; (5) provides medical, 
pharmaceutical, and scientific oversight of the SNS formulary; (6) 
partners with other governmental agencies, public health organizations, 
and commercial entities with interest and involvement in DSNS 
activities and information; (7) coordinates the Stockpile Configuration 
Management Board that is responsible for reviewing, reconciling, and 
adjusting SNS package and kit design and contents to maintain 
consistency with medical, scientific, resource, and end user 
requirements; (8) provides leadership, guidance, and technical 
integration of preparedness planning across the public health, 
healthcare, and emergency management sectors; (9) provides status of 
DSNS assets and deployment strategies to inform development and 
refinement of SNS guidance and communications to PHEP awardees; (10) 
serves as the point of contact for federal agencies, non-governmental 
organizations, and partners for initiatives and issues relating to the 
contents, management, deployment and use of DSNS assets; (11) develops 
and implements innovative strategies and solutions to reduce the burden 
of medical countermeasure distribution and dispensing from state and 
local public health agencies; (12) collaborates with Division of State 
and Local Readiness (DSLR) to promote and encourage PHEP awardees to 
pilot and implement private-public partnerships and initiatives to 
enhance medical countermeasure distribution and dispensing 
capabilities; (13) provides guidance to prepare healthcare systems 
partners for medical surge events and supply chain awareness, access, 
to public sector pathways; and (14) develops and leverages systems to 
manage, track and report the disposition of deployed SNS assets.
    Delete in its entirety the title and functional statements for the 
Program Preparedness Branch (CGEC).
    After item (12) of the functional statement for the Response Branch 
(CGEE), add the following: (13) supports response capabilities with 
state and local medical countermeasure receipt, distribution and 
dispensing training courses and exercise; and (14) coordinate staff 
training in support of the SNS response capabilities.
    After item (8) of the functional statement for the Operations 
Branch (CGFB), Division of Select Agents and Toxins (CGF), add the 
following: and (9) performs inspections of foreign select agent 
laboratories in accordance with National Institutes of Health/National 
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases agreements.
    Delete item (2) of the functional statement for the Program 
Services Branch (CGFD), and insert the following: (2) processes permit 
applications to import etiological agents, hosts, and vectors of human 
disease (not limited to select agents) into the United States from 
international sources.

    Dated: August 16, 2012.
Sherri A. Berger,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2012-21522 Filed 8-31-12; 8:45 am]
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