[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 137 (Thursday, July 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41691-41693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-16840]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-14-14AOO]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment 
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the 
below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information 
collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to 
Leroy Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send 
an email to [email protected].
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) approval. Comments are invited on: (a)

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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; (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; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of 
operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide 
information. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial 
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose 
or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the 
time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and 
utilize technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, 
validating and verifying information, processing and maintaining 
information, and disclosing and providing information; to train 
personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of information, to 
search data sources, to complete and review the collection of 
information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the information. 
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Monitoring and Reporting System for the Division of Community 
Health's Cooperative Agreement Programs--New--National Center for 
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established 
the Division of Community Health (DCH) to support multi-sectorial, 
community-based programs that promote healthy living. In 2014, DCH 
announced three new cooperative agreement programs authorized by the 
Public Health Service Act and the Prevention and Public Health Fund of 
the Affordable Care Act (Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DP14-
1417, FOA DP14-1418, and FOA DP14-1419PPHF14). The new programs are 
designed to address chronic diseases and risk factors for chronic 
diseases, including physical inactivity, poor diet, obesity, and 
tobacco use. The programs will provide support for implementation of 
broad, evidence- and practice-based policy and environmental 
improvements in large and small cities, urban rural areas, tribes, 
multi-sectorial community coalitions, and racial and ethnic communities 
experiencing chronic disease disparities. DCH programs align with the 
National Prevention Strategy and ``Healthy People 2020'' focus areas.
    Awards under the new FOAs will be announced in the Fall of 2014. 
Awardees are expected to include a mix of approximately 57 state, 
local, and tribal government entities, and approximately 51 private 
sector entities including national organizations. CDC will seek OMB 
approval to collect information from these awardees.
    Information collection will be conducted primarily via an 
electronic management information system (MIS) which will enable the 
accurate, reliable, uniform and timely submission to CDC of each 
awardee's work plans and progress reports, including objectives and 
milestones. The electronic MIS will also generate a variety of routine 
and customizable reports. Local level reports will allow each awardee 
to summarize its activities and progress towards meeting work plan 
objectives. CDC will use the information collected in the MIS to 
monitor each awardee's progress and to identify its strengths and 
weaknesses. Monitoring allows CDC to determine whether an awardee is 
meeting performance goals and to make adjustments in the type and level 
of technical assistance provided to them to support attainment of their 
objectives. CDC's monitoring and evaluation activities also allow CDC 
to provide oversight of the use of federal funds, and to identify and 
disseminate information about successful prevention and control 
strategies implemented by awardees. Finally, the information collection 
will allow CDC to monitor the increased emphasis on partnerships and 
programmatic collaboration, and is expected to reduce duplication of 
effort, enhance program impact and maximize the use of federal funds. 
The estimated burden of initial population of the MIS is 15 hours per 
awardee. Thereafter, the estimated burden of producing each semi-annual 
report is 3 hours.
    Due to substantial interest in the new DCH programs from a variety 
of stakeholders, CDC may also seek OMB approval to conduct targeted, 
special-purpose information collections on an as-needed basis. CDC 
estimates that each DCH awardee could be asked to participate in one 
special purpose information collection per year. Methods for these data 
collections could include telephone interviews, in-person interviews, 
Web-based surveys, or paper-and-pencil surveys. Each special-purpose 
information collection request will be submitted to OMB for approval 
through the Change Request mechanism, and will include the data 
collection instrument(s) and a description of purpose and methods.
    OMB approval is requested for three years. Participation in semi-
annual progress reporting is required for cooperative agreement 
awardees, but could be voluntary for some special-purpose data 
collections. 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           Form name        Number of     responses per   per  response   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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DCH Program Awardees (state,    DCH MIS: Initial              19               1              15             285
 local and tribal government     population.
 sector).
                                DCH MIS: Semi-                57               2               3             342
                                 annual
                                 reporting.
                                Special Data                  19               1              17             323
                                 Request.
DCH Program Awardees (private   DCH MIS: Initial              17               1              15             255
 sector).                        population.
                                DCH MIS: Semi-                51               2               3             306
                                 annual
                                 reporting.
                                Special Data                  17               1              17             289
                                 Request.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           1,800
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Leroy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-16840 Filed 7-16-14; 8:45 am]
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